Bangladesh Blocks Facebook while Pakistan Lifts the Ban

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Following Pakistan, Bangladesh has also banned the social-networking website Facebook after satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad and the country’s leaders were uploaded. According to the authorities, the ban is temporary and the website access would be restored when the images are removed. They also said that Facebook had also put up obnoxious images of the father of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, current prime minister Sheikh Hasina and leader of opposition Khaleda Zia.

While Bangladesh banned Facebook, Pakistan lifted the ban after the company officials apologized for a page that was offensive to Muslims and removed its contents.

“Restore Facebook. We don’t want to block access to information” -  Justice Chaudhry told the court. He also asked the government to develop a system which blocked the access to blasphemous content on the internet.

While the countries blocked Facebook, there were some local social networking sites trying to get the traffic of Facebook to them saying that they were the “local Facebook”.

Image Credits: pshab

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[Ask CF] Shared, Cloud or Dedicated – How to Choose Your Server?

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Ask CF (CyberFundu) is a new series in which we answer your queries! You may mail us your queries here.

Shared, Cloud or Dedicated – How to Choose Your Server? – This is a question asked my many people who start a new website or a blog of their own. It really depends on the traffic that your website would get. In this post, we will discuss the circumstances which would help you to choose your server type. You should choose a:

Shared Hosting when:

  1. You are a new blogger and have less money to start with. :-)
  2. You are not a techie.
  3. You wish to use WordPress, Joomla or Drupal based website. You can install the same in minutes using simple scripts or fantastico.
  4. You don’t intend to offer downloadable files of large size (eg. music, videos, pictures, softwares etc.)
  5. A good shared hosting account can handle traffic upto 10,000 to 20-000 visitors daily (depends on your application too). You can further increase the traffic-handing capacity by using CDN like Amazon for your images.
  6. You will experience high loading time (which is bad!) only at high traffic levels above (10,000-20,000 daily). That’s the time to say goodbye to your shared hosting.

Cloud Hosting when:

  1. You are a Web 2.0 techie, as most of the cloud hosting sites do not give a cPanel.
  2. You expect your traffic levels to increase rapidly.
  3. You expect surges in traffic due to Digg, Stumble Upon and other websites.

Dedicated Hosting when:

  1. When you know that the website would get a huge traffic.
  2. You have appropiate money to buy the hosting as it is costly.

Convert your Categories into Subdomains in WordPress!

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This one is a cool SEO trick that is easy to implement but has far reaching consequences!  To cut the long story short, you can convert your categories into subdomains. For example, you can change abc.com/category/internet to internet.abc.com! Moreover, you can set different themes for different categories! Here is how you can do it:

  1. Just install the WP Subdomains plugin like any other plugin.
  2. You will have to be a bit patient as the changes take time which depends on your hosting.

Some points to note:

  1. Check with your host if they provide subdomains. Most shared hosting services do provide that. This may be a problem if you are on a cloud hosting service.
  2. You will need to create a subdomain name same as your category slug.
  3. If you plan to change your host soon do not install this as will create a lot of broken links in google.
  4. No need to worry about the bad links it can create as all your previous articles will redirect to the new url.

All in all, this is one great plugin which can definitely change your google footprint in days!  :-)

Google Buzz Adds Reshare Option

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Google Buzz engineers have been working hard to introduce new features now and then. Now, another features “Reshare” has been released. Google says that it has been the most requested feature. It is basically same as the retweet option on Twitter, but with a few differences. Buzz reshare offers the option to add our own comments, and to share the item publicly or privately. The original item would have the list of people who shared it and the reshared item would have the name of original author.

The New Reshare Option in Buzz

This is how you can reshare a post:

  1. Click the “Reshare” button below the post.
  2. Add a comment if you want to.
  3. Click “Post”.
  4. And your reshare item would appear!

Note: The option only works for public posts, not for private posts.

Off-Topic: Did you know that we post our updates to Google Buzz too? You can follow us here!

Facebook Introduces New Privacy Options

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Facebook has introduced some new privacy features which would let you have a better control on who can see the content you post on the website. Here are a few screenshots comparing the old and new features:

Old Privacy Options of Facebook

New Privacy Features of Facebook

Here is an extract from the official blog post:

Today, I want to share some thoughts on how we’ve evolved to this point, what we’re doing now to give you more control, and what you can expect from us going forward.

Looking back, the first version of Facebook was very simple. There were almost no features. There were no status updates, photo albums or messages. There was no News Feed or Platform. The only people who could use it were college students in the United States.

The feature will be rolled out to all the users in the coming days. Till then, you may want to check out the new Facebook privacy page.