Virtual Assistant

If you are looking to create your own free blog, then you are on the write place. I have listed some of the best blogging platform for you.

1. WordPress. WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform. Thanks to thousands of plugins and themes that makes your blog beautiful.
http://wordpress.com

2. Blogger: Blogger is a free service from Google to create a blog. This is the first choice of newbies who starts blogging. My first blog was also on Blogger but when I learnt about the WordPress I moved to WordPress and never looked back. Blogger is still the best blogging platform after WordPress.
https://www.blogger.com

3. Windows Live Spaces: I recently learnt about Microsofts blogging service. Windows Live Spaces is a free service from Microsoft to create a blog. You can access Live Spaces with your Windows LiveID.
http://home.live.com

4. LiveJournal: LiveJournal is a virtual community where registered users can create a free blog and receive constant support from other members. I have never tried LiveJournal. If you have any experience then please share with us.
http://www.livejournal.com

5. Vox: Vox is a powerful free service that helps you to create a blog. Easy to start and publish. Vox supports text, video, images or audio. So you don’t have to worry about it. You can display YouTube Videos and much more.
http://www.vox.com

6. Xanga: Xanga is a community-supported blogging service that allows you to create a blog for free.
http://www.xanga.com

7. tripod Lycos: tripod Lycos is a popular online service to create a RSS syndicated free blog. If you already have a Lycos account, you can start right away or signup for an account today.
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

8. blog.com blog.com is a free service to create your own blog. After a simple registration process you can create an ad-supported blog. They also have a premium blogging service for a nominal fee.
http://int.blog.com/

9. Yahoo! 360°: Yeah! I know this is surprising to you. You may have never heard about this. Yahoo! 360° is a free service to create your own blog. You need a Yahoo! account to create it.
http://360.yahoo.com/

10. blogr: blogr is a free service that helps you to create a blog and share your own content right away. blogr has a very simple interface to blog.

http://www.blogr.com
11. Squarespace: Easy-to-use interface makes Squarespace a powerful solution to create a blog.
http://www.squarespace.com/

12. TypePad: TypePad is a full-featured service that helps you create your own blog easily.
http://www.typepad.com/

13. BlogSome: BlogSome is the simple and free blog service.
http://www.blogsome.com/

14. Weebly: One of the simplest website for you to create a blog. Just register an account, select your theme and start blogging.
http://weebly.com/

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Twitter is a new big giant in search engine technology after Google. Twitter is a real time conversation search Engine. These search tools are handy and useful.

1. Twit Scoop searches: http://www.twitscoop.com Every 20 seconds, Twitscoop will refresh the results of your keyword or user name search and let you know what everyone on Twitter is saying about it or him/her. It will show you the trend for your keyword popularity on Twitter.

2.TweetMeme: http://tweetmeme.com A social media voting system, Tweetmeme identifies the most popular sites being tweeted and retweeted on Twitter and gives its users the ability to vote for a topic via Retweeting it. You can even install plugin on your blog if you have a wordpress blog. Just like you see on top of this post.

3.TweepSearch: http://tweepsearch.com Allows Twitter users to identify people with similar interests. This is a good way to streamline your friend-making capabilities on Twitter by searching for people with similar jobs, like the same sports as you, or have the same hobbies.

4. Twopular: http://twopular.com/ Tracks Twitter trends over time spans of hours, days, weeks, months and custom time lines. Grouped with Google Trends, this is an important tool for measuring the buzz within the Twittersphere .

5. BackTweets: http://backtweets.com BackTweets lets you enter any URL and then will serve the search results for the Twitter profiles which have linked to that URL in their tweets. BackTweets is an amazing tool for keeping track of who is linking to your site on Twitter.

6. Tweet Scan: http://www.tweetscan.com is a simple Twitter search tool which serves Twitter search results in a Google style fashion.

7. Flaptor Twitter Search: http://twittersearch.flaptor.com is an Efficient and beautiful way to search tweets. It’s sleek design makes Twitter searching so much more enjoyable and it also offers an easy to install Firefox addon. There are no advertisements on the site.

I will digg for some more Twitter tools that will boost your productivity next week.