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10+ Best Free File Hosting Service Providers For You

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Most of us like to store our files online and share it to our friends and family. Files include documents, images, videos and files in other format.file hosting services are very benefited to bloggers or webmasters too as they can share their resources to their visitors and readers!

Following is the list of 10+ Best Free File Hosting Service Providers you can use to store and share your files!

FileFactory

10+ Best Free File Hosting Service Providers

No file type restrictions.
Files can be up to 300MB in size.
Upload up to 25 files at once.
Upload faster with Turbo.
Embed widget or music player.
Share files on blogs, forums, Facebook or MySpace.
Mix images into slideshows.
Earn reward for sharing popular files.
Earn up to $10 per 1,000 downloads.

MediaFire

Unlimited storage
Up to 100MB per file
Unlimited uploads
Unlimited downloads
Unlimited bandwidth
Image galleries
No sign up required
No software to install

FileSavr

Fastest and easiest file hosting service as an alternative to sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare.
Do not force users to sign up for paid accounts to download files.
Do not show long countdown timers, pop up ads, or any other spam related activities.
Upload size is 10 GB

FileQube

Store up to 2GB free for remote file access.
Organize, tag, search and move files and folders easily.
Share files and images with friends, peers or family
Limit access to resources with password-protection features
Publish your photos, documents, audio, or video anywhere
Create custom rss-feed for every folder you share to give your visitors ability to track updates.
Tag your resources for more order and faster search.
Instantly share your files with others – skipping download page.

FileDen

Hotlinking allowed for all allowed file extensions, including videos and music files.
1GB of personal storage space.
A 50mb maximum file size limit.
5GB of monthly bandwidth.

SaveFile

100MB Filesize
Unlimited Diskspace
Unlimited Traffic
Sorted by Projects
Password Protection
Replace Files
File Statistics
Project Statistics
User Subscriptions

FileHosting

Unlimited file hosting.
2 GB/sec bandwidth.
20 highspeed server.
You can upload any type of file (movies, music, documents, images, zip files and more).
Any file in any format can be uploaded and downloaded for free.
No file size limit.
No restrictions on the number of times a file can be downloaded.
Keep your files private, or send your download links only to friends or family.
Share your download links on blogs, forums and social networking sites.

Uploading

Download speed limited
Maximum parallel download – 1
Maximum upload size per file – 100 Mb
Download limit per 24 hours – 300 Mb
Wait time before the download begins – 60 seconds
Earn cash with your files.

WikiUpload

Upload any files upto 5GB that do not violate their Terms of Service
Share files on forums or with friends
If your file is public, they also place the file in right public category based on your tags and description

FileSend

300 MB file size limit
Manage uploaded files
Recover lost file links
Less download wait time

FileSave

100% Free
Upto 1Gb Free Disk Space
Upto 1Gb Per File
No Sign Up Required
Upload Music, Videos, and all other files.
Share with your friends

InfiniteMB

Free File Image Audio Video
500Mb per file
Highest Upload Speeds
Unlimited Downloads
Share files via e-mail, forums, MySpace, etc.

ZippyShare

Completely free, reliable and extremely popular.
Extremely fast download speeds.
The maximum filesize for a single file is 100 MB.
The file can be downloaded at any time and as often as you need it.
File Life: 30 days after no activity.
No ridiculous queues.
No limits.

Box

5 collaboration folders
1 GB of storage
25 MB file uploads

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11 Social Media Tools for Measuring and Monitoring Social Media Analytics

Posted On 9:00 AM // Leave a Comment

Social Media Monitoring ? That’s an often heard but a meaningless term to many of us, right ? Many think that there is no ROI to Social Media, and while this topic is up for debate, I’m saying – yes and no.
No because, we know that we don’t get social for the game sake. And yes because, there are brands and products who needs numbers and obviously results, for getting social.
Many brands are jumping into the social media bandwagon these days and are experimenting with things, that’s a fact. Many a times, knowingly or unknowingly we have engaged with them as well. So it makes sense for them to monitor it and see what the results are like.
Having said that, monitoring social media is not the regular analytics stuff, that’s where many go wrong.

- Social Media shouldn’t be measured like SEO analytics on your site.

Heck, you won’t even see the referrals as good as an SEM campaign with social media. The thing is, in social media the action is elsewhere and not necessarily does reflect on your site referral stats all the time. Now, don’t get me wrong but I’m not trying to say that if you have something to sell, at the end of the day, it doesn’t. In fact it might sell, but just that the numbers might not look round as in an SEO analytics report.

- Social Media measurement has got to do with many “intangible” signals.

Now, this is a grey area but measuring social media (at least at this point of time) has got a lot to do with “intangible” or “volatile” signals. Like “feel good factor” for a brand, which can be perceived if you ask someone about it but never shows up in the referral stats.

- Social Media monitoring is probably a better word than Social Media measurement.

Why ? Because social media isn’t always about the numbers and formulas. Its more about the “perception”, “engagement” and “emotions”.

Phew ! I hope all that made sense. Now, on to some social media monitoring tools.

Honestly, many of these tools are “not-really-there”. But these are the ones we have anyways. They mostly focus on the numbers unfortunately, while some focus is also give to brand perceptions and engagement ratios. I’d like to see more tools coming up that focuses on the second part rather than the numbers. But that require some level of intelligence and I guess we’re all in a learning mode at the moment.

1. Radian6 – Social Media Monitoring Tool

Ridian6 is a popular social media monitoring tool that helps you track quite a lot of signals and get insights into your brands performance on various social media channels. They cover almost all the social media channels like blogs, twitter and facebook. It provides detailed analytics reports and charts, perfect for that presentation you want to pull off.

2. Alterian Social Media Monitoring Tools

Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool is one that gives advanced user behavior statistics, measures and analyze daily volume, demographics, location, positive or negative content tone, themes, and trending topics for your brand/product. A little too much details but a good tool nevertheless. This one too, covers a range of social media channels like digg/linkedin/facebook/twitter/delicious etc.

3. ScoutLabs Web based Social Media Monitoring Tool

An eye candy this one. Scout Labs social media monitoring tool is web based, and with an interface like Google Analytics it tracks almost all the online social media channels. It measures all the negative/positive signals and gives you reports based on the overall performaces.
Social Media Monitoring tool - web based

Social Media Monitoring tool - web based

4. Real Time Social Media Monitoring Tool – Self Service

Self-service analytics software supports both qualitative and quantitative research, providing automated semantic analytics to allow you to explore insights and opinions about your products and brands on social media. It claims that the platform automatically captures large, relevant data sets through topic categorization.

5. Social Mention – Web based social media monitoring

Social Mention is a web based tool that makes it simple. It finds the brand mentions on any particular channel like blog/micro blogs and gives you a comprehensive idea of how the brand is perceived by users. It also gives you idea about the general “perception” of the brand in terms like positive, negative or neutral.

6. Brands Eye – Web based Social Media Measuring tool

This one is a bit different from the rest of the lot. It picks up signals from social media mentions and puts them into a different perspective unlike others. It finds you details about reputation, media origin and sentiments associated to your brand. Impressive !

7. Trendrr – Real Time Social Media Monitoring tool

Trendrr is a very web 3.0 kind app that does real time digital/social media monitoring for you. It analyzes social media channels for your brand mentions and puts them into perspective with numbers. Their data sources include everything from Blogs to Microblogs, Search, Social Networks and even Video.

8. Spark – Social Media Monitoring Visualizer tool

Spiral16′s spark takes social media analytics to a higher level, making it visual and thus making it easy to interpret and compare. They claim that the data is not the regular one, not limited to RSS feeds as a data source, instead combines proprietary crawler technology with public search engines. Spark captures a wider breadth of data and more goes into more detail about web pages, resulting in less spam and more relevant results.

9. MAP – Social Media Analytics Tool

Sysomos’s MAP – Media Analytics Program is another social media analytics program that focuses on the core concepts of social media – listen > measure > understand and engage. The tool provides real-time intelligence to manage products, brands and reputations on social media.

10. Attentio – Social Media Trends / Analytics Tool

Basically what attentio does is collect information from all social media channels related to brands and products, assimilate and study it to give you structured data. Its advantage is that its multilingual and have more of a brand centric focus.

11. DNA 13 Media Monitoring Tool

DNA 13′s media monitoring tool focuses more on a comprehensive media coverage model much like a PR tool. While I’m not a big fan of this model, the tool sure gives us a lot of insight on how and why a brand is performing well/bad on the media channels. They claim that they could provide a TV, print, online news, social media, and RSS feeds, all in one location “umbrella” strategy, which is interesting.

So, Which is the best Social Media Monitoring Tool out there ?

There is no one single social media measuring tool. You have here a bunch of the best social media monitoring tools out there. As I said, most of them do the same job of indexing and finding your brand in the discussions, but the ones that excel do a good job at finding value out of those analytics data, and putting things to perspective. The idea is to mix and match and make use of the best ones from the lot.

If you know more of such tools, please do let me know

And please pass your valuable feedback through comments

Have A nice day and blogging

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List of 100+ Do Follow Forums to Increase Backlinks!

Posted On 9:00 AM // 1 comment

Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Following are a List of 100+ Do Follow Forums to Increase the Backlinks of your site:

#PR9

Adobe Forums

#PR8

#PR7

#PR6

#PR5

#PR4

#PR3

#PR2

#PR1

#PR0

Did I miss any one? Let me know that!

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In the future post i will try to post on "Do-Follow Websites" also.So,Keep Visiting
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20+ Top Google Chrome Extensions/Plugins for Bloggers and Web Developers

Posted On 10:00 AM // Leave a Comment

As of April 2010, Google Chrome was the third most widely used browser with 6.73%of worldwide usage share of web browsers according to Net Applications. Even though Firefox is the top web browser used by bloggers, webmasters, web designers and web developers, Google chrome has also grabbed great attention due to its speed and simplicity.

Following are some top Google Chrome extensions useful for Blogging,Web design and Development . Some of them are popular as Firefox Add-ons too! Don’t forget to take a look at my other post 25 Best Firefox Add-ons for Bloggers and Web Designers.

Please read this post from Google Chrome web browser since you cannot add chrome extensions to other browsers!!

RSS Subscription Extension
This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe. The extension comes with 4 feed readers predefined (Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines and My Yahoo) and also allows you to add any web-based feed reader of your choice to the list.
Add to Chrome
Zemanta
Zemanta expands the author’s regular blogging dashboard, populating it on the fly with content suggestions relevant to the current text. It presents images, links, articles, tags in a simple interface. It supports Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Ning, Drupal, LiveJournal, Tumblr and email platforms Google Mail and Yahoo!Mail.
Add to Chrome
Chrome SEO
The Google Chrome SEO extension provides easy access to Search engine optimization tools that can help you with competitive analysis, keyword research, backlink checks, pageRank checks and other daily SEO tasks.
Add to Chrome
SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar
SEO Status is lightweight. It will check the Google Pagerank (PR) & Alexa rank for every page. Using this will also increase your Alexa.
Add to Chrome
Xmarks Bookmarks Sync
Backup and sync your bookmarks and open tabs across computers and browsers. Xmarks is also available for Firefox, Safari and IE.
Add to Chrome
goo.gl URL Shortener
goo.gl url shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL with the new Google URL Shortener service. Once compressed the url is automatically copied to clipboard and you can share it with Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Delicious, Digg, MySpace, Google Reader, Gmail or your default mail client.
Add to Chrome
Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools.
Add to Chrome
MeasureIt
Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Add to Chrome
Resolution Test
An extension for developers to test web pages in different screen resolutions, with an option to define your own resolutions.
Add to Chrome
Greasemetal
Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts userscripts (tiny javascript files that modify the webpages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari.
Add to Chrome
LastPass
LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure. It captures passwords and allows you to make strong passwords easily. Your sensitive data is encrypted locally before upload so even LastPass cannot get access to it!
Add to Chrome
Picnik Extension
The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing.
Add to Chrome
Google Dictionary
With this extension, you can double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble and view the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.
Add to Chrome
Feedly
Feedly organizes your favorite sources in a magazine-like start page. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.
Add to Chrome
Google Reader Notifier
Displays the number of unread items in your Google Reader account. Clicking can show a preview popup or open your Reader account.
Add to Chrome
Google Mail Checker Plus
Displays the number of unread messages in your Gmail and Google Apps inbox. Preview mail, read, delete, archive and mark as spam.
Add to Chrome
WiseStamp – Email Signatures for GMail, Google Apps and more
Empower GMail, Google Mail & Google Apps emails with dynamic email signatures. Add Twitter, Facebook, Digg and more. Multiple HTML signatures support.
Add to Chrome
TwitterBar
Post to Twitter from the Chrome toolbar. The current page’s title and URL are automatically entered into the textbox for easy posting of links.
Add to Chrome
Facebook for Google Chrome
Extension which lets you read your Facebook news feed and wall. You can also post status updates.
Add to Chrome
Shareaholic
Share any web page with your friends right from the page you are on. This extension adds a share button to your browser toolbar. Currently support 100+ services like Google Buzz, WordPress, Blogger, Delicious, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit, Mixx, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, Plurk etc.
Add to Chrome
Google Translate
This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you’re visiting.
Add to Chrome
RemindMe
RemindMe allows you to setup reminders while browsing and sync them between computers.
Add to Chrome
Speed Tracer
Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux). You must be running the Google Chrome Developer Channel to use Speed Tracer.
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