Plurk - New micro-blog service

I came across Plurk.com a new micro-blogging service which is gaining some popularity. Plurk is similar to twitter.com as both are micro-blogs allowing users to type in only a limited number of characters.

Plurk allows 140 characters to be typed at once and gives some smileys to add to your message. The site then displays a nice time line of all your 'plurks' with the most recent ones on the left and the others on the right which can be scroll by mouse dragging.

The site gives points to active users, these points are called Karma. It provides widgets to add to your site which shows your recent plurks. The site also allows mobile users to text message their plurks to the site.

Google finds 1 trillion URLs on the internet

I read an interesting post in Google's Official Blog, Google has found 1 trillion (thats one followed by 12 zeros) unique URLs on the internet. This number has grown from 1 billion in the year 2000.
It was just yesterday that I could finally Google my blog and around the same time Google finds 1 trillion sites on the web, maybe it could just be that my site is the 1 trillionth site in this world to get indexed [:P].

Google finds and index pages by following through links to reach other sites. It says that there are actually more than 1 trillion sites it has found but they are not unique and contain copies and so it cannot say the exact number of unique URLs out there. And not every 1 trillion pages get indexed, since many of the sites are similar to each other and represent auto generated content.

My first post!

Hello World!.. the first words a programmer speaks when he learns to talk with computers, also my first words on this blog.
Today is July 5th.. according to wikipedia today is the 186th day of the year, 179 more days to reach the end of this year, just a little over the middle of the year 2008.

It took me some time to find a good name for my blog. I was looking for something to go with the word technology followed by a noun, but a lot of them were taken, finally I settled for TekXplorer (short for Technology Explorer).

What is this blog about? Its basically a general blog about my interests in technology - anything about the latest hardware, gadgets, software, programming, news and random stuff from around the web.

Signing off for now!.. more in my next post

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