I just started my new website HappyTutors.com and I need a new theme for it. Today I went to WordPress Theme Viewer and found that there are hundreds of great WordPress themes avaiable. I remember that last year when I started ExploringBlogosphere, there were not so many themes that I like. The blogosphere has developed so fast in the last two year. It’s really a good thing for bloggers that so many internet and website designers out there offering us free templates. Thanks a lot!

Can you live one day without the Internet?

I came across a very interesting research at Analyst Webblog Hitwise Intelligence about Google and Yahoo! users. The research concludes that Yahoo! Search attracts more younger audience and Google users are more likely to be big online spenders.

I always use Google and hardly use Yahoo!. I sometimes do online shopping through Google. How about you?

Look at the post Social Neworking Sites I wrote in October 2007, Facebook grew fastest among social networking sites. Now we know that Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m at the end of last year, valuing Facebook at $15b! As far as I know, in the blogosphere, WordPress is the higher profile, while Facebook is perceived as “Teenager”. However, Facebook demonstrates the stronger power of social networking and larger share of searching market. Anything can happen in the web – One day my ExploringBlogosphere might be acquired by a giant:-)

Last week I had a post about What’s Web 2.0? Today I found an interesting vedio at YouTube which provides a clearer view about Web 2.0. Hope you enjoy it 🙂

Want to know what’s happening in the blogosphere in 2007? According to internet research firm comScore, Blogger had the largest number of unique visitors of all social-networking sites in September, but Facebook grew the fastest. WordPress.com ranks 6th in this competition.

Yesterday the blogosphere was talking about probably the 3rd or 4th round of Google PageRank change this year. As far as I know the last time was far back in April when my Exploring Blogosphere got Google PageRank 3. Fortunately, Exploring Blogosphere PageRank still stays 3, considering I didn’t post for almost 3 months. My Sunflower Blog also keeps PageRank 4 🙂

But some of giant bloggers such as Problogger and John Chow, their Google PageRank were down to 4 🙁 How about yours?

Hi my fellow blogger friends, I found this funny vedio on YouTube and want to share with you. Have fun 🙂

According to The NewYork Times, Today, Google said that it had bought the Finnish start-up Jaiku, which makes a mobile phone application people can use to send short messages about where they are and what they are doing.

Founded last year in Helsinki, Jaiku specializes in mobile phone software that makes it easier for users to share updates about their whereabouts and thoughts. The concept, known as microblogging, is also being promoted by Twitter, a San Francisco start-up.

In the near future, you and me might be able to microblog through cell phones 🙂

Looking at my last post, you will notice that I’ve been lazy in the last 4 month. So what’s new in the blogosphere?

 My Google PageRank still stays the same -3; Alexa Ranking is down to zero. Anyway, not too bad at all considering I did nothing in the past.

In addition, I received more than 5,000 spam comments due to lack of anti-spam plug-in. When I tried to pending comment field, the site was frozen because it took forever to load those spam comments 🙁

I have to install an anti-spam plug-in –any suggestions?