Technorati

Technorati is a search engine for online blogs. You can put any keyword or topic into the search engine and it will come up with either blogs or posts to do with that topic. You can also look through various channels like the gaming channel to which i have an RSS feed on my blog. It's a great site for finding new information and more variations.

I have added the mpi104 blog as an RSS feed on my blog, as well as my Delicious account and also the gaming channel on Technorati. I have other RSS feeds on my blog just for interest sake, like Geekologie and a random comic strip.

Counters and RSS

The Counters feature allows you to see how many people have looked at your website, the most popular pages of your website, commonly used keywords and so on. Other web analysis tools include search bars, such as the google search bars.
I have added a fancy new counter to my blog, haves a look!!

RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a way to see a variety of updated feeds. Blogs and News websites are just two examples that use RSS to update their site.
RSS can be used to keep you up to date with various websites in an easily structured way.
Google reader combines all your RSS feeds so that you can look at everything in the one page.

File Transfer Protocol!

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a common network protocol. It is a simple way to exchange files between computers on the internet. It manages to do this by using TCP/IP protocols. FTP is often used to download programs.

Advantages of FTP:

• FTP allows you to continually update websites at any time.
• You can transfer files from one computer to another.
• It is fast and an efficient way to transfer large files over the internet.

Disadvantages of FTP:

• You have to remember to back up everything!
• It costs to have your own space on the web.
• The connections can be unreliable and can often time out.
• It has minimum data security features.

So we made two web pages connecting to each other through Microsoft Word. It was pretty damn simple!