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Code                 Denotes the Country

                                                .au          Australia

                                                .uk          United Kingdom


                                                .jp          Japan

                                                 .fr         France

                                                .in          India

                                                .us          United States of America

                                                .nz          New Zealand



                  Blogs

                  What if, you could maintain your diary on the web? Yes! You can make your diary on WWW and publish
                  your articles or ideas on the Internet by blogging. Blog refers to the personal content on the net which is
                  uploaded by a user. It refers to the online publication or uploading of personal or general information for
                  restricted viewing. It contains the personal content on the website that is maintained by individuals with
                  regular entries of personal comments, descriptions of events, personal news or other material which can
                  be in the form of text, audio, video, graphics, etc.
                  Blogs have evolved since the logging of personal information on the web during 1997 by Jorn Barger.
                  Initially, blogs were text documents that  were manually updated as components of websites. It had
                  limitations as large number of uploaded publications could not be browsed easily. But with the passage of
                  time and development of new tools on the web, the publications could be managed in a more organized
                  way, as the articles could be browsed in reverse chronological order which led to broader usage of blogs.
                  There are many blogging sites, for example ‘www.blogger.com’, ‘www.bloglines.com’, etc. Blogs can be
                  categorized into different types like :


                  Personal Blogs
                  Personal blogs are  the  most common and  traditional  blogs.  Personal blogs can  be  sentimental
                  which  can  sometimes  be read  by the  blogger  only.  It also allows bloggers to share their  thoughts
                  and  feelings instantaneously  with  friends  or  others. An  example of  a  personal blog  is Twitter
                  (www.twitter.com).

                  Corporate Blogs

                  Blogs can be uploaded for business or commercial purposes. Such blogs can be used internally to enhance
                  the communication among different employees of an organization or for taking feedback from customers
                  or for providing information in general for marketing, promotion of brand or public relations.
                  A corporate blog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. Corporate
                  blogs can be broadly classified into: Internal blogs, External blogs and CEO blogs.






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