Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2005/06/label-cloud_06.html
Adding Video to Blogger
Videos and images can help you in improving your Blog Posts. There are many methods of adding a video to your blogger post. There are millions of videos available on YouTube. If you look at the right side of every YouTube page you will see an embed code. 
Copy out this Embed Code into you blogger post editor and paste in into your blog post. Now when you publish the post you would be able to see the video in your blog post.
If you have a video on your computer, and you need to get it into a blog post, then you can upload the video right from your post editor. The video should be in one of the permissible formats and should be below 100 Mega Bytes in size.
If you don't prefer to upload your video via blogger, then you can upload it at YouTube Meta Cafe or some other video sharing sites and then use their video embed code within the post.
The blogger help group has made an simple and easy video tutorial about adding videos on Blogger Blogs. You will get a better idea if you take a look at their Video Tutorial. I have embedded the video into this blog post. :)
Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2007/07/adding-video-to-blogger.html
How to remove the Blogger Nav bar?
Blogger comes with a default navigation bar.This blogger navigaton bar may not be present in most of the templates.But if you are using a default blogger template,then you will see some navigation bars like the one in this picture.These navigation bars can be removed using some simple CSS techniques.
Here are the steps to remove the Blogger Navigation bar /Blogger Nav Bar
1.Login to your blogger account
2.From your Dashboard opt for Layout
3.Now choose Edit Html
4.You will see your template code there.
5.In that template code find
]]></b:skin>
and replace it with
#navbar-iframe,#navbar { display: none !important; }
]]></b:skin>
6.Now opt for SaveTemplate.
7.Affter saving the template take a look at your template and your blogger navigation bar must have disappeared. :)
If you still cant figure this out see the video below. See the video below..
Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2007/07/blogger-tip-remove-nav-bar.html
How to change the Blogger Favicon ?
What is favicon?
While using IE Firefox or Opera you will see an icon on the tab when u visit a page.This is called favicon.By default blogspot blogs have a favicon which looks ugly.See it here at the top of the post.So how to remove it?
Goto Blogger Template>Edit Html
There find the title tag which looks like
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
and immediately after that add the following code after proper editing
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="URL of your icon file"/>
Remember to replace URL of your icon file file with your icon file's url
Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2007/07/another-blogger-trick-change-favicon.html
Social Bookmarking Icons after every blogger Post
Update:Facebook and Twitter Buttons Added Social bookmarking icons including stumble icon
Most of the bloggers out here know that social bookmarking is so important to us Do u wish to add these bookmarking icons like this:
after each of your blog post..OK here is the trick.. Back up your Template first Goto your Blogger Template>Edit Html Expand widget templates and replace
Now find
Or if that is not there then find
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
Now place the code from this text file just below this line[whichever line you were able to find] and save the template. and the hack is done.You can edit the text file to remove some of the icons. Credits to Beautiful Beta for developing this awesome javascript. If you need the new better icons(which includes stumbleupon visit my new post here.
Most of the bloggers out here know that social bookmarking is so important to us Do u wish to add these bookmarking icons like this:
after each of your blog post..OK here is the trick.. Back up your Template first Goto your Blogger Template>Edit Html Expand widget templates and replace
<head>
with<head><script src='http://files.bloggerplugins.org/simpletricks.js'> </script>
Now find
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
Or if that is not there then find
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
Now place the code from this text file just below this line[whichever line you were able to find] and save the template. and the hack is done.You can edit the text file to remove some of the icons. Credits to Beautiful Beta for developing this awesome javascript. If you need the new better icons(which includes stumbleupon visit my new post here.
Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2007/07/social-bookmarking-icons-after-every.html
Vodafone opts to outsource
Telecommunications company Vodafone Australia has announced plans to outsource non-core technology and property operations, as part of its strategy to focus on core business.
There were 107 people affected at Vodafone, 100 of which have accepted positions with the new outsourcing partners, according to a Vodafone statement.
Grahame Maher, managing director at Vodafone Australia, said that the company had gone through a rigorous process to make sure its people would be offered the same employment terms and conditions that they had at Vodafone.
Network access and transmission will be looked after by TCI and AAP Communications Services (AAPCS); processing platforms has been outsourced to Hewlett-Packard Australia; facilities management will be handled by Five D; and applications support has been outsourced to IBM Australia.
Maher said that outsourcing non-core functions would allow it to respond faster to customer needs and give the company greater business efficiencies.
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Database vendor launches app integration drive
Embedded database vendor InterSystems has launched a partner portal offering its Caché application partners extra developer, marketing and sales support, as part of an overall push into application integration.
InterSystems' new partner portal incorporates joint marketing opportunities, services such as free engineering resources and sales support, Caché database engine marketing tools and information about government support, business strategy and industry associations. Partners and their products will also be promoted on InterSystems' public website as part of the formal program.
Denis Tebbutt, managing director for InterSystems Australia, said the US-based vendor had signed 50 partners in the past two years, including 35 in the last 12 months, to develop and market InterSystems Caché-based applications. Caché combines SQL and an advanced object system in a post-relational database. The vendor opened its Australian office a year ago.
Tebbutt said he was serious about growing InterSystems' business via the channel. Revenues this year were expected to grow 43 percent, taking the company past US$150 million, in the year ending December 2003.
"Our go-to-market strategy is through application developers and their partners and 80 percent of our revenue comes from application developers," he said. "If our partners' business grows, then ours will as well."
InterSystems does not sell its own consulting services, so relies on partners making successful roll-outs of Caché-based applications.
Tebbutt said he hoped the partner portal would encourage Caché developer partners to target InterSystems' global customer base, partly by providing marketing and technical support. The vendor has operations in 19 countries.
The partner program had already harnessed 'a lot of creative' work done by business-partner developers in Russia on the website itself, he said.
Tebbutt added that vendors worldwide were starting to take their channel partners more seriously. "Most recently some have realised the need to change their partner strategies," he said.
While focus on end-users by specific vertical was critical, working with channel partners such as system integrators to solve end-user needs was increasingly important, he said.
"We want to grow our market-share as a result of our partners being successful," said Tebbutt.
This month the vendor also made a move into Australia's application integration market, launching a 'next generation' application integration platform dubbed Ensemble in Sydney on Monday, 3 November.
Tebbutt said the platform should also help partners strengthen opportunities available to them through InterSystems, backing up his claim with results of an InterSystems-sponsored survey of 270 Australian CIOs. Of that sample, 170 had responded, he said.
The survey's main finding was, unsurprisingly, that application integration to improve data use and knowledge availability was the way to go. "CIOs and senior management have got the message. They're looking to make more use of the data that is available to their organisations. They absolutely will be looking over the next couple of years to increase the level of integration of their applications," he said.
Tebbutt said Ensemble's strengths would stem from InterSystem's experience as a database supplier for corporations around the world, taking an 'object-centric database approach'. End-user and system integrator demonstrations of Ensemble will be held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne mid-November, he said.
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