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I have just tried second life game and as predicted before, it was fun and pleasuring – if can’t say addicting. Different with other online games that needs relatively higher hardware requirements. Second life game can be played with low level pc hardware even my atom netbook can play it smoothly. Some lag happens but it is mostly caused by the quality of the internet network that was not relatively good in my country fortunetly this problem doesn’t disrupt the experience of playing this game.

Just like another online games, It also has both positive and negative aspect to its player. In positive way, It can help to release the stress, socialize with people, improve body coordination,  make money, learn something, etc but it may cause addictive behavior as well , people may forget with their real life responsibility (social live, work, etc) because  of the game. However, this game can also be used for education purposes. Second life can be used as a virtual laboratory that help us learn to live and learn from live. Second life also fit to people that want to studying foreign language and culture. The virtual environment that offered enables us to interact with foreign people, live in foreign place and try to adapt the culture without need to go to the that place directly.The conclusion is, Second life and other online games can provide a lot direct benefits when being used appropriately and wisely.

Based on Wikipedia, Technorati is a search engine tool just like Google or Yahoo with one difference, it is only gathering and collecting blog links from blogsphere.The founder of Technorati said that it was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. I have read several pages on Technorati and concluded some important points into the following :

• Technorati only accept blogs as its member.
• Technorati only counts blogs that refer link to your blog. (this is the main difference of Technorati compare to other search engine)
• Authority is the number of blogs that have  linked to a blog page during the last 6 months
• The higher the number of authorities, the higher the blog’s position in blog ranks
• If  there is blog that made  more than one links to your blog, Technorati only counts once.
• The best Technorati authority position is position #1. The smaller the value the better blog position.

I hope these points will help to understand how Technorati works and the last, the best advice that I can tell to raise your blog ranks is writing  good and interesting articles to other bloggers so they don’t hesitate to link your blog. it’s all about content, content, and content.