You can make your blog look much more interesting with video. You may use your own videos or choose the ones shooted by other people. It is also possible to host your videos on your own hosting account and use an embedded media player in your blog posts to display them. However, this could be quite expensive in terms of bandwidth usage because video files are usually quite large. It is better to upload your videos to video service like YouTube and then use a WordPress plugin to display them in your blog posts. EasyTube is a WordPress plugin which allows you to display YouTube content by using one simple tag in your blog posts.

We have just launched a new blog titled StartupsInTurkey(SIT). Actually Turkey has a well grown blogosphere but the  English sources covering Turkey and the web business going on in this country are not enough. Our goal is to bring the latest news, analysis’, startups and the Internet people from Turkey. It is a kind of a showroom for the Turkish Internet Startups. You can see the big team behind this project from here: StartupsInTurkey team

The extraordinary design of SIT was made by BlogDestek.com, a blog service provider owned by Burak Dönertas who is a talented Turkish blog designer. Burak not only creates custom blog designs for the most popular Turkish bloggers, but also provides blog back up and maintenance services.

We have just launched the SIT. Therefore we still need sometime to get the ball rolling. Please feel free to share any kind of  suggestions and ideas with us.

This week the World Economic Forum is held in Davos. The forum runs Wednesday through Sunday. It sparks a lot of blog posts as usual.  Thanks to the Web and every kind of social-media app you can imagine, we can easily follow the latest news from Davos. I have created a list of reliable resources where you can follow the latest news and updates from Davos.

• The Financial Times Davos Blog: It is one of the leading sources of debate and opinion from Davos.
• Scobleizer.com: Robert Scoble is updating us from his blog and the videos he has captured during the events in Davos. Here is a nice one with Paulo Coelho: Mike’s mood improves when Paulo Coelho arrives
• The Wall Street Journal – Davos Live: The latest news, and gossip from the World Economic Forum.
• Live Streamline from Davos: Many panels and discussions are being streamlined by Mogulus.
• Davos Official Twitter: Get the latest tweets from Davos.
• Live broadcasts from CNN.com: Same as Mogulus, you can get live broadcasts provided by CNN.
• Davos — World Economic Forum:FriendFeed room launched for Davos.

• Robert Scoble is reporting from Davos: Mike’s mood improves when Paulo Coelho arrives
• An interview worth reading: An Interview (with Me) on Getting ‘Fast Traffic’ to a Blog
• Have you ever wondered How Obama Will Use Web Technology?
• Here are the 10 Web Sites That Will Matter in 2009
• I really liked this one Genetics Of Popularity: Genetic Influence In Social Networks Identified
• Google Android: Favorite Features & What’s Yet to Come
• 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know
• Do you like digital photography? Here is Digital Photography Tutorials.
• If you are interested in making money online, this one is for you: 10 Online Publishers That Want To Pay You to Write

My name is Mert and I am a Twitterholic. I started Twittering on 2007-05-30 09:52:40. Since then I can not give up Twittering. I am ranked 8,492th on Twitterholic! (by followers). I am also ranked 2nd in my location on Twitterholic! (by followers in ‘Istanbul, Turkey‘)

Joke aside, Twitter is one of the most enjoyable and powerful marketing tools for bloggers. My tweets can reach hundreds of people everyday. I can follow some of the most important characters of blogging and Internet marketing. Information sharing has never been so easy before. I would like to share some of the most useful Twitter resources I used during my Twitter journey.