June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft - Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
April 16th, 2009 by Grace
The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter - In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’
March 16th, 2009 by Grace
People and businesses are still not aware that the naming conventions that have been used for so long on the internet are to freed up, liberalized forever and taken out of the hands of any one body the world over. These naming conventions used to be developed and designated by the ICANN and other internet management groups yet moves to take this out of the control of any group or body has resulted in the planned de-regulation of naming conventions. Google can now have specific marketing websites such as “search.Google” or say “Images.Google”. This move would give businesses more room to expand on their use of the internet, say a University having a web site for students named “Students.University”. Continue reading ‘Web Domain Liberalization - Not Many Know’
February 19th, 2009 by rain09angel
Pictures speak a thousand words, they say. Especially in this age where more and more people are taking pictures and sharing them online, it’s only normal that people will want to spice their pictures up.
Of course, some will prefer using professional editing tool, not everyone like to use such complicated software. The good news is that there is an online solution that lets you add basic effects and designs to your photos - Picnik.
Picnik is completely free, and does not require you to download any software for you to to be able to use it. Simply upload your pictures, and apply the corresponding effects or designs you want. What’s more, with Picnik’s integration into sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, its easier to share your edited pictures with everyone.
January 12th, 2009 by Grace
The introduction of apple of the MobileMe Platform allowed subscribers to send their mobile data that is uploaded into the Apple servers where they are synced at their desktop when they return home. People on the go have the ability to upload all contents of their iPhone which is then sent to their desktop effectively having an online back-up that is in the clouds. The data center stores all of your contacts, photos, videos and other information (contacts) which the subscriber can then send into their Macs as they get home.
Continue reading ‘MobileMe Apple’s Sync Heaven’
December 28th, 2008 by sayuri
Been looking for an Instant Messenger (IM) client that allows you to chat with almost anyone? Don’t want to download a software client because it’s a pain for your Hard Disk Drive? Then it’s time for you to try out meebo.
Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.
It also allows you to change wallpapers and create your own private rooms. Unfortunately, it can’t do features of Yahoo and others for obvious reasons. But still, if you like plain old chatting without of the other frills then meebo is the right one for you.
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November 24th, 2008 by Grace
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Sling.com, a video streaming service has its newest application ready to be released this month. Welcome Slingbox! Slingbox has been in beta testing for a number of weeks now. It is slated to be released this 24th of November. Sling.com is not just a clone of another widely popular web service, Hulu. It may be the same with that the two companies offer thousands of Television series episodes and movies for free. It has made a deal with huge movie film companies like Sony, MGM, Warner and CBS. It currently has no Viacom. The difference is that Sling.com will have a feature specifically for Slingbox users… a web based Slingplayer. This will enable you to watch your Slingbox from any web browser.
October 7th, 2008 by Grace
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Microsoft has at last shown some Web 2.0 innovations with its Web based application suite. They have recently released the Microsoft Office Live Premium. And by far this is the best new economy Web 2.0 internet move, Microsoft has undergone for a very long, long time. But Microsoft’s first move in this undertaking, that is looking for another percentage of the world’s weakening economy, is to ask the users how much they are willing to shell out for the service or the app. Microsoft Office Live is the first real step that the company took on its own. As it turns out, Microsoft’s web services had no serious efforts in chasing Google with its different undertakings and releases these past few months. Microsoft runs the Hotmail service through the Web 2.0. And the Windows Live Mail, and its Virtual Earth, One Care and many others.
September 28th, 2008 by Grace
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A social bookmarking system has many advantages over traditional resource location. All classifications of the resources is done by actual persons or people. They understand the content of the resource, unlike the programmed softwares, which uses algorithm to determine the meaning of a particular resource. People tend to find and bookmark web pages that may not have been indexed by web spiders. In addition to that, social bookmarking system ranks a resource, based on the number of times it has been bookmarked by users rather than rank it according to number of external links. From the search data perspective, there is no standard set of keywords, no standard for the structure of tags, mistagging, unclear tags. Social bookmarking is also not immune to corruption. Due to its popularity, some users have started considering it as a tool to use for SEO or search engine optimization to make their website rank higher. Spammers use them also to tag the page multiple times.
