Archive for the 'Info' Category
August 22nd, 2008 by Grace
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Many people are wondering what is Social Bookmarking all about and how did it became such a popular trend with the Internet users nowadays? Through filing a site in your bookmark list, anyone searching for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the junk.
One of the cool features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you anywhere you go and not just on your own computer. With Social Bookmarking, there are many diverse types of online communities that you can link and most will help you get an assured amount of traffic on your site. Social bookmarking is a way of presenting what interests you share with the rest of Internet world.
Through organizing your bookmarks online; you can aid yourself in getting organized or getting your contents exposed so that it will also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users - and each user has an individual page with their own tags. A social bookmarking site also assists you to meet those other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have the extended knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.
June 1st, 2008 by Grace
Web services are XML-based application components that communicate using open protocols. These application components are also self-contained and self-describing. The basic Web services platform is XML and HTTP. Perhaps HTTP is more familiar since it is the mostly used internet protocol. XML on the other hands provides a language that can be utilized between different platforms and programming languages. What is cool about a web services platform is that it is quite a simple and interoperable messaging framework. It’s not perfect though, as it still has missing components such as security and routing which are now being worked on.
May 31st, 2008 by Yalung
Xoom, that online remittance website that has made strides years back, is slowly deteriorating. Compared to the fast transactions and remittances that they can send to countries like the Philippines and India, they have really dwindled in services, putting outrageous constraints to people who were really satisfied with their service.
The worst thing is, when you ask for explanations regarding cancelled transactions, they do not give you an explanation. They say it is confidential and cannot be disclosed. If that is the case, then why did they even bother putting up customer service support? Talk about quality service, Xoom is a clear example of a good business going bad and will soon be defunct.
May 17th, 2008 by Yalung
As far as offering services for online users, expect mobile applications and programs to grow in the coming years as mobile computing and access have evidently become a notable uprising thanks to the latest gadgets that allow people to access the web anywhere with their gadgets.
With that in mind, service providers who make a living on the web are sure to grab this opportunity and make studies on what people would really look for. Aside from the usual information they need, emails, social communities and podcasts are surely among the top preferences we know of today.
May 14th, 2008 by Yalung
With recession as an obvious reason, don’t be surprised to see existing and new companies to further take advantage of this happening as most people are expected to be online rather than out in the streets. The thought of having telecommute people today logically points towards more users online and majority of the market are sure to be penetrated via the cyber world.
So if at the moment if you receive strange messages from varied origins, do not be surprised. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Expect this to swell especially if telecommute becomes a reality which seemingly looks like it.
May 6th, 2008 by Yalung
If you are frequenting the web, then you will notice that a lot of the services offered seem to good to be true. In the initial phases, you will notice no price or cost for the services to be rendered. But if you look a little bit more, you may start thinking of the catch.
Normally there is. But the thing is, you either let them get your attention or find our through word of mouth. Or if you are really in doubt, just disregard them. If this is the case, how can you effectively secure customers on the web if your strategy seems to be sinking?
May 1st, 2008 by Yalung
It is a fact that most businessmen today will go at anything to make sure that their services gets the proper attention. But if they come via email, would you try them out?
This is perhaps a problem for most consumers. How can you differentiate a real one from a scam? It is no secret that most people would do anything, even mischief by email today. It is apparent that getting something by email will always be something up for scrutiny. With that in mind, would you take the risk? I don’t think so being an end user. Better try another way of getting customers.
April 27th, 2008 by rain09angel
Rhapsody is an online digital music service that allows its user to access its entire music library at the same time lets users listen to whatever they want, whenever they want it. Users pays low monthly rate for every tracks and albums that rhapsody has. Rhapsody also has Jukebox software that contains all features of web based version with some additional features
Rhapsody now offers Rhapsody Web Services (RWS). RWS is a component of Rhapsody DNA that gives users and developers direct access to Rhapsody’s technologies and content. With RWS, users to access metadata, utilize search results with rhapsody, and play back music in the Rhapsody web player directly from the user’s site.
March 25th, 2008 by Grace
A WSDL document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, the abstract definition of endpoints and messages is separated from their concrete network deployment or data format bindings. This allows the reuse of abstract definitions: messages, which are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and port types which are abstract collections of operations.
The concrete protocol and data format specifications for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding. A port is defined by associating a network address with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports define a service. In addition, WSDL defines a common binding mechanism. This is used to attach a specific protocol or data format or structure to an abstract message, operation, or endpoint. It allows the reuse of abstract definitions.
March 20th, 2008 by Grace
The Web Services platform represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies like remote procedure calls (RPC), ORPC (DCOM, Corba, Java RMI), messaging (MSMQ, MQSeries), and even modern Web applications (like Google.com). Because RPC was so difficult, developers layered object facades over the RPC mechanism to hide complexity.
This led to the many flavors of object-oriented remote procedure calls (ORPC). Of course, not all application communication can be modeled with RPC, so other messaging paradigms (like those provided by MSMQ) were necessary. Then, over the years, as developers struggled with interoperability between the various ORPC and messaging systems, they turned to the evolving Web as a potential solution for these challenges.
