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Google Buys JotSpot, Offers Free Wiki Pages 2007-04-03 00:32:00 With JotSpot purchase, Google
enhances its Web-based collaboration offerings. In a bid to grow beyond its roots as a search engine, Google has acquired JotSpot, a developer of wiki technology for collaborative Web sites. Earlier this month, Google announced that it would offer online word processing and spreadsheet applications to its millions of Web searchers. The company also has a blogging service, but hasn’t yet introduced a tool for Web-based collaboration. Now Google has filled that gap by acquiring JotSpot , according to a Tuesday post on JotSpot’s blog by its cofounder and CEO, Joe Kraus. He did not disclose the terms of the deal, and Google did not answer requests for comment. Joining Google allows us “to plug into the resources that only a company of Google’s scale can offer,” like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers, and a team of incredibly smart people, Kraus said in his blog. JotSpot’s Background Kraus and his partner, Graham Spence Read more:Google Buys
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Google accidentally sends out e-mail worm 2007-04-03 00:29:00 Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group. Three postings were made Tuesday evening to an e-mail list that sends out postings to the Google Video blog. “Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm—a mass-mailing worm,” Google said in a note on its Web site apologizing for the incident. W32/Kapser.A is better known as the Kama Sutra worm. Some antivirus companies raised an alarm about the threat in February, but it ultimately shriveled. Kama Sutra was designed to overwrite files on infected computers on a specific date. However, the worm, which spread under the guise of pornographic content, caused virtually no damage.Google advises people who may have received the worm in e-mail or downloaded it from the group’s Web site to run an antivirus program to remove it. The company is taking steps to make sure it doesn’t make the same mistake again, it said.The Google Video e-mai Read more:Google
Shocking Online Fraud Numbers, 1 in 10 fall victim to fraud 2007-04-03 00:28:00 Either the internet community is highly blind whenever it comes to what is a online fraud and what isn’t, or online fraud is on the rise, sadly it is probably both. With recent reports stating that 1 in 10 online users have fell victim
to online fraud, losing on average around $2,000 to the internet fraud, the internet is quickly becoming more of a risk when users sign on. With the staggering results of the study stating 1 in 10 internet users have fell victim to internet fraud, a closer look shows that some of the supposed “most secure” internet places often contain the most fraud. Shopping is a prime example, shopping across the internet is quickly becoming one of the most popular users for the internet, with it providing a comfortable shop in your chair experience, however, I was surprised to see that 6% of people have been led into fraud by online shopping, the cause of losing thousands of dollars by fraud, while another 3% lost their credit card and bank account information Read more:Numbers
Top Twenty Sites : Most Downtime 2007-04-02 23:43:00 Pingdom just published a report measuring total 2007 downtime to date for the top 20 sites on the web as ranked by Alexa. Leading the list is Yahoo with zero downtime. Google’s YouTube and Blogger.com are the worst performers, with over 4 hours of downtime each (although Google.com is very reliable). Read more:Downtime
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April Fool 2007-04-02 00:00:00 This time google Proved that it's not just a Search Engine...But first You must read this From Google :Google has chosen 1st April
to announce some of there actual products. This Marketing strategy is used to make people feel that the Product is a hoax, spread the word around and then to there surprise it is actually real. On April Fool
's day 2004, Google announced launch of Gmail, people thought it was a hoax as web-based-email with one gigabyte storage space was unheard at that time. Further in 2005 the increase of space to two giga-byte was also thought to be hoax. In 2005 Google also launched Google Ride Finder which was thought to be unreal but later turned out to be real.Google TISPIf you visit Google today you will see a link to Google’s newest service, call Google TiSP. What is Google TiSP? Well, here is a snip from its own page…“Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service.
Youtube Downloader 2007-04-11 23:22:00 YouTube Downloader is a free tool that downloads videos from YouTube and saves it as Avi file to your local computer. YouTube Downloader allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video. Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Start , and the AVI or MPEG file will be downloaded into the selected folder. Author: youtube-d.comSize: 2.68 MbLicense: FreewareRequires: Win All
Google launches 800GOOG411 2007-04-11 23:17:00 Google has recently launched it’s own 411 service, perhaps in response to Microsoft’s purchase of Tellme networks which specialize in telephone based applications. This new service is ad-supported, like most of Google’s applications, and is basically another step in Google’s plan to introduce add-supported search services. Techcrunch writes :"Goog-411 can be accessed by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411. The product is completely automated and there is no way to talk to a human for additional or clarifying information. You tell it your city and state, and then ask for a specific business or business category. In my tests the product was excellent. Although the voice recognition was only working at about 70% efficiency, I just said “back” and retried when it didn’t understand what I said. Results are spoken back or text messaged back to you, and you are automatically put through to the phone number requested." Read more:Google
Windows Media Player Added Into Firefox 2007-04-20 23:16:00 Windows Media Team and Port 25, the open-source side of Microsoft have released a Windows Media Player
Add-ON available for download for the Mozilla Firefox
web browser, one of the most popular web browsers surfing the internet today. With this new release it shows that maybe Microsoft isn’t so anti open source after all! Before the release of the add-on Firefox users were left out to dry whenever it came to streaming videos that required Windows Media Player files through the site, and would have to switch to the dreaded Internet Explorer instead if they wished to view it. Luckily now, the new firefox add-on is ready to be downloaded here and will provide all Mozilla Firefox users with an even better media experience, where the browser was limited before today. Read more:Windows
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How To: Get More Readers 2007-05-01 12:24:00 Magic Smoke wrote about these great tips to get more readers to your Blog :Blog Herald recently linked to Problogger.net's 11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog.The 11 tips are geared to professional bloggers (or folks with inclinations that way), and a bunch of them are geared to specific features available to advanced blogging platforms like (WordPress), but it's still an interesting read -- some takeaways for regular folks include Serializing Content, Making Things Interactive, and Highlighting Key Posts. Check it out.Here are some of my own tips:* Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit: This is corporate-speak that means "Go for the easy wins first." Share your blog's address with the people who already know you. They're the people who are most likely to be interested in what's going on in your life.* Self-Promote Yourself (but only where appropriate): Put your blog's address in your mail signature, profiles, IM away message, message board posting signature -- anywhere that y
10 Windows Live features you don't yet use and should 2007-04-30 18:10:00 With almost a full set of Windows
Live services now out of beta, we thought we'd take a look at all those currently available and choose our top 10 features
/ mini-services that most people aren't currently using and should be.Windows Live
Mail desktop has a "View by Conversation" option that groups an email and its replies together, something which Gmail users love. You can try this out for yourself in the most recent Windows Live Mail desktop beta by selecting the following option: View - Current View - View by ConversationLive Feed Search is a great way to find blogs on niche topics, or if you want the majority of your search results to be from blogs. Power users will probably want to stick to Technorati however. Try it out at http://search.live.com/feeds.Live Search has a nifty "prefer" operator to help you refine your search results. Here's an example of it in action: Without | With. You use this in the same way as all the other search operators; add "prefer:" followed by your
Some Google Ads Have Spyware 2007-04-30 17:47:00 Google Ads, provided by Advertisers through the advertising service known as “Google Adwords” has been the leading front in Online advertising for thousands of publishes and advertisers world wide, used on blogs and sites owned by millions of bloggers, it may come to cause some discomfort with the recent news of some Google Ads containing spyware, is it Google’s fault? Some may think so. Google, being the publisher of the ads is now rethinking there method of approval for the desired ads to be published, with the news of some of their advertisements being “hi-jacked” with spyware, it could cause potential users of the advertising to turn away and go to other sources. Google is well aware of this, and have already taken swift action. “We cancelled the affected ads as soon as we were made aware of the problem,” Google spokesperson Diana Adair told ClickZ News in an e-mail. Google is not alone, if they are able to be penetrated like this, then the smaller companies could be Read more:Google
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Internet Speed Record Broken 2007-04-30 17:41:00 Scientist have broken the internet speed record, previously set at 7.67 Gbps, they were able to send data at 9.8 Gbps over a 20,000 miles distance at a constant rate. For an example of how fast this is, a high-def movie that typically takes 40 hours on a typical broadband connection would only take a few seconds if this connection was open for public use. Tokyo(Japan) Scientist are the ones that broke the record at the Internet
2 consortium. With this break through they have not only given further proof of what internet speed holds for us in the future, but have laid a path for other scientist to follow in bringing us a better online experience. If an internet at this speed is released in the future, you can rest assured knowing that piracy of downloaded contest will raise at a rate never seen before. Read more:Broken
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Adsense Alternatives ( HoT ToPiC ) 2007-04-29 23:14:00 This is one of the most hot topic nowadays that i am posting here about...Recently Google lifted the ban on having third party ads along side Adsense
. ”When it comes to enforcing policies on third-party contextual ads, we’ll be following the updated program policies instead of the T&Cs on this point. That is to say, publishers may now display other contextual ads on the same site or page as Google ads as long as they don’t have the same look and feel as our ads” This is great news for webmasters and bloggers and the market is now full of quality alternatives.Here is my complete guide to all of the main alternatives to adsense. REVENUE PILOT * RevenuePilot affiliates receive 60% of what advertisers pay RevenuePilot per each click * Provides you with various linking methods that allow you to link to our premiere pay per click network; therefore you get paid for each successful click-through that is generated by your site’s visitors * Get the highest bids from our select adverti Read more:Alternatives
Chesspark 2007-04-29 20:39:00 I Found this great post at CyberNetNewsHere's what they have to write :Despite this, when someone pointed out Chesspark to me, I thought I’d give chess another shot. It’s the classic game of chess, but it’s just met up with Web 2.0. Features: Play against the computer, or play with other members.Integrated chat– you can chat with any of the people that you’re playing with.Multiple levels – obviously not everybody is a chess expert. Ratings – You’re given a rating which gives people an idea of how hard you are to beat. This also helps to match you up with people who play at a similar level.Time controlled games – meaning you can set a certain time limit so that each person is only given a set amount of time to make their move. In the future, they plan on offering lessons for those who want to step up their game. Chesspark has been around for several months, and it looks like people are pretty happy with it. They allow you to play on the web, or you can also downl
Yahoo! Web Messenger is Quite Good 2007-05-03 23:27:00 Click to Enlarge Yahoo
! refuses to be left behind in the world of online communication, so they too have launched their own Web Messenger
. Their new messenger service is completely Flash based which is nice because of the cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility that it offers. It will work in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even Opera. After logging in I noticed a small popup that announced two features of the Web messenger, which included compatibility with Windows Live Messenger (which their desktop client already offered) and message history. The message history is new according to them (I haven’t used Yahoo! messenger in awhile) and it sounds like it works just like Google’s: IM conversations with your friends can now be saved in your Yahoo! account on Yahoo! servers. This means you can access and search your message history from any computer - just like email! Other users may use this message history feature to save conversations with you in their accounts on
Google showing international language ads 2007-05-03 23:25:00 Google Ads are now not only limited to English. Now Google shows ads in different language
depending on the location of the viewer. Google identifies the location of person by capturing IP address of the person & thus showing relevant text ads. Well Google in this way is giving a tough competition to its competitors. Google Adsense is leading the ad industry on internet & will continue. However, after the launch of FAN (Feedburner Ad Network) the conditions may change! Read more:Google
TV error replaces Disney with porn 2007-05-03 23:21:00 A red-faced US cable television company has apologized after a Disney
cartoon was replaced with a hardcore porn film. Comcast subscribers were left shocked when the "Handy Manny" cartoon on Playhouse Disney was interrupted by an X-rated movie, the New York Daily News reports. Shocked Paul Dunleavy was watching the cartoon with his five-year-old son when the porn kicked in. "It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting," he said. "It wasn't something you'd expect to see on Cinemax, never mind Disney." Comcast has confirmed it was responsible for the error
that affected sections of New Jersey. "We had an isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility, we immediately detected the issue and it was corrected promptly," Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea said. Disney's Playhouse features cartoons geared towards youngsters between the ages of three to six.
Student Gets Suspended from School for creating a CounterStrike Map of his School 2007-05-03 23:18:00 Student
s playing the addictive Counter Strike are nothing uncommon today, but things went seriously wrong for Texas teenager when he got suspended from Clements High School
for playing Counter Strike in his home computer, on a level which closely resembled his high school.The whole story came into light a day after Virginia Tech Shooting when a parent called the Clements High School to inform that their child was playing a video game which involved killing and took place inside an animated map of Clements High School. School authorities then found a website which had that map for download, but unfortunately the creator of the map was a student at their school. Law enforcement authorities were informed and they questioned the teenager. According to the police, the teenager never intended to cause any violence or to kill someone. His locker and computer were searched, but they found nothing illegal. Whether he was right or wrong, I leave that question to you, but what the school autho
45% of Europeans watch TV online 2007-05-03 23:12:00 A new study from Motorola has found that an amazing 45% of European broadband users now watch
at least some television online
.The survey covering the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that the French lead Europe in terms of online television consumption with 59% of people choosing to watch previews and episodes of their favorite shows via the web with the Germans trailing at 33%. The survey did not ask where the respondents obtained the content, ignoring the reality that many were possibly downloading television shows from BitTorrent or similar services.The results further strengthen the business models of startups such as Joost, that seek to target a massive potential audience through the use of streamed content over a P2P network, but with the safeguards of DRM and imposed advertising delivery built in. The survey also found that 45% of Europeans
expect to be making video calls via their home TV’s by 2012.
Adsense Looking Cool ; Adsense Homepage Extreme Makeover 2007-05-03 17:54:00 Here is a sneak peak of the soon to be Google Adsense
login page, I love the new layout, it is so clean and neat and informative, unlike the previous login screen which is kind of boring. Well, I am so used to the old login screen and I guess I need a little bit more time to adapt myself to this new layout. Could this possibly be the default layout for all Google Services? Gmail? Google Doc and others? Time will tell. Read more:Extreme
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Javascript Fun [Edit Any Webpage] 2007-05-08 22:48:00 This is another great post i found at Orkut..Posted by Nikhilish.Using this great trick you can edit any website you want...set there parameters and much more..Here is how to Use it :1) Go to any web-site you want to edit2) Copy this Javascript :javascript:nick=document.body;nick.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 03) Past this Javascript into the address bar (Where you write addresses of sites like www.google.com)4) Press Enter Or Click GoSee the Magic...Hope you enjoy it...and don't forget to give the feed back so i keep on posting such tricks...
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