Microsoft launched Web Storage and Photo Album
June 29th, 2007
Microsoft had reently announced and launched few new cool services to its Windows Live users and Web Storage and Photo Gallery or Album are the two major ones. As Google has already started its web photo album service and Picassa and has gained wide popularity, Microsoft has now understood the importance of providing free value added services to its users to stay in market of web advertising.
Here is press release from Reuter:
Google May stop Gmail Service in Germany
June 25th, 2007
There has been lot of controversies over new Internet surveillance law that may be imposed in Germany and Google also has threatened to stop the GMail service in Germany if this new law is implemented. This new law has some of the strict regulation on Privacy issues and that might stop google from allowing users to use anonymous email addresses.
It is still not confirmed by Google officials but rumors have spread all over the web and there has been cantrast view about this. Few believe that google should stop the service and few believes that Google should follow the rules and regulation of each country and comply with them.
YouTube new video Remixer Tool
June 25th, 2007
Youtube has just added a useful tool to its uploading section and now you will be able to edit or remix your videos too. This new tool is named as Youtube Remixer and this tool will allow you to upload your file first and than you will be able to add titles or do editing using drag and drop tools.
Try YouTube Remixer now
Google Pays for Testing its services
May 29th, 2007
Google is expanding its services to many areas particularly in web related areas like blogging, finance, calender, mail and online shopping and advertizing. And there are thousands of googlers working in US for google but google needs more people for remote testing of its services and to determine its usability. SO google frequently invites people from different field and different specialities to check and test their service remotely.
So you can be part of it. Sign Up , fill the survey and wait for google’s invitation to test service.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0
May 20th, 2007
After a resonable success of Internet Explorer 7.0 which manages to held back little bit of market captured by Firefox, Microsoft is all set to develop new version of their browser called Internet Explorer 8.0. And to surprise to everyone they have adopted new platform called silverlight platform.
The key features in the platform includes improvement of RSS, CSS, and AJAX, flash like web applications and most importantly UI support which will be revolution as these was the core of firefox.
So hopefully microsoft is learning lessons for good for them and for overall web community.
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Google buys DoubleClick
April 15th, 2007Google had recently confirmed that they have finalized deal to buy DoubleClick for 3.1 million USD. And at this occasion Google CEO said that “It has been our vision to make Internet advertising better - less intrusive, more effective, and more useful. Together with DoubleClick, Google will make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers,”
Also intrestingly google has listed advantages of this deal and are as follows.
Making money online #5: Choose Hosting
March 16th, 2007
Choosing a Web host is one of the most important decisions you will make. Generally, the hosting provider should be able to give you full control over your account (on a shared server) or your server. There should preferably be a Web-based administration interface that will enable you to directly make configuration changes to your site without needing to call technical support. You will need to invest time and effort in choosing a host that will be able to fulfil if not exceed your needs.
Once you’ve determined the technical requirements of your Web site, run a search for hosting companies with your core requirements. For example, if your site depends a lot Flash animation, your search term could be “flash support web hosting.” Narrow the selection down to four or five providers that fit within your need and price band.
Quick Tips for Better Searching #4: Documents Search
March 16th, 2007We all know how to search for information related to keywords but very few people know and use searching for documents. Manya times this kind of searching is very useful perticularly for writers and researchers. There are many ways to search for documents.
• Bring Up Only Certain Filetypes
If you want results of a certain file type, such as PDF, you can use “filetype:pdf” before your search query. This will return only PDFs. Of course, you can use this for any file type, including MP3, XLS, or anything you want.
Making Money Online #4: Free Domains
March 10th, 2007For those of you still undecided about spending money on setting up your own Web site, there is still the option of going in for a free site. Free sites have some limitations. Your site will be a subdomain of the free site provider. Geocities (geocities.yahoo.com) and Google Page Creator (pages.google.com) are good examples of free Web site providers. Other than the “top-drawer” names, there are literally hundreds of companies that provide free hosting. The catch, though, is that they will reserve space on your screen to serve advertising banner ads and other links. Also, they might disable certain features that are processor intensive, and only allow you to have limited interactivity on the site.
Quick Tips for better searching #3: Special Searches
March 8th, 2007
As such most of us know how to do simple search and very few people know how to use advance search functions provided by search engines. But there are few special cases where non simple nor advance search meets your criteria and you start getting confused. Here are few examples. First is when you want to search in special website, second is you want search for websites related with and webpage, third is when you want to search for pages which links to any webpage.
Searching Within Sites
Some sites have a Google search on their homepage, from where you can search for stuff within that site. You don’t need to go to the site to get that functionality. Simply add “site:www.examplesite.com” to your search terms, and you’ll get results only from www.examplesite.com. You can also specify domains, such as .edu this way: “admissions scholarship site:edu”.