Which JewTube is Google’s target?

YouTube is Google’s big brand. No one can dispute. Any attempt to damage that brand is intolerable to Google. The reason is very genuine. However, Google’s preparation to punish the damager seems very strange. There are two JewTube. Coincidentally, both are video sites. Now, take this JewTube. At the very outset, it does not look like YouTube. It is a very specific site. There are very limited videos. The videos are for the Jews community. Look at this site. The URL is JewTube.co.uk. It looks like YouTube. The sections, interface and other features are more or less similar to that of YouTube. Google is all set to file a suit against the JewTube over trademark infringement.

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Yahoo’s browser-based MP3 player to make website music-listening easier

At times, we feel disgusted when we arrive at a web page with some nice music listed, but to listen to them you first have to download some irritating software. This downloading of MP3 software will no longer act as an impediment, for Yahoo has arrived with a rather amazing music service that requires no software downloads! You only need your browser to embed some simple JavaScript-based code to activate the MP3 player on any website. This means, you will no more require installing plug-in and flash players. The player in your browser will find the MP3 on a website and create a playlist. Definitely, other popular software will now get a run for their money. I only hope that Yahoo does not add any money tag to this exciting musical gift. Source: techcrunch

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 finally out

The much anticipated launch of Firefox 3 Beta 1 has finally been accomplished. People had to wait months to get the taste of the new technology from Mozilla but now the wait is over. Firefox Beta 1 is now available in over 20 languages and is available in stores right around the world. The new version is an improved one on its predecessor and is a novel one too. The best part of the new version is that it provides a better presentation of a website’s identity. Besides providing better malware protection, Firefox 3 Beta 1 also enhances better downloading management and virus-protection. Firefox 3 Beat 1 is also blessed with better and new graphics and font enhancement and is endowed with more support for offline web applications. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is indeed expected to rock the software world. The new technology should take it one step ahead of its competitors. Image Source: Seyirdefteri Source: Blog Wired

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Google launches Wiki rival : Knol

Most of us consider Wikipedia to be the ultimate online knowledge base or encyclopedia. I always use Wikipedia for Celebrity information, games and other technical stuff that I don’t know. The next best thing after Wikipedia is obviously Google. But, with Google about to launch it’s own online encyclopedia the scenario is about to change. The search engine company Google is going to design an encyclopedic dictionary for internet users. According to Google, this will compete directly with Wikipedia. This ‘dictionary’ has been christened as Knol. I guess that’s probably a short for Knowledge. The Google version of online encyclopedia is going to be an organization of ‘user generated information’ covering all the fields of knowledge.Although, the Google knowledge platform is somewhat similar to Wikipedia there are some subtle differences. For example Wikipedia is a collaborative system of authors. There are no ‘authors’ listed on the Wiki pages because there can be multiple authors for one page. Google’s knol will be authored. This is not the first time Google is coming up with such a platform. The Google base is a similar knowledge base to that of Wikipedia. So if you are thinking that Google is launching knol just for advertising money you are wrong. Also, I would compare knol to blogger(another Google product). However, there is no information regarding the release of Knol. I think it’s kind of cool that Google is coming up with a Wiki like encyclopedia.

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Yahoo! releases Vista version of messenger after 12 months

The Yahoo Messenger is back in the news headlines again! The Yahoo messenger for the Vista windows has been finally launched. After almost 12 months of last version update, we are getting this new vista Yahoo messenger. The unfortunate news is that the latest Vista Yahoo messenger doesn’t have any video or sharing abilities which the users are a big fan of. As of now, the Yahoo messenger is only a bare bones version of a fancy text messaging system. Hopefully Yahoo is going to do something about it and we do hope that they don’t take 12 months to come up with the next update. If you compare the latest Vista Yahoo messenger version with the last messenger version, a few neat changes have been made. You can basically chat in one corner of the messenger window while the other part plays a live concert. I think this is a great development although, the lack of video sharing capability is kind of disappointing. Image Credit: Frogdesign

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How their Twitter pages would look

On April 1, I came across an article on PCWorld, titled Facebook pages We’d like to See. Although it didn’t had the pages I wanted to see, but sure I found it funny; which made me think how my favorite social networking site, twitter, can have some interesting pages. So here’s my attempt being creative.

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Google buys new social networking site, Zingku

Google has taken one more step further in expanding its mobile space with the acquisition of one more social networking site, Zingku. Zingku has entered into an agreement with Google, so that Google can acquire Zingku service. Zingku service allows you to create and exchange things like invitations, ‘mobile flyers’ and pictures with friends over the phone. Zingku integrates your phone with a personalized web site so that you can more easily move such things back and forth. With Zingku, the things which you want to share and promote can easily be created and fetched through mobile phone, instant messenger or web browser. Other features of Zingku are following: 1) It stores & fetches mobile photos and txt reminders with alarms on your companion mobile web site. 2) You can also share mobile photos and posts with friends with txt messaging instant messenger, and web. 3) The service gathers big crowd & their friends with txt messaging, IM, and email, all at once! 4) With the Zingku service, you can take an instant poll among friends, all with txt messaging. 5) Your own mobile cards that people fetch by texting a magic code. 6) The service fetches postings from any blog or any syndicated feed your mobile phone through txt message. Initially the service is limited to the US until it is migrated to Google services. In 2005 also Google bought dodgeball, another mobile social network.

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Make Your Business Better – Use Content Management

In every business, there is a desire to make as much profit as is humanly possible. And indeed, if you are an entrepreneur, you most likely have a force deep inside you, urging you onward toward that next sale. And it really does not matter where that sale is, or to whom, right? Well, it depends. If you do not care about being able to charge more for what you sell, and if you really only expect to make one sale per customer, ever, then it most likely matters very little to you where or to whom your sales take place. However, you might consider the possibility that you might be able to charge far more for your services (and actually get it) if you can provide more value for a very particular niche of people than anybody else has the ability to provide. And in order to provide maximum value, you might consider using a content management system for your web site. A content management system is a software suite which allows your business to reorganize its content in the most efficient manner for the search engines. When someone out there on the net looks up something which is in some way related to your product or service offering, your newly managed content will be one of the earliest things they will find when their search returns a relevant list of sites. In this way, your website can go from knowing a lot about your subject matter and displaying it for every person who clicks in, to knowing a HUGE amount about a particular sub niche in your chosen subject matter, and showing the really fine details of it to a special group of people who are much more likely to be loyal customers to you.

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Facebook to attract non-English people

After beating MySpace in UK and Canada, Facebook is now planning to provide its social networking features to the non-English speaking people in the world. For which, it will come up with non-English versions. As said, it would be a resounding step by Facebook for strong international growth, which otherwise has primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries. As of now, we are not communicated about the languages that Facebook has selected for the translation. I guess Facebook will probably launch Spanish, German, French, or Italian versions, because MySpace has already these versions. Recently, Facebook has claimed number one position in UK beating MySpace in August this year. Facebook singed up more than 6.5 million unique visitors while the latter registered 6.4 million unique visitors, according to Nielsen and NetRatings. Bebo is in the third place with 4.4 million visitors. Facebook registered nearly 12 million unique visitors in Canada in August against 10 million for MySpace during the same month. Upbeat Mark Zuckerber, the Founder and CEO of Facebook says, Translation at some level is definitely on our radar. International growth is one of a few things that we are very focused on right now. Interestingly, Microsoft is keen to invest $10bn in Facebook. If it happens, Facebook will get enough financial support for further expansion.

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Integrating the control of home cloud systems

Arguably the hottest new buzzword in information technology today, cloud computing is causing the first major revolution in the way computer services offered to the user since the advent of the personal computer. Cloud computing also referred to as Software as a Service (SAAS). It means that the user can gain access to software services via the Internet without the need to make expensive investments in servers or hardware infrastructure. The user would access software applications in the same manner as he currently accesses electricity or the telephone and pay for their use as a utility. Technically, the heavy load of the IT processing would shift to the provider and all the user would need is a personal computer to interface with the provider, possibly using an interface as simple as a Web browser. Currently, the most commonplace use of cloud computing is in e-mail services. Nothing is stored on your hard disk, and you merely use your personal computer to access services on the server of the provider. All the software and storage for your e-mail account are stored remotely sparing you the effort of configuration and maintaining all this on your personal computer. The interface with your e-mail provider is your Web browser. The term cloud refers to the Internet but the definition of cloud computing varies depending on who you are talking to. There are now a host of providers offering all kinds of services under the nomenclature cloud computing ranging from bits and pieces to fully integrated business solutions. However, it is not hard to foresee the day when a fully integrated cloud computing service is available for your house, which provides a completely integrated suite of home services that you may require whether it is entertainment or control systems for home use. The integrated control centre would be sited in several locations in the house probably your bathroom (as a part of bathroom accessories), your living room and your bedroom from where you could control delivery of any services provided.

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