Google has just launched a URL shortener service called Goo.gl where a similar service has been served by TinyURL and Bit.ly. This new service has been built into Google products, beginning with Google's browser toolbar and its Feedburner RSS service.
Short URL now is needed to shorten a URL for twitter or Facebook post to reduce the use of character. Twitter integration is also added to Feedburner which will let website publisher automatically update their twitter feed from their Feedburner RSS feed, which uses the new Goo.gl URL shortening service.
Website grows rapidly and makes the internet users sometimes feel confused which site to click. But when we click a site, we are served by a site with a notification that this site is in downtime due to server maintenance, of course we feel upset for this case. Meanwhile, for internet marketer who use website for their products marketing purpose, this problem is a usual thing faced every single months of the year.
Actually, this problem can be reduced when we chose a great powerful web hosting. Some indicators can determine which website hosting is better than others are when the downtime reaches up to 99.99% and full customer service support. If those two conditions are available in every hosting company, we can feel comfort with this kind of hosting.
Web Hosting Rating is a company that rates some hosting companies and can show you some data about the price and the service of each web hosting. In addition, web hosting guide is also available for you who want to host your website. We are always advised to review first your hosting company before decide to use their service.
When you have chosen a web hosting, one thing you have to concern about is their support. Do you get a fully customer service support when the problem as the case above happened to you? Best web hosting company is indicated by the support they give to you. Kind of supports commonly is such full information needed by you which summarized in FAQ article.
Email support is also an important thing when you choose a web hosting. Do you get an email support 24/7 when you ask something or when you got a trouble with your site? When you got no this support, do not choose it as your host anymore. Another common support which a must is live chat support which can you call anytime you got a trouble. Support ticket is also a standard support besides toll free 24 hour’s service.
Twitter will begin to implement the service paid model in Japan. Later the user can charge a premium to other Twitter users who want to read the tweet messages and access to uploaded images or video link.
KenichiSugi from COO DG Mobile said that a subsidiary of Digital Garage Twitter partners in Japan in Mobidec2009 conference recently. He said the application of the model that will start paying in January next year.
The plan, premium users can arrange for minor messages can still be freely accessible to anyone and can apply the money paid for important messages, like equipped with an external web address links, images, or video exclusive. Twitter users who are interested can pay a monthly subscription or pay each time access. Payment can be made by credit card, mobile wallet in the mobile service, or vouchers that are sold in retail outlets.
According to the information released by local media, tariffs varied between 100-1000 Yen. Twitter would take for 30 percent of each transaction which is paid. So far, the Japanese version of Twitter is the most promising services faster income for this Microblogging site. Special services in Japan are designed slightly different than the global version and has sold pages and banner ads at a rate between 5500-33000 U.S. dollars.
Google Labs always work in progress to give you more applications with a great idea. After Script Converter, Google labs now work on Google Image Swirl where organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.
Google image search has been very useful tool for us to find more related images all around the world. Image Swirl expands the technology that powers Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition and groups images based upon similar themes. Users will be presented with 12 different image themes to select from. Once a user chooses a theme and clicks the corresponding thumbnail, that group or cluster of images will swirl into view so that you can further explore that theme. The detail you can see the image below. However, after try this new feature, the swirl feature more confusing us as a user to choose the right image related to keyword we submitted. Moreover, using image swirl, we got no more detail information about the image as conventional image search tool. Some users who tried this new tool also gave a negative feedback as quoted below-taken from Google Image Swirl Details and Feedbacks. However, it is still great idea but need more progress to make it perfect.
If the user can understand spoken Tamil but cannot read the script, they will be able to view Tamil web pages in English (Roman) script. We do not translate any content - we transform the words on the page to its phonetic equivalent in the desired script.
The quote above is from Google Converter detail site that will show you how and about of this new feature from Google. Currently Google with their Google Labs always develop any new application to ease and comfort us using Google.
One of their breakthroughs is Google converter. This application allows you to convert any script or web page into some languages that you may know. Quite same as Google translate but this feature will totally convert the script as you can compare through the images below. Somehow, Google translate you may find some original texts that cannot be translated.
Google Translate
Google Converter
However, currently Google Converter only supports 8 languages –Bengali, English, Gujarati, Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali), Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. China Mandarin script will be coming soon while the engineers are working on it. We hope it will be available as many as language available in Google Translate immediately or even also available for some old language including Sansekerta, Ancient Egypt, or Latin. It seems to be easy to convert any old and ancient manuscript if these language also available in Google Converter.
Facebook has now grown rapidly and has more than 300 million users all around the world. However, Status updates, photo tagging and FarmVille aren't just for adults or even teenagers anymore. Some researches wake us up that even kids now has a Facebook account.
Many elementary students talk about their status or photos on Facebook to others and proudly did it but we do not realize yet the bad effect of it. Actually, Facebook or Myspace requires users to be at least 13 years old to have an account, but they have no practical and technical way to moderate their real ages. More of them pretend to be older when signing up.
From the survey done by pewinternet.org, 38 percent of 700 and 935 teenagers aged 12 to 14 said that they have online profile of some sort. Sixty-one percent of those in the study, ages 12 to 17, said they use social-networking sites to send messages to friends, and 42 percent said they do so every day.
With all the facts above, we have to now worry to our children when they start to sign up to some social media sites. Using these social sites can affect to psychological and way of their thinking then will make them grow mature before their age. Many interactions on the internet would influence your children and we cannot control what kind of influence on internet. Accompanying and educating your children in responsible way would reduce the bad effect of this social-networking sites when we forcibly let them to sign up.
On upcoming holiday season, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft as the owner of most leading search engines try to attract internet user to use their service. The way is offering free Wi-Fi access in some areas in US.
Microsoft is the first to break out this idea in last September. This biggest software vendor started offer up this service in some places in United States where internet user can freely browse the internet if they use Bing to search over the internet at least once.
Then, Google starts that service on November 11 in 47 airports in the US cities include Las Vegas, Boston, Burbank, Indianapolis, Miami, Orlando, Charlotte, San Jose, Baltimore, Houston, Seattle, Ft. Lauderdale, and St. Louis in corporate with Boingo Wireless. The free Wi-Fi will continue to serve air travelers until January 15 except in Burbank and Seattle, where the free Wi-Fi will be there forever, if Google can help it.
Free Google Wi-Fi is also available for Virgin America Airways passengers and all the free Wi-Fi by Google will be available until January 15, 2010.
Meanwhile, Yahoo also launched the free Wi-Fi service on the same date as Google and now available only on Time Square, New York City, but it would be forever service from Yahoo. Hopefully, these three giant of internet companies will consider offer their free Wi-Fi service to other countries which have significant internet user, not only in US.
If you see a slideshow widget at the right bar of this blog, you might wondering where to get it. This gadget is served by wowzio.com which builds some gorgeous widget for your blog. The trusted widget can raise your impression and will make your visitor feel comfortable with your blog.
There are 6 widgets on wowzio which ready to be customized special for your blog:
Panoramic Slideshow
This widget has been installed at the right bar of this blog where you can see the slideshow of this blog’s content based on our feed. With this attractive widget, your visitor feels easier to browse more on your blog.
Live Activity
I am sure you have known about Feedjit that shows you current traffic of your blog, but using Live Activity widget from wowzio can give you more than a traffic feed, but also give you a great look.
Photo gallery widget does not only show you a picture gallery on your blog, but the pictures from each content of your blog and linked to those posts. Quite same as Panoramic Slideshow, every clicking a photo or picture on this gadget will be linked to your post.
Feed Content
Feed content gives you a list of your blog posts, of course with a great look and attractive way. It will curious your visitor to browse more of your blog’s contents.
Slideshow
This widget is typical with Panoramic Slideshow but in simple appearance.
Tag Cloud
I need no to explain more about this widget, because I am sure you have known more than me about this widget, but one thing you have to know, Wowzio Tag Cloud shows tags of your blogs based on related keywords of your blog and it is automatically running.
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From Mozilla official blog, we get a new look of Mobile Firefox. As known that Mobile Firefox is an alternative mobile browser in your phone and it has a new design named “Pocket Fox”. This logo is designed by the winner of “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge which is held by Firefox, Yaroslaff Chekunov.
Interestingly, the designers all hail from different countries (Brazil, the Philippines, the Netherlands and Indonesia). This design shows a fox hides in the pocket means that Mobile Firefox would be in your pocket as your mobile gadget.
As this new emblem of Mobile Firefox, we always wonder to look the great performance of it besides Opera Mini.
After release of Flash Player for mobile device, Adobe as a vendor of Photoshop is now launching a new application for mobile especially Google Android phones. This new application has been released in limited edition for iPhone.
Named as Photoshop Mobile, this application is made for you to acces a basic photo editing such as flip, crop, rotate, or straightens. It is gonna be easy because a touch screen feature on every Google Android phone to apply effects, adjust the color and saturation or tint level by your finger.
For further information to use this Photoshop Mobile forGoogle Android, you can simply watch the demo video. We always look forward the progress of every new features provided for Google Android which make it grow better.
Google has just launched new feature of Google Dashboard. According to Google official blog, this new feature will show you all the account of Google in one page to ease you in accessing you account. It is designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that we use.
Now, Google has more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more. With Google dashboard, all of those products can be covered in a single page. I’ve tried it and I got a snapshot for you below:
You can access Google Dashboard through the personal settings on the My Account page after you log into the service, or it can be directly accessed through this link.
Online payment service provider, PayPal, plans to open API (Application Programming Interface) for developers. "API" may be used to refer to a complete interface, a single function, or even a set of multiple APIs provided by an organization. Thus, the scope of meaning is usually determined by the person or document that communicates the information. Such a move is an attempt to integrate PayPal more extensive services to various applications and devices.
Scott Thompson, President of PayPal in the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, USA, said that PayPal will be the provider of the first online payment service that opened its platform to everyone and API will be released on November 3, 2009.
This decision was not come suddenly. PayPal is now owned by eBay is already working with several producers of electronics and handheld devices to integrate their services. Thompson pointed out what would be done similar to PayPal so that the open Facebook API to developers, many applications that can be available on these social networking services.
He hopes, the same thing will revolutionize the digital payments business and used cross-currency and cross-platform in many countries around the world. Nevertheless, he could not specify when the PayPal service became available in a variety of mobile devices, television, and social networks. Cannot wait, let's participate using PayPal API and we always hope with using API, PayPal still being the safest way to make an online payment.
Some of us may be missing that on October 29 is an anniversary of Internet. Internet was found by Leonard Kleinrock 40 years ago and I think he was never thinking that his finding will grow very fast in years. He also never thinks that 40 year later some internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, You Tube, Twitter, or Facebookwill dominate the traffic in the internet today.
According to the study done by Arbor Networks and the University of Michigan, there are 30 huge internet companies in 2009 and dominate the traffic in the internet. Research for two years analyzing more than 256 exabytes of data traffic on the 110 cable operators, transit backbones, regional networks and content providers around the world, and get that 30 "giant hyper" responsible for 30 percent of traffic on the Internet.
Back to the history of internet finding, On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team which can make a computer "talk" with others in the research section. Kleinrock driven by the belief that computers are designed to be able to talk to one another to produce a simple network, such as the use of the phone. From the picture above, Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist, shows the first device to connect computers in a network, which later became forerunners of the Internet. Kleinrock worked at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. Photos provided Kleinrock, but the location of capture date is not mentioned.
Key in the exchange of data between one computer and another computer is to solve the digital code and make it as separate packages. The first internet was named as ARPANET and used for military. Experiment fails to connect initially ARPANET. Kleinrock team tries to send data between computers on the ARPANET and successful. A total of two computers at two other universities are also connected at the end of 1969. This is the initial impression of the growing Internet.
Now, we are still seeing the developing of internet day by day, and I think nobody can guess what will happen in the internet for years due to technology now is also integrated with internet as well.
Opera as one of the most successful web browser vendor in the world has just launched a new variant of Opera Mini with series 5. Many new great built in features such as tabbed browsing, speed dial, Touch & Keypad and also Password Manager. All the features above emphasizes Opera as a most powerful mobile web browser.
As quoted from official website, Opera Mini compresses pages by up to 90% before being sent to your phone, meaning faster page-load times than in other mobile Web browsers. It means Opera Mini is a speed itself. What about other popular features?
Tabbed Browsing feature
In this variant as I mentioned above, we can find additional feature that can ease you to browse the website via your Blackberry or iPhone. Tabbed browsing will ease you in browse some of your favorite pages such as your social network sites, facebook and twitter, in a time with no need to interrupt one session to start another. All the sites can be browsed in a same time and you will feel like a computer in your gadget.
Speed Dial Feature
Meanwhile, with speed dial feature, you can choose your favorite website in one click away. Speed Dial is a set of visual bookmarks you see when you open a new tab, like a dashboard for your on-line life. To add a new page, simply click on an empty Speed Dial slot and Opera will make suggestions based on your browsing history and bookmarks.
Touch & Keypad fetaure
Touch & Keypad is a feature for user interface and designed for both touchscreen- and keypad-style mobile device.
Password Manager feature
Then password manager is designed to help you in memorizing your usernames and passwords. Opera Mini 5 will remember your credentials, and you can log on to your favorite websites with just a single click. The passwords are stored on your phone for your convenience.
A new platform of facebook now has been launched and named as a facebook lite. As its name, this platform is a simplified facebook. For you who feel that facebook is too crowded, you can tryfacebook lite as an option.
This platform is just like a social micro blogging as we have known as Twitter. However, this type is still in developing process and now just available for US and India only. This platform is especially for limited bandwidth countries.
Twitter is simple, that’s why facebook try to present this new platform of facebook lite to compete. For you who are wondering to know you can access it through www.lite.facebook.com and here is the screenshot of home page.
Who does not know Facebook today? It has been a most popular social media networking site that connect you with your friends, sharing your activities or minds, and has more than 250 million users all around the world. With the potential active users, of course your advertisement will be more targeted in Facebook.
You can also set your country target for each of your advertisement even per state that you want your ads shown up.
The next step is you can design your own ad with text or image based to attract the visitor, and you can also set the payment per click (CPC) or per impression (CPM).
The great one is the report of your ads, because you can see all your ads improvement in real time, also who has clicked your ads based on gender and ages.
You just need to visit your facebook account and go to create your own ad. Pictures are copyrighted by www.facebook.com
