tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63826672009-10-09T17:27:50.983+01:00Technology blog written and maintained by a keen blogger.algodonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00693684063550846508noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382667.post-73547038504467511692007-12-08T11:00:00.000Z2007-12-08T11:01:38.600Z

Since November 2007, I've made the decision to move my blog onto Wordpress self-hosted platform with the intention to grow the blog and provide better quality blogging experience for my readers. You can read all new posts on my new blog at http://ashchuan.com/blogVisit http://ashchuan.com/blog now.

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Now that Facebook has the investment from Microsoft, they have to start thinking of an advertising strategy on how to serve advertisements to the 49 millon members (according to data from wikipedia) as of October 2007. I read that Facebook will develop its own ad serving system to target the right advertisements to the right people at real time. That is a huge task for Facebook. There are

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So much has been written about OpenSocial since Google made the announcement.  In one of the online article that I read, the author described OpenSocial as "Learn Once, Reach Across the Web".  I think this is a powerful strategy because you just have to learn the API once and deploy the applications you write to many sites across the internet.  Imagine how much time and resource you will save.  I

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The United Nations is using technology to track world development efforts to fight poverty.  UN has teamed up with Google and Cisco systems to launch a web site to allow users to explore places where work is done to fight poverty.  U. N. will use Google Earth's maps and satellite images and give users the experience to fly around the globe to learn more about their current project around the

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Google has formed a new OpenSocial alliance with MySpace and together they are looking to take on Facebook.  It's reported that MySpace has twice the number of signed up members than Facebook. OpenSocial is a open system API that will allow developers to create application for social-networking web sites.  Developers will use html and javascript in OpenSocial. Others who have joined alliance with

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With rumours that Google is talking with Sprint and Verizon to find a suitable mobile phone to run Google's software, the Google shares rose to USD707 on Wednesday.  So what is Google talking to mobile network providers, Sprint and Verizon about?  Report suggests that Google is trying to sell them their mobile operating system, gPhone.

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Gmail was released in 2004, making history by giving away 1GB of email storage.  It was also one of the first web application that used AJAX.  That sparked off the email war between Google, Yahoo and Hotmail to provide AJAX type web email applications.  Since the successful release of Gmail, we have been anticipating a release of a greater and better Gmail.  Gmail 2.0 is now being rolled out to

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MacRumors reports that Apple has moved MacBook to Santa Rosa architecture with a GMA X3100 video card.  Santa Rosa is the code name for Intel Centrino's fourth-generation platform, released on 9 May 2007.

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Google has announced the availability of an open system API, named OpenSocial.  The API will enable developers to create applications that run on social networking sites.  The OpenSocial common API will use javascript and html to access profile and friends information, feeds and activities from a social network.  It has been reported that early OpenSocial participants are LinkedIn, hi5.com,

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Since the announcement by Apple that they will be releasing a software development kit for iPhone next year, news has it that Google will also create a new OS for mobile devices called gPhone.  We know that Google AdSense now provide advertisements for mobile websites and Google is extending its profitable online advertising business to the wireless market.  Chances are Google will release a

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Software applications were once created to automate business processes.  In recent times, it has evolved and is now created for entertainment, gaming, mapping, etc. One popular GIS (Geographical Information System) software that is freely available and is widely used is Google Earth.  It is used in various industries by various companies and individuals but what I read yesterday in the newspapers

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It is reported in Google News today that Microsoft is paying Facebook premium to get at Google.  Google managed to buy YouTube and is in the process of buying DoubleClick and we know that Microsoft wants its share of the pie in the online advertising business.  Microsoft is trying to aim for a big piece of the pie because we all know that Google is currently the king of online advertising.

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Microsoft had it up its sleeve on how to overcome the intense rivalry over online advertising with Google and Yahoo.  Microsoft went ahead with a deal with Facebook, the social-networking business and acquired a minority stake in Facebook.  Microsoft announced that it will pay $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, a 3-year old company based in Palo Alto. Microsoft secured U.S. rights to

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Rumour has it that Google is integrating IMAP into GMail but it is not available to all GMail users yet. Only select few users have IMAP in GMail. I believe if this is true, Google is doing their bit of testing before releasing IMAP to all. IMAP over POP3POP3 sucks all emails from server to client. IMAP maintains a copy of the email on the server. This has benefits over POP3 in the sense that if

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I have just completed moving our company's websites locally and I am setting up AWStats to track the websites' statistics.  It is a very good free software and I introduced this application to a client where I previously worked and they used it to track the traffic going to their website and used the data to get people to advertise on their site.  In order to run this on a Windows server, you

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TechCrunch, the internet startup started by Michael Arrington in 2005 is bringing in $240,000 per month in advertising.  Today the company has 8 full-time staff and has hired a CEO.  Arrington said that when he started the blog it was just a hobby but after a while, it was pretty clear that he could make more money blogging than from anything else.

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The top 10 useful web sites according to Pandia Search Engine News: 1.  Google Web Search2.  IMDB3.  Amazon4.  The Wikipedia5.  Techmeme6.  Tripadvisor7.  Google Maps8.  Online Conversions9.  How Stuff Works10. Download.com The list is provided by editors of Pandia showing their favourite sites for practical problem solving, search and information.

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Teddy who has a blog on blogspot posted this list of tv links.  There are awesome. http://www.surfthechannel.com/http://www.alluc.orghttp://tvunderground.org.ru/ http://www.freetvsearch.comhttp://www.craftytv.comhttp://www.tvlinkvault.comhttp://www.freetvsearch.com/ http://www.surfthechannel.com/http://www.ssupload.com/http://www.videolemon.com http://movies.nabolister.comhttp://flickpeek.comhttp

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Boot Camp which is included in OS X Leopard has a simple set up to get a Mac running Windows OS.  Boot Camp supports the most popular 32-bit releases of Win XP and Vista.  Windows will run at native speed.  When Windows is installed using Boot Camp, you can start up either OS.

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Today Apple announced that they will be allowing outside developers to develop add-in software for the iPhone. The targeted release of a Software Development Kit will be in February 2008.

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It's been announced that the featherbook will run a cut-down version of Mac OS X used in the Apple iPhone.

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Here is a good site making the understanding of photography easy. There's explanation on lighting, landscape, colour, people, etc. All in a minute. Not bad.http://www.idigitalphoto.com/blog/post/improve-your-photos-in-60-seconds.html

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Remember the days when Google Answer was the site you would go to if you had a question and you can pay the Google freelance researchers to research your question and provide you and answer and if you are satisfied, you pay for their service?  That's been closed for some time now but I read that UClue provides similar service as Google Answer and the freelance researchers from GA have now moved

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I recently read an interview conducted by BCS (British Computing Society) with Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple).  Steve Wozniak's interpretation of a nerd and a geek:    Quoting Steve: "A nerd follows technology but a geek is almost a word that's negative and implies a bad look - it's like geeks from the circus - strange looking weird characters and it's partly true as well! " Nerd - It's

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I am sittin here thinking what can I do before 5:30pm.  My mind is all over the place.  It is one of those days when I sit idle but my mind is in super-active mode.  Then I am hit with frustration thinking I should be progressing faster than the speed of light.  I get even more frustrated when I discover that there is not enough hard disk space on the C drive to install SQL Server 2005 SP2.  How

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