Ever since rumors are coming on Microsoft new Search Engine name as Bing (which is yet to go live for users) there were lot of discussions going on the internet arena regarding its name and its search technology.
Recently during a Q & A session at Google I/O keynote today, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shares some of his thoughts on the name Bing, which is supposed to be the name of the Microsoft new search engine. He says that at this point of time he is not having much information about it to give his views or opinion, but Google is pretty happy with the name it chose, which drew laughs.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Funny or Stupid Profiles ?
Just now one of my colleague has shown me a funny post here.
While i was reading this post i just remembered another profile where a guy filled up the profile similar to this one. Mind you, you want stop from smiling if your check both the images and read both of these posts :).
This is one of the funny profile created by a person who mistook cuisines for something else. I guess he was under the impression that cuisines means what all he likes. So he went on fill the profile in this manner :))
This is ofcourse another funny yet stupid profile ;). Keep smiling :)
While i was reading this post i just remembered another profile where a guy filled up the profile similar to this one. Mind you, you want stop from smiling if your check both the images and read both of these posts :).
This is one of the funny profile created by a person who mistook cuisines for something else. I guess he was under the impression that cuisines means what all he likes. So he went on fill the profile in this manner :))
This is ofcourse another funny yet stupid profile ;). Keep smiling :)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Twitter New York Times Account hacked !
Seems like the hackers are enjoying the hacking game on Twitter. Now its the turn of the famous New York Times Twitter account which is being hacked. Ugh another nasty trauma. Heading on to this news further, The Moment, brings this news for us, which brings news from their fashion blog.
In a post from Valleywag, its mentioned that "Earlier tonight I received an email from Gawker's eagle-eyed publisher Nick Denton with an iPhone screengrab that contained an ad for naked webcam action on the Times' Twitter feed." A couple of hours later the NYTimes confirms that their account being hacked and apologized for the public for what has happened.
It was a big sigh of relieft for them as nothing much big damage has been done and issue seems to have been quickly resolved. So guys everyone needs to be careful about their passwords and their is a need to keep our passwords strong and computers clean and safe
In a post from Valleywag, its mentioned that "Earlier tonight I received an email from Gawker's eagle-eyed publisher Nick Denton with an iPhone screengrab that contained an ad for naked webcam action on the Times' Twitter feed." A couple of hours later the NYTimes confirms that their account being hacked and apologized for the public for what has happened.
It was a big sigh of relieft for them as nothing much big damage has been done and issue seems to have been quickly resolved. So guys everyone needs to be careful about their passwords and their is a need to keep our passwords strong and computers clean and safe
Is the RESPECT for DMOZ Dying among the people ?
Dmoz.org is considered to be one of the popular Open Directory projects among all the directories. It is also considered to be the answer to Yahoo's more closed directory. This happened to be the case till now. But now it seems like slowly the popularity for DMOZ is dying among the people. This comes of from the webmasters who are looking for inclusion into it.
First if we can have a close look into the compete data, the traffic stats for Dmoz has declined significantly in terms of visits, page views, unique visitors. From the compete data we can analyse that dmoz which has 1,798,727 unique visitors in April 2008, has 1,358,926 Unique visitors in June 2008 and 1,274,898 unique visitors in April 2009. This is clearly an indication of huge dip in the unique visitors(-0.13%) and visits(-1.85%) over the past one year.
Unique visitors
Decline in Unique visitors and Visits
On its official blog of DMOZ editor glippitt has published that it is looking for some respect from its users and says that Dmoz still shines and is still a valuable search tool for its users. He even explains in the blog post on "what DMOZ does do well, and the when and how of using various search vehicles to help users find what they're looking for".
Contrary to his post there some harsh reactions for this post where people hardly praises DMOZ for its effort in bringing users quality search experience and some people went on to comment in this fashion.
"If DMOZ wants respect, its needs to reciprocate the same to its users."
"Well DMOZ is quite like a black box. I think you should work more on the communication, add more interaction."
"Who's to say that DMOZ editors are more reliable and able to provide links that are balanced? "
These are some of the snippets from the commennted posts. But the outrage seems to be huge as most of the comments seems to be against it. Well we can conclude that people were unhappy and looks for certain things like these from their side
1) The site should work more on the communication, add more interaction when someone submits a site for acceptation.
2) Editorial review of the submitted sites isn't upto the mark.
3) Editors needs to be more reliable and should be able to provide links that are balanced
So what really makes you think that dmoz is a mere waste of time. Share in your comments here
First if we can have a close look into the compete data, the traffic stats for Dmoz has declined significantly in terms of visits, page views, unique visitors. From the compete data we can analyse that dmoz which has 1,798,727 unique visitors in April 2008, has 1,358,926 Unique visitors in June 2008 and 1,274,898 unique visitors in April 2009. This is clearly an indication of huge dip in the unique visitors(-0.13%) and visits(-1.85%) over the past one year.
Unique visitors
Decline in Unique visitors and Visits
On its official blog of DMOZ editor glippitt has published that it is looking for some respect from its users and says that Dmoz still shines and is still a valuable search tool for its users. He even explains in the blog post on "what DMOZ does do well, and the when and how of using various search vehicles to help users find what they're looking for".
Contrary to his post there some harsh reactions for this post where people hardly praises DMOZ for its effort in bringing users quality search experience and some people went on to comment in this fashion.
"If DMOZ wants respect, its needs to reciprocate the same to its users."
"Well DMOZ is quite like a black box. I think you should work more on the communication, add more interaction."
"Who's to say that DMOZ editors are more reliable and able to provide links that are balanced? "
These are some of the snippets from the commennted posts. But the outrage seems to be huge as most of the comments seems to be against it. Well we can conclude that people were unhappy and looks for certain things like these from their side
1) The site should work more on the communication, add more interaction when someone submits a site for acceptation.
2) Editorial review of the submitted sites isn't upto the mark.
3) Editors needs to be more reliable and should be able to provide links that are balanced
So what really makes you think that dmoz is a mere waste of time. Share in your comments here
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
How to Display the code as HTML in scroll box in blogger
Now when i am trying to display the code in my blogger post today i was facing some problems in showing the HTML code in the front end. Note that in the blogger posts the HTML code which you write in the back end posts will not be displayed as the same in your front end posts. So in order to over come this you need to follow certain HTML coding standards.
If you try to type the HTML as it is (example <, >), the web browser will interpret that as an instruction to display what follows in a new line and will not display the HTML code as it is. So in order to display the above characters you need to replace them. Check the image below
So in order to show the code in the front end copy and paste the HTML code which you want to show in the front end into a notepad file and click EDIT in the menu bar and select "Replace with" and "Find what:" options to replace the symbols with the appropriate codes. (see screen shot below:)
If you try to type the HTML as it is (example <, >), the web browser will interpret that as an instruction to display what follows in a new line and will not display the HTML code as it is. So in order to display the above characters you need to replace them. Check the image below
So in order to show the code in the front end copy and paste the HTML code which you want to show in the front end into a notepad file and click EDIT in the menu bar and select "Replace with" and "Find what:" options to replace the symbols with the appropriate codes. (see screen shot below:)
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