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Google’s Semantic Search, a step towards future
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Overview on Cloud based DNS hosting
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Google’s cleanup marathon continues
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MS office live workspace,goes public
Microsoft Monday launched the public beta of Office Live Workspace and added a number of features to the service that users can team with the desktop version of Office. Microsoft, back in October 2007, revealed their first step in bringing Microsoft Office online, with the free web-based Office Live Workspace. They have now announced a public beta test for the services, to anyone who wants to give it a shot as an online extension of their desktop office. Please note that Office Live Workspace is not an online version of Office but a number of services that let users share and store documents online, so it would be much appropriate to call it the online extension of your desktop office. So do not misunderstood online office products offered by Google, Zoho and others that allow users to do word processing and use spreadsheets online for free, the new Microsoft approach simply allows users who already have purchased their MS Office software to make easier use of it online. He! He! No free ride with big brother. Microsoft Office Live enables users to save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online. With the software, a user or collaborators…
Adobe’s AIR, bridging online and offline world
Adobe took an important step in merging desktop and Internet applications upon announcing the availability of AIR 1.0, a run-time module that provides a way of running "rich Internet applications" (RIAs) on the desktop. Since the release of the beta version of AIR, several organizations already adopted the technology; among them, NASDAQ Stock Market Inc, AOL, EBay and many others. I agree with most developers, that AIR will reduce download time due to the fact that the desktop is constantly being updated while connected to the Internet. A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. Talking about interpretability, the word will get a whole new meaning on the web now. It’s about taking existing web applications and adding extra functionality whether you want to work offline or whether you want to access data on your disk. Adobe had and is still facing a challenging task – to spread wider in the predominantly Java/.NET enterprise world. But they already made some serious achievement in this direction. The birth of AIR is pretty much the death of Java on the desktop, well at least some of e thinking that way…
Banning from the web, is just ridiculous
Next week United Kingdom legislators are proposing a new law under which surfers who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the Internet. This proposed Green Paper, which the Government is due to disclose, sometime next week, will require ISP’s to take action against the estimated six million users a year who access pirated material. The law is expected to propose a ‘three-strike’ system, similar to that already in place in the US and France. Users suspected of illegally downloading films or music (Shouldn’t this be All copyrighted material) will receive a warning e-mail for the first offence, a suspension for the second infringement and the termination of their Internet contract if caught a third time. So the picture we can draw from here is—“Suspected illegal music and video content sharing” will be penalized. Question is who will decide whether the suspect is in fact did commit the crime? I am sure the legislators are not suggesting handing down badges to ISP’s to become cyber police. On the other hand in order to ISPs to know that you are downloading illegal files to your computer would require them to have access to personnel information on your computer,…
Future of HTML is about to change
22 January 2008 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public working draft of the HTML 5.0 specification. The official press release can be found here. Its taken nearly 11 months since work began on HTML 5.0 for this first public working draft to get released. Too slow! No that’s way faster compare to most of the W3C working group’s pace. Slow or fast at least this working draft is the milestone to the bright future ahead, especially future of dynamic web development. The key purpose of HTML 5.0 is to make it easier for developers to create dynamic content and it introduces tons of new elements to enable this. A final release of HTML 5.0 is still far and far away but off course the future is looking bright. The key new elements are: section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure. article represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article. aside represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of the page. header represents the header of a section. footer…
Sparkling web with SPARQL
The web standard body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a new type of query standard designed to gather data from multiple sources. This new query standard SPARQL, pronounced ‘sparkle’, will allow users focus on what they want to know over distributed data sources rather than relying on data format. It’s is no brainer that, this will certainly boost the development speed of Web 2.0 applications (which is actually not so different than semantic web). So why is it so hot! Our known traditional query languages such as SQL/XQuery /DMX are engineered for accessing to a single source of data, tests shows it don’t work well when several source combined together. On the other hand SPARQL which is an RDF query language can create a single query for multiple sources and combine the results on the fly. This new standard brings about a standardized SQL-like query language for the Semantic Web. And, like most Semantic Web standards, it is heavily based on RDF (Resource Description Framework), although it also makes use of many Web services standards, such as WSDL (Web Services Description Language). As a data access language, it is suitable for both local and remote use, so imagine the…
Firefox 3 beta 2 a glimpse of a great product
After the first beta release of the much-anticipated Firefox 3 Web browser which offers some nice enhancements over the previous version, Firefox 3 beta two is now available for testing. Though it doesn’t differ much from its predecessor’s functionality or looks but there are some major performance upgrade has brought. Since it’s a beta release there are still some known bugs, which obviously will be taken care off before Firefox 3’s anticipated debut. Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot of goodies to offer website and Firefox add-on developers. Firefox 3 Beta 2 includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. But still not yet ready for day to day use, unless off course you want to take the ride Key improvements of Firefox beta 2: Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain. Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes…
ICANN will test non-roman character TLD
Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make free domain hosting more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included in top-level domains (TLDs) causes widespread online anarchy. Currently, the use of non-Roman characters is allowed in all portions of the domain name before the TLD extension. As a result, a site with content that’s entirely in the Japanese alphabet can have the TLD name portion of its URL in Japanese, yet the TLD still needs to end in an “.org” or “.com” in Roman characters. The changes that come Monday are an important step towards the ultimate internationalization. ICANN’s president, Dr Paul Twomey says- This will be one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it was created….This evaluation represents ICANN’s most…
The minority report is real, thanks to MS Surface
Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface. Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a rich interactive experience. Half Dozen years later, Microsoft today revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product of its class. The technology, the formerly code-named Milan, lets Microsoft turn a seemingly ordinary surface, such as a tabletop or a wall, into a computer. Surprised? Don’t be, because it’s just the beginning of the end of our fundamental thought process when it comes to digital content manipulation. With MS surface you can actually grab the data or digital content with your hands and move between objects with natural gesture like touch, slide etc. Isn’t it so close to “Minority Report” like world? Well Pete Thompson, general manager of Microsoft’s surface computing group did say “It will feel like Minority Report”. The concept is simple: Users interact…
Why Content Label is feasible?
Lately I have been tracking lots of article regarding Content Label. Lots of fun and also serious foolish discussion I came across. Apart from very few handful of people most people are just flying their finger on keyboard driving by ego, stupidity, blind supports or some other hidden agenda. So let’s make it simple, first what is Content Label? Content Label, which is also referred as cLabel is “a resource that contains a description, a definition of the scope of the description and declaration about both the circumstances of its own creation and the entity that created it.” In easy words, Content Label is marking digital contents with a label which identify it’s source, author, type, age rating etc. The coolest part is this Label is readable by both human and machine, thus easily definable by API or automated browser function(s)/application(s). W3C Content Label Incubator Group (WCL XG), is on its way through a full recommendation track within the W3C. They will be proposed as a replacement for PICS. A lot of outstanding company like Opera, AT&T, Vodafone, Yahoo, Segala etc. and organizations like Internet Association of Japan, Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA),ILRT, University of Bristol etc. support this Content…
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