ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the sole authority for domain names and categories globally finally after years of discussion approved (on conditions) creation of .XXX TLD (top label domain) alongside already existing .com, .net, .org etc. Well this approval of creation of virtual red-light district wasn’t well received by everyone. Some members of the pornography industry and the Christian conservative lobby voiced concerns for this move by ICANN that will create a dedicated virtual red-light district. The long-awaited decision comes at the end of vigorous lobby by companies …
Most anticipated “Caffeine”, Google’s new Web indexing system has been switched on, which promises to deliver results 50 percent faster. This new architecture was introduced a month after Microsoft gained in the search war by extending its new Bing search engine to all of Yahoo’s Web properties. The Yahoo Web portal is the number two player in search. Under the old system, Google would crawl the entire Web to update large batches of Web pages in its index. Updates of individual pages in a batch could not be made available until the entire batch was updated, which meant there was a significant delay between when Google found or updated a page and made it available to the user. …
400 million plus active users (well even if more than half of them are just active with Games) Facebook certainly dominate social network arena in every country. Hmm minus India (Orkut) and China (Renren.com ). Facebook is nice and all but it has a nasty habit of in the middle of Privacy arguments all the time. Excessive emails, too nosy news feeds, junks from everyone and friends, sneaky Ads etc. always have been there to irritate the hell out of most of us. If not all most Facebook user do complaint about these. Lately, most high-profile complaints involve recent changes to the company’s privacy policies. Social Media Giant Has Come Under Withering Criticism For Its Convoluted …
If you are familiar with web 2.0 arena you must know “Facebook Connect”, the service that allows people to log in to other websites using their Facebook details and interact with friends. That’s a way to expand social interaction across the web without the needs to create registration details again and again. Guess what! Twitter just jump onto the bandwagon of going Viral, with the announcement of its @Anywhere platform at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSW) this Monday (March 15th 2010). It hopes this technology will further embed the service into every corner of the web. It’s designed to make it easier for Twitter partner sites to offer Twitter links with just a few lines of JavaScript. …
There was a time when e-commerce was either costly bespoke development or extension of popular CMS . But those days are long gone, last few years e-commerce development really started to take off. e-commerce has its own platforms to choose from for easier and rapid development and deployments. e-commerce platforms gain immense amount of popularity not only among clients but as well to the developers due to the fact is:
It’s easier and faster to go in production phase.
Able to deliver feature rich online stores.
Integrated SEO, analytics functionalities.
Easier to install, deploy and maintain. …
There is commotion floating around the net that MyBlogLog will cease to exist next year (2010) January. According to ReadWriteWeb and Search engine land, “sources closed to project” said Yahoo will shut down MyBlogLog next month. Oh! That means just less than 30 days, and no one knows? That’s disappointing! I understand MyBlogLog isn’t hotshot it used to be, but still a significant amount of blogger does use it. It’s been 5 years since MyBlogLog started putting visitors’ faces and profile link on the blog/site. Those who are not well aware, …
We ought to know a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. Obviously in last few years why we have seen a huge number of users are switching to use alternative browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Which used to be a safe computing practice before by many industry experts, but it seems it no longer is; Reason a huge number of malware targeting the most popular alternative Firefox. There is a sneaky new spyware initially pretends to be an Adobe Flash Player update and, when executed on a user’s …
I am well aware that there is millions of folks out there just use windows firewall and antivirus, which comes as a bundle with windows. Well if you want something out of the ordinary and a bit crazy about safety “ZoneAlarm Suite” might be a good candidate to start on. Security software suite are today’s hot business, reason- 75% risk increase on online identity safety and the percentage just keeps going up. Check Point’s Zone Alarm division is refreshing its Zone Alarm Extreme Security Suite. The suite has more than a dozen segments …
There is no doubt that social networking is thriving, well in most parts of the world. It’s so popular that, even a six year old kid knows there is something like-bebo, MySpace, facebook (not in any particular order). Like most of the web 2.0 stuffs Social networking’s popularity relies on power to engage massive community. The enormous success of social network startup like-facebook, twitter, bebo, MySpace definitely attracting hungry businessman. Why? Off course they are trying to figure out a way to utilize this to gain profit.
To be honest 99% social network still lacks any business model that can produce cash, apart from advertising revenue. More …
Most of we probably very well known to the term LAMP, a solution bundle of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. Since the original expansion of this stack was Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (python, Perl etc. programming language) the acronyms made up from first letter from each one. Anyway back to topic- Sun Microsystems today launched its own answer to the LAMP stack “ The GlassFish Portfolio”, which it termed "the most complete, open source, high-performance Web platform" available. That’s a very good news, since Sun GlassFish Portfolio is open source and cost-effective, and could help companies looking to run low-cost, scalable applications. …