WordPress 2.7 Will Be Released Today
WordPress 2.7 is about to be released on WordPress.com. The new WordPress will go live today the December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. I am really excited to try out WordPress 2.7 as you know the new version had a complete facelift along with a lot of additional features.
GMail Down
Looks like Google Mail team is having some technical problem as GMail is currently down as I write this article. The system doesn’t allow me to log in through the browser though I’ve just received couple of emails through the Push Email on my iPhone. So it looks like GMail team have just locked the front layer for maintenance or something. Continue Reading »
“Spider Man” & His 7 Legged Spider
It’s interesting to see where technology is taking us. While IBM is predicting that within next 5 years people will be able to talk to the web and the Web will also talk back; looks like someone is already using the web (or rather email) to do some talking for him.
An Australian man named David Thorne AKA “Spider Man” has recently made world wide news while trying to pay his outstanding bill with a 7 legged Spider.
Get One Year FREE Digital Subscription of Popular Magazines
Well, we know PC Magazine has recently announced the end of their 27-year-old flagship highly popular magazine. Starting next year PC Magazine will only be available online. The January 2009 issue will be their final printed copy. You’ll still be able to buy them but only the digital copy.
Anyway, with that announcement and with the help of a Read Green campaign, you can now get a Free digital copy of PC Magazine or any of the 16 other popular magazines for a whole year.
Google SearchWiKi: Personalizing Your Search
Google is in the news lately. First they released customized themes for Gmail then announced the end of Lively and today Google launched SearchWiki, a new feature that allows users to personalize their search results. Users can now add, delete and re-rank their own search results. You can also comment and write notes attached to a particular site. You just have to be logged into Google account to do all these.
Google To Shut Down Lively
A sad day at Google, specially for the team who worked really hard behind this project. But unfortunately that didn’t seem to happen as Google is shutting down this project by the end of the year. Lively, a browser-based virtual world environment which apparently was Google’s answer to Second Life was launched back in July, just about 4 months before where users were able to create their own virtual world.
Google Introduces Customized Themes for Gmail
Just logged in to my Gmail account to see a notification on Customized themes for Gmail. Which obviously changes the look and feel of the inside your Gmail account, much like iGoogle. But looks like this features isn’t available to all Gmail users. I’ve couple of Gmail accounts and I can only see one of them has gotten this feature so far. If this feature has been activated for you then you’ll see a notification as soon as you log into your Gmail.
Why Google Must Die. What!?!
Just finished reading this interesting article by John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine. After reading the article I felt like I just wasted my time. I am sorry but after reading the article I felt like the author doesn’t have any clue about SEO or how the whole technology works. He couldn’t prove any of his own points nor could he give any real life example. The author sounds like he doesn’t have any idea about Google’s different Data Centers and how that effects search results. Instead he was focusing his arguments on how the results may vary if you’re logged into your Google account. There’s also something called “Personalized Search” and I bet the author doesn’t have any clue about that either.
Facebook Announces App Verification Program + A Revenue Model
It’s a big news for Facebook but not so big news for all the third party app developers.
Facebook yesterday released the guidelines for their app verification program which pretty much means that third party application developers have to pay $375 every year from now on if they want to be in the verified or rather “elite” developers group to receive some special treatment such as some free advertising credits, special placement in the application directory, increased visibility in the news feed, etc.
Google Releases Voice Recognition App for iPhone
Search Engine Giant Google has brought another iPhone application or rather added another very useful feature to its Mobile Application for iPhone & iPod Touch. The sophisticated voice recognition technology now allows users to speak to the iPhone to search for someting rather than typing. Once a voice query is made, the sound gets converted into a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which then determines the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine and display the results back to the users.
