Archive for June, 2009

  • <img src="http://search.twitter.com/images/search/twitter-logo-large.png?1245812398" style="float: right;"/>Founded in March 2006, Twitter has emerged from a simple SMS service to the world's most popular micro-blogging platform with over 19 million unique visitors from the United States in May, according to Compete. All thanks to President Barack Obama and several influential celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey, Twitter has become a place for people around the world to share their personal lives encircling around the question "What are you doing?". According to a research made by the folks at <a href="http://hitwise.com/" target="_blank">Hitwise</a>, a company which focuses on Internet usage, says that Twitter is currently touted as "UK's fastest growing websites" and the "fifth most visited social network". It has increased 22-fold in the past 12 months all thanks to the presence and influence of Stephen Fry (comedian), Cold Play (music band) and Downing Street. Without them, not many Britains would head to Twitter and join in the trend. Just a year ago, Twitter was ranked 969th most visited website and 84th most visited social network. However, statistics from Hitwise has shown that the traffic has increased tremendously. In May 2009, it was crowned as the 38th most visited website in the UK and the fifth most visited social network. This is indeed a remarkable feat for the guys at Twitter.

    Study: Twitter has increased 22-fold in the past 12 Months & is UK’s Fastest Growing Website

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Founded in March 2006, Twitter has emerged from a simple SMS service to the world's most popular micro-blogging platform with over 19 million unique visitors from the United States in May, according to Compete. All thanks to President Barack Obama and several influential celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey, Twitter has become a place for people around the world to share their personal lives encircling around the question "What are you doing?". According to a research made by the folks at Hitwise, a company which focuses on Internet usage, says that Twitter is currently touted as "UK's fastest growing websites" and the "fifth most visited social network". It has increased 22-fold in the past 12 months all thanks to the presence and influence of Stephen Fry (comedian), Cold Play (music band) and Downing Street. Without them, not many Britains would head to Twitter and join in the trend. Just a year ago, Twitter was ranked 969th most visited website and 84th most visited social network. However, statistics from Hitwise has shown that the traffic has increased tremendously. In May 2009, it was crowned as the 38th most visited website in the UK and the fifth most visited social network. This is indeed a remarkable feat for the guys at Twitter.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://www.21classes.com/skin/customers/j21p/logo-classes.gif" alt="" />Nowadays, Singapore kids are quite Internet-savvy and it's a common sight to see students in a class getting together and create class blogs. The main purpose of a class blog is for students and teachers to share their thoughts and opinions with one another. Sometimes, the latest events or homeworks are also posted up there for them to complete. Most of the blogs are hosted on Google's Blogger instead of self-hosting as it requires quite a lot of money. An impressive and useful service, <a href="http://www.21classes.com/" target="_blank">21Classes</a> enables teachers and students to create a virtual classroom which offers many benefits. For teachers, they can communicate or collaborate with their students online via the portal or make important announcements on the class homepage. As for students, they are able to post blog entires to share their personal views or thoughts about a particular topic, upload text, photos, or insert videos. By interacting with one another outside school, it's indeed a wonderful and fun learning experience.

    21Classes: Create a Virtual Classroom to Get your Students Blogging

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Nowadays, Singapore kids are quite Internet-savvy and it's a common sight to see students in a class getting together and create class blogs. The main purpose of a class blog is for students and teachers to share their thoughts and opinions with one another. Sometimes, the latest events or homeworks are also posted up there for them to complete. Most of the blogs are hosted on Google's Blogger instead of self-hosting as it requires quite a lot of money. An impressive and useful service, 21Classes enables teachers and students to create a virtual classroom which offers many benefits. For teachers, they can communicate or collaborate with their students online via the portal or make important announcements on the class homepage. As for students, they are able to post blog entires to share their personal views or thoughts about a particular topic, upload text, photos, or insert videos. By interacting with one another outside school, it's indeed a wonderful and fun learning experience.

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  • Two months ago, the US search giant has introduced a new feature called <a href="http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/" target="_blank">Artist Themes</a> in iGoogle. This new gallery of iGoogle themes enables users to put the work of world-class artists and innovators onto their personalized homepage. Currently, it features hundreds of well-designed backgrounds all thanks to several notable personnel such as Oscar de la Renta, Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Jackie Chan, Lance Armstrong, Robert Mankoff and Camilla Engman. Today, I'm going to share with you "27 iGoogle Cartoon-like Themes that Bring you back to your Childhood Days". <a href="http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/artists/frank.html" target="_blank"><strong> Paul Frank</strong></a><strong>:</strong> A renowned cartoonist, artist and fashion designer, his creations adorn clothing, accessories, and many other products. Julius the Monkey is one of Frank's best-known characters, and has appeared in a wide variety of media. <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3640/3654033316_98cfa36dff.jpg" alt="banner_lg_6" width="500" height="80" /> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3654033358_436e380bb4.jpg" alt="banner_lg_18" width="500" height="80" /> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3654033340_305820d94a.jpg" alt="banner_lg_12" width="500" height="80" />

    27 Cartoon-like iGoogle Artist Themes that Brings you back to your Childhood Days

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Two months ago, the US search giant has introduced a new feature called Artist Themes in iGoogle. This new gallery of iGoogle themes enables users to put the work of world-class artists and innovators onto their personalized homepage. Currently, it features hundreds of well-designed backgrounds all thanks to several notable personnel such as Oscar de la Renta, Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Jackie Chan, Lance Armstrong, Robert Mankoff and Camilla Engman. Today, I'm going to share with you "27 iGoogle Cartoon-like Themes that Bring you back to your Childhood Days". Paul Frank: A renowned cartoonist, artist and fashion designer, his creations adorn clothing, accessories, and many other products. Julius the Monkey is one of Frank's best-known characters, and has appeared in a wide variety of media. banner_lg_6 banner_lg_18 banner_lg_12

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  • <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/3653842454_dedbc0a1d7_o.png" width="200" height="89" alt="200px-Bing_logo.svg" style="float: right;"/>Both US search engine giants Google and Yahoo have an advanced search feature. Even micro-blogging platform Twitter has it too for its user-powered real-time search. What about the latest Microsoft's Bing? Well, the answer is NO! Yes, I must agree that the Redmond-based start-up is pretty impressve with some wonderful features such as video thumbnail preview and an image search with continuous scrolling images results page. I've tried out its web search and it offers accurate results. Overall, it's great but what puzzles me is that it doesn't even provide an option which gives users a little bit more power to find what they need almost instantly and of course with ease as compared to the basic search. As a frequent Googler and advanced searcher, I often use Google's state-of-the-art Advanced Search as it enables me to look for information that I want quickly and more efficiently. Even though I personally find that the baisc search is more than enough for most users, however, sometimes I would get unrelated resulsts. Thus, by adding several tweaks to my search query allows me to tell Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change, search within a specific website or even terms I want to exclude.

    Bing Advanced Search Option Coming Soon?

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    200px-Bing_logo.svgBoth US search engine giants Google and Yahoo have an advanced search feature. Even micro-blogging platform Twitter has it too for its user-powered real-time search. What about the latest Microsoft's Bing? Well, the answer is NO! Yes, I must agree that the Redmond-based start-up is pretty impressve with some wonderful features such as video thumbnail preview and an image search with continuous scrolling images results page. I've tried out its web search and it offers accurate results. Overall, it's great but what puzzles me is that it doesn't even provide an option which gives users a little bit more power to find what they need almost instantly and of course with ease as compared to the basic search. As a frequent Googler and advanced searcher, I often use Google's state-of-the-art Advanced Search as it enables me to look for information that I want quickly and more efficiently. Even though I personally find that the baisc search is more than enough for most users, however, sometimes I would get unrelated resulsts. Thus, by adding several tweaks to my search query allows me to tell Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change, search within a specific website or even terms I want to exclude.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3607/3653619108_4dcaba08b6_o.png" alt="statussearch" width="474" height="93" />Dubbed as "neither a web nor a real-time search engine", <a href="http://www.statussearch.net" target="_blank">Status Search</a> is a "private" search system which allows users to search their Facebook and Twitter friends' status updates using any keywords they want, be it "iPhone" or "Iran Election". This tool would come in really handy if you prefer to search any specific content in your friends' updates rather than doing it over the web such as Twitter Search. As fans of Twitter Search, both co-founders <a href="http://twitter.com/eladmeidar" target="_blank">Elad Meidar</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/liors" target="_blank">Lior Levin</a> wanted to do the same search for Facebook one day. However, it's definitely impossible to do a Facebook status search that searches only your friends. As a result, after thinking a bit about the philosophy of this idea, they had developed a Facebook + Twitter status search. They feel that friends treasure so much valuable information that you should have access to and even confidently said that their newly created search system would an instant killer.

    Status Search: Search your Facebook & Twitter Friends’ Status Updates

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    statussearchDubbed as "neither a web nor a real-time search engine", Status Search is a "private" search system which allows users to search their Facebook and Twitter friends' status updates using any keywords they want, be it "iPhone" or "Iran Election". This tool would come in really handy if you prefer to search any specific content in your friends' updates rather than doing it over the web such as Twitter Search. As fans of Twitter Search, both co-founders Elad Meidar and Lior Levin wanted to do the same search for Facebook one day. However, it's definitely impossible to do a Facebook status search that searches only your friends. As a result, after thinking a bit about the philosophy of this idea, they had developed a Facebook + Twitter status search. They feel that friends treasure so much valuable information that you should have access to and even confidently said that their newly created search system would an instant killer.

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  • <img src="http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/instructionaldesign/files/2009/04/facebook-logo.jpg" style="float: right;"/>According to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=auU3eSGIPVzs" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>, customers of Facebook online ad system has increased by 300% as compared to last year. This has clearly shown that more businesses especially the small and medium ones are heading to social networking websites to advertise their products instead of using the traditional way of spreading the word of mouth through newspapers and magazines. Tim Kendall, the Facebook’s director of product marketing for monetization said that “You basically just have a greater diversity of people using our ad system -- lots of businesses, lots of local businesses finding success.” “It’s really been a steady, successful growth pattern.” He declined to provide specific revenue data. Just like Google's CPC (Cost Per Click) advertisements displayed on the right and top placings of the search results, Facebook's automated advertisements which comes in text and photos, targets users based on the information they put on their profiles. Unveiled in 2007, the automated ad system enables customers to advertise either they webpages or even a Facebook Page, Application, Group or Event. For image ads, the world's most popular social networking platform only allows a 110px wide by 80px box for the image and a maximum of 25 words for the title.

    Customers of Facebook Online Ad System More than Triple

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    According to Bloomberg, customers of Facebook online ad system has increased by 300% as compared to last year. This has clearly shown that more businesses especially the small and medium ones are heading to social networking websites to advertise their products instead of using the traditional way of spreading the word of mouth through newspapers and magazines. Tim Kendall, the Facebook’s director of product marketing for monetization said that “You basically just have a greater diversity of people using our ad system -- lots of businesses, lots of local businesses finding success.” “It’s really been a steady, successful growth pattern.” He declined to provide specific revenue data. Just like Google's CPC (Cost Per Click) advertisements displayed on the right and top placings of the search results, Facebook's automated advertisements which comes in text and photos, targets users based on the information they put on their profiles. Unveiled in 2007, the automated ad system enables customers to advertise either they webpages or even a Facebook Page, Application, Group or Event. For image ads, the world's most popular social networking platform only allows a 110px wide by 80px box for the image and a maximum of 25 words for the title.

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  • <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3417/3650350526_8ca735e82c_o.jpg" width="280" height="210" alt="h1n1_story" style="float: right;"/>Looks like the Swine Flu or also known as H1N1 Internet buzz on Facebook and Twitter is over despite the fact that the number of confirmed cases worldwide are increasing rapidly each day. With the vaccine coming in September this year, we need not to worry much about the flu pandemic anymore. According to the <a href="http://www.10tv.com/live/content/health/stories/2009/06/22/h1n1.html?sid=102" target="_blank">10TV News</a>, researchers at Ohio State University has created a supercomputer installed with a powerful software which helps to track the spread of the H1N1 virus worldwide.

    Tracking the H1N1 Virus with the Help of a Supercomputer & Google Earth?

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    h1n1_storyLooks like the Swine Flu or also known as H1N1 Internet buzz on Facebook and Twitter is over despite the fact that the number of confirmed cases worldwide are increasing rapidly each day. With the vaccine coming in September this year, we need not to worry much about the flu pandemic anymore. According to the 10TV News, researchers at Ohio State University has created a supercomputer installed with a powerful software which helps to track the spread of the H1N1 virus worldwide.

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  • <img src="http://www.voiceonthego.com/images/logo.jpg" style="float: right;"/>All thanks to <a href="http://www.voiceonthego.com" target="_blank">Voice on the Go</a>, we humans have just entered an era of high technology of communication. Dubbed itself as a "The World Leader in Email by Voice and SMS by Voice", Voice on the Go is a free and impressive service that allows users to speak, listen, compose and forward your email and SMS by voice, without the need to type anything. Sounds cool right? Well, with this service, you can go hands-free and eyes-free which simply means that you can drive more safely when you listen to your email and SMS. It works on any phones including popular smartphone like Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile or Android device.

    How to Speak, Listen & Compose your Email and SMS by Voice, all without Typing?

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    All thanks to Voice on the Go, we humans have just entered an era of high technology of communication. Dubbed itself as a "The World Leader in Email by Voice and SMS by Voice", Voice on the Go is a free and impressive service that allows users to speak, listen, compose and forward your email and SMS by voice, without the need to type anything. Sounds cool right? Well, with this service, you can go hands-free and eyes-free which simply means that you can drive more safely when you listen to your email and SMS. It works on any phones including popular smartphone like Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile or Android device.

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