Together with creative company PokeLondon, Yahoo! UK has come up a rather interesting website that allows you to satisfyingly annoy your friends or colleagues. Launched last month, the Yahoo! Yodelizer enables users to record 3-second Yodels and share them with via social networking websites.
To get started, simply head over to Yodelizer, tap some keys on your keyboard, and those pre-recorded Ya's and Hoo's will form a customized Yahoo Yodel. You can then download it as a MP3 file and make it your dope ringtone, publish it to Facebook or Twitter, or even attach it with something on the web by entering the URL.
In a shocking move, AT&T's new Motorola Backflip, which runs on Google's Android OS, will feature Yahoo as the smartphone's default search provider instead of Google. This is the first time I've heard of a Google Android handset not using the Google Search by itself. Yahoo will be set up to handle mobile Internet searches, though users can still choose Google if they desire to.
David Katz, a vice president at Yahoo, said in an e-mailed statement, "We have a long-standing relationship with AT&T and more than 80 carrier partnerships around the world for our award- winning mobile-search experience. Mobile search continues to be a focus for investment and innovation."
Meanwhile, Google declined to comment on the Backflip, saying "This is not a Google-branded product and, therefore, product inquiries should be directed to AT&T and Motorola."
British comedian and author Stephen Fry revealed in an interview with .net magazine how he frequently takes down sites with around 3,000 requests per second as a result of him tweeting a link to his massive 1.3 million followers.
"When I tweet a link it usually gets around two or three thousand requests a second. Especially if I word it in a way where I really want people to go to a site," he said in the interview.
In an effort to prevent websites from crashing due to the sheer volume of traffic generated by his large number of followers, he first try to warn site owners to get prepared for the worst by purchasing extra bandwidth to withstand the sudden spike in traffic. "I just have to be very specific, and say: 'Please go to your web guys and your host and tell them this is the kind of traffic you could get," Fry explains.
"Fifty per cent of the time the site is down in seconds – even when we've contacted site owners and they've told us everything will be fine. It's often an unprecedented amount of traffic, and they don't have the required capacity."
I've no idea whether this is real or not, but at least it's quite amusing after all. The lady was spouting vulgarities because she was on the brink of losing in an Xbox game to her boyfriend, who seemed rather calm. Back in November, we shared a video clip about a crazy girl smashing her boyfriend’s Xbox on the floor and hitting it with a golf club because he was accused of spending up to 10 hours a day on gaming and wasn't pay enough attention to her. She then decided to teach him a lesson by destroying his beloved Xbox.
A recent survey found out that a significant number of Chinese scientists think their research would be largely hampered if they lost access to Google, after the search engine juggernaut threatened to cease its operations in mainland China earlier this year.
Of the 784 Chinese scientists interviewed by Nature, 76 per cent said that Google is their primary search engine, followed by China's most popular search engine Baidu (16.5 per cent), and then Yahoo (2.6 per cent). Meanwhile, 84 per cent revealed that losing Google would “somewhat or significantly” hamper their research; ; 78% say that international collaborations would be affected to the same degree.
Wintek, the Taiwanese hardware company which supplies mobile screen components to Apple's iPhones and iPod Touch as well as Nokia's touchscreen phones, has been exposed by China's state television network CCTV for hazardous work conditions and disputes over bonus payments. According to local reports, the Wintek factory in Suzhou, Jiangsu province ground to a halt in mid-January as employees were protesting over the N-hexane poisoning incident, which killed at least four workers due to overexposure to hexane. The remaining 45, who had showed symptoms of hexane poisoning, are currently undergoing treatment at a Suzhou hospital. It was claimed that toxic chemical workers had been asked to use for cleaning touch panels instead of alcohol.
"The truth has been hidden from public view. There are people dying from long-term exposure to the toxicant used in the factory but no one is paying attention to that. There needs to be further investigation," a worker surnamed Zhu, who took part in Friday's gathering yet declined to give his full name, told China Daily. "What we feel angry about is the company authorities' apathy to our workers' health," he added.
Shortened URLS are seen as useful because they are easier to write down and look much neater as compared to a long URL, which contains many characters. Twitter users tend to use shortened links extensively due to the micro-blogging platform's default 140 characters limit. However, there is one major drawback to using shortened URLs. For example, when a user publishes a shortened link on Twitter, you won't know where is it heading to. It could be adult site or even malicious websites that could potentially harm your computer. This is when a little nifty bookmarklet comes in really handy.
Particularly useful for social media websites where shortened URLs are common, URL Sniffer expands and reveals shortened URLs before you click, and this helps to eliminate your fear of navigating to an unsafe website when you click on a shortened URL. To start, simply sign up a free account and confirm your email address by visiting the URL sent within the confirmation email.
Google could be earning close to half a billion dollars annually from advertisements placed on typo domains, according to a new study. For example, should a user accidentally enter an incorrect website address like twittter.com, he may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter. And if he clicks on a Google Adsense ad, the publisher makes money, and so does Google.
Although Harvard University researchers Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman claim that "it is difficult to know exactly how many people visit typosquatting domains", but that doesn't hinder them from figuring out the estimated number of visitors reaching typo sites, as well as the fees advertisers pay to Google.
I've no idea whether this is real or not, but at least it's quite amusing after all. The lady was spouting vulgarities because she was on the brink of losing in an Xbox game to her boyfriend, who seemed rather calm. Back in November, we shared a video clip about a crazy girl smashing her boyfriend’s Xbox on the floor and hitting it with a golf club because he was accused of spending up to 10 hours a day on gaming and wasn't pay enough attention to her. She then decided to teach him a lesson by destroying his beloved Xbox." title="Why You Shouldn’t Let Your Girlfriend Play Xbox [VIDEO]" />