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New sharing features added in Netvibes.com

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:30:57 +0000

Netvibes recently added one new sharing features to the widgets, now you can share almost everything in your page with your loved ones, friends or colleagues. You can share your respective articles, widgets, or even the whole tab with social websites like Facebook, Twitter etc.,

If you would like to know more about the same, then you need to visit Netvibes blogs and need to check with the article which has been posted by Maurice.

Below are the easy steps to connect and share the same with social networking sites:

Users feedback on Video and Voice Chat for Gmail

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:59 +0000

I think it was a great day for the people who were expecting Google to introduce Video and Voice Chat in Gmail. But most of the reviews says that there was a bandwidth problem in streaming the respective LIVE video. And would like to say that it is a good thing, right from our browser we can have a Video chat directly and even Voice chat too, but bit concern about the video quality I mean video streaming - how about those people who have low bandwidth?

Just I had a quick glance on all the comments from various websites and blogs about the new feature introduced in Gmail. Most of the members say that there was a streaming problem and was taking lot of bandwidth to render in the respective browsers. Even I faced the same problem when I was doing my first Video and Voice chat in Gmail yesterday.

Yesterday I checked one of the famous blog named “Read Write Web” and the article which Frederic Lardinois has posted - Google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail and checked the comments on this post. Some of the users has mentioned which I have stated above “Bandwidth Problem”.

And I guess, Google Gmail might be working on these things, and I would like to inform Google that this feature is amazing and I guess Google is the only one who has introduced this facility in mailing.

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If you would like to install the same, just go to this link and help yourself.

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Widgets in the arena of the internet technology

admin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:11:39 +0000

Internet technology has undergone a dramatic change since the day of its launch. The kind of growth that the internet has enjoyed in the last decade is incredible. Especially an internet technology like the cloud computing is an awesome one. On-demand services have become the most favorite service of the next generation. While internet technologies like the Software as a service (SaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS) gained true momentum, widgets of the internet too have been in vogue enticing and helping both visitors and website owners to achieve their goals. This article will enlighten you on the importance of these wonder working web tools.

Knowledge on demand has become the ultimate purpose of many websites. Widgets are nothing but mini-applications, which provide effective solutions to visitors’ needs. Widgets of modern times play a crucial role in making the website a magical stage where you get instant answers for your queries. Apart from making a website interesting and interactive one, they provide instant information on news, entertainment, weather, calculations, and many more.

As today’s web visitors expect more and more from websites, and widgets have become an absolute necessity in order to retain the visitors for a longer period or entice more visitors to your site. If you really want a high traffic to your site, just place a few gadgets that are of great interest to your visitors. Of late, widgets have started attracting web visitors of all ages, and it has been proved that useful and simple widgets increase the traffic of websites in multi-folds. One other specialty of widgets is that users can get easy access to information available on the internet without visiting specific websites. YouTube videos, movie trailers, photo slideshows, news widgets are some of the popular widgets for blog sites and websites. Desktop widgets on the other hand can be downloaded and used to access information without having to visit the website. Some of the good examples include the weather gadget offered on websites that forecast weather, new feeds, maps, pictures, videos, and music.

It is a good idea for website promotion too! Do you know that widgets are great marketing tools in the arena of internet marketing? Well, here are a few points on the marketing capability of the widgets. Instead of placing banner ads, website owners can opt for a useful widget that bears the name of the company on it. As it is an interactive tool that provides a service, you are likely to draw more targeted traffic than your banner ads can bring in. Moreover, allowing users to share the widget gets you more inbound links that is a great plus when it comes to search engine optimization for higher page ranking.

Using widgets on you blog could enhance the looks and usability of your blog site. Apart from providing the blog with great looks, it can draw the attention of the visitors to a large extent. For example, blog widgets like Twitter or Plurk on your site will enable your visitors to know what you do, or even help them subscribe to your blog or follow it.

In order to help developers in learning more about the widgets, there are number of dedicated websites that provide useful information on widgets. These websites explain in detail about the widget and its uses. One good example is developersnippets.com. You can find a good number of snippet articles that are from basic to high-level. This site helps young developers wishing to have fruitful career in developing innovative web products.

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Netvibes now integrates with Facebook Connect

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:47:12 +0000

I think, this going to be a very good news for all the users of Netvibes. “Netvibes now integrates with Facebook Connect”. There was a huge event at La Cantine in Paris, traveling all the way through Europe and there was a halt in Paris, and there Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook) has spent some time to answer the questions of the respective developers.

Netvibes (Which is the leading widget and personalized startpage platform) has announced at the Facebook Developer Garage in Paris that it will offer full integration with Facebook Connect.

This is a very good news to all the users, bloggers, professionals - if you guys want to know more about the same then, please visit the respective page at “Netvibes Announces Integration with Facebook Connect, Powering Personalized News Sharing for Millions of Facebook Users”

Have you ever tested how fast your webpage loads

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:17:38 +0000

Have you ever observed how fast your webpage loads? No!, here is the tool for the same. Its a web tool which will let you know how fast your page loads when user is visiting your page, pingdom is a web site where you can test your page for free and can check out the respective time of a page load.

Just browse to that website once and test your pages and check out how much time does it takes to load the respective page. Just type in your website URL into the text box provided and click on “Test now” button, if you want to save your test results, then “Check in” in the check box provided. When you click the button, it will show the respective time taken (in seconds) to load a page.

How it Works:
This will loads a complete HTML page including all the respective objects like images, CSS, JavaScript, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars. All the list of the objects can be viewed either in load order or as a hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to in for example:CSS or JavaScript.

Below is the screen grab of the same, just have a look at it, how it works out for me. If anything is not loaded properly, then it depicts the same in red color, like for example if any link is broken (or) any image link is broken etc.,

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Call for ideas to change the world from Google

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:32:42 +0000

Google, as I have mentioned so many times in my blog postings like Google Rocks! Yeah Again Google Rocks! Google came up with a new project called Project10tothe100 Google has sent an invitation to all the people who has an idea or ideas to change the world, just share the same with Google and help the people in all.

“In other words, helping helps everybody, helper and helped alike.”

If you have any awesome idea, and that you believe it will help then just go head and
Post the same in Google’s new project. Just submit your idea and help for the vote on ideas from others. And please make to submit your valuable ideas on or before 20th October 2008 .

And if you want more information about the same please do have a look at this page, I can say its worth seeing because this is for a nice cause. Your idea can help people around the world. If you want to know more about “why this project” has been introduced, then you must view this page http://www.project10tothe100.com/why.html

And if you would like to know more about “how it works ”, please view this page http://www.project10tothe100.com/how_it_works.html , here you can see the guidelines on how to proceed and when to submit the same. If you want to submit your valuable idea, then go head and submit the same at this location http://www.project10tothe100.com/submit_your_idea.html

There are many categories where you can submit your valuable ideas, Community, Opportunity, Energy, Environment, Health, Education, Shelter, Everything Else. Want to know more about these Categories , and if you have any queries on the same you can post your query here at the email which Google has provided, http://www.project10tothe100.com/faq.html

I would like to request each and every person to participate in this, since this is for a very good cause. And make sure to submit your ideas on or before 20th October 2008. Please do spare sometime for a good cause.

I am planning to submit my own idea to Google which helps all people in the world!, Hope my wish can succeed through Google.

We the Team won in Truveo Developer Challenge Contest - TechVideoBytes

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:51:17 +0000

We are glad to announce that, we the Team (Developers Snippets - TechVideoBytes ) won a prize gift in Truveo Developer Challenge Contest and in this contest we stand in top 4th place. We would like to thank the Truveo Team for conducting this contest, this indeed helps us in developing good web applications and can show case the same to the entire Web World. We the Team is striving hard to showcase some useful stuff to the developer to develop their career in technology.

If you see, TechVideoBytes is completely a technology based website, which depicts the ease of highlighting video tutorials on various software tools and various programming languages. You can learn tools online without paying anything, yes! its absolutely free bucks. Just select your favorite keyword and on a click you can view the respective video playing on the other page, and on the page we are consolidating all the relative videos in respect to your keyword selected, if you would like know more about the TechVideoBytes just crawl into the website – TechVideoBytes .

About the contest:
Here in this contest there are nine $10,000 first place winners, and the 20 $500 second place winners which are determined by the 5 categories of TopCoder Community Favorite. If you guys want to know more about this contest just jump into TopCoder

In the first place winners we stand in 4th place, and the categories includes Usage – 90, Innovation – 80, API – 80, AOL – 62, TC Rank – 94 and coming to over all Weighted Score is – 81.2

We are glad to bags this prize gift, and will strive hard to come up with other innovative web applications in coming future.

We had a crawl to all the websites which are listed in the prize winning list, we have many favorites websites which we liked the most is MapOfVideo , SVid , VideoBuzz the network of Wittysparks , VideoSearchBot . MapOfVideo has also got good features in the application which provided has got many other options by clicking on the respective spot and stands in 1st Position, SVid it has got featured all the categories in all aspects, which is awesome enough to see and stands in 2nd place, VideoBuzz has bagged in 14th position in the contest. This site has got good look and feel providing all the respective top videos, featured videos and upcoming videos related to Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and more. VideoSearchBot is an AIM bot for video search based on Truveo Video Search API. Just type the query and he will give you the video list with integrated links, which stands in 3rd position in $500 prize winner.

Finally! Kudos to all people who won prize gifts from Truveo.

From India there are 181,619 Firefox3 downloads

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:27:54 +0000

This is to inform you guys that more than 8 million Firefox downloads has been done in 24hours, awesome right, by looking at this we can imagine that many people are loving Firefox browsers - Really Unforgetable Event for Mozilla Community. To know more about the World Record we need to wait for few days to get to see the same. This is really awesome enough in the history of Mozilla.

From India, there are more than 1,00,000 downloads, as of now till date if we see there are 181,619 downloads has been done.

If you want to show the World that you have helped set a Guinness World Record with your own personalized Firefox3 Download Day Certificate, Click Here (FLAUNT IT!)

Innovative advertising thoughts from Google Russia

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:08:36 +0000

Google Russia has introduced proactive way of advertising to promote ‘Google Search’. Google has chosen a park bench to promote Google Search in Russia (www.google.ru ). The purpose of this is to beat other search providers in Russia, what do you say Guys! whether this is a proactive way of promoting the same, might be a good thought from Google in the point of marketing Search Engine.

The Top 10 Best Products of 2007 - PC WORLD

admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:28:05 +0000

While I am browsing some good stuff in the morning, I had a glance into PC WORLD Web Site, So I thought, I have to share this important news to you guys, PC WORLD has announced top 100 best products of 2007. They have ranked the best PCs, HDTVs, components, sites and services. From 100 best products, I am depicting only top 10 best products of 2007. Can you guys guess who will be in first position, Obviously Google Apps Premier, Below is the top 10 best products of 2007.

Content Courtesy (PC WORLD)

1. Google Apps Premier , Google is much more than just a search engine, and with its invaluable Google Apps suite, the company is well on its way to challenging Microsoft for productivity-suite supremacy. Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets (soon to be joined by a PowerPoint-esque presentation application) already makes for an interesting alternative to Microsoft Office. Combine it with Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar, and suddenly nearly all of your basic productivity programs and data can be available online.

2. Intel Core 2 Duo, It’s superfast, it’s not too expensive, and it uses less energy than its predecessor does. But could Core 2 Duo be too good? Unless AMD can respond to its startling success, the absence of competition could drive up desktop PC prices.

3. Nintendo Wii, Readers went gaga for the first game console to get nongamers hooked on gaming, nominating it more than any other product. With motion-sensitive controls and a slate of fun games for all ages, Nintendo really has something with the Wii.

4. Verizon FiOS, Supplying enough bandwidth to offer IPTV plus Internet access at up to 30 megabits per second, fiber is the way of the future. As of this writing, FiOS users on BroadbandReports.com gave the service an 84 percent satisfaction rating.

5. RIM Blackberry 8800, Take one sweet smart phone, and add GPS. With no camera but some serious e-mail mojo, the 8800 is all business.

6. Parallels Desktop, A Mac OS application in PC World ’s Top 10? You bet. With a simple interface and improving 3D acceleration, Parallels offers the slickest way to run Windows (or any other OS) on Apple’s beautifully designed Intel-based hardware.

7. Pioneer Elite 1080p PRO-FHD1 , In a crowded field of nice-looking HDTVs, Pioneer’s high-res Elite series plasma stands alone as the display that everyone wants. If you have the means, we highly recommend it.

8. Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV, Great for backups or shared storage, Infrant’s 1TB ReadyNAS performs well and includes helpful features such as uPNP support and a built-in print server.

9. Apple Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Quick: Name a good Vista feature that goes beyond what’s in Tiger.

10. Adobe Premiere Elements 3 Like the rest of Adobe’s Elements products, Premiere gives you just the video editing features you need at a reasonable price.

More information at PC WORLD, Click Here to know more information.