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I understand that bringing Solar in every day use everywhere is a challenging task. But still, personally I believe Solar power will be playing major role in energy sector very soon.\n\nSo, I am planning to create some kind of web applications (e.g calculating energy output for any Building) related to solar power. And, I am gathering more details about any existing applications. If you know any useful information about solar related web applications you can share it thro' the comments or you can send the details to me

If you already think social networks give you a bit more information than you want about some people, TrueScoop's new Facebook application might make you cringe. It's completely free public records search, a service that lots of websites charge for, usually so potential employers can do background checks.

It hold true that your success in the today's competitive blogging world depends largely how well you stretch your exposure. It's been part of equation which you can take it away. Surely there are a couple of things you can do to maximize your online presence, but sadly little has been said on the power of Guest Blogging and what it can do to help any bloggers - beginners or otherwise - gain the much needed exposure. The Power of Guest Blogging Guest blogging isn't a new phenomenon. It's one of the most effective method adopted by some well-informed bloggers to increase blog traffic where bloggers write article to be published on other bloggers' blogs. With guest blogging, not only will the host's blog receive new fresh content from a different perspective, the guest blogger will gain a link and the all important exposure to their target audience.

As web developers, it only makes sense that we find learning resources on our preferred medium, the Internet. However, there are definite pluses to the Old School method of learning; the print book. They've been through rigorous editing cycles, and you can trust solid publishers like O'Reilly. Also, you can trust the user ratings and comments that are on sites like Amazon. You can make an informed purchase with the help of these comments, and you don't have to worry that these highly-rated titles are going to be accurate or poorly written. Publishing contracts are generally only given to industry and thought leaders who are worth listening to and learning from. Here are 50 of the highest-rated, most respected print publications on many different web development topics.

Even in a world where high-speed internet is just a tall house blend away, anyone can get stuck with a slow or uncertain connection at home, in the office, or at the worst possible time while traveling. There are, however, measures anyone can take to ensure they're getting the most information and functionality they can when crunched for time or pressed for bandwidth-or if you just don't like waiting for things while online. We're offering up today 10 tweaks, downloads, and work-arounds for slow connections, slow computers, or just fast-minded people. Read on for the tips that might just save your life some night when 4 Kb/s is all you can muster.

Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.

In recent months it's become apparent that a lot of people find themselves overwhelmed by too much information. Subscribe to too many RSS feeds and follow too many people of Twitter and FriendFeed and suddenly you find yourself struggling to keep up with what is mostly irrelevant nonsense. Louis Gray wrote a commonsense post on his blog this weekend: "You Control Your Noise Velocity". Louis' straightforward point is that rather than complain about too much noise, you should just make sure you only subscribe to as much as you feel comfortable with.

Real time search results will prove useful during situations when people need updated information constantly, and aggregate them from various sources.

Windows Live Mail is now fully ribbonized, much like Outlook 2010. What's also similar is the addition of the new Calendar pane on the right showing you the upcoming events in the next few days, but this information comes right from your Windows Live Calendar. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the introduction of Conversation view, which was first introduced in Outlook Web App (or Outlook Live) and one of the main new features of Outlook 2010,

These days million of people come online and search for the information. Social networks are a big part of online life. Now online fund raising campaigns are running across social networks like twitter and facebook.

This currency trading book provides readers with real, practical information on how to trade the foreign exchange market effectively.

In an effort to stifle the spread of information related to protests in China's Inner Mongolia, the nation's web censors have taken action to try to stop discussion of the event via various social media channels. 

Twitter been widely used micro blogging services for instant sharing with friends and followers. Since Twiter is updated instantly users can easily share information such as links, images, video and now you can share files instantly with all your friends on Twitter. FileTwt is a simple file sharing service on Twitter. Lot of us use Rapidshare for file sharing, but now FileTwt let Twitter user to share files up to 20MB maximum instantly. At present all files are hosted on Rapidshare, but FileTwt will soon start hosting the uploaded files themselves in a few days!

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

People today read latest topics and updates via mobile phones. Reading the tweet, Facebook updates and your favorite Digg is possible in phone, but still share the information is still challenging for for phone app makers. Recently i read about Smub.it, it offers simple social sharing and bookmarking tool that proves especially useful for iPhone and other smart phone users.

Bill Ives spoke with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ, about their enterprise micro-messaging experiences

Social media has given consumers a whole new voice. A recent study by Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology found that 20% of Twitter updates are either requests for product info, or responses to brand messages. With that, companies better not give consumers anything bad to talk about. As with the 5 case studies below, the consequences can be severe.

When it comes to information on weight loss and fitness, most mainstream sources will emphasize exercise, followed by healthy eating in order to be thin.

This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find!