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WordPress.com search engine launched before a year, after the launch of the search engine the searches made on Wordpress search engine is innumber millions. Recently Wordpress announced an a significant update: instant findability. This feature allows searcher to view all latest related post with the feature "most recent results" available on the search page.

Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype sold it to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. The founders now, have approached several private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling service, say several people with knowledge of their plans.

Gmail Labs added yet another useful feature for those who receive messages from all over the world.The new feature in Gmail labs called "Sender Time Zone". you can find this option in Labs tab under Settings. Once you enabled this feature you can see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable.The red ones indicates those who could be sleeping or out of the office.

Concrete CMS, developer of next- generation open source solutions for web sites, today announced general availability of concrete5, the latest version of its popular open source Content Management System (CMS). concrete5 combines the ease-of-use of a blogging platform with the flexibility and power of a web development platform. To date, thousands of advertising and creative agencies and web developers around the world have downloaded early versions of concrete5 and used the technology to quickly and inexpensively build sophisticated web sites that can be updated by end users

AppLocker provides a comfortable way to block software programs from being executed on a target system. If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can't uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so.

US talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey made her debut on micro-blogging service Twitter on Friday with a shout out to her fans. Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Friday--the same day Williams and Twitter's top celebrity, Ashton Kutcher, will join her on the show.

Disable YouTube's related videos With a Simple Hack Code - YouTube added the feature "related videos" wayback in 2007. Iam sure every YouTube user come across with this feature. Once the video completes playing, will displays a list of related videos..." />

Now using HTML-JavaScript Adder plugin you can add HTML and JavaScript to your wordpress sidebsr. The other important thing is you can do this without editing sidebar.php.This allows user to add embed ad codes from major advertisements sites including Google dsense, Adbrite,Bidvertiser and even you can add flash videos.

Sites for usage of text messaging in schools

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Teachers and students are largely driving the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but human and technological barriers are holding back the use of these as learning tools in many classrooms, according to a new study.

Actor Ashton Kutcher recently challenged CNN to be the first to 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site, had more than 959,360 Twitter followers as of 1 p.m. ET Thursday. CNN's breaking-news feed had about 12,000 more Twitter fans, with some 968,000. But the real intresting part is the Ashton reaches one million fans on his Facebook fan page while am writing this post Ashton has1,037 ,940 fans on his Facebook fan page.

We all know Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing. But here is the intresting part, we know a lot about Google and about their products and services, In the screenshot let me show you what according to some intresting Twitter users Google is all about.

Google recently tested a new interface for search results. The test didn't include any new feature and Google even loaded the standard search results page to display the results. An important notable change is the new format was that Google didn't load a new page to display the results and browsers didn't send proper referrals when clicking on search results.

Google Latitude is a location-aware mobile app developed by Google. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain other people on his or her Gmail contact list to track where he or she is. These people can track the user (or more accurately, his or her phone) on Google Maps via their own iGoogle accounts. The user can control the accuracy and details of what each of the other users can see - an exact location can be allowed, or it can be limited to identifying the city only.

some great informational videos of new technologies and how they can benefit education

Interview with the author of "Grown Up Digital" Don Tapscott. Technological trends in education, understanding the educational needs of kids today.

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collaboration online as the new learning method