In response to nearly two days of angry online commentary, particularly on Twitter, Amazon.com said on Monday that "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" had caused thousands of books on its site to lose their sales rankings and become harder to find in searches.
Now you can Stumble outside of the shadow of the mega-corporate overlords at eBay - two years after Stumble founders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith cashed out and handed their baby over to the ecommerce giant, they've come back with a team of investors and bought StumbleUpon back from eBay. It's pretty exciting.
Global Kids--site has information about gaming in public schools and an innovative High School for Global Citizenship in Brooklyn, partially funded by the MacArthur Foundation
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.
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.
Finally Gmail's rich-text editor become more powerful with the addition of the new features in Gmail Labs called Insert Images. The major drawback in Gmail text editor is people can't insert in to the editor. Initially we have to attach the images and this usually displays at the bottom of the mail client as thumbnails.
Yahoo! recently announces the all new Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone application. Finally Yahoo! Messenger is now available for iPhone.Now you can take the best of Yahoo! Messenger with you and stay in touch with friends through your iPhone or iPod Touch, no matter where you are.
Google and other members of the IT industry recently joined at Google Data Centre Efficiency Submit at Calif, Mountain View, to discuss best practices for building and measuring data center efficiency. The idea behind this submit is tosave resources such as electricity and water is not just good for the environment, it makes good business sense too. Being "green" reduces operating costs and can keep our industry competitive; it is this economic advantage that makes efficiency truly sustainable.
TweetDeck v0.25 Integrates Facebook & Twitpic Previews - TweetDeck is a personal browser used to stay in touch with the latest happening around us and connect you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck v0.25 recently released..." />
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.
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.
Hewlett-Packard confirmed Tuesday that it is testing Google's Android operating system as a possible alternative to Windows in some of its netbook computers. "Right now Android is barely finished for phones," said Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. While it works well enough for T-Mobile's G1 smartphone, the software was released only last year and "the UI still feels half-finished," he said.
ALT key, the key on a computer keyboard used to change the function other keys. I never thought of these wonders can be happen or done use the ALT keys. It's my pleasure to show what i read few min back about Special ALT Characters
Friendfeed introduce a new design for Friendfeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ on April 06, 2009. The newly re-designed friendfeed beta version looks a lot like Twitter. Forget the refresh button. All pages now update in real-time. You'll see your friends' photos and messages stream in as they're shared. Comments and likes also get displayed as they happen.
Namechk is a new web application, that help users to find an username over 84 websites with less than 8 sec. This is amazing user don't need to got to each website to check availability of the preferd username. Namechk brings complete solution on checking for username availability is various social media and bookmarking websites.
Great article that could help with collection development in school libraries. Also, a great way to assess if a book is appropriate for the school library collection.
