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Search engine for social media. Very interesting

interesting search engine. the first search I did immediately resulted in something very useful.

Actually, I stumbled upon this when I decided to try out Office 2010 beta. I haven't found any official documentation about how to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive with WebDAV (or any API), so I'm not sure how well supported this will be in the future. If you find any word about this from Microsoft, please let me know in the comments. The good news is that it works. The bad news is that it is very slow, but being 25 GB for free I guess you get what you pay for speed-wise (understandably).

If you have written many press releases and very little have been picked up by newspapers, it could be because your releases are seen by the media as a pure advertisement or plug for your business.The aim of a media release is to be published by a news channel to obtain validation from a third party.

As you may know, Microsoft announced last July the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, a free download released under the General Public License v2 that integrates Microsoft's Live@Edu services such as email, calendar, instant messaging and search directly into the Moodle experience. The move was very important for Microsoft in the educational space in Latin America, as adoption and usage are surging in the region for Live@Edu, Microsoft's free communication and collaboration solution that educational institutions can offer their students.

We can download "NoDoFollow" from the Moizilla site. This add-on will be very useful to identify the "NoFollow" links (i-e anchor tags with rel=nofollow attribute) easily.

PhpMyChat is a PHP based script, it is very easy-to-install and can create a multi-room chat system using a database as the content storage. Lets go through the steps, in order to install the PhpMyChat in very few steps:

A very nice site with some great links to sites to show how to use the main web2.0 tools for a classroom. 

Here's a list of sites that accept Bitcoin. New service providers are very much appreciated as they help establish the currency! Please only list services that are presently available (that is, NOT "available soon") and accepting bitcoins.

HyperVM is a very powerful and robust virtualization management software application, which helps you to manage a particular server within a servers cluster. If you forget your root password in HyperVM, it can be reset very easily using few steps shown in this tutorial.

Tonight I'll show you how to add a touch screen for less than 50 € to your precious. This may be an EeePC or another laptop or even an LCD screen, the possibilities are endless. The only challenge is:- the ability to disassemble the entire case out of the computer. And when I say completely, you'll see that I'm serious here soon!- To have enough room in the case to house the controller. It is a small 52 * 23mm electronic card, a little less than 5mm thick. In an EeePC 1000H, it goes very well, as you'll see.

With this new generation of information technology, also known as IT, there can be just as many problems as there are solutions. To help keep you from dialing an 800 number or online chat, we have gathered 25 Q & A sites about information technology. They can help you do everything from send an email to write your very own software.

Create and manage your relations in a very easy way. Tag them, search them and communicate your actions via facebook or twitter.

This little dancing robot is as cute as cute can be. I had to post this video of it dancing to music. It was developed by scientist (Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) as a learning aid for children. The design of Keepon is very simple, just two eyes and a button nose It will certainly be a big hit when it goes onto sale in 2010. 

You don't take this Twitter stuff too seriously. People towards the lower left corner are probably very new to social media. Most people in this quadrant tend to engage with a small group of friends that they know in real life.

In late 2009 and early 2010 I worked on a very interesting cloud computing project. In the process I accrued a fairly comprehensive link list on the topic, which I already briefly mentioned here. The list was also published on the blog of my back then employer, but since the company doesn't exist anymore and their site is offline, I figured I might as well put it up here. The gist where I originally collected this is still on GitHub, feel free to fork, add etc.

Building a social network isn't an easy task, let alone a successful one. As developers our job is to create, build, and bring to life the gears and functions of a social network. When it comes to marketing, well that's a different department in most cases. We build then later deploy, and in order to develop a highly efficient and functional social network we'll need to use a few tools.Most developers are switching from building networks from scratch using PHP to highly-customizable social network platforms that give way to flexibility. Below we're going to cover several of the most sought after open-source platforms that allow you create your very own social network and run it on a server of your choice. These networks will give you a hyphened control over the front/back end design along with a social networks most valuable asset; the database.

Web host plays a major role on the user experience of your blog. The good web host from the beginning is very important for the success of your blog.

This is a complex but very useful chart explaining Moodle learning resources and how they related to bloom's taxonomy. Worth printing and keeping as a job aide when designing a course in Moodle.

The core of Foundation can be summed up in a few points: A 12-column, percentage-based grid with an arbitrary maximum width. The grid can be nested and used for quite complex layouts, and it works all the way back to IE 7. The grid reshuffles itself for smaller devices. Image styles that disregard pixels. Images in Foundation are scaled by the grid to different widths. UI and layout elements. Foundation includes common pieces such as typography and forms, as well as tabs, pagination, N-up grids and more. Mobile visibility classes. Rapidly prototyping is partly about having built-in functionality to tailor the experience. Foundation lets you very quickly hide and show elements on desktops, tablets and phones. We deliberately built Foundation as a starting point, not as a style guide. We've included some styles to help you rapidly build something clickable and usable, but not something stylistically complete. Everything in Foundation is meant to be customized, including button styles, form styles (even custom radio, checkbox and select elements), typography, and layout elements such as tabs.