Google Trying to Marry GMail and G+ Circles

For Web-Comics creators .. the baap of animation explains their work

How We do it - PiXar

http://www.pixar.com/howwedoit/index.html#

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RWW predicts Sci-Fi Stuff

In its latest post ReadWriteWeb predicts the Sci-Fi stuff which Hollywood movies are made of. They write:

The Trilogy of Webs for Machines: Mashing It All Together

Almost one year ago we started a post series that presented three different webs that are all made for machines. Now it is time to connect those webs and look at examples of how they can be used. 

Machines can be taught to autonomously detect, apply and replace a service, or even link them by chaining or orchestrating them to solve bigger problems or to achieve redundancy or scalability. 

The openness and availability of data, people data and services pave the way to an interoperating ecosystem of companies serving the fragments of tomorrow's services.

The Age of Uber Micro Servers

SeaMicro's entire server can fit on a credit card and eight of them fit on a single motherboard. The sever,  consumes one-fourth of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores into the $139,000 box.

Here's what SeaMicro has done with its box: popped 512 x 1.6 GHz Intel x86 CPUs on a rack, which equates to 2,048 CPUs per rack with 1 Terabyte of DRAM, a 1.28 Terabit networking fabric and up to 64 1Gigabit Ethernet ports or 16 10GigE ports. Customers can add up to 64 solid state drives for storage and the whole box takes up 10 racks and consumes less than 2 kilowatts of power.

Source: http://gigaom.com/2010/06/13/seamicros-low-power-server-finally-launches/

iPhone's future may depend on Wifi Tethering!

Wi-Fi Tethering means users can share their mobile phone's 3G internet connection with external devices like laptops over Wi-Fi. In other words, they can transform their mobile phone into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. You can share the Wi-Fi connectivity with the click of a button on your phone. Once the mobile phone's internet access point over Wi-Fi comes, say, to your laptop, you can simply click "Connect" to access the internet. You can secure the connection just like you do with any Wi-Fi router, or keep it open as a public hotspot.

It's observed that Wi-Fi offers better user experience as compared to Bluetooth, cable, or USB Dongle/Modem. Wi-Fi is faster, hassle-free, and as mobile phones have high-quality antennas, the internet connection is actually more reliable, stable, and typically offers higher throughput. It can help overcome network limitations.

Source: http://mytechbox.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/is-your-mobile-ready-for-wi-fi-tethering/

Why should you know about tethering? Because iPhone's future may be bet on it today

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A Googlian Lawsuit

Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/car-hits-woman-she-sues-google/116913-11.html

Salt Lake City: A pedestrian injured by a motorist while following an online route has filed a lawsuit claiming Google Inc. supplied unsafe directions.

Rosenberg used her phone in January to download directions from one end of Park City to the other. Google Maps led her to a four-lane boulevard without sidewalks that was "not reasonably safe for pedestrians," according to the lawsuit filed by the Northridge, California, resident.

Rosenberg believed she could reach a sidewalk on the other side of Deer Valley Drive and tried to cross the boulevard, but didn't even make it to the median, he said.

She was struck by a speeding car on a pitch-black night and received multiple bone fractures that required six weeks of rehabilitation, Young added.

Get 4 desktops in Windows like Linux

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you're not using. 

Read More: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx

Desktops v1.02

By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell

Published: January 19, 2010

 Download Desktops (60 KB)

Bloggable, Tweetable, Diggable, Deliciousable ...

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cartoon_the_thin_ff0000_line.php

More Noise to Signal.

How to write a 'small' blog post on Twitter w/o 140 char limit

For when you talk too much for twitter

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 characters just isn't enough. With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link to what you said will automatically be posted to your Twitter account. It's like twitpic for text.

Twitlonger is also an easy way to post long messages to Twitter without the need to write a blog post. Write what you need there and they post the link to Twitter for you. 

A different kind of Billionaire Club

Google and Facebook with 5 billion AP calls per day. Twitter has 3 billion per day. Ebay has 8 billion per month. NPR gets 1.1 billion calls per month for its API-delivered stories. Saleforce.com gets 50% of its traffic through its API.

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/05/pen-api-madness-the-party-has.php

Google Wave Use Case

Source: ReadWriteWeb.com

Last month we wrote a short post about using Google Wave for live blogging. Today, during Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook privacy press conference, we decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the event with Wave. The reaction to our experiment was overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to share how we it up for our live blogging session today.

Lessons Learned

Here are a few things we learned today:

• Wave worked like a charm. We did not experience any hiccups and our readers were very happy about seeing us type the updates in real time - live blogging really doesn't get more "live" than this. Having Google's infrastructure as the basis for your live blog definitely helps when you have lots of people hitting your blog at the same time.
• Adding a few extra people to Wave allows you to share the workload. If possible, have at least one extra person around to create and upload screenshots. We used a Skype backchannel during the event to coordinate in the background, but you could also use a second Wave for this.

A Few Things to Keep in Mind

• The default font size in the Wave embed is too small, and changing it for every new wavelet takes too long. Hopefully Wave will soon allow us to set a slightly larger font size as the default.
• Wave didn't work well for Safari users and is obviously also still an issue for Internet Explorer.
• Uploading screenshots to Wave is easy, just click on the attachments icon, pick the desired image and hit submit. Sadly, you can't just drag and drop images from your desktop onto your browser (yet), so having a second person to manage that is helpful.
• Spell checking in Wave is still a bit difficult even when you have a second person edit your posts.

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How Flickr helps cleartrip sell more travel packages

Cleartrip.com - an online travel portal has started a new section called Small World. The feature showcases select destinations around one's residence or internationally. 

The fun part is that Cleartrip has partnered with Yahoo / Flickr and Lonely Planet - the slideshows showcasing are made using photos from flickr ... and are very captivating! Go take a look! 

MSPaint clone in the browser

Identical to MS Paint - but can be used in the browser ....

VMware ensures high availability of systems for Chitale Dairy

Tech in Indian firms ... :-)

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How does reCaptcha help digitize books ..

	Type the two words:

The words above come from scanned books.  By typing them, you help to digitize old texts.

Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the 

one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct. 

More: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html