Learning Remix Winter 2008

Brüllwurst - Bruellwurst: Greetings from Germany :)

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:49:09 -0500

Hi,

in order to push Fabian and my project, which Fabian already mentioned in his article, I wanted to mention some links, which indirectly and directly are connected with our project...

Hopefully a nice Google Bot find the way to our website and that several times :)....

HK Party Pics

Schmid Home

WebmasterPro

Xing

Antoniazzi

Bruellwurst

Wordpress

Hey everybody - Germany says HI

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:24:22 -0500

Hey,
how are you doing? I hope this semester is going well. We had a lot of fun last term.. Daniel and I just thought "Hey, why don't we write to the community". Right after our return to Germany, we started studying in Germany and are working on a very interesting project right now. It is all about e-commerce, that is we have to create a web page about an imaginary topic (called "Brüllwurst"). The final goal is to get a high google page rank in order to be found at a very high position (in Google). Hence, we have to get many external links, provide a well-defined homepage (among other things).
So much about us, we'd like to hear about you guys. What are you doing?
Cheers!
Daniel and Fabian

Use Your Google Account to Login to Zoho

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:28:37 -0500

For those of you that are Zoho users, the AdventNet web-based application has just released a new feature. You can now turn to the Zoho website and login using either one of your Google or Yahoo! accounts. The announcement was made yesterday on the Zoho blogs and is available for anyone wanting to login to Zoho.

For those who aren't familiar with Zoho, here is a quick reminder. Zoho is a web-based application offering a suite of office tools including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications. The application works similarly to Google's Docs, which has also been created to provide users with an on-the-go alternative to word processing and other office activities. The Zoho applications have the power to read and write file formats used in Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org. Users who already have registered to Zoho and have received a Zoho ID will be automatically logged to Zoho using their Yahoo! or Google accounts.

YouTube Desktop is Now iDesktop

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:15:16 -0500

I found an interesting article on YouTube Desktop quite interesting, it is a video aggregator that lets a user to create playlists in an easy and functional manner.Initially the so called YouTube Desktop is now iDesktop TV and the good features about this is the user can download videos, covert them to any format such as AVI,MP4,3GP,WMV,FLV,ZIP ie the user can view the videos on his mobile.It aslo has an import option for the integration of YouTube account that they would like to follow through iDesktop TV.

Firefox churns to version 2.0.0.14.........

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:12:46 -0500

Finally Mozilla has released its latest and fifth update to Firefox which is version 2.0.0.14 after the previous version 2.0.0.13.The latest version has solved the stability problem in the previous version as the Version 2.0.0.13 broke a feature that lets images be displayed with special effects such as rotated pictures and image reflections.I think the latest version will solve all the problems from the previous version.

Google overtakes Yahoo as the most popular web destination

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:58 -0500

Google Inc, long dominant in the internet search market, has overtaken rival Yahoo Inc as the most popular web destination in the US, according to forthcoming data Google saw its US audience grow 18% in April compared with the period a year earlier, to 141.1 million. Yahoo's audience, meanwhile, grew only seven percent to 140.6 million, Microsoft Corp came in third at roughly 121 million. While Yahoo has watched its share of the search market fall further behind that of Google in recent years, it had been able to hold an edge over its younger rival in total audience. But Google has also expanded its breadth of such internet services recently, as it further evolves from its origins as a search provider. Yahoo has faced enormous challenges in trying to keep pace with Google.

Visual Basic to Return to Mac Office

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:45:34 -0500

Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit was the biggest release of the productivity suite for the Mac platform ever. It's selling three times faster than the previous version. It wasn't all cheers for the latest version of Mac Office, however. Business users, in particular, were dismayed that Microsoft removed support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) from the product, which meant that it couldn't run custom scripts developed for previous versions, or for Windows Office. But in a rare about-face, it seems that VBA may be returning to a future version of Mac Office though a precise timeline remains elusive.Macintosh Business Unit employee Erik Schwiebert blogged about the issue saying that came to the realization in 2006 that there was no way to keep VB in the product and still ship Office 2008 on any semblance of the schedule

Google To Roll Out New Video Adverts On YouTube

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:36:44 -0500

Google Inc top priority this year is to start generating revenue off its YouTube video-sharing site, shortly expects to launch new products for its video-sharing service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo Inc.

The search giant says it has still not had any "progression" that will allow it to generate cash from the video site. Google said making the video sharing site to make money is the Web search company's top priority for the year. He did not give details of the products, not even in initial, or beta, testing. Google has said it will establish new types of online advertisements in an endeavor to increase revenues at YouTube, the video-sharing website it owns which will become visible while a person is viewing a video on YouTube would be different from previous types of video-related advertising, which has tended to appear before or after a clip.

Google surpasses Yahoo--for a second time?

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:27:28 -0500

Google passed Yahoo in its share of monthly visitors in the United States for the first time this April, buoyed by growth in search and YouTube videos, However, underscoring the variability of this sort of measurement, which extrapolates overall data from the usage of a "panel" of users at home and work, Google sites had 141.1 million unique visitors in April, a tad ahead of Yahoo's 140.6 million. Microsoft was in third at 121.2 million, with AOL at 111.3 million.Yahoo leads its rivals with 3 hours and 9 minutes per month, but AOL owner Time Warner leads Yahoo at 3 hours 40 minutes per month.Microsoft's usage was 2 hours and 17 minutes, and Google was 1 hour and 47 minutes.

Microsoft Wars

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:18:07 -0500

As there is an battle of sort going on between Microsoft and Yahoo, The internal battle between Windows XP and Windows Vista continued last week with the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, which will extend the life of the venerable XP for another few years. The lack of adoption of Windows Vista in the corporate world, mainly because of incompatibilities, lack of drivers for legacy printers and other devices and the need for additional RAM and processing power has put Microsoft in a terrible bind. microsoft has already extended its June 30 deadline for the end of XP once; if it does it again, it tacitly admits the failure of Vista in the enterprise. If it doesn't, it is neglecting its customers, many of whom at least want the choice of XP when it comes to operating systems.

Facebook suspends participation in Google's Friend Connect...

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:11:40 -0500

Facebook's explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google's "Friend Connect" project, citing a violation of its internal terms of service.

Facebook chief privacy officer said, while Facebook users would manually opt in to Friend Connect, they would not have control over the third-party sites that would then use Friend Connect through Google's API for privacy reasons, they have always forbidden redistribution of other Facebook information that an application takes. where applications have tried to use Facebook data and pass it to third-party ad targeting networks to target their ads.

Adobe Flash Player 10

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:06:55 -0500

Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 10, which promises better performance, improved text handling, custom photo effects filters and native 3D animations. It's available for free download at the Adobe Labs website. Adobe Flash is the most widely-used presentation technology for video, audio and animated user interfaces on the web and its current version of Flash Player is installed on roughly 95% of the world's internet-connected PCs. in order to increase its presence of flash in hand held devices, Adobe has lifted many licensing requirements necesary to develop for the platform.

The Yahoo saga ontinues..........

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:01:52 -0500

shareholder mutiny is being led by activist investor Carl Icahn against Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired Spurred on by outraged shareholders, Icahn notified Yahoo Thursday that he will lead a revolt to oust Yang and the rest of the Internet company's board unless they renew negotiations with Microsoft that fell apart May 3 when the two sides couldn't agree on a price. and now its not sure whether Microsoft is still intersted in the deal.

Friend Connect

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:44:38 -0500

Google is planning to launch Friend Connect-- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel.Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more. there is only limited preview if we sign up. Once it is launched, website owners simply have to answer a couple questions that Google uses to generate some HTML -- paste
it into our website and we're done. This is an extremely easy way to add social features to our website without knowing anything about coding. To see how to do it watch this video

Google Maps ActionScript API

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:41:21 -0500

Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API.the documentation is very easy for people who has never done anything in Flash, it looks
pretty easy to use. This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services, enabling you to embed robust, interactive maps applications on your website. this api lets us mix flash content with google maps.