Archive for January, 2007
Google improves local business search
Google have improved their work on local business search, which unfortunately is still only local inside US. Now if you search the Google Web for say Mexican restaurants in Pasadena, CA, as the Google Blog suggests, you will get list of nearby Mexican restaurants with ratings summed from other websites. This could really come in [...]
Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Slashdot writes about the Top 100 alternative search engines to use (article came from Read/Write Web), rather than the common ones. While the list is long and I don’t think I or most of you will have the time to visit them all, one has really caught my eye, which is what they call the [...]
AJAX powered online tools for you
37signals is a privately-held company which was established back in 1999. The company adapted Ruby language, implemented their own framework for their projects, released the framework to public under the name Ruby On Rails and helped increase public awareness of the Ruby potentials. 37signals have launched three very promising online AJAX based collaboration applications, namely [...]
Nice Firefox Extensions
One of the greatest things about Firefox is the huge and wide variety of high quality free extensions out there. Some of them really change the way you think about browsers and that they can do, as they add a whole new dimension to the equation. But since they are so much, always changing, many [...]
YouTube to share profit with its users!
Few months back, when eefoof.com launched as Beta, all major news talked about the “YouTube Killer”. Being the first I come across that pays its users for publishing videos that get high traffic. The progress of this site however has been rather too slow, it is still in Beta, and very often I don’t find [...]
Intel and IBM claim breakthrough in transistor design
DigiTimes writes about claims from Intel and IBM (separately) that a new breakthrough in transistor design has been made and that the new design will help minimize electric power leakage that will open the door for improved sub-micron process technology. No great advancements has been made in the past few years and this seems to [...]
Ron Gilbert leading WoW Army
Ron Gilbert have started his own Monkey Island themed guild in the World of Warcraft called Threepwood (can you imagine no one used that name?) and is inviting all Monkey Island fans to join the team under one condition, you have to have a Monkey Island character name. Well, too bad I am away from [...]