Archive for August, 2008

Google India Launches MapMaker; Takes On WikiMapia

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Google India Launches MapMaker; Takes On WikiMapia By Cerius Shah - Sun 31 Aug 2008 04:24 AM PST Considering the success of Wiki-Mapia in India, it isn’t suprising Map Maker was a product developed by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Indian engineering team. Take a quick look at the most described cities*, and Bombay tops the list on Wiki-mapia with 55,577 listings, followed by Calcutta at the second spot and Chennai on fourth. Infact, out of the Top 20 most described cities, 14 are Indian, with 4 out

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Please Review DealsGlobe.com – Best Deals, Hot Coupons from Popular Merchants

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

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141 Ways/Places to Market Your Website For Free

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

141 Free Ways to Market Your Website Online Here are 141 ways that you can promote your website for free. Feel free to repost this guide if you enjoy the contents. 1. The best way to market your website is to write a quality article with lots of information. If you write a helpful article with a catchy title many people will link to your article and most likely visit your website. 2. When writing articles be sure to use the keyword targeted method (some call it BUM Marketing).. For mor

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Chief Executive Mark Backseat blowjob announced a number of new ways the company plans

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Chief Executive Mark Backseat blowjob announced a number of new ways the company plans August 30th, 2008 Sxx Latest Tube Movies http www. Donors to discuss funding Myanmar cyclone relief amid. Featured six power plays, but neither side was able to score in the first minutes. By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer DEYANG, CHINA Thousands of patients are being moved from overloaded hospitals in China. Held out the prospect of normal. Today Google has launched Knol, its Wikipedia alterna

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Linkage for August 29, 2008

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

1. Well, I guess I can say you heard it here first, the NY Times has a nice article, by Mary Jo Murphy, talking about the design of wind turbines and their recent ubiquity in eco-advertising. When it’s the NY Times, they interview Seth Godin, who mentions how the wind turbines as icon that works because it is more about the infinite supply of energy over reducing demand and consumption. Murphy raises a good point that, the wind turbines is still more about hype than results, and is “both of and

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Add Your App Engine Recipes to the Google Cookbook

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

In order to allow parties positioned outside the Googleplex to contribute knowledge to a single source, Google assembled the framework for Knol. It’s had a mixed response. Now the company is offering the Google Cookbook built specially for App Engine developers. With the Cookbook, users can add “recipes” to the mix in a series of 11 categories that anyone can access, learn from, use, comment on and provide a 1- to 5-star rating for. And if they manage to construct a piece of code they find va

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Saving Money with Specialty Insurance for your Classic Car

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

There’s a new article on Google’s Knol about classic car insurance. The summary says it all: How to save money by insuring your classic car with an insurance company that specializes in unique vehicle insurance. You can save up to 70% over what a traditional car insurance company would charge you when you know where and how to shop. A lot of people still don’t know about specialty insuran…

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Designing for Usability

Friday, August 29th, 2008

(Manas Garg, who had organized the recent POCC meeting on Usability, was inspired to write this article after attending that session.) About the author: Manas is interested in a variety of things like psychology, philosophy, sociology, photography, movie making etc. But since there are only 24 hours in a day and most of it goes in sleeping and earning a living, he amuses himself by writing software, reading a bit and sharing his thoughts. Ultimately, we build all the systems so that they are

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S Ford out for the season with knee Omega de ville

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines. Most actual news about Exelon. By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON MarketWatch The dilemma facing Federal Reserve policy makers went on vivid display 310 olympus sp as the central bank. (more…)

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Knol vs Wikipedia

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I think all of us would agree that knowledge is important. Most of us might also agree that it’s dangerous to entrust all our knowledge to any one authority. So what should we make of Wikipedia, one of the ten most popular websites and the most popular online reference by far? For me, it’s a love-hate relationship. Wikipedia offers a wealth of information, and it’s based on collaboration. Anyone can write or edit articles. Yet Wikipedia is prone to some extraordinary errors and vandalism.

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