Email Ids for Every Indian

Microsoft Corp. has announced unique email ids for every kind of Indian powered by Windows Live Hotmail beginning with www.lokhandwalarocks.com. Users in India can now chose any email id they want through a feature called custom domains.This initiative is being flagged off by unveiling an email id for the residents of Lokhandwala in Andheri, Mumbai called www.lokhandwalarocks.com. This is Microsoft's first step towards customizing email for consumers in India.Windows Live Hotmail is the next generation MSN Hotmail providing a faster, safer and more powerful online communication experience than before. Windows Live Hotmail is designed so people can get their email any time, and any where in the way they want, via the Web, mobile phone or desktop.Windows Live Hotmail will offer users more ways to stay in touch with all the people you care about, plus powerful protection features. It is also integrated with other Windows Live services such as Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces to deliver a seamless integrated communication experience for users.

Social networking sites

Social networking sites are feeding off each other's good will, according to a new report by competitive intelligence service company Hitwise.
Facebook's traffic has doubled in just over 18 months, but MySpace still receives most of the Web's social networking traffic. MySpace captured 79.7% of social networking traffic in April, according to figures released by Hitwise on Monday. Facebook accounted for 11.47% of social networking visits, while MySpace alterative Bebo drew 1.28% of the traffic last month, according to the Hitwise report.
MySpace visits rose 70% from April 2006 to April 2007, while the percentage increase for the lesser-used sites was much more dramatic, according to Hitwise. Facebook visits increased 126% from April 2006 and Bebo's traffic rose 184% from last year, Hitwise announced.

mobile phone call

A British climber has become the first person to make a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. Mountaineer Rod Baber, 36, removed his oxygen mask to make two calls from the mountain's north ridge. In the first call to a special answerphone set up by sponsors Motorola.Although bulky satellite phones have been used on Everest for some time, this is the first time anyone has made a mobile phone call from the top of the mountain.Although bulky satellite phones have been used on Everest for some time, this is the first time anyone has made a mobile phone call from the top of the mountain.

Yahoo

Yahoo! today expanded the reach of its popular mobile search service, Yahoo! oneSearch beta, to consumers in India. It will go live in beta today in seven countries namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.oneSearch reinvents search on the mobile and is designed to provide consumers instant, relevant answers on their mobile device. It can now be accessed through Yahoo!'s mobile Web site, on any mobile phone with a browser and Internet access.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

SOCIAL NETWORKING is currently a hot technology area through websites such as Orkut (www.orkut.com), Facebook (www.facebook.com) and MySpace (www.myspace.com), where people can build up the online equivalent of a circle of friends.A network such as MySpace is much more socially focused, aiming at connecting people on an informal level and providing a focus point for people who enjoy similar things. Those may be as simple as model train enthusiasts or more complex, such as rallying people to a social cause. But for people interested in both, such sites provide a central point to bring it all together.

ElHood

ElHood is sort of a bilingual MySpace promoting the latest in Latin music, and for Miami-based Monterrosa, it has become a personal and professional lifeline. It is also the latest in a wave of Hispanic social-networking sites building links across the U.S., Latin America and Spain, all hoping to capture coveted advertising dollars.

web 2.0

Web 2.0, a catchphrase for the latest generation of Web sites where users contribute their own text, pictures and video content, is far less participatory than commonly assumed. A tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google's top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others o watch, according to a study of online surfing data by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Web audience measurement firm Hitwise. Similarly, only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo Inc., are to upload new photos, the Hitwise study found. Wikipedia, the anyone-can-edit online encyclopaedia, is the one exception cited in the Hitwise study: 4.6 percent of all visits to Wikipedia pages are to edit entries on the site.

mapping

Search engine Google and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an online mapping project to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities committed in Sudan's western Darfur region.More than 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur since 2003 and some of this carnage -- which the United States calls the first genocide of this century -- has been detailed by Google Earth, the search engine's mapping service (http://earth.google.com).Using high-resolution imagery, users can zoom into Darfur to view more than 1,600 damaged or destroyed villages, providing what the Holocaust Museum says is evidence of the genocide. Sudan's government denies that genocide is taking place.In addition, the remnants of more than 100,000 homes, schools, mosques and other structures destroyed by janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudanese forces and others are visible.

blogger

The support for a blogger hounded by death threats has intensified with some high profile web experts calling for a code of conduct in the blogosphere.
The female blogger at the centre of the row has been shocked to discover that hers is not an isolated incident. It has led her and others to question some of the unwritten rules of blogging. It could force a re-examination of the way the tight-knit blogging community behaves. Among those calling for a bloggers' code of conduct is Tim O'Reilly - one of the web's most influential thinkers

AJAX

Researchers at Fortify Software have uncovered what they say is the first vulnerability to specifically affect Web 2.0 and AJAX applications.Developers in the past used Javascript for simple features like image rollovers and Web forms. But in the Web 2.0 world, Javascript is increasingly being used to transport data, and that's opening the door to security issues, said Brian Chess, chief scientist at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Fortify, which makes source-code analysis software.

virtual health community

TauMed.com (www.TauMed.com), a free virtual health community presently in beta, unveiled an expanded set of personalization and real time community tools with an exciting slate of new features. My Health Space and My Health Share provide strong resources founded in an online community, combined with the power of TauMed’s superior, advanced healthcare topic search.

google

Google released the new version of their popular free software bundle Google Pack this week. There are two rather interesting and highly useful additions included with this release. Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, a freeware virus scanner, which offers virus protection on a basic level.

social networking

Firms are at risk of data leakage through their employees' increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking websites, security experts have warned. A survey of more than 1,000 office workers in the U.K. found that 42 percent of those aged between 18 and 29 discussed work-related issues on social networking sites and blogs.More than a quarter of young workers spent three or more hours a week -- during their office hours -- surfing blogs and websites such as YouTube and MySpace, the research, carried out by polling firm YouGov for content security specialists Clearswift found. Nearly four in 10 admitted accessing such sites "several times a day".

Security concerns

Security concerns over the use of Web 2.0 sites in the workplace have been raised in new research. A report from security firm Clearswift has revealed that over a quarter of office workers aged between 18 and 29 spend more than three hours a week on social networking websites and blogs. Nearly half of these workers discuss issues related to work on these sites, which may pose a security risks to employers, the firm claimed. When asked whether their employer has a policy on accessing social media sites at work, 14 per cent of workers said there was no policy at all.

WEB 2.0

According to a report from Webroot Software, many are familiar with the concepts of viruses, worms and phishing but our online behaviour makes us vulnerable to spyware programs such as keyloggers that record data that we input using our keyboards. Webroot claims that it is the use of social networking sites which puts us most at risk. More than half of us visit these sites occasionally and around 82 per cent of 18-24 year olds do so on a regular basis.Many in the 18-24 age category said they were willing to open attachments and embedded links found on social networking sites even if they didn't know who had created them. Combined with a lack of understanding for how spyware programs work, this puts them at an increased risk of falling victim to cybercrime.

web 2.0

In the last 12 months Web 2.0 has emerged as a technology capable of bringing about the sort of business upheaval that was initially attributed to the web back in the heady days of the dotcom boom. Commentators have predicted that Web 2.0 will destroy traditional news providers and that community and collaborative information resources will sweep online publishers away in a tide of new business models.

blogger

popularity of Web 2.0 applications such as blogs and widely used social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube, several candidates are gravitating toward such technology to garner support and raise money.

web 2.0 and poverty

The term 'Web 2.0' captures the transition of the worldwide web from flat websites offering static information to a new computing platform independent of earlier shackles.The applications available include web-based word processors and spreadsheets such as gOffice or ThinkFree, online calendars like Kiko and backup services such as that provided by Mozy. Most of these also offer free storage space, acting as a kind of virtual hard disk for saving files.these applications are all web-based -- users create, save, and retrieve files online. Thus, they are not confined to any particular operating system or hardware.This drastically reduces the cost of using applications, which can be run, for example, through a free web browser (such as Firefox) and a free operating system (such as Linux). Users only need access to the Internet to benefit from these applications.In many parts of Africa and Latin America, progress has been made toward providing access via internet cafés, government installations, kiosks, and computing clubs. The Drishtee program in India and IT clubs in Egypt are products of this trend.But the reduced costs alone will not entirely solve the access problem. Users need education -- particularly in English, the dominant language of the Web -- and a familiarity with computers to get the most out of these applications.

farmers on net.

around 70% of British farmers are now connected to the Internet, with a large percentage of those having broadband connections. This is leading to increased online activity, particularly at the Farmers Weekly Interactive web site.

web 2.0

A new Senate Bill filed by Illinois Senator Matt Murphy outlines a legislation that would force any computer made available to the public in a public library and schools to block social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Murphy describes his bill as a “proactive” move to “protect kids” from potential new threats such as sexual predator looking for victims on sites such as MySpace.com.