eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched

Wikipedia - is the bible to refer for any category any field. This goes commercial with collabaration of eBay and JotSpot. They just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as ...

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Mikons - a new form of Self Expression

"A picture is worth thousand words" - of course we all agree with that otherwise how the Emoticons could become so popular. How about describing yourself not in words but entirely through visual symbols?
Could not believe it right! something like the image below: Every image given a tag to identify.

Mikons was developed with aim to give fun and easy way to create these symbols that tell story. What else you can share the story and connect to all people all over the world. You can create you own images and can tag them.


Mikons requires shockwave plugin.

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15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language

In this rapidly growing IT field, those who want to survive they need to be updated and constantly get in touch with new programming languages, techniques... In that case do we need to attend courses that eats away our little time.
I digged this article where Prashant N Mhatre hints how to keep up with the job demands and shares 15 exercises to master languages quickly.

Quite interesting

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Webtop - An Ajax Start Page

Pageflakes, Netvibes, Zimbio yes they similar in a way they are all ajax start pages. They make our life simple by allowing favourtie web services such as Flickr, Gmail ... In this line there is one more ajax start page. Now it is Webtop this is from 30 Boxes.

What webservices it's offering?

Webservices includes Gmail, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Webshots, Meebo, 30boxes Calendar...

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Products Google should Develop - Submit your idea too!

The way Google is coming up with innovative products day by day (of course with Ajax touch), everyone is excited about future products. There is GoogleWatch which lists out the products/ideas of individuals wish to be developed by the Google. Have an idea and want to see it to be developed by Google you can submit it to GoogleWatch.

Google SearchAPI for Wordpress Blogs

I got an article/tutorial which explains how to include the Google Search API in to the blogs. It was very helpful,but for the sake of wordress blogs users, here I would like to give the steps to include GoogleSearchAPI.
Step1:
Get your GoogleSearchAPI key for you blog/site.
Step:2
If you can access the php code of your blog, search for the "wp-content/themes/yourtheme" in the hosting environment. Locate "wp-content/themes/yourtheme/header.php" the file and copy the following content within the head tags.
Step3:
Now go to the respective php file in the same folder(yourtheme) and place the dic content.

Say if you want to display this in the sidebar of the blogs, go to "wp-content/themes/yourtheme/sidebar.php"
and paste it as one of the list items.
like:
We can also customise the css, for this get the css and overwrite with the css you want.
Thanks to Andy Brudtkuhl for his help.

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Search Engines -2

I was mentioning in my earlier post SearchEngines how to use search engines effectively. You can follow up this link to find more tips and also how to use those tips in Google Search Engine.

Online Spreadsheet System from Google

Spread sheets with difference in all aspects. To write, to maintain, to share and so on.
Yes you heard right! Google is lauching Google Spreadsheets, of course with Ajax stuff to make it as user friendly as possible.
Features:
Creating Spread Sheets
Sharing Spread Sheets
Storing Spread Sheets ...


It can read both CSV and XLS formats.
Files can be saved in CSV, XLS and HTML formats.
Files can be imported in CSV or XLS formats, so excel documents and other spreadsheet files should work in Google Spreadsheets.

Excellent Feature made possible and availble in Google Spreadsheets is - multiple people can update a spreadsheet at the same time and chat with eachother while doing
Before it is made public you can signup and visit the tour.
Some more Ajax based Spreadsheets are available here:
ZohoSheets
iRows
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How to Exercise an Open Mind?

"Rest is Change of Work" - This how I was taught during college days. It is the variety of things that we keep picking up and new challenges and problems we are trying to solve make our mind active. This energy drives all to find the appropriate solutions. The key feature is to have an open mind. There are many ways to achieve this:
Stimulate your ears differently.
Stimulate your eyes in new ways.
Learn about different people and lifestyles.
Click here to find more ways to Energise your mind.

Ajax Seach API from Google

In my previous post, I was getting to a point how to use search engines effectively and narrow down search to the point. Imagine, you get search results based on category !!! Wonderful, isn't it. As always Google is back with Ajax featured search API that categorises the search results into local, web, video and blogs.


Excited to see it in action, click.
Want to know more and include in your page, signup here.