It will be great if We could leave comments on Wikipedia articles and engage in the discussion, is there way to do it? Wikipedia discussions (Also called Wikipedia talk Page) are great yet less known feature of Wikipedia. We can discuss article, read the discussion on the topic, suggest improvements on the article, and show agreement or disagreement over the topic presented. Reading discussion can point to areas that are not included in the article or are controversial to be included in the main article. Read More »
We reported few issues with Widget and Webshare program in earlier post. Webshare links were asking for Logon credentials and Widget links were showing only summary. Both the issues are resolved now and Britannica Tech team has been really helpful and prompt in resolving the issue. Read More »
Britannica opened up online Encyclopedia for Web Publishers for free access and article sharing.
Founded in 1768, Britannica is a reputed and trustworthy General Encyclopaedia, edited with the help of few editors and many Expert Contributors. Few of the Contributors are Noble Prize Winners. Britannica’s model has been challenged by Wikipedia, which can be edited and read by anybody. Britannica can be edited by only a closed group of editors and contributors and follows a subscription based business model. Read More »
Google Video got a face lift. Google has expanded it’s Video search capabilities. Now, it is easier to search video all over the web from Google Video Search. Read More »
Free Software is similar to Open Source. Users must be able to freely use, study, copy, redistribute, modify, and publish modified versions of the software. Here free means Freedom to use rather than Free in price (as in Freewares). Both Free and Open Source have similar objectives but differ on which term is better to covey these objectives. Read More »
Google released more powerful version of Google Earth. Google added some new features, more content and support for more languages. Read More »
Open Source is a method of developing software in which Source Code is openly and freely available to use. This is different than Propriety or Closed Source Software where Source Code is not available at all or not available to copy and modify. Open Source Software is generally developed publicly in collaborative manner. Linux, Apache, Mozilla Firefox are some of the popular Open Source Software. Read More »
Google Earth is a virtual Globe application. The application displays geographical locations in 3D view. 3D images combined with Google search, Content from Top sources (such as Wikipedia, National Geographic etc), and User generated and shared content/images make Google Earth a very powerful mapping and research tool. Read More »
You can sign up with any of the providers for OpenID URL. URL will be hosted on the provider’s domain (for example yourid.myopenid.com). It can be an issue, if you are not happy with your provider or if your provider goes down and you want to switch to another provider. To avoid the problem, You can use your own custom domain name such as your blog URL or website (http://www.yourdomain.com/) for Open id. The technique is called delegation. Read More »
An article from Bred Taylor titled “We need Wikipedia for Data“, created lot of buzz. As the name suggests article covers need to create freely licensed data that every programmer can access. Later, ReadWriteWeb summarized some of the projects already creating free data. Question remains are we ready to create something as big and useful as Wikipedia? Read More »
Favicon (Also called Website Icon, Favourites Icon or URLIcon) is simply an icon associated with a website. This is typically a 16×16 image with ICO extension. Web browser display favicon before Web page URL in Address bar and bookmark title in the list of bookmarks. Read More »
Mashable reported today that Contactify is up for sale for $10,000. It is a web service that provides a way to generate a Contact form for email id. Read More »
Good introduction and tutorial on OpenID. OpenID is a digital identity which can be used to sign in to any OpenID enabled websites without needing to sign up with individual websites. Read More »
What is URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)?
URI is a method of identifying a unit of content on the internet. Content can be text page, image file, audio or video file or anything that exist on the web. Other methods (Such as URL or URN) are subset of URI. Read More »
In an interesting policy change on eBay, Digital Goods can only be sold using Classified ads. eBay mentions potential for feedback manipulation as the reason for policy change.
Digital Goods include anything that is delivered electronically. It does not include CD, DVD etc. Read More »
