Thursday, October 18, 2007

YouTube Launches Chinese Language Site for Taiwan; Reason for Censorship?

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    YouTube has launched a new Chinese language site designed specifically for Taiwan.
    In addition to user-generated content, the site features professionally produced clips from local media partners, including China Television Co., Sanlih E-Television Co., Lion Travel Service Co. and Taiwan Broadcasting System.

    According to reports, Taiwan has been encouraging users to upload videos to YouTube (previously through the English version) to promote goodwill for the country, which has often been at odds with China.

    Could today's launch be the reason we earlier received reports that YouTube is currently being blocked in China? It would make sense given the tense political climate between the two countries, and China has become notorious for blocking websites. There are also currently reports circulating that inside China, Google Blog Search, Yahoo, and Live.com are all being re-directed to Chinese search engine Baidu.




Sunday, October 14, 2007

  • 250+ Tools and Resources For Coding the Web
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    We’re all living on the web, and we all seem to be starting our own websites, so it’s time we all learned the languages that make it run. We’ve gathered over 250 resources to help you get going.




  • Twype Updates Your Skype Mood From Twitter

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    Twype (short for “Twitter to Skype”) is a new Windows-only tray tool that can help you update your Skype mood on the fly without doing anymore than posting to Twitter, or listening to music.

    All you need to do is download a small executable file, install, enter your account info, and you’re ready to go. Once every five minutes the program will check your Twitter account and paste it to your Skype mood area. If you use Winamp, you can also set it to check to see what song you’re playing, and that will be pasted to your mood. With Winamp, it checks every five seconds, and will override the need to check Twitter. Once you stop Winamp, it will revert to checking for new tweets.

    While I personally don’t see why you need your mood updated quite that often, apparently there are some out there who want to. The file is available at Voidstar.



  • GMail: 42GB Free Storage by 2038
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    Gmail just revised their storage estimates for the next 1449 years. Googlified dug around in the code and discovered that you’ll be getting a tiny increase to 2912MB on Friday, 4.2GB by October 23, 6GB by January 4 2008, 42GB by 2038 and 2.70266701 × 1072 TB by 3456. Google has since since confirmed by on the Gmail blog that the counter’s speed has been increased.

    Meanwhile, the paid storage is also getting a bump: $20 used to buy you 6GB extra, but it will now get you 10GB. The other prices are 40GB for 75/year, 150GB for $250/year and 400GB for $500/year.

    This is reassuring: Google is going to keep increasing the free storage despite having a paid plan they could push users over to. If you’re just about to exceed the limit on your Gmail account and you’re planning to add paid storage, it may be worth holding on for 11 more days. And somehow I don’t think 42GB will be considered very much by 2038: I expect we’ll be talking in terabytes by then.




Saturday, October 13, 2007

  • Twype Updates Your Skype Mood From Twitter

    TwitterSkype Logo

    Twype (short for “Twitter to Skype”) is a new Windows-only tray tool that can help you update your Skype mood on the fly without doing anymore than posting to Twitter, or listening to music.

    All you need to do is download a small executable file, install, enter your account info, and you’re ready to go. Once every five minutes the program will check your Twitter account and paste it to your Skype mood area. If you use Winamp, you can also set it to check to see what song you’re playing, and that will be pasted to your mood. With Winamp, it checks every five seconds, and will override the need to check Twitter. Once you stop Winamp, it will revert to checking for new tweets.

    While I personally don’t see why you need your mood updated quite that often, apparently there are some out there who want to. The file is available at Voidstar.



  • 70+ Online Language Communities and Resources
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    The world wide web can be a good place to start learning a foreign language. This is a compilation of language communities, tools, and other online resources that’ll help you get started.

    Also don’t forget these resources - 30+ Language Tools For Firefox and Dictionary Toolbox: 50+ Dictionary & Reference Sites (more…)




Friday, October 12, 2007

Listing social bookmarking service

Listing TOP social bookmarking service with PR and Alexa Rank and Backlink(Yahoo)

myweb.yahoo.com 8
1
86775
del.icio.us 8
264
22522779
www.furl.net 8
4314
6705094
ma.gnolia.com 7
7830
3688150
www.simpy.com 7
10834
3874472
www.mister-wong.com/ 6
14736

de.lirio.us 7
43412
19248
www.blinklist.com 6
5302
6826432
www.bluedot.us 6
8699
3828
www.diigo.com 6
14121
0
www.spurl.net 6
14402
3923677
www.blinkbits.com 6
14469
3226390
www.netvouz.com 6
15271
0
www.backflip.com 6
19783
0
www.shadows.com 6
28162
82925
www.bibsonomy.org 6
28873
796358
www.linkagogo.com 6
42817
21721
www.mybookmarks.com 5
96302
0
www.smarking.com 4
107116
13264

This blog about social bookmarking:)