YouGetIt.Com 30-Day Review: Popularity, Functionality Growing
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Thirty days after YouGetIt launched in partnership with Web2Corp (OTCBB: WBTO) as a new local social media website, aggregator, and local "e-conomy" builder, YouGetIt.com continues to evolve as its user base grows, responding to suggestions generated by the internet community.
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Enlightenment by the numbers, as in the numbers 30 days for $30.
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Hasin Hayder has started up a new project that he's documented in a new blog entry - the creation of a new jobs website in PHP.   I was involved in making a job site few days ago. During the development, I have studied how easily anyone can develop a job site using PHP (language independent in true sense) . So I decide to write a blog post about my experience and here it goes. But note that this article is not about scaling or balancing the load on your site during heavy traffic, heh heh.   He comments on the startup process surrounding this type of site and makes suggestions about something to consider for your careers site - pulling job content from other sites in two ways - screen scraping and using the job search APIs out there.
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The company's Desktop Search utility is an impressive way to find information on your computer.
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AskEraser puts you in control of your search data, giving Ask.com a leg up on rivals.
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Shortly after activating his new iPhone, Michael DeAgonia  received his â first phone call. A few moments after that, I got another. I was able to swap between calls, merge them, put them on hold, and separate them without hassle. Other phones, of course, do that as well. Whatâs the difference here? The multitouch screen and interface. I can confirm what early reviewers have already pointed out: it works like magic.â The iPhone, DeAgonia indicates, â isnât a collection of features, itâs a well-thought-out multi-function device with functions bound together by a drop-dead simple, drop-dead gorgeous interface. The sum is more than the parts.â
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(InfoWorld) - Almost four months afterÂ Google acquired JotSpot, business users and commercial developers of this hosted wiki service give mixed accounts of life as Google customers. Some report technical improvements in their wikis, while others complain about serious Web site availability problems. Most are eager to find out what Google plans to do with JotSpot, because they have a lot riding on that decision. "As customers, we've gotten very little feedback about product strategy and direction for JotSpot. That's concerning right now," said James Brennan, president of Mandalan Media, in Culver City, California. Google declined to answer questions for this story but provided via e-mail a statement saying that while it would make sense to integrate JotSpot into current products, "we have no plans to share just yet." The JotSpot team is focused on moving the service to the Google infrastructure "to take advantage of greater reliability and scalability" and eager to provide customers with updates about JotSpot "as soon as possible," the statement reads. Google acquired JotSpot in October of last year, saying that the wiki technology was "a strong fit" with the Google Groups discussion forum and with the Google Apps suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications. Wikis, which are Web sites that multiple users can edit, have become popular collaboration tools in workplaces. JotSpot, founded in 2004, allows people to design wikis with visual tools, without needing programming knowledge. JotSpot wikis can have multiple applications and components in them, such as spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries. At the time of the acquisition, JotSpot had an installed base of thousands of businesses, including Mandalan Media, which built its commercial video sharing site Strmz.com on the JotSpot platform and launched it in early 2006. Since the Google acquisition, the site suffers about two hours of downtime per week. Because of this months-long situation the company is considering migrating the site to another platform, said Brennan, who otherwise raves about JotSpot, calling it a "phenomenal" product. Strmz.com, which gets anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000 visitors per day, generates revenue from advertising, so if it's unavailable, Mandalan loses money. Mandalan generates about 10 percent of its total revenue from Strmz.com. Its other JotSpot wikis, which get much less traffic and are used for its interactive media consulting and producing business, haven't suffered performance problems. Payscroll.com, a startup developing a yet unreleased career and job-related Web site, actually has seen a performance improvement in its JotSpot wiki since the Google acquisition, said Alfred Toh, the company's co-founder. Payscroll adopted JotSpot in October 2006 and has about 5 users on it, mostly for internal work. "Before, page loading could be slow, but right now it's great," Toh said. Toh is also happy with Google's decision to make the service free for all users and put everyone on the same level of service, which for him meant an upgrade. Now, he is allowed to have an unlimited number of JotSpot pages as well as unlimited storage and applications. "That's one of the best things that's come across so far," Toh said. However, others feel this has removed their leverage as paying customers. "I'm not really comfortable using a free service as a key element of our business, because the vendor has basically no obligation to us," said Stephen Bronstein, chief operating officer of IODA Alliance, a San Francisco provider of distribution and marketing services to independent musicians and a JotSpot user since 2004. In the weeks following the acquisition, IODA's JotSpot wikis had significant performance and availability problems. Those problems got resolved, but Bronstein remains conflicted. JotSpot technology is "hugely important" to the company, where all 60 employees use it. "When we were paying them, they were obligated to provide a certain level of support," he said. Jay Dempsey, marketing director at Heritage's Dairy Stores, in Thoroughfare, New Jersey, is happy with recent improvements to JotSpot but wonders what Google is planning for the future. After about 2 years of use, about 20 employees are on JotSpot, out of a staff of 550. JotSpot has worked very well, and Dempsey wants to expand its use significantly. "Ultimately, what I want to do is use JotSpot for the stores to do more of an information exchange, to be able to access various pieces of information they need" and cut down on endless, circular e-mail threads, he said. Commercial developers are also eager to hear Google's plans. The Last Mile Group's JotXPert group has been developing JotSpot commercial and custom applications for more than two years, and currently, JotSpot-related work generates about a third of the company's revenue. "We, like the rest of the partners, are waiting patiently to find out what the product roadmap will be, and how it will affect our ability to continue building applications for JotSpot," said David E. Antila, The Last Mile's chief technology officer. For Antila, the best-case scenario would be that the APIs that allow his company to create custom JotSpot applications remain open and available to commercial developers. "The only risk we see is that, at this point, Google is not ready to announce what's going to happen with the programmer's APIs," Antila said. However, Antila remains optimistic that Google will decide to keep these APIs. "We're not ready to fold up our tent and run away, because we believe a reason Google made the acquisition may have been the value of that API," Antila said. The Last Mile Group customers are equally positive. "Despite the acquisition and uncertainty around what might happen, our customers want the platform badly enough to assume the risk and assume the best," Antila said. As part of Google, the JotSpot team has remained highly responsive to The Last Mile Group's support requests. "They've remained a good vendor and a willing partner to help us achieve what our clients are looking to do," he said.
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Make the Internet easy to use, and the consumer will hop aboard. The Y! wants to help.
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.
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Sam  posts an interesting proposal.  This is better than the HTTP delta suggestion but still has a few issues.  The client needs to know the ETags before it can start performing differential fetches.  With date ranges you still preserve the initial archive query.  For example when you first subscribe to a feed you could fetch 30 days worth of posts.  If you like the feed you can even fetch *older* posts which could be really cool.  Also even if you still use faster checksum algorithm like CRC32 or Adler32 you still have an O(N) performance hit for your document.  If you have a btree on your post dates you will gave O(log(N)) for search for a much smaller string (64bit in most situations).  F ...
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Snapbridge Software brings content management to the little guys.
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The Web 2.0 application Doppir lets users track their travel and buddies at once.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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Over at Search Engine Watch Forums, a member asks about Ask.com&#8217;s Sponsored Listings and the quality of traffic coming from them. Seems that results are ranging based upon quality of the keywords chosen and campaign targeting, here are some of the responses in the mix: We get decent results from Ask. However, it takes some work. You [...]
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.