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Looks like google checkout search result on Google hijacked by hibidder.com. Search for Google Checkout on Google, the first result you will see is “use google checkout on hibidder com free”. Is this mean google chekout result is hijacked by hibidder.com. But when you click the link it goes to original google checkout page. found [...]

Satisfy maps your site visitors using Google Maps API. It shows the location of the visitors on Google Map in real time. For tracking your site visitos provide your email address, URL and choose a name for your site ex: satisfy.net/teknobites. They will send you a code snippet, include that in your template and start [...]

Microsoft announced streaming support for Silverlight at Mix07 conference, the service allows web develeopers to host and stream up to 4Gb of videos for free. The videos can be streamed at 700kbps. Silverlight streaming works in conjunction with Silverlight browser plugin released earlier. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media [...]

Yahoo announced today that it agreed to acquire Right Media Inc., which runs an advertising marketplace. Yahoo invested 20% in Right Media in 2006 and now Yahoo will acquire the remaining stake for $680 billions. Right Media runs an advertising market place where advertisers and publishers buy and sell ads through auctions in real time. [...]

Nofollow is a link attrubute adopted by search engines like Google and Yahoo to fight comment and link spam. This nofollow link attribute is automatically added when you post a comment in any wordpress or blogger.com blogs. Recently wikipedia also introduced this nofollow link attribute to fight link spam. Search Engine Journal came up with [...]

Mozilla foundation has released Firefox 3 Alpha with code name Gran Paradiso Alpha 4. This release version is for testing purposes and is built on the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. According to Mozilla Developer site there are no significant unser interface changes, however there are many core layout and rendering improvements. [...]

MySpace entered to China market, a beta verion of myspace china is released. Unlike other international myspace sites myspce china is managed with local partners. Texyt reported that discussion forums on sensitive topics like Politics and Religion are nowhere in chinese myspace. Discussion forums on subjects like religion and politics are nowhere to be found [...]

Have you ever seen a yahoo clone, its here. AOL has given a web2.0 look to its portal, but it looks like they have redesigned their site based on yahoo home page. Found via Techcrunch

Scrapblog is a web based application to create photo slideshows, videos and presentations with your media. The user interface of the site is impressive with nice colors and graphics. This is flash application where users can drag and drop their images, videos to create slideshows, vidoes and presentations, these can be printed as a photobook [...]

Today my blog was down for some time due to a memory issue in php.ini file in my server. I have never seen this error before and i don’t know what went wrong. I quickly searched on Google and found that this error is caused by insufficient memory allocation in php.ini file. A standard server [...]

Looking for a great striped background for your blog or site, then use Stripe Generator. Its a very easy to use tool with different customizable parameters like stripe color, stripes spacing, orientation, colors etc. After finishing download the background and use it on your blog. This is an amazing Web2.0 product for web designers. Tired [...]

Clipmarks is a new way of bookmraking system, where you dont have bookmark the whole page instead you clip the portion you want to bookmark. with clipmarks you can clip text, images or video. After clipping you can make them private or public, email or post it to your blog. Register to use the clipmarks [...]

Sony is entering in to japanese video sharing network with eyeVio, eyeVio will be go live from Friday. ZDNet reports that this may be a first step from Sony to challenge Google’s Youtube. Currently eyeVio is available to japanese users only, later they will introduce the service in other countries. Unlike Youtube eyeVio videos can [...]

Adobe is planning to open source Flex, a development framesork for building Flash and Apollo based applications. Adobe is expecting the open source community will contribute to evolutions of Flex framework. The Flex source code is expected to release under MPL (Mozilla Public License). Flex is used for building Rich Internet Applications, using framework developers [...]

Sometimes we may delete an important file by mistake, but there is no easy way to recover these files till now, now Pandora corp has come up with a tool which can recover these deleted files from the hard disk. Pandora Recovery is a free tool to recover deleted files from your computer. When we [...]

There is no clear definition for a web2.0 site, then how do you know whether a particular site is web2.0 or not?. James Britt and Neurogami got the same question and created a website to validate web2.0 sites. If you want to see whether a site is web2.0 go to Web2.0 Validator and enter the [...]

Google is a big fan of the open source MySql relational database, it uses this for its applications. Google made some patches to the relational MySql database for better manageability and reliability, google has released these patches for the community, Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer at Google posted on the google code blog. These patches are [...]

Wikipedia is now available on DVD for those who don’t have a proper internet connection. This wikipedia version 0.5 release contains around 2000 pages from the english wiki pages with topics ranging from geography, literature, arts and science. The Wikipedia CD is compatible with Windows (back to 98), Macintosh (Intel) OS X and Linux x86. [...]

Newsvine relaunched today calling it Newsvine Evergreen. Now users can customize the Newsvine home page with modules. The frontpage comes with modules like top story, live Newsvine, Top seeds, most active stories, weather etc. Users can now add their favorite RSS feeds to the frontpage. With the modularization of the front page it is now [...]

Firefox 1.5 in no more supported from now onwards, that means no security or stability will be available in future. if you are still using firefox 1.5 then its time to upgrade to firefox 2. Firefox 2 has some nice features like antiphishing, inbuilt spell checker and advanced RSS feed support. Download the latest version [...]