Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday this week.Also achieving 400 million facebook users in the world. Mark Zuckerberg founded ” thefacebook ” in 2004 at stanford university as a on-line network to connect with friends,soon it spread to other colleges and to the whole world later on. Facebook has investors including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, and Greylock Partners. In 2007 Microsoft jumped in and invested $246 million for a 1.6% share in Facebook. Yahoo! and Google both offered to buy Facebook, but Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook’s not for sale Homepage of facebook in 2004facebook.com How facebook has spreaded: 2004 2009 more insights at Google Facebook redesigned the site once again on its 6th birthday. This image shows the added features clearly [&hellip
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Wikipedia – Free encyclopedia is now having 3 million articles, If some one needs to realize the size its hardly 1037 volumes of Britannica Encyclopedia One of the Wikipedia Enthusiast Rob Matthews had printed the 0.01% of Wikipedia as a book This book has 5000 pages of Featured articles in Wikipedia. Its size was 1feet 7 inches. Size of Wikipedia At this moment, there are 3,179,880 articles. Imagine this size in volumes shown below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes Source Check this previous post on ” internet printed on paper &#
Cloud computing – latest technology standard becoming very popular.It is very advantageous than grid computing and Utility computing.More over cloud computing has got attention due to cost and energy efficiency. In this technology the software/hardware/infrastructure are shared in a single environment , so that companies need not spend much of its revenue in maintenance . To know about the basics of cloud computing ,watch the video from salesforce.com Much explanatory video – source Some common web services that utilises cloud computing technology: 1.Google app Engine 2.Gmail 3.Amazon Amazon Ec2 Amazon s3 Amazon Simple DB 4.Microsoft azure Windows SQL azure Windows app fabric 5.zoho &#
Apple’s much hyped product “ Ipad “ is finally released this week by its CEO Steve Jobs . This device is created to replace notebooks,but its similar to iphone ( but bigger in size). { Ipad = Iphone + Macbook } You can use this device to read ebooks , like amazon’s KindleAlso it has iwork – for presentations. Some of the screenshots of Ipad : Specs: Display: 9.6″ widescreen multi-touch display (by WinTek) 1440-by-1050-pixel resolution at 489 ppi Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz Memory: DDR2 2 GB @ 667 MHz Video: nVidia GeForce 9400M Storage: 64 GB flash drive Optical drive: Apple SuperDrive with DVD±RW and CD-RW Wireless: Integrated Wi-Fi 802.11b/g 3G: HSDPA (through AT&T) Bluetooth 2.1 + [&hellip
Want to know what’s trending in internet right now? here are the 10 ways in which you can visualize the internet in a better way. 1.365 Digg 365 surfaces the top ten stories on any given day, month and year. You can also see the top ten stories by category per year. Roll over the colored arcs to show display the months; clicking on it brings an outside arc to choose a specific day.I have shown the data for entire 2009 2.Stack Digg Stack shows diggs occurring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs 3.Swarm [&hellip
Most popular websites have been redesigned this year.This post is meant for showcasing the best redesigned website in the year 2009.These websites clearly indicate that we are moving towards web2.0 1.CNN 2.ESPN 3.FOX 4.MSN 5.NETWORK SOLUTIONS 6.SMASHING MAG 7.WHITE HOUSE 8.TWITTER 9.WDL 10.WORDPRESS 11.XBOX 12.YAHOO Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner