Archive for August 31st, 2010
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Yahoo! bring Fantasy Football in the US and Canada, on iPhone, Android, mobile Web platforms. Some of the functionality you'll see across three includes: » View real-time Fantasy matchup scoring » Manage your roster » View player stats and news » Get in-app alerts when you've a player with an injury or on a bye week
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YoxView is a free Lightbox-type media and image viewer jQuery plugin. It allows you to add Picasa or Flickr slideshow on to your website or blog. YoxView v2.0 brings some interesting improvements:Skinning support: There's not much chrome to skin on a lightbox, but still, it's nice to be able to brand the
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As VMWare prepare for its annual conference, Microsoft put an ad on Aug 31st USA Today, urges: "VMware is asking many of you to sign three-year license agreements for your virtualization projects. If you're evaluating a new licensing agreement with VMware, talk to us first. You've nothing to lose and plenty to gain," Microsoft's Brad Anderson
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So you've grabbed a Twitter handle; set up a Facebook page; you've told your friends and coworkers to follow. But who cares? Is there anyone besides your loyal employees? Whoever coined the phrase, "If you build it they'll come," didn't know about the intricacies of getting brand attention on Web. To gain attention, you need to
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Google's Future of display advertising series is to look at the company's efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue. "For millions of online publishers—from smallest blogger to largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. We believe new technology we're developing to make display advertising work better will help grow display
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Google is running a Planner's Favourite Series of online ad campaign, which're judged by media industry for selecting the best campaigns that run on Google's platforms. Have a look at the campaigns below:In Feb 2010, Old Spice launched "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" campaign. They used online to amplify their TV ad, including
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Aug
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President Obama set a deadline of Aug 31, 2010 for ending the combat operation in Iraq and shrinking the U.S. footprint there to no more than 50,000 troops. At 8 P.M. ET, the President address the country from the Oval Office about the status of this effort.Here's Open for Questions
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Last week, Microsoft released SA 2269637 notifying customers of a publicly disclosed remote attack vector to a class of vulnerabilities affecting apps that load dynamic-link libraries (DLL's) in an insecure manner. And, also released a tool to help protect systems by disallowing unsafe DLL-loading behavior. When installed, this tool still needs to be configured
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Google added two new gadgets to Blogger in Draft. The data for these gadgets is automatically taken from Blogger Stats. To use them, go to Design | Page Elements, and click on "Add a gadget." The Blog's stats gadget displays total pageviews of your blog (counted from when Stats feature was launched). The gadget
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WordPress mobile apps for Android and BlackBerry have both been updated with some shiny new features, like a new comment notification system, "Now, when you get a new comment, you'll see the actual text of the comment in Android notification bar. Also, when you select comment notification to moderate, it'll now be there instantly in Comments
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As a Microsoft partner, you know it's important to not lead with pricing during the sales process, but sometimes you need an extra arrow in your quiver to help secure the sale. To aid you, Microsoft've developed some new offers from both prospects and existing customers.The FY11 Q1 Microsoft Dynamics Offer Summary Sheet is now available
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Cisco fixed a bug in its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software that contributed to a brief blackout of about 1% Internet. The bug was discovered last Friday when Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre and researchers at Duke University started distributing experimental BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) data via RIPE NCC's systems. A large number
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Lockheed Martin released "Eureka Streams," a social media platform that integrates activity streams and OpenSocial apps, under Apache License as open source. "Lockheed Martin has spent past several years growing a strategy of Social Software within Enterprise to bring widely distributed employees together. Eureka Streams takes that vision further by incorporating what works well on internet
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Built on the Bing Maps Platform, Urban Mapping created an application to visually explore a boatload of geographic data called "Geo Fact Finder" which had the original intention of illustrating the capabilities of their platform Mapfluence. Mapfluence is a web-based geoservices engine designed to push geo-intelligence to the browser. Mapfluence also maintains a data catalog, providing
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Wowhead created a Bing Visual search gallery of the hottest World of Warcraft in-game weapons and gear. Looking for a Deadly Gladiator's Bonegrinder or an Argent Skeleton Crusher? You can now filter, search, and see what other diehard Wow players are saying about all of the items to find what you need faster. Don't know which
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Random From The World of Warcraft (WoW) In-game Weapons Bing Gallery
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