Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Facebook beats Google as US most-visited site

Thu, Mar 18 11:35 AM Melbourne, March 18 (ANI):
 
Facebook has become the most-visited site in the US after beating former titleholder Google.The popular social networking page toppled the search giant after accounting for 7.07 per cent of all US web traffic compared to Google's 7.03 per cent, web analysts Hitwise revealed."It's definitely a big moment for Facebook, even though they beat by a small margin," News.com.au quoted Hitwise's Matt Tatham as telling CNN.He added: "People want information from friends they trust, versus the anonymity of a search engine."The research did not include other Google services such as Gmail and YouTube.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Twilight 3 - eclipse


Eclipse Movie Twilight 3.jpgTHE Twilight invasion has exploded again - with a sneak peek at new film Eclipse.

ROBERT PATTINSONKRISTEN STEWART and TAYLOR LAUTNER all reprise their roles for the third flick in the vampire franchise.
The new footage sees Edward reunited with girlfriend Bella, who is determined to become a vampire.
But Bella also renews her friendship with Edward's werewolf love rival, who is still besotted with her.
In the trailer, Jacob tells her: "I'm going to fight for you until your heart stops beating."
Torn between the two lads, Bella's heart stays loyal to her vampire.
And it seems art does indeed imitate life.
Just two week ago, Rob finally admitted at the Baftas that he and co-star Kristen are an item.
After months of speculation, he said: "It is extremely difficult but we are together, yes.
"We can't arrive at the same time because of the fans. It goes crazy.
"This was supposed to be a public appearance as a couple but it's impossible. We are here together and it's a public event but it's not easy.
"We have to do all this stuff to avoid attention."

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Web 2.0 definition

The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who called the term a "piece of jargon" — precisely because he intended the Web to embody these values in the first place.