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Steve Jobs, the co- founder of Apple Inc, passes away

Prayush — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:07:44 +0000

Steve Jobs, the co- founder of Apple Inc, passes away
Steven Paul Jobs, the co- founder of Apple Inc, passed away peacefully on the 5th of October, 2011 at his home with his family. He was also the CEO of Apple Inc right up until last August. Steven Jobs was one of the most commemorated people in technology and business around the world.

He also served as the chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios and became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in the year 2006.

During the late 1970′s, Jobs along with other Apple co- founders designed, developed and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers ,the Apple II series. He then created the Macintosh in the year 1980. After a few subsequent years, Jobs resigned from Apple Inc and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in higher- education and business markets. Yet later in1996, Apple bought out NeXT and took Jobs back to the company that he had co- founded and served as the CEO from the year 1997 until August 2011. On 24th August, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as the CEO at Apple Inc.

Steve Jobs was the mastermind behind Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes. The iPod, which was essentially a pocket sized computer hard drive that one could save music on it, was the first creation that he came up with. He then created the iTunes, an online music store where major recording labels could sell their songs for 99cents each. After that, gone were the days of the CD and the CD players.

In 2007, Jobs moved on by transforming the cell phone with Apple’s iconic touch screen iPhone. This was a handheld computer, music player, messaging device, digital wallet and most importantly a cell phone. With this new introduction, major competitors such as Nokia, Motorola and Blackberry found it very struggling to have good business.

In 2010, Apple’s newest addition, the new iPad rocked the entire world and was in almost everybody’s want list. The iPad is a personal tablet computer with touch screen and almost no physical buttons. It can be used for various purposes, from watching movies to taking pictures. Now that is innovation in technology.

Jobs died in California aged 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his wife and four children. May the master of ‘Apple’ rest in peace.

PayPal and eBay Befriends Facebook

Prayush — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:28:08 +0000

Facebook and eBay are silently building up stronger ties with each other with a secret partnership and the latest inclusion of Facebook’s executive Katie Mitic to eBay’s board of directors.

She is the current director of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook and will now become the twelfth member of eBay’s board of directors. Mitic joins a board of directors that include founder Pierre Omidyar, Marc Andreessen (Netscape, Andreessen- Horowitz), Scott Cook (Intuit) and William Ford, Jr. (Ford Motor Company). Her previous status included being the Senior Vice President at Palm and a Vice President at Yahoo.

This appointment comes at an interesting moment for eBay since in less then two weeks time; the company will host its X.commerce Innovate Conference. It is an event where the company will reveal its vision for the future of ecommerce under the PayPal, eBay, Magento and GSI commerce brands. Katie Mitic has already been chosen to be one of the keynote speaker’s in the conference. The two companies are expected to make the big announcement of their joint venture during this conference.

The announcement is expected to be co-related to Facebook Platform and the new Facebook Open Graph. It is known that Facebook Credits will be given the limelight in a joint effort between the two companies.

Mitic is a prodigy when it comes to mobile. She was the person who helped launch the Palm Pre and the company’s app store before it was grappled up by HP. Her background in building and promoting developer platforms, especially in the mobile arena should be proven very useful as eBay strives to replace the wallet with the phone by 2015.

Happy Thirteenth Birthday Google

Prayush — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:50:29 +0000

On this day 13 years ago Google.com was launched to the whole public and since then they are most preferred search engine and most visited website. The new doodle simply describes this day for everyone to see. Their Google doodle features the image of the Google doodle and a birthday cake with candles and decorations around the logo. Sweet isn’t it?

Google always celebrate special occasions with us no matter what it is, either the 75th birthday of Jim Henson or commemorating the independence day of a nation, all these doodles are beautifully designed to honor the events. Earlier this month Google also successfully launched its Google+, which many people from different social media sites moved their profile and information to Google. This is a big achievement for the Google Inc and all the people that work for Google.

Some of the basic information about Google is as follows:

It is known to be the most visited website in the world
The page rank for Google is 10 and also alexa rank of 1
It is a public company
The approximate revenue is known to be US$ 29.321 billion in the year 2010
The founders of this website are Sergey Brin and Larry page
The area of service is known to be around the world
It has websites such as the google.co.uk, google.co.jp and google.co.in rank within the top 20 websites in the world

This is a big achievement for the Google Inc and all the people that work for Google.

Once again Google a very Happy Birthday and hope you achieve more everyday… Three Cheers for you this day.

Facebook Profile Redesigns

Prayush — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:00:05 +0000

There have been rapid changes to Facebook since after the launch of Google+. Thus this week, Facebook plans to launch a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference as found out by sources.

No detailed information is provided about the redesign, but sources which are familiar with Facebook’s plans have mentioned that the redesigning is supposedly to be a major one and will tend to make Facebook profiles core for consuming content.

This change will be apart of a wider launch, which will contain the initiation of media and music platform. These are the information below about the redesigning of the profile:

Sources have it that the profiles will be more “tenacious”, meaning that one of the goals of the new profiles will be to keep users to stay on them for a much longer period.

The platform which this launch will take place will include music and video from partners sites. This means that it will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profiles. This means that your friends can see and get access to what ever you are listening to as well.

These redesigned profiles are part of a bigger move into the social ecommerce. There have been talks that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more distinction. It is also known to be that a Facebook app store may emerge at f8 as well.

This push into the ecommerce may be related to that of the project Spartan, an HTML5- based mobile platform rumored to be launching soon.

Facebook is being silent about the changes and have declined to comment on the story. Yet more and more pieces of Facebook’s big launch still continue to leak out as the incitement builds for f8. The company is currently under lockdown and is trying to fix the final bugs before Thursday’s big launch. Now isn’t that insightful for Facebook. Let’s wait and see on Thursday.

Webmedia Fiji Goes Green

Prayush — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:55:20 +0000

“Going Green is a phrase referring to individual action that a person can consciously take to curb harmful effects on the environment through consumer habits, behavior and lifestyle.” Source: Google

Thus Webmedia Fiji has now initiated a new company policy where we save more power and be an environmentally friendly company which benefits everybody. This makes a positive impact on the choices of individuals towards the environment and together this can lessen the harmful effects in Fiji.

It is much better if people made minor changes at the beginning of this initiative to make it a habit rather then jumping in a major change where it will be very hard to keep up, thus leading them to quit the whole idea about Going Green.

So our company has decided to get rid of our air conditioning systems and opening all the windows so that we have natural lightening and fresh air, with all unnecessary lights being switched off. We are now recycling all our paper products, plastic bottles and cans. All our computers are turned off when they are not in use.

We should be very lucky to be living in a country with a Tropical Climate but the amount of pollution that is happening here is very sad to see and also is very harmful to us. We all should come hand in hand and protect it, even by just doing petty things like those mentioned above. These things can be very beneficial in a bigger scale if all of us worked harder towards it. Our environment is our fortune and our future. So we should take care of it like a new born child in a mother’s hands!

If you want to get the plastic and papers in your office recycled, you can contact this company:-

Waste Recyclers (Fiji) Ltd

Suva: 3361055

Lautoka: 6668795

Facebook Implements A New Privacy Policy

Prayush — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:35:11 +0000

On Tuesday, Facebook revealed a huge wave of privacy changes. This is one of the biggest privacy renewals in the company’s history and includes more then a dozen or two changes to the profiles, the status updates, the Locations and the Tags.

These are so many that one would get confused on what are the changes that Facebook is making and will they have any sort of impact to our pages, since the amount of hacking on profiles are increasing day by day. Facebook will make every single one of its 750+ million users go through a tutorial about the updated privacy setting as this news was updated.

Below are the changes that Facebook has implemented:

Privacy Controls: Profile Editing

Facebook now allows you to edit the visibility of individual parts of your profile which is done right from the actual profile page. This was done in the past by going to the Privacy Settings Page.

Tag Approvals

Facebook now allows you to approve tags of you on photos and locations before they appear on your Facebook profile. This is also a new policy that they have implemented. So when you are tagged on a picture that you don’t want to be tagged in, you can just disapprove the tag. This feature can also be turned off.

View Profile As

The “View Profile As” feature lets you see your Facebook Profile page as one of your friends and this is now prominently placed on your profile page.

Greater Control of Status Updates

It is now made easier by Facebook to understand who sees your published contents. There are icons which indicate whether a status update will be public, appear only to your friends or has been customized for a friend.

Adding Locations to Status Updates

There are places which have been integrated into Facebook’s Published Bar. This is so that the location is more prominent in Facebook. The mobile Apps will now have a “Nearby” icon which replaces the “Places” icon that was there previously.

More Control over Photo Privacy

When you are removing a Tag of you from a photo you will also be given an option where you can request that photo to be taken down or you can just block that person entirely.

These are the summarized version for better understanding of the Privacy Changes to Facebook

Major Privacy Changes in the Profiles Page

Greater profile control: there is now a greater Profile Visibility control which appears to be directly next to content when you edit your profile. For example, if you want your close friends to see which music you like, you can change it directly from the profile editing page.
In-line cues: Facebook will now display a globe, friend or gear icon to indicate whether a piece of content is only seen by friends, is public or customized for a friend group or list.
“View Profile As”: this feature has been moved to the top- right hand corner of then user profile make it more accessible to people.
Renewal of the Privacy Page: the renewal will result in a much cleaner and simpler Privacy Page, since most of the privacy settings are now integrated at the profile page level.

Major Privacy Changes to Tags

Tag Reviews: users are now able to approve or disapprove photo, status or location tags before they actually appear on their profiles.
Photo tagging changes: users are now allowed to tag anybody in a photo, regardless of whether they are friends. This makes it simpler to tag people in a group shot. But the users must approve these tags before they appear on a user’s profile.
Tags in the Publishers Box: it is now easy to see who has been tagged in a status update.
New untagging features: there is a feature whereby a user can untag themselves from photos and will also be able to request the person who uploaded the photo to remove it or they can just block the person entirely.

Major Privacy Changes on Status Updates and Location

Public Updates: the “Everyone” option in the status has been changed to “Public” for greater clarity.
No more lock icon: this icon has been changed and now displays the globe, friend or gear icon based on whether the update is public, for friends or custom
Facebook Places integration: the “Places” icon has been integrated into the publisher box and users are now able to tag locations into any status update. This also applies to photos and photo albums.
No more GPS restriction: the users can now tag any locations in a status update or photo. This means that the user can tag a location or photo album after the user has returned home.
Mobile Changes: a change from “Places” to “Nearby” icon is now going to take place. This now show that the users have tagged their location nearby.

Webmedia offers dramatically reduced rates to NGO’s

Prayush — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:42:56 +0000

We here at Webmedia would love to give away more free websites… our inside joke is that we give away so much in reduced costs to dozens of NGO’s every year that we should perhaps change our name to Webmedia.org.

Our company policy has always been that if the NGO is legitimate, no matter what their purpose, we try to provide at least a 33% discount or more (if we can utilise past development efforts to build a new website with less effort and resource commitment). The more that we can reuse from other efforts in the private sector, the more we can discount new work for any/all NGO.

We feel it’s our obligation to pass on better rates to NGO and to charitable efforts. While we can’t give everyone free sites, we can certainly find ways to be charitable to those organisations that are doing their best to help those in need.

Motorola Mobility brought for $12.5 billion by Google

Prayush — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:55:27 +0000

Yesterday Monday morning Google brought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion; according to Google’s blog Chief Executive and co-founder, Larry Page mentioned that this was a strategic move to strengthen Google’s patent portfolio but the fact of the matter is that companies such as Apple & Microsoft have taken android devices like HTC, Samsung and Motorola to court.

AS SEEN ON WIKI

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI), formerly the Mobile Devices division of Motorola Inc. until January 2011, is a communications corporation headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola’s networks division (called Personal Communication Section (PCS) prior to 2004) pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s. Motorola had a commanding lead in the analog cellphone market, but failed to jump on the digital bandwagon, giving a way for global rivals such as Nokia and Samsung Electronics to leap ahead.
Motorola continued to experience a major crisis with its handset division, which recorded a $1.2 billion loss in Q4 2007.[2] Its global market share had been continuously on the decline; from 18.4% of the market in 2007, it had a share of just 9.7% by 2008. In contrast, Motorola’s rivals flourished and by July 2007, its long chasing South Korean rival, Samsung Electronics, surpassed it as the new world’s 2nd largest handset maker – with a surge in market share in Q1 2008, Samsung now commands a large share of 16.4%.[clarification needed] Motorola was on the verge of losing its weak 3rd place position to the fast rising South Korean multinational LG Electronics, which overtook Sony Ericsson in Q1 2008 with a strong increase in market share to 8.6%.[3] In 2010, Motorola’s global market share had dropped to seventh place.[4]

Wiki User Ratings

Prayush — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:52:11 +0000

Wikipedia is one of those sites I always find my way for information as we all do. Recently like the facebook “LIKE”, Youtube “THUMBS UP” & GOOGLE “+1″, Wikipedia has “RATE THIS PAGE”, there 4 types of ratings:-

This surveying system is called “Article Feedback Tool” which is generally used as an assessment tool for articles.

Quoted from Wiki.

The Article Feedback Tool is designed to address the following issues:

Quality assessment – Article feedback complements internal quality assessment of Wikipedia articles with a new source of data on quality, highlighting content that is of very high or very low quality, and measuring change over time.
Reader engagement – Article feedback encourages participation from readers, offering a new way for readers to become editors.

Functions

Disabling – The “Rate this page” graphical user interface will not display on pages if the user viewing the page has, at My preferences→Appearance, checked the “Don’t show the Article feedback widget on pages” box and saved the change to the preferences.
Changing your rating – If you have rated a page before, your previous rating is displayed whenever you view the page. You can change your rating at any time by simply rating the article again. The tool replaces your previous rating with your current one. To prevent ballot stuffing, only the most recent rating from any user is counted.
“View page ratings” – This hyperlink replaces the “Rate this page GUI with the “Page ratings” GUI that displays statistics for the ratings submitted regarding the article. The “View page ratings” hyperlink requires internet access as the ratings are not pre-loaded when the article is accessed (the hyperlink displays even if there are “No ratings”).
Expert box – If ratings are submitted with the optional box checked for “I am highly knowledgeable about this topic”, the tool will record the user’s rating as coming from an expert. Resubmitting a rating without the box checked will remove the user’s expert designation for the article.
Log-in popup — If a user has not logged-in and uses “Submit ratings”, a popup message asks the user to confirm the rating is to be saved with the Internet Protocol (IP) address being used at the time.
Expired ratings — Ratings automatically expire after 30 changes have been made to the page. If you view a page that you have previously rated, and the rating has changed, the tool will say that your previous ratings have expired and invite you to re-rate the article.

Personally I give this two thumbs up; it’s a great way to build creditability on articles and now we all can give thumbs down to WWE bad guys (if we ever watched wrestling… which we don’t… but if we did we could do this

Previews of Photos, Videos and Links now added in the comments section by Facebook

Prayush — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:17:03 +0000

Sending a link to a friend and all they get is just a plain sprawling URL marring their wall?? Well Facebook has just made that more interesting by adding a preview section of the particular photo, video or link that you are trying to share.

It’s just simple now, when you comment on a post that has a URL attached to it, Face book will locate and put up a video player, a thumbnail or an overview of the website that you are linking. You can also delete the preview if you don’t want it shown again.

Now isn’t commenting on Facebook much nicer then it was before. The change isn’t a major one but it does make your wall look organized and more professional. Kudos Facebook for the new change for your website.