Maybe you could easily assist me a bit by coming me on Twitter. I’m assured you can create out the easy differences. Well the screenshot above is the visualization so was generated for me, and for the sake of comparison here’s is Scoble’s.

You can’t attain out significantly when you check at it directly, alternatively hover throughout a individual user to see all his connections. Once you are finished amidst the for a long while wait, you get to see a cool picture among all sorts of links between mortgage holders right here and there. Please note who this moment can take select time, so you will be able to undergo to be going to wait, maybe among a cup of coffee in hand. All you suffer to do is list your Twitter username (no password needed) and TweetWheel is planning to go to make it out digging up all of your contacts, and at that time inspection the get in touch with lists. Basically TweetWheel visualizes you and all the connections to your friends and this friends and you and soon.

Yes you heard me right, you can now visualize all your Twitter friends in a cool new obtain all thanks to TweetWheel.  If you are a undergoing a decline weekend, and you take place to stink cool new visualizations, afterward I got particularly nice to hear for you.

Do you hate spammers? I think most of us found spammers are very annoying, especially when in the morning when you first turn on your laptop and found your inbox has already flooded with all kinds of junk advertisement.

On last week, a Russian spammer named Alexey Tolstokozhev was killed in his luxury house near Moscow. He was shot several times and even with one bullet stuck in his head. According to the authorities, the last head shot was a clear sign of Russian assassin.

So, you might wonder how famous is Tolstokozhev? He is estimated to be responsible for almost 30% of the Viagra and penis enlargement spam globally! He even has his own network using computer bot to none stop sending out spam. In 2007 alone, he has likely made more than 2 million from spamming!

So, maybe recently you will find the spamming in your mail box has reduced 30%.

What web mail you have been using recently? Hotmail is still having the most registered user in the world, but i highly doubt that how many friends around me actually using it. However with Yahoo infinite storages and Hotmail increase to 5GB of mail storages. Now, Gmail becomes the least amount of free storage.

Now, Google has started to increase the speed of gmail storage. So, in just a month from now, you will get 4GB of storage. Then it slows down again. By 8th of January in 2008, you will have 6GB of storage for your gmail. The rate will be 3.3MB/day. That is 10 times of the current rate.

By the end of 2008, gmail storage will be 7.5GB.

Skype was acquired by Ebay in late 2005 for $2.6 billion. Till recently, Skype CEO also co-founder Niklas Zennstrom will step down. However, he will still become non-executive chairman of the board of directors.

This is clearly that Ebay is unhappy with the revenue performance of Skype. The expected revenue is $1.7 billion, but Skype could hardly meet the target and settled for just $530 million. It is just 1/3 of the total amount.

Currently, Skype have 220 million registered users, it has steadily grown 94 percent compared to the same quarter in 2006.

Previously I mentioned that, you could reduce your site speed by cut down the size of CSS. Now, there is a better way to compress your CSS further down and it save your time by uncomment everything. It uses the PHP method to do the job.

First, create a new file called .htaccess in the same directory with your CSS files.

<Files style.css>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

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On Google, we can offer see contextual around the search results. We know Google major earning is from advertisements. Recently even YouTube, there is 10 seconds video ads comes in. Although, when Google first acquired YouTube, we have expected this day will come.

But what surprise us more is Google pulled all the Adsense ads from Orkut. What this mean? Does this mean social networking site failed to deliver expected returns? Or maybe we should analyze the background of Orkut. The major users of Orkut are from Brazil and India, but in US, Orkut is not a big player like FaceBook. 

Like Orkut, I think Google should not impose ads on YouTube either. That makes video sharing terrible.

Most of the bloggers adopt their blogs theme from Internet, but for web designers. You not only create a web site with astonishing graphics but also you need to consider the loading speed. A study shows that more than half of the visitors will your site, if it takes them more than 5 seconds to load. When it takes more than 10 seconds, I think at most 10% of the visitors will still have the patience.

So, the direct affect to your loading speed not only your server speed, also your web site size. You not only try to cut down the graphics using a higher compression like JPEG with lower quality. I mainly used 80% quality reserved; this will effectively reduce more than 50% of my picture size.

On the programming portion, you could also try to find a better algorithm on your php coding. On CSS files, you could cut some of the additional size by reducing excessive comments, e.g. using /* comments */ instead of using few paragraphs of comments. You also can save couples of lines by using 1 lines, e.g. margin: 0px 10px instead of separate them into margin-left, margin-right and etc.

Go to your Google Docs and you will find out there is a new office suite family member – Google Presentation. After months we have heard about Google going to launch the Presentation, now finally you can have your PowerPoint files directly load onto the site.

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Google Presentation Released

Do you own any web sites? There are plenty web hosting companies out there, but are you able to judge the differences?

Most of the consumers only compare the hosting packages on the web hosting company site, they choose the cheapest one and make no further research. This is totally insufficient, there are much more factors to take into consideration including the stability, the speed, the uptime, their supports and much more.
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Web Hosting Unleashed

Most of the bloggers will find that their blogs were filled with spam rather than just informative comments. All this comments were created by spam bot. Spam bots take the advantage of search engine and target some potential blogs which allow readers to leave comments.

To stop them, you can install a wordpress plugin called Challenge. It will only allow readers who have passed the simple mathematic test to leave comments. You can also set the question yourself.

Recently, Mashable has posted out quite amount of useful resources related to internet and PC softwares. This really save our time from testing and trying out the right tools. Below are the part of the 120+ resources and tools for web development just posted out yesterday.

For the full list, please check out with Mashable. You could also leave us your comments if you found any useful web development resources that they have missed out.

- TechCheatSheets
- Creative Commons
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

- TurboDbAdmin
- Springloops
- GENNIT
- Launchpad
- Coda
- roScripts
- Kaosweaver
- Widgetbox
- Coghead
- Iceberg On Demand
- Nenest

I am a tech enthusiast. Everyday I will visit more than 30 technology sites to update myself with the latest information. Today, I accept a ReviewMe campaign on giving this site - Jonzee a review.
 

This site caught my attention immediately, not only because the site is about consumer news, gadgets and technology products. One thing I found that on most of the technology sites, they do not have their own podcast, but Jonzee provides that! It is very useful feature for me as I travel on metro daily to work.
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Jonzee - Consumer News and Gadgets Site

Server down time always is a frustrating things to all the webmasters. However, it is interesting to find out how long the server down time for the Top20 web sites that listed by Alexa just in year 2007. Among the Top20, Yahoo the best but Google’s youtube and blogger.com the worst, more than 4 hrs of down time.

   Site                    Downtime
 1  yahoo.com                  0m
 2  google.com                 7m
 3  myspace.com             1h 0m
 4  msn.com                 2h 45m
 5  ebay.com                   6m
 6  youtube.com             4h 44m
 7  facebook.com               25m
 8  wikipedia.org           2h 23m
 9  craigslist.org          1h 9m
10  live.com                1h 48m
11  amazon.com                 21m
12  blogger.com             4h 47m
13  go.com                     8m
14  aol.com                    3m
15  microsoft.com              13m
16  cnn.com                    22m
17  comcast.net                3m
18  imdb.com                   29m
19  flickr.com                 30m
20  photobucket.com         1h 23m

source: pingdom.com

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When Yahoo announced they will be giving out infinite storage for their yahoo mail, Google at the other side also said their plan for gmail is infinite + 1. How about Microsoft Hotmail? I think most of the people also wondering the same question.

Finally, Microsoft is going to upgrade the hotmail storage to 2GB by this coming Monday. Glad to hear that, if you are still hotmail supporters! Most of the hotmail users have switch to use Gmail or Yahoo Mail. So, if you are premium subscriber, you able to get 4GB of storage.

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