DreamHost a Los Angeles based web hosting company have launched “Dreamhost Apps” a free web hosting for a list of open source web applications like wordpress, drupal and a few more. The Dreamhost Apps apart from free hosting also provides a simple easy to use one click install facility where any one with no experience in web development can easily deploy open source applications like drupal, wordpress by one click installs. Though the hosting is free but optionally you can also buy a domain or transfer you current domain to it or upgrade your account to a full fledged hosting account from dreamhost.

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Google today announced via their blog a new favicon inspired by user generated icons & the credit goes to André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired their new favicon.

Google Favicon

So now we have to see how the public reacts, I remember the last time they change people rejected it quite quickly and there were tools, tips and tricks posted on how to revert back to the old favicon, but lets see what cooks up this time. So how do you like the new Google Favicon ?

Google have recently launched Google Friend Connect an open for all web widget that adds social network features on your blog or website.

What is Google Friend Connect

In simple terms Google Friend Connect is a Website widget which you can get it for free from Friend Connect Page and add it to your website or blog. Google Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign into any website and join up by share a little about themselves through personal profile,discover other people with similar interests and invite their contact to interact with friends.  So far Google Friend connect supports Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID to sign in so its not necessary you have a Google ID. Being at its basic level the only two things Google Friend connect so far is the ability to join any site and also review the profile of others who have joined up. Its a start to a bigger ambition of Google indeed probably to convert the WWW to a one big social network. (more…)

This is an interesting fact, Google and Yahoo have released the top keywords used in 2008 for searching information and both have totally oposit results.

Let look at what People have been searching on Google

Top & Popular Keywords of 2008 by Google

1. obama
2. facebook
3. att
4. iphone
5. youtube
6. fox news
7. palin
8. beijing 2008
9. david cook
10. surf the channel

Top & Popular keywords of 2008 by Yahoo

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

So what does it tell us ?

Well this data does show an insight on what kind of people use Google and what kind of people use Yahoo so here is what i think :

1. People using Google are more interested in global events, spend most of there time online watching tv / news & videos
2. People using Yahoo are slaves to Hollywood celebrities & Entertainment.

So what do you have to say on this ?

Its holiday season, Christmas is next and then its new year time. So what is our web community doing to celebrate the new year & Christmas online.

Google Countdown to 2009

Google got a page setup called “Google Countdown to 2009“, where google will be counting down to 2009 along with unique tip of the day for the whole month of december, well the tip will a keyword linking up to the google search. (more…)

Google today announced a new feature of integrating your AdSense account with a new or existing Analytics account. Thus giving the publishers reports on how and where to optimize there site not only to generate good traffic but a good revenue as well. The feature is so far invite only and a very few bunch of publishers will be invited but as the feature gets pass its testing phase hopefully we all will be invited to it.

The integration is no doubt a positive step in terms of publishers, we know where the traffic comes from but where we make the most revenue is not yet clear and with this new feature rolling out i am sure its going to help us in improving not only our site traffic but its revenue stream as well. According to Google : (more…)

Ever wondered how to design your own business car, well ‘Automatic Business Cards‘ is the solution if you want to design your own business cards as quickly as possible without any knowledge of heavy design tools. It can be a great service for quickly setting up a business card for printing.

All you have to do is fill a bunch of forums with the information you want on the business card along with the logo and ‘Automatic Business Cards’ will create the necessary files that you need to deliver to the printer for the printing. (more…)

Experiments using the underground Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.

What exactly is the big bang experiment

The big bang experiment is an attempt to look for a fine particle called Higgs Boson. The particle Higgs Boson or BEH Mechanism (sometimes called as “God Particle”), is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the standard model of particle physics but have not yet been observed. According to certain theories Higgs Boson was the element used in creation of Earth.

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So finally Google jumps into the browser world and comes with the most simpler form of its browser called Chrome.

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

So today we’re releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.

Being in the beta phase Chrome seems like a minimal browser with a very few handpicked features by Google. If i compare Google’s Chrome with other browsers of the industry then in terms of features and functionality Chrome is way behind Firefox or even IE. Yes Chrome is minimal with a nice simple design not over cluttered with features and functionality works quite quickly but it does crash, it does not improve or enhance your browser experience, very little option of customization & of course a long way to go for Google to have a huge user base for Chrome. (more…)

Wikiepedia is one of the biggest web based free encyclopedia. More then 685 Million users visited Wikipedia in 2008. Now Wikipedia can also be accessed on your iPhone with the help of wikipanion a free iPhone application to quickly and easily access Wikipedia. (more…)