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Nope .. I am not talking about a phone camera with 3G capabilities A report on CNet :: http://news.a.com.com/ Now Digicams are going Wifi!! Kodak .. Nikon and finally .. Canon follows suit :: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Then .. judging from the dates .. I think I am really outdated ..

There are many ways to build content for your blog. I am just sharing some ways that I have personally used to build content-rich blog for my company. (http://blogasia.biz/) While I am trying my best to provide as much information as possible, these are not all the ways to do it. I am merely sepeking from the point of a 4 month old blogger. So if you have anything to add to this thread please feel free to do so. 1) Feeds. Also commonly known as RSS / XML / Syndication etc. What ever it is .. these are merely ways of grabbing information from a website / blog that have these functions build into them I am not too good at the mechanics of this but basically it is way of reading articles from the website without going to the website. It needs a site to support this technlogy, and an aggregator to read it. You can read more at:: Webreference.COM XML.COM Personally, I am using Bloglines to read my feeds. While it will really be too much of a task to explain Bloglines, you can find some useful information at their HELP Section. Basically, if you see any sites with these :: You can right-click and copy the URL into your Feeds Aggregator. Another Feed Aggregator will be Newsgator.COM 2) News Sites Well the fact of trend now is for reputable news provider to offer Feeds to their readers. Unfortunately, some crappy sites like AsiaOne do not provide such a service on their free sites. So, you've gotta visit them regularly. (A good way for them to boost 'readership' and increase their page-view rates) Well .. you can bookmark them on your PC. Or, if you are moving around, you may wanna find some online bookmarking tools. I used to love Del.icio.us a lot .. until I found SPURL. If you are using Firefox, like me, you can get the SPURL extension. It will allow you to add a page to your bookmarks by simply right-clicking and choose the "Spurl this Page" Option. Really neat stuff. Get it here :: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ They will also have some popular bookmarks by their subscribers which can be used as an insight to what are people bookmarking. Probably a sub-topic since I talked about Firefox. There is 2 Features that makes Firefox an excellent tool for researching. Tab-bowsing and "Bookmark all Tabs in a Folder" option. Check out Tab Browsing at :: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/ What I usually do when doing a search is that I'll open the links on 1 search result in different tabs. So at the end of it all I'll just need to click on the Book mark button and choose the "Bookmark all Tabs in a Folder" option. All the sites that are relevant to that searches are automaitcally stored in a folder. Oh .. another function I missed is the Open in Tabs Option for bookmarks in that folder. So in the future, I'll just go to that folder, choose that option, and all those pages will automatically opened in the various tabs. Don't get what I mean? Well .. install FF and try it out for yourself and you'll know. 3) Search Engines Many major search engines nowadays have a "Hottest Search" page Yahoo :: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ Lycos :: http://www.lycos.com/ Goggle :: On weekly basis https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.html Blog Search Engines :: Technorati :: http://technorati.com/ PubSub http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Well that's all for now. I'll need to give you some time to digest all these. I'll probably get back to this topic again shortly. I really did not realise that there are so much more to write as I am writing this. Please feel free to add on or comment. Cheers!

Well .. gotta note that the algorithm should be easy to write .. just 2 things 1) The lean-ness of the the codes .. It has to work really really very fast .. without any redundant process .. with such a HUGE number .. 1 redundant step is enough to slow the calculation by days if not months .. years .. etc 2) The computing power! Remember that this number was calculated from a distrubuted network of computers .. that is .. hundreds .. thousands of computers are doing the job The only consolation is that we do not need to calculate from scratch .. we can set the parameters so that we start from 1with 10million zeroes ..

A report by Shanghai Daily says:: "The South China Agricultural University has recently finished a clinic test of a medicine developed by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences." Looks like China is gonna be rising as a Superpower in terms of Economy, Military, and Pharmaceutical .. I so proud to be a Chinese!! By the way, the popular Tamiflu is also a derivative from a popular Chinese spice, Star Anise.

I think te real benefit to MS it self will not be so much of people really using their search .. it can be a way to get people search with MSN and gathr data from there.Things like what are the 'hot searches'What are the common search patternsWhat are the typical results that people wantHow effeicient and effective is their search engineWhat are the bugs?What additional features that users want?Also, it forms a very good way to draw eyeballs there and from which they can 'recoup' from additinal services like 'pay-per-click', sponsored words and banner-ads .. things that Google already had been doing .. .. and doing very well.It has been noted that MS is losing out Google in terms of innovative offers and I believe they are trying to close up the gaps .. as far as I hate MS .. I do agree that they have got some of the smartest brains at their service .. so well .. I won't complian being paid though .. I think at least 30-40% of my time online is spent on searches ..