Either http://tinyurl.com/ and http://bit.ly/ are shortening your long URL address. Yet, I'd liked to see the name of the website before I enter the site. Yes they have "term of use", but I am used to identify the name of the website in advance then decide to go or not. For twitter it is necessary, but otherwise give me the whole full address please.
I am late for work today, because of Steve's keynote. Terrible!! but it's worthed to watch, although at some point it's kinda annoying the way audiences kept on praising at every single ends of Steve's sentence.
A quick summary to Steve's keynote (you can see the whole video by your self here or a summary here):
Google just opened a blog to write about any topics related to politic issues (or maybe more). They call it the "lobbying engine". The term lobbying is getting too familiar to me. My new lesson in live. Not easy at all. More difficult than any technical complication, but it's getting interesting somehow. Maybe one day i can do it well. I wonder what kind of personality a person needs to be actually good at it?
Very nice. I am on the stage of writing report about my internship while i am still doing it. A couple of time i wrote part of the my paper at work and at the end of the day i have to send it over to home in case i want to work more on it. The problem is if i forget to send it over like it happened a couple of time, i stuck the whole weekend without it. It's a risk, but Google Docs&Spreadsheet is my answer.
Google Docs&Spreadsheet offers possiblity to publish your work on internet or collaborate it with someone else. The text processing service has basic editing functions, but if you know html good enough the code is editable. Spelling check function is very useful. The spreadsheet has basic math functions. Practical.
Again another good example of AJAX.
Things like this that keep me overwhelm from the invention of website technology. It's amazing what internet offers you from day by day. Stuff like flickr, del.ic.ious, digg and of course blogs are still a very astonishing concept to me. Nowdays, based on web 2.0 philosophy and AJAX-powered social software, it's possible to have a reliable web based application products, such as:
cool. You could just drag and drop pictures to a arbitrarily position, change background and create different decorations for your picture album. Take a quick tour and get experienced. You can also view scrapblog from somebody else over here. Let me know if you guys uploaded pictures on scrabblog, maybe you will win the contest that they have now and then. Well scrapblog uses makromedia instead of AJAX, but it works perfectly fine on IE.
Attention! for those who are having long distance relationship here comes the good news: Jajah presents a free calling service between landlines. This works for some countries only but some big ones such as Germany, France, England, America, Australia and more. Special features about this VoIP service are no installations needed and headset free. It works through your normal telephone set. However, freecall is only possible under some circumstances (of course, who doesn't see it coming). More about it can be read here.
VoIP service has a huge market to break if and only if someone could get right. Funnily enough, no one gets it right. There's always a hassle to always be infront of the computer, installing and plugging stuffs. Too much trouble for some people. Another thing is the calling rates are not cheaper than any calling cards or from somekind cheap providers like the one from http://www.billiger-telefonieren.de. I am very exciting to see what improvement comes next from the VoIP world.
