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incorrect exchange rate for your most recent AdSense payment issued on
September 23, 2008. While the exchange rate is incorrectly listed as 1:1,
please rest assured that your payment has been issued with the correct
exchange rate. You can expect your check to arrive according to the normal
delivery time, within two to four weeks.
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Google sent apologize mail to AdSense account holders
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sep 25, 2008 - Whole adsense customers shocked by seen their Payment History. By mistaken payment issued page show's the exchange rate for 1$ = 1 INR. Me too had same experiance but, later on Google sent apologize mail to AdSense account holders. Here is the copy of that mail.
Exchange Rate Problem in Adsense Payment
Today most of them getting issued their payment from Google Adsense. Unfortunately, there was some problem in Exchange Rate.
Check below screen shot of mine.
Hello,
Today I got the payment issued details as follows:-
--------------------------------------------
Payment Type: Check
Payment Date: Sep 25, 2008
Payment Number: -
Amount of Payment in Local Currency : INR 202.37
Exchange Rate 1.000 : 1
Payment Amount: USD $202.37
-------------------------------------------
The exchange rate for USD to INR is around 46.00
So, what the heck has google paid me??
Please, I need the correct amount. Or this is cheating only....
Today. I seen most of them having the same problem. Why this is
happening?
Check below screen shot of mine.
Hello,
Today I got the payment issued details as follows:-
--------------------------------------------
Payment Type: Check
Payment Date: Sep 25, 2008
Payment Number: -
Amount of Payment in Local Currency : INR 202.37
Exchange Rate 1.000 : 1
Payment Amount: USD $202.37
-------------------------------------------
The exchange rate for USD to INR is around 46.00
So, what the heck has google paid me??
Please, I need the correct amount. Or this is cheating only....
Today. I seen most of them having the same problem. Why this is
happening?
My Account reached 100$ and I asked for the payment and this is what I
see in the payment history. Is this how it has been for others ?
Payment Type: Check
Payment Date: Sep 25, 2008
Payment Number:
-
Amount of Payment in Local Currency INR 147.54
Exchange Rate 1.000 : 1
Payment Amount: USD $147.54
Can someone help me on this ?
-Eesh
Hi,for more issues in Google Adsense Payment Issues keep check Adsense help forum
I have the same problem. I received my payment issued link today in
the Payment History page.
My payment number is missing and the conversion shown is 1.000 : 1.My earlier payment conversion were alright.This seems to an error on the conversion side of Google, since the the
payment number is also missing.I sure google will get back to us in this regard. Looks like somemore
people are affected.Keep us updating.
Regards ms.pradeep
IndiBlogger.in creates a platform to unite Kolkata Bloggers
Friday, September 19, 2008
First of its kind Blogger's meet planned at Kolkata on September 21, 2008
Kolkata, September, 2008: For the first time, IndiBlogger.in, a leading blogging community comprising over 6000 bloggers is holding a blogger's conference in Kolkata on September 21, 2008. The meet is targeted at providing a common platform for fellow bloggers to come together to share their blogging experiences and also a chance to meet fellow bloggers based in Kolkata. This is the first of its kind attempt by any blogging community to bring likeminded bloggers together. This is the seventh such blogger's event IndiBlogger.in is conducting in India. IndiBlogger has already conducted similar meets in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi. The meet will take place at 51 Elliot Road, (Adjacent Park Street), Kolkata- 700016, West Bengal, India.
The blogger's meet will focus on providing insights to new bloggers, who wish to start their own blogs to monetisation of blogs to ethics of blogging and even discuss global trends on blogging and their relevance in society today. With a variety of bloggers from the professional to the very personal, attending the Kolkata bloggers meet, bloggers from Kolkata will get a chance to innovate and improve their own blogs.
As part of bringing some element of excitement to the meet, IndiBlogger.in will also give Kolkata bloggers an opportunity to showcase their blogs and get an immediate feedback from fellow bloggers.
Commenting on the blogger's meet, Mr. Anoop Johnson, Marketing Director of IndiBlogger.in stated, "The global blogging industry today relies on a lot of Indian blogs covering every subject including photography, travel, entertainment, sports, technology and cuisine. For example, a tourist to India reads up on Indian travel blogs to understand the ground realities and also have an unbiased opinion on holiday destinations. With about 500 bloggers across India having attended the six meets so far, it is good news for Kolkata bloggers to join in the blogger revolution."
IndiBlogger.in has been at the forefront of creating opportunities to connect fellow bloggers in the traditional space, establish personal connections and drive more traffic to their blogs. The association's objectives are to provide a common platform to bloggers in India and enable them to communicate and improve their community by providing a unique blend of online as well as offline activities. IndiBlogger.in has over 6000 Indian bloggers registered with the association making it the biggest network of bloggers in India today. With 7 blogger meets in just six months they are also one of the most active blogging communities in the world today.
For further information, please contact:
Contact:
Renie Ravin
Email: indi@indiblogger.in
Mobile: +91 9790916345
Tel: +91 44 45018949
Blog: http://blog.indiblogger.in
Kolkata, September, 2008: For the first time, IndiBlogger.in, a leading blogging community comprising over 6000 bloggers is holding a blogger's conference in Kolkata on September 21, 2008. The meet is targeted at providing a common platform for fellow bloggers to come together to share their blogging experiences and also a chance to meet fellow bloggers based in Kolkata. This is the first of its kind attempt by any blogging community to bring likeminded bloggers together. This is the seventh such blogger's event IndiBlogger.in is conducting in India. IndiBlogger has already conducted similar meets in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi. The meet will take place at 51 Elliot Road, (Adjacent Park Street), Kolkata- 700016, West Bengal, India.The blogger's meet will focus on providing insights to new bloggers, who wish to start their own blogs to monetisation of blogs to ethics of blogging and even discuss global trends on blogging and their relevance in society today. With a variety of bloggers from the professional to the very personal, attending the Kolkata bloggers meet, bloggers from Kolkata will get a chance to innovate and improve their own blogs.
As part of bringing some element of excitement to the meet, IndiBlogger.in will also give Kolkata bloggers an opportunity to showcase their blogs and get an immediate feedback from fellow bloggers.
Commenting on the blogger's meet, Mr. Anoop Johnson, Marketing Director of IndiBlogger.in stated, "The global blogging industry today relies on a lot of Indian blogs covering every subject including photography, travel, entertainment, sports, technology and cuisine. For example, a tourist to India reads up on Indian travel blogs to understand the ground realities and also have an unbiased opinion on holiday destinations. With about 500 bloggers across India having attended the six meets so far, it is good news for Kolkata bloggers to join in the blogger revolution."
IndiBlogger.in has been at the forefront of creating opportunities to connect fellow bloggers in the traditional space, establish personal connections and drive more traffic to their blogs. The association's objectives are to provide a common platform to bloggers in India and enable them to communicate and improve their community by providing a unique blend of online as well as offline activities. IndiBlogger.in has over 6000 Indian bloggers registered with the association making it the biggest network of bloggers in India today. With 7 blogger meets in just six months they are also one of the most active blogging communities in the world today.
For further information, please contact:
Contact:
Renie Ravin
Email: indi@indiblogger.in
Mobile: +91 9790916345
Tel: +91 44 45018949
Blog: http://blog.indiblogger.in
Kolkata Blogger Meet - Blogger Meet in Kolkata - Indiblogger.in
Scheduled for 21/09/2008 at 16:00
City: Kolkata
Description
Kolkata's first ever Blogger Meet is going to happen!
Bloggers all over India (and of course..Kolkata) are cordially invited to the Kolkata Blogger Meet, on September 21, 2008.
Help us Spread the word about the meet too! You can use this short URL just in case: http://tinyurl.com/BloggerMeet
Sponsored by
Venue
Heera Hotel Inn
51 Elliot Road, (Adjacent Park Street)
Kolkata- 700016
West Bengal, India
PH: +91.033.40111642, +91.033.22291642
Landmark
Near Assembly of God Church School
City: Kolkata
Description
Kolkata's first ever Blogger Meet is going to happen!
Bloggers all over India (and of course..Kolkata) are cordially invited to the Kolkata Blogger Meet, on September 21, 2008.
Help us Spread the word about the meet too! You can use this short URL just in case: http://tinyurl.com/BloggerMeet
Sponsored by
| Item | By |
| Welcome | Archit |
| Quick intro on IndiBlogger | IndiBlogger Team |
| 1 minute of fame | Bloggers |
| How well do you know your readers? | IndiBlogger Team |
| Mingling session / Pizza | |
| Discussion on blogging ethics | Bloggers |
| Presentation by MS (To be confirmed) | Microsoft |
| Wrapping up | IndiBlogger Team |
Venue
Heera Hotel Inn
51 Elliot Road, (Adjacent Park Street)
Kolkata- 700016
West Bengal, India
PH: +91.033.40111642, +91.033.22291642
Landmark
Near Assembly of God Church School
SEO Optimization and Web Implementation Tools
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
As a blogger, SEO Strategist and partial web developer, I find myself using numerous tools to help optimize blogs/websites. Below are few great tools/services which help make my optimization and implementation tasks a lot more efficient:
Bust-a-Name: A very quick and intuitive way to determine the availability of a given domain name. Bust-a-Name also provides suggestions for new domain names based on inputted keywords.
If you're not a web designer and need a simple and professional way to implement a website then checkout Weebly. Weebly, is a free service which offers dozens of website templates which you can customize and upload to your own domain.
Microsoft AdCenter's Keyword Service Platform provides numerous keyword analysis data and tools such as Keyword extraction, suggestion, search buzz, monthly traffic, keyword categorization, geographic info, demographic info, monetization info (clicks, impressions, avg positions, CTR, CPC).
SEO Digger is a decent keyword gathering and research tool but what it really helps me with is determining a given site's overall theme and keyword focus. Apart from a list of search queries, wordtracker and overture results are also determined (keyword popularity calculated by Wordtracker.com). Data is also CSV-exportable.
Yahoo pipes can act as a very robust feed reader. It allows me to organize different blogs' data into a single source and apply numerous types of filters. Additionally I can combine all of the feed content from the blogs I write for and offer it to my readers as a single source rather than multiple feeds.
Source: Web Analytics World
Microsoft AdCenter's Keyword Service Platform provides numerous keyword analysis data and tools such as Keyword extraction, suggestion, search buzz, monthly traffic, keyword categorization, geographic info, demographic info, monetization info (clicks, impressions, avg positions, CTR, CPC).
SEO Digger is a decent keyword gathering and research tool but what it really helps me with is determining a given site's overall theme and keyword focus. Apart from a list of search queries, wordtracker and overture results are also determined (keyword popularity calculated by Wordtracker.com). Data is also CSV-exportable.
Yahoo pipes can act as a very robust feed reader. It allows me to organize different blogs' data into a single source and apply numerous types of filters. Additionally I can combine all of the feed content from the blogs I write for and offer it to my readers as a single source rather than multiple feeds.Source: Web Analytics World
List of Professional Web Design Forums
Monday, September 15, 2008
Web Design related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback on possible design or coding solutions from community members. This interaction is a great way to establish contacts and build relationships. Forums are used for networking and marketing purposes. They are practical places to solve problems and can serve as a form of social diversion.
What is a good forum?
As designers and developers, we choose a forum depending on its ability to approach our needs. In best case the forum should be large enough, moderators should be cooperative and the posts should be responded quickly. There is nothing worse than posting a thread on a forum and no one replies to it.
In forums, users develop a reputation over time. The forum software can be used to track this. Some forums allow users to rate each other as well. Also, the more you participate and the more professional input you bring to the community, the more other members will recognize you and respect your opinion.
The quality of the community is reflected by the level and depth of responses from community members. How well the forum is run has a direct impact on our ability to use it. The forum needs good moderation and clear guidelines. Even the design of the forum plays a role in our decision to use it. After all, every forum has its own personality.
The diversity of content on forums is immense. Often, advice takes the form of Q&A-discussions, but it can also take the form of articles, and tutorials as well. Threaded discussions are a huge part of forums, but some forums have areas that operate differently — marketplaces are an example, or design showcases.
Content Management Systems often have great forums for web designers. E.g. if you’re a Wordpress user, you may frequent the Wordpress Forums. There you can pose installation questions, share your recent themes, extensions, modifications and plugins and ask for a help in building a WordPress-template.
The type of career path you’ve chosen may lead you to forums as well. If you’re a freelancer then you may frequent forums such as the Freelance Switch Forum.
While such types of forums are of use to a web designer, there are forums specifically designed for working web design professionals. We’ve compiled a list below. We’d like to hear your experiences with these or other web design forums.
Web Design Forums
Sitepoint Forum
Sitepoint has a huge community of members, with over 250,000 members. It’s an excellent place to network, get programming tips, or practical business advice. There is a thriving marketplace where you can buy or sell websites and designs, among other things. Sitepoint’s forum is well managed and well maintained. It has a clean flexible layout and sets a high quality standard for web design forums.
Designers Talk Forum
This is an active forum with a clean design. It has a handful of sections dedicated to web design, coding, and others. This forum also has areas dedicated to graphic design and other disciplines related to web design. There are over 25,000 members in this community.
Stylegala Forum
Stylegala is a well-known site that promotes great site design, standards based practices, and news on client side solutions. The forum isn’t very active and the number of users isn’t disclosed. It does have a good clean design though. There are some popular discussions that you may want to participate in.
Dynamic Drive Forum
Dynamic Drive has a growing library of freely available code snippets and packaged solutions. Their forums are a popular place to discuss web design coding issues and solutions. Most of the sections in the forum are dedicated to coding topics related to web design. There is a Javascript section, and a CSS section, for example.
Digital Point Forum
This is a popular forum with a large user base, about half the size of Sitepoint. Its members are very active. Networking, conversations, advice, and more is thriving. It has sections on Design & Development, Search Engines, Business, Marketing, and others. It’s professionally managed and maintained. And has an active marketplace. The design is functional, though not remarkable.
Webmaster-Talk.com
This forum is focused on those that run sites. Web design is a big part of running a site. So, there are plenty of sections on that topic. Also, you may find sections like Internet Marketing and Making Money Online interesting as well. This forum has over 50,000 members. It’s also active as well. The design is clean, and sections like the marketplace have unique designs as well.
Kirupa.com
“Kirupa.com is a site that aims to make designers better developers, and maybe even help developers become better designers.” The forum has over 100,000 members. It’s a web design forum that has a strong trend toward Flash and Gaming. It’s a fun forum with enthusiastic and active users.
Dev Shed Forum
This is a large community with over 200,000 members. It focuses on programming mostly, though it does cover general web design topics, and graphic design as well. It is an active community, with multiple posts, and replies every day. Site design is simple and bland.
Chawlk
Basically, Chawlk unites the members and contributors of the 9rules community and offers them a compact platform for professional and not-so-professional discussions. Among other communities, you’ll also a find communities related to design, coding, blogging, technology, software etc. Interesting topics are selected by moderators and added into Editor’s picks.
CodingForums.com
This is an active forum focused on coding. Many of the languages covered are for web design. Under the Client Side section, there are topics on graphics and general web design issues as well. There are over 50,000 members and more than 5,000 active. The forum design is simple and usable.
Ozzu Forum
This forum covers web design and development topics. They also cover Graphics, Internet Marketing and more. It has over 30,000 members. The forums are active. They are well moderated and have been successfully running the forum for over 5 years.
HTMLforum.com
Website Design and Development are topics covered. It also covers Server Administration, Marketing, and Business topics. The design is a little bit distracting. This forum has over 30,000 members. The forums have regular active posts.
Webdevforums
This forum is moderately active with over 25,000 members. There were quite a few posts without replies in important sections like Client & Server Side Scripting. There is more activity in Web Designs, HTML Reference, and CSS Section though. This forum covers many important areas of web design, though only some of the forum sections are active.
Talk Freelance
This forum is focused on web freelancers. It has over 15,000 members. The threads are active, and replies appear responsive. They cover web design and development topics. There is a popular marketplace. The forum has a bright inviting design.
Cre8asiteForums
This forum presents a friendly and inviting environment. There are over 15,000 members. The forums are active, with numerous lengthy threads where many members showed themselves to be helpful. Numerous website topics are covered. The site has some sections not seen on every web design forum, like Law, Ethics, and Green issues.
Web Design Forum
This forum organizes its topics into visualizing website design and coding websites. There are over 10,000 members. The posts are active, and there are plenty of lengthy tutorials and discussions. They have a well developed reputation system, and the forums are well moderated. The design is basic and stylistically dated, but the team running the site seams dedicated to standards based design.
Killersites Forum
Killersites are a network of websites branded cohesively that assist with educating on web design topics. Their forum is not the largest, or most active community, but it appears to be professionally managed. The sections on General Web Design, which includes topics such as CSS and HTML, are reasonably active for the size of its membership base. They have around 7,000 members.
Webdesignerforum.co.uk
If you’re looking to network with web designers from your area you may want to search for a forum that caters to your region. Webdesignerforum.co.uk is a forum from the United Kingdom. It has a little over 3,000 members. However, it’s extremely active for it’s size.
Source: Smashing Magazine
What is a good forum?
As designers and developers, we choose a forum depending on its ability to approach our needs. In best case the forum should be large enough, moderators should be cooperative and the posts should be responded quickly. There is nothing worse than posting a thread on a forum and no one replies to it.
In forums, users develop a reputation over time. The forum software can be used to track this. Some forums allow users to rate each other as well. Also, the more you participate and the more professional input you bring to the community, the more other members will recognize you and respect your opinion.
The quality of the community is reflected by the level and depth of responses from community members. How well the forum is run has a direct impact on our ability to use it. The forum needs good moderation and clear guidelines. Even the design of the forum plays a role in our decision to use it. After all, every forum has its own personality.
The diversity of content on forums is immense. Often, advice takes the form of Q&A-discussions, but it can also take the form of articles, and tutorials as well. Threaded discussions are a huge part of forums, but some forums have areas that operate differently — marketplaces are an example, or design showcases.
Content Management Systems often have great forums for web designers. E.g. if you’re a Wordpress user, you may frequent the Wordpress Forums. There you can pose installation questions, share your recent themes, extensions, modifications and plugins and ask for a help in building a WordPress-template.
The type of career path you’ve chosen may lead you to forums as well. If you’re a freelancer then you may frequent forums such as the Freelance Switch Forum.
While such types of forums are of use to a web designer, there are forums specifically designed for working web design professionals. We’ve compiled a list below. We’d like to hear your experiences with these or other web design forums.
Web Design Forums
Sitepoint Forum
Sitepoint has a huge community of members, with over 250,000 members. It’s an excellent place to network, get programming tips, or practical business advice. There is a thriving marketplace where you can buy or sell websites and designs, among other things. Sitepoint’s forum is well managed and well maintained. It has a clean flexible layout and sets a high quality standard for web design forums.
This is an active forum with a clean design. It has a handful of sections dedicated to web design, coding, and others. This forum also has areas dedicated to graphic design and other disciplines related to web design. There are over 25,000 members in this community.
Stylegala Forum
Stylegala is a well-known site that promotes great site design, standards based practices, and news on client side solutions. The forum isn’t very active and the number of users isn’t disclosed. It does have a good clean design though. There are some popular discussions that you may want to participate in.
Dynamic Drive Forum
Dynamic Drive has a growing library of freely available code snippets and packaged solutions. Their forums are a popular place to discuss web design coding issues and solutions. Most of the sections in the forum are dedicated to coding topics related to web design. There is a Javascript section, and a CSS section, for example.
Digital Point Forum
This is a popular forum with a large user base, about half the size of Sitepoint. Its members are very active. Networking, conversations, advice, and more is thriving. It has sections on Design & Development, Search Engines, Business, Marketing, and others. It’s professionally managed and maintained. And has an active marketplace. The design is functional, though not remarkable.
Webmaster-Talk.com
This forum is focused on those that run sites. Web design is a big part of running a site. So, there are plenty of sections on that topic. Also, you may find sections like Internet Marketing and Making Money Online interesting as well. This forum has over 50,000 members. It’s also active as well. The design is clean, and sections like the marketplace have unique designs as well.
Kirupa.com
“Kirupa.com is a site that aims to make designers better developers, and maybe even help developers become better designers.” The forum has over 100,000 members. It’s a web design forum that has a strong trend toward Flash and Gaming. It’s a fun forum with enthusiastic and active users.
Dev Shed Forum
This is a large community with over 200,000 members. It focuses on programming mostly, though it does cover general web design topics, and graphic design as well. It is an active community, with multiple posts, and replies every day. Site design is simple and bland.
Chawlk
Basically, Chawlk unites the members and contributors of the 9rules community and offers them a compact platform for professional and not-so-professional discussions. Among other communities, you’ll also a find communities related to design, coding, blogging, technology, software etc. Interesting topics are selected by moderators and added into Editor’s picks.
CodingForums.com
This is an active forum focused on coding. Many of the languages covered are for web design. Under the Client Side section, there are topics on graphics and general web design issues as well. There are over 50,000 members and more than 5,000 active. The forum design is simple and usable.
Ozzu Forum
This forum covers web design and development topics. They also cover Graphics, Internet Marketing and more. It has over 30,000 members. The forums are active. They are well moderated and have been successfully running the forum for over 5 years.
HTMLforum.com
Website Design and Development are topics covered. It also covers Server Administration, Marketing, and Business topics. The design is a little bit distracting. This forum has over 30,000 members. The forums have regular active posts.
Webdevforums
This forum is moderately active with over 25,000 members. There were quite a few posts without replies in important sections like Client & Server Side Scripting. There is more activity in Web Designs, HTML Reference, and CSS Section though. This forum covers many important areas of web design, though only some of the forum sections are active.
Talk Freelance
This forum is focused on web freelancers. It has over 15,000 members. The threads are active, and replies appear responsive. They cover web design and development topics. There is a popular marketplace. The forum has a bright inviting design.
Cre8asiteForums
This forum presents a friendly and inviting environment. There are over 15,000 members. The forums are active, with numerous lengthy threads where many members showed themselves to be helpful. Numerous website topics are covered. The site has some sections not seen on every web design forum, like Law, Ethics, and Green issues.
Web Design Forum
This forum organizes its topics into visualizing website design and coding websites. There are over 10,000 members. The posts are active, and there are plenty of lengthy tutorials and discussions. They have a well developed reputation system, and the forums are well moderated. The design is basic and stylistically dated, but the team running the site seams dedicated to standards based design.
Killersites Forum
Killersites are a network of websites branded cohesively that assist with educating on web design topics. Their forum is not the largest, or most active community, but it appears to be professionally managed. The sections on General Web Design, which includes topics such as CSS and HTML, are reasonably active for the size of its membership base. They have around 7,000 members.
Webdesignerforum.co.uk
If you’re looking to network with web designers from your area you may want to search for a forum that caters to your region. Webdesignerforum.co.uk is a forum from the United Kingdom. It has a little over 3,000 members. However, it’s extremely active for it’s size.
Further forums
Since web design is a profession that touches on numerous skills, forums that are dedicated to areas such as graphic design may be helpful as well. Graphic-Forums.com, Talkgraphic and Renderosity are dedicated to graphics design and have a large community willing to help you out; there are a number of subsections dedicated to specific software you are using to create your works.Source: Smashing Magazine
Google added - Follow your favorite blogs page element to all accounts
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Some people dream of being a rock star, while others just want a few discerning souls to become avid readers of their blogs. Both are noble pursuits, but with some good pictures, and a witty turn of phrase or two, building a Blogger fan-base may be a more attainable dream.
At Blogger we're passionate about helping communities form around blogs. To further that goal, we've introduced a new feature that lets you easily follow your favorite blogs and tell the world that you’re a fan. To follow a blog with the Followers' Gadget, simply click the “Follow This Blog” link. You can show your support for the blog by following it right from your Blogger Dashboard or in Google Reader.
Following isn't just for bloggers, it's also designed to make it easier for readers to keep tabs on their favorite blogs. Maybe you're following a wedding blog for tips, have a thing for plush toys, or perhaps you want to keep track of Google's university bus tour.
For more details visit: Follow your favorite blogs
Source: Google Blog
Confused about the LHC?
world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, to test the "big bang" theory or the Standard Model. So Google is sporting a logo of the collider on their homepage:
Hitwise has more information about the crazed fever on the Large Hadron Collider tests that kicked off today. Also, the Google Earth Blog posted details on how to see the Large Hadron Collider in Google Earth.
Here is a rap video, titled "Large Hadron Rap," explaining it:
Hitwise has more information about the crazed fever on the Large Hadron Collider tests that kicked off today. Also, the Google Earth Blog posted details on how to see the Large Hadron Collider in Google Earth.
Here is a rap video, titled "Large Hadron Rap," explaining it:
Delhi Blogger Meet - Indian Bloggers - IndiBlogger.in
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Scheduled for 06/09/2008 at 17:00
City: Delhi
Description
It's happening! Bloggers all over India(and of course..in the Delhi NCR) are cordially invited to the Delhi Blogger Meet, on September 6, 2008.
You may call the IndiBlogger team at +91-44-45018949 for more information.
A huge thanks from the IndiBlogger team to the IBNMS, also known as the Delhi Bloggers for all their support.
Sponsored by
Venue
Chitranjan Memorial Hall
C-405a, C R Park
Delhi – 110019
City: Delhi
Description
It's happening! Bloggers all over India(and of course..in the Delhi NCR) are cordially invited to the Delhi Blogger Meet, on September 6, 2008.
You may call the IndiBlogger team at +91-44-45018949 for more information.
A huge thanks from the IndiBlogger team to the IBNMS, also known as the Delhi Bloggers for all their support.
Sponsored by
| Item | By |
| Welcome | Preetam |
| Quick intro on IndiBlogger | IndiBlogger Team |
| 1 minute of fame | Bloggers |
| How well do you know your readers? | IndiBlogger Team |
| Mingling session / Pizza | |
| Discussion on blogging ethics | Bloggers |
| Presentation by MS (To be confirmed) | Microsoft |
| Wrapping up | IndiBlogger Team |
Venue
Chitranjan Memorial Hall
C-405a, C R Park
Delhi – 110019
IndiBlogger.in brings Delhi bloggers together
IndiBlogger.in brings Delhi bloggers together
Avid bloggers to meet in India’s capital on Sep 6th 2008
C-405a, C R Park, Delhi, on the Saturday 6th of Sep 2008. The meet is open for all bloggers registered with IndiBlogger.in. Over 60 avid bloggers from Delhi have registered for the event so far.
Following the phenomenal success of the recently concluded blogger meets at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai the IndiBlogger team is pulling out all the stops for Delhi.
The previous IndiBlogger meetings received rave reviews on several well-established blogs. Sathish from sathishsays.com had this to say – “I presumed everyone might be having a dead serious look, with conversations about traffic, SEO and all that abnormal nonsense we would like to keep to our computers. However, I was dead wrong. The IndiBlogger team is a bunch of crazy people, hell bent on having fun.”
Renie Ravin, founder of IndiBlogger.in had this to say: "Most bloggers don't realize that they collectively form a highly influential media in the world today. With a little bit of collaborative thinking, Indian bloggers have the potential to change things for the better. Our pilot meet was at Bangalore and we achieved our objective of making the meeting both meaningful and fun.”
Get IndiBlogging
The website helps you find bloggers by name, city, language or user-generated tags (keywords). Members can organize local blogger meetings by coordinating with other bloggers in the directory. Every member in their directory needs to be approved first, as cleverly outlined on their site - "We've also added new submission guidelines for IndiBlogger, since we had many spammers trying to pass themselves off as blogs. Needless to say, their thinly veiled disguises failed to bypass our high-tech blog validation algorithms (our moderators)."
IndiBlogger.in
Launched in September 2007, IndiBlogger.in has over 5000 blogs registered in the directory, with the number of submissions from bloggers increasing every day. The IndiBlogger team attributes their success to the large community of bloggers who have supported their online as well as offline initiatives.
IndiBlogger is a five man team
Renie: Web Architect, Technology Enthusiast- Chennai
Balaganesh: Social Networking, Digital PR and Online marketing- Chennai
Anoop: Visionary, Marketing and Multi Dimensional Engagements- Bangalore
Anwin: Social Media Blogger (Schmoz), Marketing Professional and a Photo-Blogger-Bangalore
Naveen: Professional Blogger, Social Networking Expert and a Techie-Bangalore
Contact:
IndiBlogger.in
#H4 Plot 17,
4th Seaward Road
Chennai - 600041
INDIA
Email: indi@indiblogger.in
Tel: +91 44 45018949
For more information on the team and why they do what they do, check out http://blog.indiblogger.in
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Google Releases Picasa 3.0 (and big changes for Picasa Web Albums)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
September 3, 2008 - Google released Picasa version 3.0 and introduced a new "name tags" feature to help you automatically organize your photos based on who's in each picture. .
That's just the start. Picasa Web Albums now includes a new 'name tags' feature that helps organize your growing photo collection by people. Opt-in to name tags, and our technology automatically groups photos containing similar faces. Instead of asking you to painstakingly label pictures one-by-one, name tags lets you rapidly tag many photos at once. By doing so, you can easily find that photo of your cousin from two years ago; create a slideshow of you and your best friend, or share an album with everybody who appears in the photos. Take a look at this video to see name tags in action.
We've packed many other new features into Picasa 3. There's a slew of powerful new editing tools to retouch and restore photos, automatically detect and fix red-eye, or attractively add text to your images. Plus, there's plenty of the fun stuff -- we completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.
That's just the start. Picasa Web Albums now includes a new 'name tags' feature that helps organize your growing photo collection by people. Opt-in to name tags, and our technology automatically groups photos containing similar faces. Instead of asking you to painstakingly label pictures one-by-one, name tags lets you rapidly tag many photos at once. By doing so, you can easily find that photo of your cousin from two years ago; create a slideshow of you and your best friend, or share an album with everybody who appears in the photos. Take a look at this video to see name tags in action.
We've packed many other new features into Picasa 3. There's a slew of powerful new editing tools to retouch and restore photos, automatically detect and fix red-eye, or attractively add text to your images. Plus, there's plenty of the fun stuff -- we completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.
Google Publishing Download Link for Google Chrome in Its Home Page
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I have installed Google Chrome and started to experience it. As of now I noticed that Google itself started to promote their Google Chrome product by placing Donwload link for Google Chrome in its home page.
- Its look like full screen mode of firefox.
- Incognito - Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
- Bookmarking features in Google chrome are more flexible to use.
- While openning new tab - It will have the thumbnail for most visited websites, its very useful to reach the closed taps immediately.
Finally Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows was released - First post on net
I was keep on updated my blog about Google Chorme. Most of them got tensed coz of broken & redirected links, me too upset becasue of not able to give links to donwload google chorme to my blog visitors. Now the time is (00:30 - September 3, 2008) Indian Standard Time. Google was finally released they product of Google Chrome for Download. I have noticed that "Google Chrome" phrase would be the most searched keyword phrase in Sep 2, 08. Source:
Hope I am doing this as first post on net after released Google Chrome, happy about it.
Update: Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.
Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.
To know about Features of Google Chrome visit: Google Chrome Features
Google Chrome now live
Hope I am doing this as first post on net after released Google Chrome, happy about it.
Update: Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.Download Google Chrome For Windows Vista/XP
One box for everythingType in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.
Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.
To know about Features of Google Chrome visit: Google Chrome Features
Google Chrome now live
Google Launches Video Sharing for Business
Google has found a way to make money from video sharing — but not on YouTube. The company will add video to its paid business edition of Google Apps on Monday. In a way, Google is opening up a whole new category of online video: internal corporate video sharing.
Google Apps customers pay $50 per user per year for Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs and other communication and collaboration tools (there is also a free version that doesn’t include customer support and APIs). Now, paid users can upload videos of up to 300 MB, with no time-length restrictions, for a total of 3GB per account and unlimited video views.
There are existing enterprise video delivery vendors aplenty, including Kontiki, Cisco and Thomson, but their tools are used for top-down communication and training. Google thinks there’s an opportunity for easy video sharing — á la YouTube — between team members for applications such as ad hoc training, product demos, and team building. Except, unlike YouTube, not just anyone will be able see these videos — access will be restricted to specific employees.
However, Google isn’t including live broadcasting or video conferencing — perhaps the most obvious and best-used video tools at most enterprises. Google acquired video-conferencing software from a Swedish company called Marratech last April, but it hasn’t made it available to enterprise customers and it’s not a part of this product. Google is only offering on-demand streaming and downloads of clips.
Users can upload videos to what looks like the Google Video player, and team members can tag, star and comment on them. There are also new features designed for long-form video, such as thumbnails of key parts of a video so viewers can skip around. Each video will also be available as an embed, part of a Google gadget and as an MPEG-4 download.
It’s good that Google is trying to think creatively about how people work together, though I’m not sure how widespread use of this particular product will be. Video-sharing sites with privacy controls normally seem to be made for families with young kids, which is quite a different use-case than coworkers. So there may be a need for a tool like this.
“It’s no longer about trying to achieve feature parity with incumbent office solutions, it’s really about transforming collaboration,” said Kuan Yong, product manager for Google Video for business and YouTube developer APIs, in an interview last week. He also made a point of saying, “It’s really cloud computing that’s enabled us to do enterprise video in a form that’s so affordable, and in a way that just works.”
Source: NewTeeVee
Google Apps customers pay $50 per user per year for Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs and other communication and collaboration tools (there is also a free version that doesn’t include customer support and APIs). Now, paid users can upload videos of up to 300 MB, with no time-length restrictions, for a total of 3GB per account and unlimited video views.
There are existing enterprise video delivery vendors aplenty, including Kontiki, Cisco and Thomson, but their tools are used for top-down communication and training. Google thinks there’s an opportunity for easy video sharing — á la YouTube — between team members for applications such as ad hoc training, product demos, and team building. Except, unlike YouTube, not just anyone will be able see these videos — access will be restricted to specific employees.
However, Google isn’t including live broadcasting or video conferencing — perhaps the most obvious and best-used video tools at most enterprises. Google acquired video-conferencing software from a Swedish company called Marratech last April, but it hasn’t made it available to enterprise customers and it’s not a part of this product. Google is only offering on-demand streaming and downloads of clips.Users can upload videos to what looks like the Google Video player, and team members can tag, star and comment on them. There are also new features designed for long-form video, such as thumbnails of key parts of a video so viewers can skip around. Each video will also be available as an embed, part of a Google gadget and as an MPEG-4 download.
It’s good that Google is trying to think creatively about how people work together, though I’m not sure how widespread use of this particular product will be. Video-sharing sites with privacy controls normally seem to be made for families with young kids, which is quite a different use-case than coworkers. So there may be a need for a tool like this.
“It’s no longer about trying to achieve feature parity with incumbent office solutions, it’s really about transforming collaboration,” said Kuan Yong, product manager for Google Video for business and YouTube developer APIs, in an interview last week. He also made a point of saying, “It’s really cloud computing that’s enabled us to do enterprise video in a form that’s so affordable, and in a way that just works.”
Source: NewTeeVee
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces
Google wants to help you put a name to that face.
With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
The "name tag" feature presents users with collections of photos with what it judges to be the same person, then lets them click a button to affix a name. Once photographic subjects are named, users can browse an album of that individual on the fly.
"Once you've started naming people, we'll start suggesting names for you based on similarity," said Mike Horowitz, Google's Picasa product manager. "The process of naming people is really addictive and tremendously fun."
Having tried the new service on dozens of photos, I wouldn't go that far. But it is a major advance in what I believe is a very important area, photo metadata.
Tagging is a powerful way to sort digital photographs. Photo albums are useful, but with rich tagging, people also can slice and dice their photo collection to show particular people, activities, or locations. Even with face recognition technology or other computer processing, the textual tags in photos are a far more reliable way for computers to understand image content.
And tags become even more powerful as photos are assembled into publicly accessible collections such as those at Yahoo's Flickr, Picasa, or Fox Interactive's Photobucket.
Eat your vegetables, exercise regularly, tag your photos
The problem with tagging is that it's a chore, so most people don't bother. But Picasa's name tag feature automates the process enough--and provides enough reason to use it--that I believe many users will take the tagging plunge.
It took me less than 15 minutes to tag close to 200 faces in a set of more than 100 photos, and that included some start-up time such as figuring out how the system worked, establishing names for various common subjects, and correcting a few errors. The most impressive moments are when Picasa presents a large array of photos with the same face, and you can label them all with a single click.
I speak here from experience. I do tag my own photos--for example the 700 I took on a weeklong backpacking trip earlier this month--and something like Google's facial recognition assisting would have dramatically sped the process. It wouldn't help with other tags such as "swimming," "waterfall," or "Sierra tiger lily," but let's face it--people are the central feature in most people's photos.
Overall, Google's Picasa moves show that despite a long period of near-dormancy, Google still evidently is committed to the photography site and software.
However, Picasa overall still feels like a staid place to store photos, share them with friends, and maybe order prints. It doesn't match the vibrant community of Yahoo's Flickr. And though Flickr also has been slow to change, Yahoo has at least been nudging it in the right direction with additions such as online editing.
Face recognition blemishes
Picasa's name tags are helpful but imperfect. The feature failed to find faces in several photos where I thought the faces were reasonably obvious. It also thought my bicycle wheel's spokes and wife's ear were faces. One excusable error: it thought a mask in a mural was a face, though for some reason it didn't bother with a couple of real humans in the same mural.
"Our face-matching technology works best when a person is looking at the camera," Horowitz said. "There are a variety of factors that may limit our success in matching faces, including profile views and challenging lighting conditions like shadows."
The most annoying error was that during the initial period when I was adding names to the system, it somehow came up with three separate versions of me and two versions of my son, despite the fact that I entered the same name and e-mail address. I fixed it by telling Picasa my alter egos were erroneously labeled, at which point they re-entered the labeling pool and I assigned them to the remaining identity. Too bad I didn't notice the "merge" option until later.
Knowing the privacy implications of face recognition, Google is proceeding somewhat cautiously. Picasa users must specifically enable the name tag feature, and default name tags aren't shared publicly. Picasa users may only tag photos in their own account.
With the "name tag" feature, which users must specifically enable, Picasa presents groups of images sharing the same face. Users can label them with a person's name. Eventually users can click a tag to find shots of a particular subject in their photo collections,
The face recognition technology came to Google via its 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, Horowitz said.
There are other changes coming to Picasa Web Albums (though a change to Google Photos isn't one of them, at least right now). One is an "explore" view that lets people browse the total collection of public Picasa photos. It lets people browse by popular tags, location, and peer at recent uploads. Another is the ability to e-mail photos to the service.
Picasa 3 beta
Google also plans to release a beta version of the Picasa 3 image-editing. It works on Windows, though a Google Labs version has been transmogrified to work on Linux via the Wine software layer. Horowitz wouldn't confirm whether a Mac OS X version is anything more than an idea: "Macs are important to us," he said. "We're always looking for new ways making sure our users are happy, so it's something we're looking at."
The new Picasa software brings several changes:
• A movie maker mode lets people combine photos with music to export movie versions of galleries to watch on a PC or upload to YouTube.
• A new retouch brush lets people edit out skin blemishes and other trouble spots. And the tool can automatically fix red-eye problems caused by flash photography.
• A new collage mode lets users compile many photos into one composite image. This time, users get precise control over image placement for example by moving, rotating, and resizing photos, and the software can produce a high-resolution composite for poster-size prints.
• A photo viewer for quick slideshows, an option that during installation politely asks to own the file associations for JPEG, TIFF, raw images from higher-end cameras, and some other formats. The slideshow software can view PNG files, which is handy, but the editing software still can't, which is a significant limitation for me.
• Online synchronization. If photos have been uploaded from Picasa to the Web site, they can be edited later and the changes, including tags, are synchronized to the Web site. This is very handy since you might want to get images up quickly to share with friends then edit them later. Unfortunately, changes on the Web site aren't mirrored back to the PC, so all those name tags will stay put in the cloud for now.
Source: CNET News
With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
The "name tag" feature presents users with collections of photos with what it judges to be the same person, then lets them click a button to affix a name. Once photographic subjects are named, users can browse an album of that individual on the fly. The Picasa Web Albums name tag feature groups like faces together to let users tag them with names a batch at a time (click to enlarge).
(Credit: Google)Having tried the new service on dozens of photos, I wouldn't go that far. But it is a major advance in what I believe is a very important area, photo metadata.
Tagging is a powerful way to sort digital photographs. Photo albums are useful, but with rich tagging, people also can slice and dice their photo collection to show particular people, activities, or locations. Even with face recognition technology or other computer processing, the textual tags in photos are a far more reliable way for computers to understand image content.
And tags become even more powerful as photos are assembled into publicly accessible collections such as those at Yahoo's Flickr, Picasa, or Fox Interactive's Photobucket.
Eat your vegetables, exercise regularly, tag your photos
The problem with tagging is that it's a chore, so most people don't bother. But Picasa's name tag feature automates the process enough--and provides enough reason to use it--that I believe many users will take the tagging plunge.
It took me less than 15 minutes to tag close to 200 faces in a set of more than 100 photos, and that included some start-up time such as figuring out how the system worked, establishing names for various common subjects, and correcting a few errors. The most impressive moments are when Picasa presents a large array of photos with the same face, and you can label them all with a single click. Picasa editing software now lets users export movies with musical soundtrack to a file or YouTube (click to enlarge).
(Credit: Google)Overall, Google's Picasa moves show that despite a long period of near-dormancy, Google still evidently is committed to the photography site and software.
However, Picasa overall still feels like a staid place to store photos, share them with friends, and maybe order prints. It doesn't match the vibrant community of Yahoo's Flickr. And though Flickr also has been slow to change, Yahoo has at least been nudging it in the right direction with additions such as online editing.
Picasa Web Albums' most conspicuously erroneous identification of a face, actually the spokes on my bicycle's front wheel.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)Picasa's name tags are helpful but imperfect. The feature failed to find faces in several photos where I thought the faces were reasonably obvious. It also thought my bicycle wheel's spokes and wife's ear were faces. One excusable error: it thought a mask in a mural was a face, though for some reason it didn't bother with a couple of real humans in the same mural.
"Our face-matching technology works best when a person is looking at the camera," Horowitz said. "There are a variety of factors that may limit our success in matching faces, including profile views and challenging lighting conditions like shadows."
The most annoying error was that during the initial period when I was adding names to the system, it somehow came up with three separate versions of me and two versions of my son, despite the fact that I entered the same name and e-mail address. I fixed it by telling Picasa my alter egos were erroneously labeled, at which point they re-entered the labeling pool and I assigned them to the remaining identity. Too bad I didn't notice the "merge" option until later.
Picasa Web Albums asked me to identify this face it found--actually a mask in a mural (click to enlarge).
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
Knowing the privacy implications of face recognition, Google is proceeding somewhat cautiously. Picasa users must specifically enable the name tag feature, and default name tags aren't shared publicly. Picasa users may only tag photos in their own account. With the "name tag" feature, which users must specifically enable, Picasa presents groups of images sharing the same face. Users can label them with a person's name. Eventually users can click a tag to find shots of a particular subject in their photo collections,
The face recognition technology came to Google via its 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, Horowitz said.
There are other changes coming to Picasa Web Albums (though a change to Google Photos isn't one of them, at least right now). One is an "explore" view that lets people browse the total collection of public Picasa photos. It lets people browse by popular tags, location, and peer at recent uploads. Another is the ability to e-mail photos to the service.
Picasa 3 beta
Google also plans to release a beta version of the Picasa 3 image-editing. It works on Windows, though a Google Labs version has been transmogrified to work on Linux via the Wine software layer. Horowitz wouldn't confirm whether a Mac OS X version is anything more than an idea: "Macs are important to us," he said. "We're always looking for new ways making sure our users are happy, so it's something we're looking at."
The new Picasa software brings several changes:
• A movie maker mode lets people combine photos with music to export movie versions of galleries to watch on a PC or upload to YouTube.
• A new retouch brush lets people edit out skin blemishes and other trouble spots. And the tool can automatically fix red-eye problems caused by flash photography. A collage mode in Picasa lets users create poster-size collections, sizing and placing each snapshot. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Google)• A photo viewer for quick slideshows, an option that during installation politely asks to own the file associations for JPEG, TIFF, raw images from higher-end cameras, and some other formats. The slideshow software can view PNG files, which is handy, but the editing software still can't, which is a significant limitation for me.
• Online synchronization. If photos have been uploaded from Picasa to the Web site, they can be edited later and the changes, including tags, are synchronized to the Web site. This is very handy since you might want to get images up quickly to share with friends then edit them later. Unfortunately, changes on the Web site aren't mirrored back to the PC, so all those name tags will stay put in the cloud for now.
Source: CNET News
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