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Web 3.0, the next version of the web, how will it work?

Web 2.0 has been hot over the past few years, which is considered as the second generation of web which its content is more towards to user-contributed contents instead of like the first generation, which users have no contribution to the information. Okay, but since we already have web 2.0, whether it was just a marketing jargon, or it’s really the great technology that has changed the web today, giving users more participating options, we’ll need to move forward. Yes, the next version we’ll be looking into over the World Wide Web is the Web 3.0.

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Google and SalesForce.com join to fight Microsoft

Google and SalesForce.com now have teamed up to fight Microsoft. The need for more solid online applications. Now Google is gonna integrate its online office suite (Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet etc) with SalesForce’s online CRM (Customer Relationship Management) app.

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Kill Dead Pixel and Dead Pixels Test - two simple online tools to save and detect dead pixels on LCD monitor!

Couple of friends have complained to me that their newly bought LCD monitors having few red and green spots. And they’re pretty frustrated especially when having few spots only on their LCD monitor. As some vendors only allow you to return or exchange for a new one if the LCD monitor has more than certain number of spots. Anyway, it seems there are two very simple online tools to fix these spots which are contributed by dead pixels. And to detect the dead pixels on the LCD before you carry the LCD screen out of the vendor’s shop.

To fix the dead pixels on your LCD monitor, what you’ll need to do is pop over to KillDeadPixel.com. And an image of a flashing square is presented to you (as shown at left-hand side). What you need to do is to drag the image to those spots that have dead pixels and let it stay for an hour or more. It’s been reported to work many times. No harm to give it a try.

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Songerize - a song search engine, search and listen now!

Songerize is an amazing song search engine, which presents you a very simple interface. What you need is to input the song title and the name of the artist. And it’ll then take couple of seconds to search and play for you to listen straight away.

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Researchers: GMail is vulnerable to sitejacking despite using SSL for its login page!

CEO of Errata Security, Robert Graham revealed that session ID cookies used in GMail can be easily hijacked and used for other malicious purposes including sending and receiving emails, accessing your private info etc. Although GMail has an secure HTTP or HTTPs option (https://mail.google.com), which user can choose to have their http session encrypted using SSL, but GMail provides an option at the background to fall back to non-HTTPs (or non secure), while the HTTPs fails. In a more technical explanation, GMail makes Ajax HTTP requests via the XMLHttoRequest object. This connection is encrypted by default using SSL, but if SSL fails it will still go through in non-encrypted mode.

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Noca, a new online payment system which doesn’t charge you transaction fees

For some friends who are interested in venturing into online selling would wanna consider this, a new online payment system, Noca, which is claimed to have eliminated the few percents transaction fees that imposed by credit card companies.

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Biometric face recognition technique will bring more fun to YouTube etc

NEC has developed a new face recognition technique, which will probably bring more fun to YouTube or any other video sharing websites. The face recognition technology will allow any of the online video websites to detect which faces appear most on them. From that on, the system can easily rate or give out contest for electing the most popular boys and girls appear on these video uploading websites in daily, weekly and monthly basis etc.

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Network Solutions using dirty tactic to sell more domain names!

A couple of months ago, I wrote about a domain name that we were eyeing on was gone a few hours later after doing lookup for it, and then found it was registered by a company called UltraRPM aka MetaPredict. And now, it seems like a renown domain name registrar, Network Solutions is also doing the same dirty tactic.

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Google PageRank algo used to search out hospital superbugs

Bloggers and Internet marketers are striving hard for all sorts of methods to increase their blogs’ or websites’ Google PageRank. But, indeed, the Google PageRank is one god-given algorithm, which does not only benefit websites and blogs to make more money online, it also helps cut the transmission of superbugs (hospital-acquired infections) within hospitals using the PageRank algorithm.

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Hackers use fake video of Bhutto assassination to attack

According to ComputerWorld, hackers make use of the breaking news of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to lure users into downloading some malicious code.

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