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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Social shopping: Shoeboxed tracks your shopping spending

Shoeboxed has embraced the power of Internet social networking and moved into social shopping. The site has been relaunched and they have introduced a new concept called “receipt flaunting”, which is a way for you to add your paper receipts onto the site and share with your friends.

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Search Engine Rankings: Only Google matters or maybe little from Yahoo, MSN and Ask!

An interesting chart published by Internetworldstats.com, shows that Google always remains as the king of search engines and it’s occupied more than 60% of search traffic. And the remaining less than 40% is being shared by Yahoo, MSN, Ask and some other couple of hundreds of other search engines. It also shows that only Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask matter at all and all the rest get less than 2% of traffic. If you’ve been receiving bullshitting SEO campaigns for submitting to 100 over or more search engines, you can simply forget about it. As what matters here for getting natural search traffic is all dependent on Google, or perhaps a little from Yahoo, MSN and Ask. So, just work it out for Google for your websites or blogs.

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Vanity Ring shows your popularity by your name’s Google hits!

In the new Internet era, there is only one thing used to measure your popularity i.e the number of hits and searches for your name you get from the Google search engine. And now, you can simply show off to your friends how popular you’re in the Internet world by wearing the Vanity Ring.

The Vanity Ring tells the number of hits you get, when someone searches for your name on Google. The ring is personalized using a custom software. And after someone typed and searched your name on Google, the ring’s display will change to show you your latest popularity, while every night, when it is inserted into its docking station the ring is reloaded and updated. Demo video after the jump.

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Intel’s Cool Software site is for digging the next “Google” in the Internet!

Intel seems to be pretty aggressive in looking for the next big thing, perhaps the next Google in the Internet cloud. With many thousands of web 2.0 software and applications have mushroomed over the Internet in recent years, Intel has decided to take one step ahead, and created a bookmarking site similar to KillerStartups.com or SimpleSpark.com, which allows public to submit and vote on new up-and-coming applications or companies. This bookmarking website is called Cool Software, which will be the central repository for Intel to predict who is the next Google, before it becomes Google, so their always ready investing arm, Intel Capital, can hit the jackpot at the most right time.

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HTML code could hint iPhone Extreme is the upgrade version of iPhone?

Apple iPhone is so hot, so everybody is trying to find even drilling down to the HTML code of iPhone related web pages to find any possibility of leaked info of the iPhone. Whether it’s by coincidence or not, apparently there is a mysterious product named the “iPhone Extreme”, has been spotted in the HTML code of Apple iPhone’s reletaed web page. This raised speculations that Apple could be working on an upgraded version of iPhone that is called iPhone Extreme. Of course, there is no concrete information about this. This could be the web development team purposely make it as a special identifier which only they know internally.

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Rsizr – online image resizing tool. Well, I still prefer GIMP!

When blogging on TechChee, I always need the image editing tool to resize the pictures of gadgets. GIMP, as a free and open source tool, of course, is the first choice of tools that I always use for scaling down or resizing the images to suit my blog posts. Anyway, if you can’t get along with GIMP for some unknown reasons or you don’t stick to a fixed workstation or computer to do your work. Here comes an online, flash-based image resizing tool that you could probably rely on to carry out the image resizing that you need for your blog posts.

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