Archive for June 2nd, 2009:
Twitter And Bing Shutdown In China
It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship – to put it mildly – on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which is served from outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available. However today Chinese authorities have brought the the Great Wall of China on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail, Blogger and a number of other sites. The picture is patchy across the country between ISPs and geography, but my sources – who all agreed to be named in this post – say the ban is blanket ban is closing.
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Subscribe to the comments for this postThe Big Cheese: Powerful Version Of Google Search Appliance Can Grow Exponentially
On average, most businesses currently double the number of digital documents they have every twelve to eighteen months. The impact of this rapid addition of content, argues Google, is that the search functionality of an organization’s databases and Websites need to be scalable in a dynamic environment. Google maintains that scalability is a crucial need of enterprises today, which is why the new version of Google’s Search Appliance (GSA) for enterprise search customers has added a powerful, dynamic scalability feature, allowing businesses to now index billions of documents, in addition to indexing Web pages.
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5 Essential Steps to Make Your Site Search & Social Media Friendly
The increasing demand for fresh, live web content as well as the expectation of consumers to interact with what they find in the search results requires that website owners and content publishers make their websites both search and social media friendly.
Here are 5 ways to do just that:
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Acer launching world’s first Android-based netbook in Q3
Acer’s been straightforward with the fact that it’s been dabbling with Android on netbooks. In fact, the entire industry seems to be. Now we’ve got word that Acer will in fact launch an Android-based netbook in the 3rd quarter of 2009. The move was announced by Acer’s global president for IT products, Jim Wong. The Android netbooks will run Atom (sorry Tegra hopefuls) and presumably cost less than Windows XP-based netbooks that require an estimated $25 tithe to Microsoft. Acer will continue to offer Windows-based netbooks along side the Android builds. Whether Android, an OS designed for smartphones, will succeed in gaining back market share lost to Microsoft remains to be seen. But if Microsoft’s boasting about consumers wanting netbooks offering the same OS experience they’re used to is true, well, how can Android succeed where those early Linux distros failed?
Via Mashable
