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We were expecting something like this.. The WordPress.tv is On Air for all the WP bloggers. Instead of visiting the forum (support) website or reading the hundrends of pages of tutorial, bloggers can now visit the WordPress Tv and watch the videos. For instance, if you want to know how you will create a static front page you can watch this video !

Enjoy!

This presentation gives a great overview of the company’s overall strategy and the reasons it has become what it is today.

While the majority of our day-to-day searches are easily handled by our favorite search engine, there are always those intensive searches that have you jumping from site to site – or opening a series of tabs – to find a good cross-section of information on a given topic. Even once you’ve established a preferred workflow for this kind of comprehensive searching, it can be time consuming to run through the process.

Wouldn’t it be easier if you could simply enter one query and have it run through a bunch of search sites?

Of course it would. And that’s what makes Search.io so appealing. It’s a meta search engine that searches a variety of sites – grouped by topic – and displays them as tabs to help you find information more quickly and easily.

To use Search.io, simply enter your search term and select your specific area of interest. Topics range from the default “search engines” to “blogs” to “torrents.” There’s even a search for popular “Web 2.0″ sites. And for the more voyeuristic types, there’s a listing of the latest searches.

While some of the tab sets seem to be stretching it a bit – I’m pretty sure the last time I cared about finding information in Alta Vista or Lycos was some time in the last century – the concept has a great deal of potential.

In fact, I’ve already added a couple of the search options to my toolbar – like the people and social bookmarks searches – and I’m going to keep using them to see if they speed my searches. I’m sure that once I’ve been using the service for a while, I’ll find some ways to employ creative queries that will streamline my searching even further.

To test drive tabbed search for yourself, visit Search.io.

Source: ReadWriteWeb

This is a brilliant and very easy idea. There are some ideas that can be too easy that nobody thinks about them. Umbrella Today is one of these ideas. It is a very simple website. The user just put his or her Zip Code (US only) and asks if he has to take his umbrella. The possible results are two. YES or NO! Check it..

Tomorrow in San Francisco we will not need an umbrella!!!

Down for everyone or just me?

This is the simplest way to check if a website is down for everyone or just for you.. It is so simple but quite smart!

Tonight, Google changed its interface. Google Blog

The changes are called SearchWiki, and are a dramatic departure from Google’s streamlined, algorithm-rules approach to search. It takes features from Digg to allow users to vote site results up or down, as well as features from Wikia Search to allow users to add comments, move search results, add search results, etc. The result are customized results that appear every time you do that search in the future (assuming you are logged in).

Here’s a demo video:

Source: TechCrunch

Apple and Microsoft.. How similar and how different they are? The new Microsoft Store (as we say Apple Store) has a logo that is very similar to all Apple products’ logos with two gray shades (picture).

Just be patient! The new Windows 7 are coming with ‘new and innovative’ ideas! (maybe they will include Spotlight, Time machine, Dock and many other NEW features!)

Sexy sumo carwash commercial featuring music by Electric Six. Japanese SUVs just got a little sexier.

The Sexy Subaru site was developed at Tribal DDB, Toronto by creative director Dré Labre, copywriter Travis Sellar, agency art director Ryan Semeniuk, production manager Cathy Kim.

Filming was shot by directors Cy Hogg and Joel Grenier via Fuel Industries, Ottawa. Sound was designed by Rob Plowman.

The Sexy Subaru site was recognized with a Gold at the London International Awards this month.

Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise.

At the same time, Yahoo’s share slipped to 17.7 percent, from 18.1 percent a month earlier and 21.7 percent a year ago. Microsoft’s share rose slightly in October to 5.4 percent from 5.36 percent in September, but the down from 7.4 percent in October of last year. Internet searches at Ask.com fell to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent a month ago, and from 4.8 percent last year.

Hitwise bases its data on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users over four week rolling periods. The Microsoft figures include Live.com and MSN Search but does not include Club.Live.com.

The remaining 43 search engines Hitwise tracks accounted for 1.6 percent of U.S. searches in October.

Source: Macworld