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Technology Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. and the American Cancer Society Inc. are looking to Adobe Integrated Runtime technology to take some of their rich Internet applications to the desktop.
The new AIR technology from San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc. is among several emerging products that promise to let companies run Web applications built using various AJAX tools on desktop systems. AIR is slated to ship next month, according to Adobe.
Nasdaq and the American Cancer Society are among several large organizations eyeing the Adobe runtime technology as a way to bridge the traditional gap between Web and desktop applications. Claude Courbois, associate vice president of data product development at Nasdaq, said that he has long been searching for tools to help the stock market’s analysts and brokerage customers comply with stringent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules much faster.
For example, one of the SEC rules requires that brokerages provide a tool that can quickly re-create market conditions to prove to customers that they received the best price available for a stock. But traditional development technology isn’t capable of building such a tool, Courbois noted.
Today, Nasdaq analysts spend hours using statistical software from SAS Institute Inc. on the desktop to re-create market conditions when necessary.
Source: Computerworld.com
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admin on January 21st, 2008 in
Google Today I was reading the Search Engine market news and was surprised by the big news. Yes it is true, Google’s market share dropped from 57.7% in November to 56.3% last month. Microsoft moved from 12% to 13.3% over the same period.
Now the question is how MSN benfitted from google’s loss. Microsoft has been offering video games and other merchandise to get consumers to use its online products, so there is a good chance the the shift is temporary.
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admin on January 16th, 2008 in
Blogging Many new bloggers might be wondering how others manage to get so many comments on their blogs. There are certain factors that contribute to it. As we all know almost 90% of internet users just read or observe with 9% of the users contributing “a little” and the remaining 01% contribute actively. With that figures we now know that most probably only 1% of our visitors are likely to contribute.
I have done a bit of a research about the issue and found out the following techniques which can bring you surprising results if applied correctly and carefully.
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admin on January 11th, 2008 in
Google It looks like google’s 2008 1st quarter updates has started ealier today. I am seeing changes in some of the datacenters for some of my own sites. Changes are visible on DC 72.14.25x. The topic has been discussed in various webmaster forum inlcuding Digital Point Community Forum.
Popular pagerank checking tool Digpagerank (http://www.digpagerank.com) is showing the updated page rank for some fo the DCs.
Posted by
admin on January 10th, 2008 in
Live Search Many webmasters, and SEO experts will agree that getting a site fully indexed in MSN Live Search is not a easy task. Webmasters have issues with Live Search indexing sites properly. I personally find it pretty embrassing at times. Finally we have a clue of what is going on from Jeremiah Andrick, product manager for MSN Live.
In a lengthy interview with Web Pro News, he outlined possible reasons for indexing issues. Jeremiah said most indexing issues fall into one of three categories:
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AdSense You will find it hard to believe but, it is true! Google is removing AdSense referrals for users outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan. Google found out that AdSense referrals in these regions does not perform very well. In a written statement google stated:
For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed above, we’ll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We’ve found that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these regions. Again, please keep in mind that you can still generate referrals for the other products listed under the ‘Referrals’ section of your AdSense Setup tab.
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admin on January 8th, 2008 in
Search Engines As I have mentioned in my previous post, Wikia Search is now live at http://alpha.search.wikia.com/. The Wikia Search project, which is now live, officially launched in alpha form on Monday 7 January following a brief private testing period.
I tested the search results with some popular keywords and the results were far from impressive.
Anyone is able to discuss and rank search results, write and edit Mini Articles and more bringing the company claims more transparency into the search engine process.
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admin on January 4th, 2008 in
Search Engines The launch of a new search site, called Wikia Search, is planned for the 7th January 2008. Co-founder Jimmy Wales said the open source search engine would be released for public viewing in “alpha” so users can complain about flaws and developers can work out the bugs.
Last February, Wales announced plans for an open source search engine to offer what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) does not: transparency. He said during a talk at New York University that the new search engine could take the mystery out of how information on the Web is scanned, retrieved, and ranked.
Wikia Search could threaten Google’s hegemony but the new community driven search engine will take time to evolve, just as Wikipedia took time to build up its entries. However Google supporters argue it will allow humans to manipulate the search process and that computer-generated results are the fairest way to provide people with information.
Co-founder Jimmy Wales said the open source search engine would be released for public viewing in “alpha” so users can complain about flaws and developers can work out the bugs.
A “trust network” of users, similar to those who contribute to Wikipedia, will discuss and debate what should come next. As search heads toward greater personalization, Wales believes people can come up with smarter, more relevant searches than machines. He has said that collective wisdom will improve search more than knowing everything about an Internet user.