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When choosing your domain name, always double check if it contains more than one word. Or you can get the slur. Experts Exchange – a site where programmers can trade advice – is found at www.expertsexchange.com La Drape – a British company selling high-end quilted bedspreads – is listed at www.ladrape.co.uk American Scrap Metal – a scrap metal recycling firm – has its website at www.angelfire.com/alt/americanscrapmetal Speed of Art – a collective or art designers – are online at www.speedofart.com Therapist Finder – a directory for therapy services – can be located at www.therapistfinder.com

I missed Euro vision song contest show on tv, so I tried to capture the sense from the twitter comments, here they are: "don't ask me about lithuania in Eurovision 'cuz i'm gonna cry. it's really sad. they had to be in the final!" "I don't get why Lithuania didn't get in the finale" "I wish Lithuania had made it through. My Sunday night is incomplete without boys in sequinned hot pants." " Lithuania  were truly robbed " "it is a crime against music that lithuania didn't get through" "Was hoping to watch it unspoilt tonight, but MIL told me the winner. With that, and the LITHUANIA OUTRAGE, I am saying NO to #eurovision." "lithuania better win eurovision next year with another troll song lol I WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN" "Very disappointed Lithuania didn't get through. I liked their sparkly shorts." "   lithuania  was awesome, but europe sucks and they didnt get thr...

Here is a video: Performance & speed: The new Dalvik JIT compiler in Android 2.2 delivers between a 2-5X performance improvement in CPU-bound code vs. Android 2.1 according to various benchmarks. New enterprise capabilities: We’ve added Exchange capabilities such as account auto-discovery and calendar sync. Device policy management APIs allow developers to write applications that can control security features of the device such as the remote wipe, minimum password, lockscreen timeout etc. Faster, more powerful browser: We have brought the V8 JavaScript engine to the Android browser as part of 2.2. This has resulted in a 2-3X improvement in JavaScript performance vs. 2.1. Rich set of new APIs and services: New data backup APIs enable apps to participate in data backup and restore, allowing an application's last data to be restored when installed on a new or a reset device. Apps can utilize Android Cloud to Device Messaging to enable mobile alert, send to phone, and two...

Full web browser, live search, more personalisation. Google   announced that it's working with Intel, Sony, and Logitech to develop Google TV as an open platform.

The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution. So it;s not the end for the biggest torrent tracker yet...

Great idea, 6 dollars and you get a job ;)

Name: Google Mobile / Location: Pockets and purses Nice one :-)

This is a great fresh example how not to test your product live... Or Volvo crash during presentation:

When google started with the social network product - it failed. Then one guy from his university dorm, tried it - he succeeded. Just think about the name impact - "Orkut" vs. "Facebook" and the whole Cognitive fluency. Offcourse it's not 100% matter, but...

Here you can find presentations in video from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010: Key things: Rising optimism :) Promise of mobile Location awareness Html5 new capabilities Work Wants to be Social: 5 Things we have Learnt from SlideShare Disruptors: eCommerce A Conversation with Kevin Lynch - As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization (Adobe) The Facebook Era You May Already Be A Winner Where Web, Mobile, Gaming and Reality Converge Breaking Barriers with Sound - Ge Wang Stanford University The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation. Not Just for Startups Anymore. Ideas Worth Spreading: TED's Transition from Conference to Platform - June Cohen A Conversation with Paul Buchheit - Paul Buchheit expo Becoming One with Internet Culture - Ben Huh

Rashmi Sinha is cofounder and CEO for SlideShare, the world’s largest professional sharing site. SlideShare is growing rapidly (more than 28 million monthly uniques) letting everyone from marketers, speakers and educators share and connect with others. Before SlideShare, Rashmi cofounded another startup – MindCanvas – a gamelike survey platform. Rashmi has a PhD from Brown University and has experience working with search engines and recommender systems at UC Berkeley. She is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo and Future of Web Apps. She writes a blog at rashmisinha.com about running a startup and social software. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

eCommerce is a term you heard bandied around in 1997 to describe a then-hot segment of the web. Today, well over a decade later, you might assume that eCommerce is stable—even boring. Think again. A new crop of start-ups is reexamining what the web can do for commerce, invigorating the sector with smart analyses and compelling business models. In this set of keynotes, three startups each give a short, sharp presentation to help you understand the important ways they’re disrupting eCommerce. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™ Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Clara helped kick off the Social CRM movement in 2007 with her Faceconnector application, which integrates Facebook and Salesforce CRM. She is author of the newly released bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff about Facebook and Twitter for business, which has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, CRM Magazine, and is being used as a textbook at Stanford and Harvard Business School. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Erin McKean likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO of the new online dictionary Wordnik and the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly. Previously, she was Chief Consulting Editor, American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

The days of multiple gadgets, devices and laptops are numbered. Today’s consumers are looking for technology that works across any platform and can control multiple devices. The convergence of technology hardware and software is enabling consumers to combine work and play anywhere at any time. No longer tethered to a video game console, a growing number of consumers are playing when and where the mood strikes them. Taking an activity like remote-controlled aircraft to an entirely new level, the Parrot AR.Drone combines consumers’ love of mobile technology with the spirit of adventure in gaming environment. The Parrot AR.Drone, a quadricopter piloted with an iPhone or iPod touch, allows consumers to fly in a real-world environment while simultaneously playing a video game from the device’s screen. The Parrot AR.Drone combines the best of today’s wireless, video and gaming technologies. Parrot North America executive, Christian Coly will address how video gaming convergence will get ...

Keynote by Ge Wang, Assistant Professor, Stanford University and Co-founder, CTO, Chief Creative Officer, Smule.

Lessons Learned Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Smule, 750i and KaChing. - Eric Ries Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

In 2006—after 22 years as an exclusive, expensive event—TED began releasing talks from the conference online, for free. Rather than sinking TED’s business model, this strategy of radical openness grew its audience from 1000 attendees to 150 million users worldwide, evolving the organization from an event to a global platform for spreading ideas. June Cohen led TED’s transition online, and will share the inside story of how the organization has architected these changes and managed the unexpected growth. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Paul Buchheit from Facebook at web2.0 EXPO: Here is a video:

The last century created sitcoms and TV shows. This generation is searching for our own, and the Internet is ready to give it to them. Here is a video from web2.0 EXPO:

Visa payWave is a new payment feature that lets you check out faster since you don’t need to fumble for cash. With Visa payWave, you simply wave your Visa card in front of a secure reader, and you're on your way. Most of the time, a signature is not required for purchases under $25, plus, you retain control of the card during the transaction, which reduces the risk of fraud. Visa already released a similar technology in Malaysia and Japan .  Last year, for example, the company teamed up with Nokia and Maybank, a leading financial institution in Malaysia, to offer Visa payWave on mobile devices. But at the time, the company claimed that several barriers to U.S. adoption still remained, many of which had to due with the limited adoption of NFC-enabled devices and terminals here in the U.S. (NFC, or near field communications, is a wireless communication technology that enables data exchanges between devices. The technology is popular overseas in Europe and Asia, but has yet to catch...

51% of Twitter users follow brands While just 16% of users on other social networks follow them. On another hand, where can you achieve more results easily? by Edison

I use few browsers at once (i have reasons for that...) what I want to have in Google Chrome is "page title bar on the top". How to enable it? Launch Chrome, then click on the wrench to the right of the address bar. Then go to Options, and then the Personal Stuff tab. You’ll see the setting to change at the bottom of that window. Simply click the circle next to Use system title bar and borders.

Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. I was using it in windows xp a lot. Now in Windows 7 it's gone... And not so easy to fix this, without know how: 1. Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights. To open Command Prompt, type CMD in Start menu and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the Command Prompt with Admin rights. 2. Next, type the below command and hit enter: powercfg /hibernate on This will enable Hybernate support in your Windows 7. If you can’t see the Hibernate option in Start menu then do the following tasks: 1) Type Power Options in Start menu and hit enter. 2)  In the left pane, open the link labeled “Change when the computer sleeps” and then open the link “Change advanced power settings”. 3) Under the Advanced Sleep options, expand the Sleep tree and turn off Hybrid Sleep. 4) Now go back to Start menu to see the new Hibernate entry. I hope this helps,

In social media we always ask - What is the monetary value of these fans or how to monetize them. For example - What did Starbucks gain, then invested in it's Facebook fan base - acquired in part with several big ad buys. Now it;s  6.5 million fan base which is worth $23.4 million in media annually . How we get this number - The company's findings are based on: impressions generated in the Facebook news feed the stream of recent updates from users' networks. Brand's 1 million fans generate about $300,000 in media value each month. Stats, by "Virtue"

Duplicate content in Google. If you have a product catalog, and a single "sales page" with the same products. Should you add this page to robots.txt and block it? Google say as always focus to the end users - they like sales product pages, and if it is single or few of them that it doesn't matter

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort H. Albright