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Web Reviews and Purchase Decisions
September 26th, 2009 by Frank
If you find yourself in the middle of deciding on buying a particular service or product, you can simply open your favorite web browser, and key in a few keywords. Most of the time, we purchase stuff without even reading what others think of them. But with the Internet you won’t have to purchase lemons anymore. Just check out user reviews online prior to purchase, or when choosing between brands and models.
We want to get good value for our money. Much of this can be done by checking out product reviews first. Sites like epinions and other similar review sites can be helpful, but you can also search through blogs for honest to goodness reviews.
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (3/3)
August 30th, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano
GeoTools
With Wikimapia, you can also measure distance, land area and even map IP addresses. This is made possible by the Wikimapia’s Geotools feature which is available in the menu situated in the top of the page. These features are available to everyone as it does not require registration.
Users can also label/mark roads or routes with the use of segments and points, after that the selection can be named and be given description as if it was a location. This option, however is only available to registered users.
Wikipedia has earns its income through Google ads. But the creators of WikiMapia sought for investors last July 2007,
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (2/3)
July 24th, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano
Mark the world with Wikimapia
WikiMapia has the “Tag a location†feature that enables contributors to append a”tag” to any selected location by highlighting the location with the use of the rectangular highlight, and then setting a language to be used, a title, and determining the type of location using predefined location types(restaurant, school, residential area etc). There is also space for optional notes and users can also attach keyword tags, images and even embedded YouTube videos, all of which appear on the place’s info window. Users can also add non-rectangular places using green bordered polygons.
Location tagging can be done in different languages, 64 languages are currently supported by Wikimapia.
To be continued…
Describe the world: Wikimapia review (1/3)
June 22nd, 2009 by editor
by mheo soriano
Describe the world with Wikimapia
Describe the world, this is the tagline of Wikimapia when it was launched on May 24, 2006.
It is a map and satellite imaging resource that integrates the Google Maps with a wiki system which allows users to add information about the selected location anywhere around the globe.
Wikimapia is the brainchild of Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev.
It became very popular that it was included in list of the top 1000 frequently visited websites.
As of today Wikimapia more than 7 million places marked by users. Even though access to
Wikimapia does not require registration, more than 153,000 users from around the world have registered.
To be continued…
Microsoft’s New OS Win 7 – New OS Same Old Packaging
May 26th, 2009 by Frank
The company has announced that their new and latest operating system package would be released into several forms beginning with a starter pack up to the most expensive one designed for extreme users. This is already drawing anger form people who were hit with the same dilemma when Vista came out with different flavors to the popular OS prompting most who jumped onto the new system to downgrade back to Windows XP. The OS would also come out in two variants of 32 and 64 bit with three flavors to each of the variants for a total of six types. This may prove problematic to Microsoft due to the bad aftertaste they are still getting from the backlash of Vista’s failure so they are treading in dangerous waters. « Read the rest of this entry »
Search Engine Relevance
April 26th, 2009 by Frank
As it seems, the tides are turning for the Google search engine which has been increasingly receiving challenge from Facebook as the search engine of choice for more realistic day to day situations, why? Well, trust plays a key part in the said shift of focus and with millions of problem results given by Google as part of their searches, they simply cannot go through the vast amount of web page data to determine which sites can be trusted or not. Questions like; “Where’s the best place to eat true Italian Pizza in Chicago?” or “Which Day-care center has better people?” are quite personal and with too much commercialized focus on Google searches, they may be loosing in the overall battle for search engine supremacy. « Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Aims High with their Search Engine
March 26th, 2009 by Frank
Microsoft, hurt much and itching to get a piece of the search engine market pie, a majority of which is held by Google followed by Yahoo, which they have failed to acquire is betting high on their version of the search engine dubbed “Bing” (formerly “Kumo”). The software giant is projecting expenditures of around $80 to a $100 million in advertising in hopes of getting people onto their new product to host their Live Search facility. People are quite wary of Microsoft due to the very much proprietary software it makes, some of which like IE subject of anti-competitor features and other quite humiliating commercial moves like the failed Vista. They have been itching a lot since repetitive talks with Yahoo Inc., has resulted in no winners and seemingly frustrated, they have been working on their own search engine to rival both of the biggest in the industry. « Read the rest of this entry »
If you think you won something, you didn’t
February 18th, 2009 by editor
Have you ever heard of the online phonomenon (more ILLEGAL activity actually) of “Phishing“?
“Phishing” refers to the illegal collection and procurement of people’s private and sensitive information like passwords and credit card numbers – illegal, because of the way it is procured.
Phishing is done primarily through data entered into forms by unsuspecting individuals. It starts of quite innocently – you receive an unsolicited email informing you that you won or are entitled to a certain amount of money (although you did non join any contest or know the person who’s supposedly sending you money). All you have to is go to a website and fill out an online form. This in turn, becomes the gateway for which phishers digitally “fish” your information for their personal use.
So to be safe, steer clear of promos or offers that seem too good to be true, because chances are, they are.
Of spam, splogs and scams
January 10th, 2009 by Frank
The internet is truly a dangerous place where the uninformed and the gullible are the best prey for the internet’s predators called hackers, black hats or whatever you’d want to call them abound. Get that crazy email that tells you you won a ton of money, its a phishing(more on the next post) scam, they are only after your information if you fall for them. Splogs target your blog/s, flooding them with tons of comments or posts that are aimed to promoting Viagra and many other crazy stuff. Scams abound in the net, from fake web sites that look good as the real thing, except they are downloading malware into your computer as you go on your way, finding weaknesses inside, leaving software to wreak havoc in your life.
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Beware of dangerous sites!
December 19th, 2008 by editor
Although most people are aware that trojans and worms are easily contracted just by viewing a site, there are still some who needs education, as the report below will show you:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.
“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,†said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.â€
With significant awareness, the average internet user will be able to discern which sites seem dangerous and which isn’t.