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Remotely connecting two computers is still a pretty big pain. It usually requires two parties jumping through a bunch of hoops to get things working. This includes each computer having the same software, using various passwords, and waiting on a connection. iTwin, a new startup launching today at TechCrunch50 aims to make the process entirely plug and play.

iTwin takes the idea of remote connection and transfers it to hardware. A simple two-part USB drive allows one user to plug it in to one computer and then snap off and hand the second part to someone else with another computer. They will then have instant access to the other computer. It’s as if there was a hard line cable connecting two computers anywhere in the world, but there is no cable, just the USB drives and the Internet. As iTwin puts it, they’re the “cable-less cable.”

The idea came to the team when they realized that remote access to a second computer was simply too complicated for most users. Everyone gets how to use USB drives, but those simply either don’t have enough storage to share an entire other computer’s hard drive, or are not secure enough (you could lose the drive, etc). So iTwin combines the two technologies.

This is a product totally designed for the mass market, not the techies, though they’re obviously welcome to buy and use it as well, iTwin notes. Next year, some 200 million flash drives are expected to be sold, that’s the market iTwin is looking at.

The plan is to launch iTwin in the first half of 2010 for $99. CEO Lux Anatharaman and COO Kal Takru presented the company today. They are based in Singapore.

Expert Panel Q&A (paraphrased)

Q: Security is a big concern.

LA: Everything is encrypted.

Q: What happens when I lose the other half?

LA:You just pull out your half and your data is safe.

Q: How many people are in the company?

LA: Two of us and three engineers.

Q: Does this kill remote desktop?

LA: It certainly could.

Q: How much does this cost?

LA: Eventually if we make enough of these it will be super cheap to make. We will distrupt portable storage.

Q: What distribution channels?

KT: We will initially sell it online through our own web store. The initial launch with be in Singapore, in 6 months in U.S. and Europe.

Q: File sync is a big problem. How do you compete with what Microsoft is doing with Live Mesh, with its free offering.

LA: Uploading a terabyte to the cloud is still too time consuming and expensive. This is a two-person device to give people a very easy and tangible way to save something.

Q: Would you take another meeting with them?

DD: Pass
YV: Pass
RC: I’m software too but I would consider
GZ: I would take another meeting
JH: Cool technology but retail is tough.

Hello again, it’s time for comprehensive programming article. Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well. My favorite here is the first pick – Outside the box with very unique navigation menu. It’s always good to have such reference articles in your bookmarks and when you have to create some really big website with a lot of content and menu sections – just return here. Shorten your developing process with already premade menus, which can be easily modified with little touch of CSS.

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Today Smartphone are more than just a superior piece of hardware, the UI and applications make the biggest difference. And Apple’s has managed to change the way the industry and consumers perceive a smart phone with the iPhone alone. Right from the multi-touch UI to the App store which is a cut above the rest. A lot has been said and written about how the iTunes App Store leads the applications industry and how Nokia has failed to produce anything significant to compete with the same. And its certainly true that the iTunes app store leads with a billion app downloads, 65000+ apps live and 8500 apps coming in to Apple every week for review.

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For Apple and its developers the task is fairly simple (not implying that its no hard work), as all their iTouch devices have the same screen size, structure and Operating System. Thus there is no great compatibility issues when developing apps for the iPhone or the iPod touch. On the other hand Nokia has 75 models for which it is trying to implement the Ovi Store. This is a challenging job as Nokia has different software profiles (Symbian 40, 60, 60 2nd edition etc) and different screen sizes, resolution, hardware layout etc. Thus getting an app live on the Ovi Store requires much more effort.

The different is in the vision. Nokia is developing mobile phones since over a decade, while Apple has just entered the marked along with the smart phone boom, their approach was better planned and revolutionizing. This makes the task of getting a app store competitor for Nokia a big uphill fight. While I would agree that the App Store leads and its certainly fabulous, I would give Nokia the benefit that they have a much wider audience to satisfy.

Hope they improve, innovate and bring us something good. At the end its the consumers (that’s you and me) who benefits from all this competition.

This is a guest post by Annkur Agarwal who writes at OnlyGizmos Network. If you like his article you can consider following him on Twitter @annkur

Yesterday UK-based SEO specialist Dave Naylor made headlines by detailing a significant Twitter cross-site scripting vulnerability, which allowed him to insert JavaScript code into tweets simply by adding some code to the field where an application developer would normally link to a product website. There are all sorts of malicious things people could have done to exploit the bug, like steal session cookies, create a Twitter worm or even infect unaware visitors with malware, so it’s safe to say this was a massive security threat.

Sure enough, when word got out Twitter moved to patch the bug to prevent such bad stuff from happening. John Adams from Twitter Operations even commented on Naylor’s blog to point out the hole had been closed shortly after he published his post.

Well, not quite.

Naylor today followed up on yesterday’s blog post with another one correctly claiming that the exploit still very much works. He proved as much by creating another dummy account on Twitter, which pops up a (harmless) dialog box when you visit the link through the website. Twitter may suspend this account soon, much like they did with the first dummy account Naylor created to make his point, so I included a screenshot of what happens when you visit that profile on top of this post.

Naylor writes:

With a few minutes work, someone with a bit of technical expertise could make a Twitter ‘application’ and start sending tweets with it. Using the simple instructions below, it can be arranged so that if another Twitter user so much as sees one of these tweets - and they are logged in to Twitter - their account could be taken over.

Imagine that for a moment. Simply by seeing one of these tweets, code can be run inside your browser impersonating you and doing anything that your browser can do. Perhaps it may simply redirect you to a pornographic website? Or maybe delete all of your tweets? Send a message to all of your friends? Maybe it would delete all of your followers, or worse still, just send the details needed to log in to your account off to another website for someone to use at their leisure.

In my opinion, it’s completely unacceptable that Twitter engineers never got in touch with Naylor to learn more about the exploit and adequately fix the problem, which the SEO consultant correctly marks a shame. Instead, the startup’s tech team apparently tried fixing it without really looking at the potential security issues:

Their idea of fixing it is to stop you putting spaces in the address box. Spaces. Other than that, everything else is fair game.

It’s important to note that you’re probably safe when you use any third-party client for your Twitter needs, although I’d recommend you make use of the more popular ones and stop visiting the Twitter website for the next couple of days. Whatever you do, be careful when you click links to Twitter profiles you don’t know, even when they are linked to by people you know and trust, and be on the lookout for suspicious-looking applications used to send out tweets.

We’ve contacted Twitter to let them know the security threat is still very much present. Hopefully, we’ll see an adequate fix and a statement from the startup soon.

Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.

Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.

Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.

Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.

If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below.

1. Web Trend Map 4

2. Period Table of Typefaces

3. Global Internet Traffic Map

4. Classifying Experiences

5. Flickr User Model

6. The Browser Wars

7. A Month of Spam

8. The Life of an Article on the Web

9. Online Communities Map

10. Map of the World 2.0 Mosaic

11. The Internet’s Undersea World

12. Search Engine Spider Traps

13. Google PageRank Explained

14. Building a Company with Social Media

15. SEO Check List

16. The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits—to You

17. Software Wars

18. Who Participates Online

19. What 16 Million Colors Looks Like

20. Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

21. Periodic Table of the Internet

22. Country Codes of the World

23. Apple’s Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses

24. Infoporn: The Cost of Living on the Bleeding Edge of Technology

25. Map of All Yahoo! APIs and Services

26. Digital Media Weights and Measures

27. Global Color Usage with Respect to Time and Location / 2009 / SML + Adobe Kuler Pulse

28. Facebook vs. Twitter

Do you feel infographics are effective to display information? Please share with us any other infographics that can be of interest to web designers.

 

By Minda Zetlin

Most businesses think of Twitter as a promotional tool, but it can also be used to find sales leads. Here's how to use Twitter to find potential customers and how to convert those contacts into sales.

Boloco, a burrito restaurant chain with 16 locations often runs ads in a Boston newspaper. The ads contain coupons for the chain’s popular burritos for a special price of $3. It makes sense to advertise in Boston, since 13 of the chain’s 16 restaurants are there, but CEO and co-founder John Pepper wished the ads could also bring customers to Boloco restaurants in New Hampshire and Vermont. So, when he ran one recent ad, Pepper also posted a photo of the coupon on Twitter, inviting diners to bring in any image of the coupon -- a photocopy, printout, or even an image on a mobile phone -- to get the discount.

“It was a way to bring people outside Boston in the print advertising, and a way to increase our visibility,” says Pepper, whose Twitter ID is @boloco. The tactic proved wildly successful, he says. “Usually we get about 350 coupons on that kind of promotion. This time we got 900, including the mobile phones. About 25 percent of our transactions that day came from the coupon, which never happens.” In effect, he says, posting the ad on Twitter decreased cost per reader by increasing circulation.

Connecting with customers

Most business that use Twitter think of it mostly as a promotional tool, a way to announce new products, perhaps gain readers for a blog. But some smarter companies are actually using Twitter to sell products, such as Dell Corp., which recently acknowledged that it had made $3 million in sales in two years over Twitter, primarily by posting coupon numbers for discounts of 10 percent or more on Dell Outlet items.

“There’s no reason not to try Twitter,” notes Stefanie Nelson, marketing manager for Dell, who created Dell Outlet’s Twitter campaign. “There’s no cost, and it’s a limited time commitment, at least it was for me at the beginning. Before we built up the following and reach that we have now, it took me literally minutes a week.” (Things have gotten a bit busier now that @DellOutlet has over 700,000 followers.)

According to Nelson, the most important first step is to know exactly what you want your tweets to accomplish. “Understand why you’re on Twitter,” she says. In her case, she adds, the objective was to quickly sell Dell Outlet items, which are usually excess inventory. And, she says, “If you know your objective, and who your target audience is, Twitter can be just as effective for a small company as a large one.”

Boost sales with Tweets

Using coupons to create boost sales is only one way to reach customers with tweets. Here are a few others:

1. Give your company a human face. Pepper uses TweetDeck to track mentions of “Boloco” on Twitter, and one day it flagged a tweet in which a woman bemoaned the cool, rainy weather this summer and pondered whether to spend the afternoon at Boloco or a different restaurant. “I’ll respond to that one, with something like, ‘I vote for Boloco!’” he says. Twitter users are usually pleasantly surprised, he adds. “They expect @Boloco to be like @DunkinDonuts. They don’t expect to hear from the head of the company.” There’s a delicate balance between making human contact, and sharing too many everyday details that may not interest your customers, Nelson says, a dilemma she partly addresses by using @StefanieatDell for more personal tweets. Whatever you do, she advises, avoid spamming followers with promotional direct messages not specifically written for them.
2. Find customers when they’re looking for your product or service. Searching Twitter can be a very effective way to find new customers. For instance, Rocky Mountain Ace Stores, an affiliation of Denver area Ace store owners, uses monitter to search Twitter for both keywords and locations of tweeters. One day, the group flagged a Denver man worrying about insects in his lawn. “So we tweeted to him about beneficial insects, such as ladybugs, which will eat bugs all summer, and which we sell,” says Andy Carlson, who owns an Ace store in Denver and is on the group’s board. “He wound up coming in to one of our stores and buying ladybugs.” Chris Savage, CEO of Wistia, a video-sharing site for business use, advises putting some thought into picking the terms you search on Twitter, just as you would for meta tags. “Research the most frequently searched terms in your market on Google and other search engines,” he says. “Then search or monitor those terms on Twitter.
3. Deal with disgruntled customers -- fast. One evening Ace customers posted an angry tweet because a tool he’d bought from a Denver area store broke after one use. “We got in touch, recommended which store he should go to to return the item, and alerted the manager at that store,” Carlson says. “He didn’t know that Ace hand tools all carry a lifetime guarantee.” The man was very impressed, and went from being angry at Ace to being a devoted Ace customer. The complaining tweet came through late at night, Carlson notes, well after the stores were closed. And, he says, it was especially important to intervene quickly. “You don’t know whether he’s going to go back to the store right away, or stew about it for three or four days and tell more people. The more time between the bad experience and the resolution, the more likely he is to tell his friends, so the quicker we can solve a problem, the better.”

And that’s the nice thing about Twitter, he says. “You can catch a problem when it happens, and do something about it.”

FROM : http://technology.inc.com/internet/articles/200907/twitter.html?partner=newsletter_Technology

A gripe A e a evolução da possibilidade de contágio, levou o Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes Terrestres (IMTT) a recomendar aos utentes, esta quarta-feira, o recurso aos serviços on-line, evitando as concentrações de pessoas em espaços públicos fechados.

 

Através do site na Internet, o IMTT relembra os utilizadores que podem aceder aos vários serviços, disponibilizados on-line, constituindo uma alternativa ao atendimento personalizado.

Entre os vários serviços disponíveis, os condutores podem efectuar o pedido, pela internet, de licenciamento de veículos, de revalidação da carta de condução, de alteração de morada, entre outros disponíveis no site do IMTT.

«O recurso aos Serviços on-line, além de permitir maior comodidade e rapidez, pode constituir uma forma de protecção contra a gripe, na medida em que contribui para evitar a concentração de pessoas em espaços públicos fechados», explica o IMTT.

É apresentada ainda uma outra vantagem na utilização dos serviços on-line, que consiste na redução das taxas aplicadas em dez por cento, relativamente àquelas que são cobradas num balcão de atendimento presencial.

Todavia, os serviços do IMTT estão disponíveis igualmente em Lojas do Cidadão e Postos de Atendimento ao Cidadão. Os utilizadores contam ainda com um serviço de atendimento telefónico, através da linha 808 50 20 20, disponível entre as 9:00 e as 19:30, de segunda a sexta-feira, facultando esclarecimentos relacionados com condutores, veículos ou actividades de transporte.

Fonte :  http://diario.iol.pt/tecnologia/imtt-utentes-internet-gripe-a-servicos-tvi24/1080215-4069.html

Over the last few months, YouTube has made it clear that it’s keen on helping its premium content partners monetize as effectively as possible — and it’s obviously having some success doing it, with the number of monetized views increasing rapidly. Today the site is launching a new feature that will give those monetization rates another boost: YouTube Promoted Video campaigns will now be able to appear on a video’s ‘watch’ page, turning the product into what’s effectively an ‘AdSense for YouTube’.

For those that aren’t famililar with the terminology YouTube uses to identify its pages and advertising products, here’s what that means. Up until now Promoted Video campaigns have been primarily shown on search result pages — I might run a campaign with “guitar” as a keyword, and when someone did a search for that term, my video would show up as a promoted result. In this sense, the program was quite similar to Google’s AdWords feature. Today, though, YouTube is going to begin showing Promoted Videos on the ‘Watch’ pages, where videos are actually shown alongside comments and related other content. Promoted videos that appear here will be matched with the content that’s already on the page, hence the AdSense comparison. Anyone running a promoted video campaign will be able to choose if they’d like to stick with the old product (displaying their video in search results) or on the Watch page.

Premium content partners will also benefit from the product — whenever a Promoted Video is matched against a piece of content they own (or that they’ve identified using Content ID), they’ll get a cut of the revenue as well.

I spoke with YouTube Product Manager Matthew Liu, who says that the addition is part of YouTube’s overarching goal of increasing the amount of money its partners can generate (the more money they make, the more content they put up — and YouTube makes more money in turn). Before now, the site has done this in a few ways: it makes it easier for partners to monetize more videos with Content ID, which lets them monetize UGC, and it allows partners to run Featured Video campaigns, which drive more traffic by heavily promoting the videos to YouTube users. And, obviously, today’s release will let them earn revenue through yet another channel as users begin running Promoted Video campaigns against their premium content.

Well, Twitter didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize for its role in getting the word out about the Iran election protests earlier this summer, but it did gain about 7 million new visitors in the month of June. Twitter’s website attracted a total of 44.5 million unique visitors worldwide in June, 2009, according to comScore.

Twitter’s worldwide audience grew a healthy 19 percent from May, 2009 (and an even healthier 1,460 percent from June, 2008, when its worldwide audience was just 2.9 million).

With 20 million of its visitors coming from the U.S., Twitter’s audience is now 55 percent international. ComScore now counts it as the No. 52 largest site in the world (bigger than ESPN, just shy of the BBC and Craigslist).

These estimates only count traffic to Twitter.com. Since more than half of Twitter users don’t even go to the Website, and instead use Twitter apps to consume and publish Tweets, Twitter’s total audience is even larger. But comScore provides a consistent measure of its growth.