aft news / With the upcoming U.S. elections only 12 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration. According to a blog post about the new U.S. Voter Info site, Google found it hard to believe that in 2008, this type of important information isn’t better organized on the web. Because organizing info is what Google is all about, they took it on themselves to step in where government has not and have created an incredibly useful site for all U.S. citizens.
The U.S Voter Info Site
The U.S. Voter Info site was developed in partnership with with several state and local election officials, the League of Women Voters, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and others involved in the Voting Information Project. In true Google form, the site appears to as just a simple interface that hides the complicated data processing going on in the back-end. All you have to do to use the new site is enter in your home address in the box provided and click “Search.”
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aft news / Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter. What did it get? A botched Microsoft buyout; a search deal with Google that’s getting a rough reception by antitrust cops in Washington, D.C.; and Carl Icahn on its board — a man Jerry Yang and company called a technological nincompoop on Yahoo’s own homepage. In other words, nothing — save for cutting its operating income by more than a third. That $37 million did, however, result in one concrete cost-saving initiative. Rest and Source
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aft news / Swf Version.com is a free and easy service for this.
aftnews / Yes, Google has laid off employees before. But those were DoubleClick employees. America’s CTO, Eric Schmidt, managed to cull any deadwood from Google’s Mountain View campus without it becoming a hot story. This time it’s different, writes one of my leakers, and all the smart people can smell it. Here’s the algorithm. Read The Rest
aftnews / Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls. Scroll Follow has been successfully, though not extensively, tested on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Safari 3, and Opera 9 all on Windows. Click Here For Details and Download
What is VFrot
aftnews / VFront is a dynamic front-end for MySQL or PostgreSQL databases written in PHP and Javascript. With VFront you can create forms for manage your data in AJAX style, different rules and privileges for groups, report in XML,HTML,PDF,statistics and much more. VFront is released under GPL license (version 2.0).
To whom and what VFront is useful
- VFront is useful for companies,brands or organizations, which use MySQL or PostgreSQL, in need of an easy consulting or modyfing access to database by their own employed whithout developing a specific client for that but simply using a web browser.
- Think about VFront as an interface tool for database, similar for some functions to MS access, but taking the lead with an easy access via web.VFront is not a database administration tool like phpMyAdmin and it’s not replacing it : interface is for basic user working on data.
- VFront is created for non-expert users capable to work safely on data using an intuitive graphic interface.
- VFront is particularly useful when various and/or several users have to access to database using different privileges: a higly customizable system of groups and privileges makes access possible for various employed to specific tables or views, shows/hides specific fields, sets rules for input validation and keeps under control all the database activities.
- VFront has export data modules, statistics and report management based on xml, xsl and xsl-fo protocols.
- VFront can be useful too for those who, generically, are in need of an easy to install and configure database front-end.
aftnews / This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and Wordpress. Click Here for icons
O letter lover Google Founder started a blog at blogspot.com. There’s not google ads at the blog. He doesn’t plan to monetize it yet :p You’ll see this message at the blog written by Sergey Brin; “Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means “in addition”, as this blog reflects my life outside of work.” Visit The Blog
I found a nice article about blogs and their influence at BusinessWeek.
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later
Editor’s note: The May, 2005, cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business,” continues to receive lots of attention online. But many of the details in the story are out of date. So we’ve called many of the original sources and asked readers to help provide fixes and updates. For the version of the story with 2008 annotations, please visit www.businessweek.com/go/08/blog.
Monday 9:30 a.m. It’s time for a frank talk. And no, it can’t wait. We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs. Don’t even want to hear about these millions of online journals that link together into a vast network. And yes, there’s plenty out there not to like. Self-obsession, politics of hate, and the same hunger for fame that has people lining up to trade punches on The Jerry Springer Show. Name just about anything that’s sick in our society today, and it’s on parade in the blogs. On lots of them, even the writing stinks.
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Aftnews, started a campaign and buzz over the internet to save Sitemeter from a very big mistake.
Currently, there is a surprising note on the front page of Sitemeter;
We are in the process of rolling back SiteMeter to the former system.
SiteMeter should be back online soon.
Please check back later.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Sincerely, SiteMeter Support Team.
Hey Sitemeter Guys, you didn’t ask us what do you expect from Sitemeter but you did what we want at the end. Now please bring us “all sites at one account property with previous sitemeter interface“.
Thank You Guys, Now i triple times love Sitemeter and i’ll keep on supporting you. I won’t ask you what was that, why was that.
Here is The Sitemeter’s Official Open Letter;
Dear Valued SiteMeter Customers,
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we’ve chosen to roll back our website to the previous “classic” version.
Based on some performance issues we were experiencing along with feedback from the community it appears we have pushed our new site live prematurely.
Our intention is and has always been to offer you, our customer’s better tools and more accurate data. Obviously we fell short of this. The first thing we need to do, moving forward, is to roll out new product releases in parallel to our current platform. This will give everyone a chance to try out, evaluate, and comment on our new concepts.
We would also like to take this opportunity to ask those of you who had issues or concerns with the new site to participate in future beta testing. We had originally asked for Beta Tester in two of our newsletters sent earlier this year so we’re eager to build our beta group even larger. If you’re interested in participating please send us an email using our support ticketing system with BETA TESTER in the subject line of your email.
In the near term we’ll be evaluating the performance issues and feedback from our community. If you have additional input that would help us build you a better product we’d like to hear from you.
We apologize for the botched rollout and will do our best to make sure the next time we do this it has your full support and blessing.
Sincerely,
The SiteMeter Team
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