Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users.
This isn’t a big surprise — the event invites Facebook sent out hinted strongly that the news would have something to do with its Inbox, sparking plenty of speculation that the event could be related to Titan. Our understanding is that this is more than just a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service with POP access tacked on. Rather, Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client, and while it may only be in early stages come its launch Monday, there’s a huge amount of potential here.
Facebook has the world’s most popular photos product, the most popular events product, and soon will have a very popular local deals product as well. It can tweak the design of its webmail client to display content from each of these in a seamless fashion (and don’t forget messages from games, or payments via Facebook Credits). And there’s also the social element: Facebook knows who your friends are and how closely you’re connected to them; it can probably do a pretty good job figuring out which personal emails you want to read most and prioritize them accordingly.
Oh, and assuming our sources prove accurate, this explains the timing of the Google/Facebook slap fight over contact information.
We’ll keep digging for more details and will have full coverage on Monday.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sign-up for a Google Libraries API Key
on "Sign-up for an API key" it saying "The requested URL /
ajaxsearch/signup.html was not found on this server."
What is wrong with google..
Can somebody point me in the right direction.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Bring Your Phone to Work Day: Managing Android Devices With Google Apps - Official Google Mobile Blog
Bring Your Phone to Work Day: Managing Android Devices With Google Apps
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | 9:12 AM
(Cross-posted and excerpted from the Official Google Enterprise Blog)
With over 200,000 devices activated each day, Android is seeing rapid adoption, and today we are launching new administrative controls that make it possible to securely manage these devices in the Google Apps environment. With this launch, Google Apps provides a comprehensive mobility solution for all major mobile platforms. You can manage most mobile devices right from the browser, without having to deploy dedicated servers.
Many Android devices feature tight integration with Google Apps, including native applications for Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar, as well as mobile access to Google Docs. Now any employee with an Android device running version 2.2 - personal or company-issued - can access their corporate information while allowing administrators to enforce data security policies such as:
When the employee leaves the company, the administrator can withdraw access to corporate info, which allows the employee to continue to use their device if it’s their own
- Remotely wipe all data from lost or stolen mobile devices
- Lock idle devices after a period of inactivity
- Require a device password on each phone
- Set minimum lengths for more secure passwords
- Require passwords to include letters and numbers
These policies can be enforced on devices that have installed the Google Apps Device Policy application, which will be available from Android Market in the next few days. They will be available free to all Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers in the next few days, and can be accessed from the 'Mobile' tab under 'Service Settings' in the Google Apps control panel.
To learn more about these updates in mobile device management for Google Apps, join us for a live webcast with Mayur Kamat, Google Apps Product Manager, on November 10, 2010 at 9 a.m. PDT / 12 p.m. EDT / 6 p.m. GMT. Register now
Posted by Amit Singh, Vice President of International Sales, Google Enterprise
Labels: android, Google Apps, google apps device policy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Chinese Supercomputer Tianhe-1A Bumps U.S. Out of the Lead
A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower.
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The Tianhe-1A computer in Tianjin, China, links thousands upon thousands of chips.
The computer, known as Tianhe-1A, has 1.4 times the horsepower of the current top computer, which is at a national laboratory in Tennessee, as measured by the standard test used to gauge how well the systems handle mathematical calculations, said Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who maintains the official supercomputer rankings.
Although the official list of the top 500 fastest machines, which comes out every six months, is not due to be completed by Mr. Dongarra until next week, he said the Chinese computer “blows away the existing No. 1 machine.” He added, “We don’t close the books until Nov. 1, but I would say it is unlikely we will see a system that is faster.”
Officials from the Chinese research center, the National University of Defense Technology, are expected to reveal the computer’s performance on Thursday at a conference in Beijing. The center says it is “under the dual supervision of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education.”
The race to build the fastest supercomputer has become a source of national pride as these machines are valued for their ability to solve problems critical to national interests in areas like defense, energy, finance and science. Supercomputing technology also finds its way into mainstream business; oil and gas companies use it to find reservoirs and Wall Street traders use it for superquick automated trades. Procter & Gamble even uses supercomputers to make sure that Pringles go into cans without breaking.
And typically, research centers with large supercomputers are magnets for top scientific talent, adding significance to the presence of the machines well beyond just cranking through calculations.
Over the last decade, the Chinese have steadily inched up in the rankings of supercomputers. Tianhe-1A stands as the culmination of billions of dollars in investment and scientific development, as China has gone from a computing afterthought to a world technology superpower.
“What is scary about this is that the U.S. dominance in high-performance computing is at risk,” said Wu-chun Feng, a supercomputing expert and professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. “One could argue that this hits the foundation of our economic future.”
Modern supercomputers are built by combining thousands of small computer servers and using software to turn them into a single entity. In that sense, any organization with enough money and expertise can buy what amount to off-the-shelf components and create a fast machine.
The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia. But the secret sauce behind the system — and the technological achievement — is the interconnect, or networking technology, developed by Chinese researchers that shuttles data back and forth across the smaller computers at breakneck rates, Mr. Dongarra said.
“That technology was built by them,” Mr. Dongarra said. “They are taking supercomputing very seriously and making a deep commitment.”
The Chinese interconnect can handle data at about twice the speed of a common interconnect called InfiniBand used in many supercomputers.
For decades, the United States has developed most of the underlying technology that goes into the massive supercomputers and has built the largest, fastest machines at research laboratories and universities. Some of the top systems simulate the effects of nuclear weapons, while others predict the weather and aid in energy research.
In 2002, the United States lost its crown as supercomputing kingpin for the first time in stunning fashion when Japan unveiled a machine with more horsepower than the top 20 American computers combined. The United States government responded in kind, forming groups to plot a comeback and pouring money into supercomputing projects. The United States regained its leadership status in 2004, and has kept it, until now.
At the computing conference on Thursday in China, the researchers will discuss how they are using the new system for scientific research in fields like astrophysics and bio-molecular modeling. Tianhe-1A, which is housed in a building at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, can perform mathematical operations about 29 million times faster than one of the earliest supercomputers, built in 1976.
For the record, it performs 2.5 times 10 to the 15th power mathematical operations per second.
Mr. Dongarra said a long-running Chinese project to build chips to rival those from Intel and others remained under way and looked promising. “It’s not quite there yet, but it will be in a year or two,” he said.
He also said that in November, when the list comes out, he expected a second Chinese computer to be in the top five, culminating years of investment.
“The Japanese came out of nowhere and really caught people off guard,” Mr. Feng said. “With China, you could see this one coming.”
Steven J. Wallach, a well-known computer designer, played down the importance of taking the top spot on the supercomputer rankings.
“It’s interesting, but it’s like getting to the four-minute mile,” Mr. Wallach said. “The world didn’t stop. This is just a snapshot in time.”
The research labs often spend weeks tuning their systems to perform well on the standard horsepower test. But just because a system can hammer through trillions of calculations per second does not mean it will do well on the specialized jobs that researchers want to use it for, Mr. Wallach added.
The United States has plans in place to make much faster machines out of proprietary components and to advance the software used by these systems so that they are easy for researchers to use. But those computers remain years away, and for now, China is king.
“They want to show they are No. 1 in the world, no matter what it is,” Mr. Wallach said. “I don’t blame them.”
Monday, October 25, 2010
Photo World: Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairmanof Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third.During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Post video on facebook wall using PHP | TheUnical Technologies Blog
Post video on facebook wall using PHP
First Follow the 5 Steps from my Previous post http://blog.theunical.com/facebook-integration/5-steps-to-publish-on-a-facebook-wall-using-php/ then in last program include the below code to publish a photo and also meta data on a facebook wall.
01<?php
02/**
03* Here is a comment!
04*/
05$message='Watch this video!';
06$attachment=array('name'=>'ninja cat','href'=>'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M','caption'=>'{*actor*} uploaded a video to www.youtube.com','description'=>'a sneaky cat','properties'=>array('category'=>array('text'=>'pets','href'=>'http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&c=15'),'ratings'=>'5 stars'),'media'=>array(array('type'=>'video','video_src'=>'http://www.youtube.com/v/fzzjgBAaWZw&hl=en&fs=1','preview_img'=>''
,'video_link'=>'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M','video_title'=>'ninja cat')));
07
08$action_links=array(array('text'=>'Upload a video','href'=>'http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload'));
09$target_id= 2342314;->api_client->stream_publish($message,$attachment,$action_links,$target_id);
10
11?>Exiting isn’t it.
– Steven
-->
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Comments
9 Comments on Post video on facebook wall using PHP
5 Steps to publish on a facebook wall using php | TheUnical Technologies Blog on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 5:45 am
Bruno Gomes on Wed, 24th Mar 2010 10:18 pm
Hello…
Thanks for the code..
I have a little question.. Do u have a script that uploads a photo to facebook.
Thanks.
Steven Robert on Thu, 25th Mar 2010 10:10 am
Yes Bruno, check this page http://blog.theunical.com/facebook-integration/add-picture-on-facebook-wall-using-php/.
kamarul on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 1:48 am
Dear Steven,
Thank you for your script. Anyway, I got problem when publishing it on my wall. It just appear post on wall. nothing else. Hope you can help me out.
Steven Robert on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 3:52 am
hi Kamarul,
There are many problems solved here pls check http://blog.theunical.com/facebook-integration/5-steps-to-publish-on-a-facebook-wall-using-php/
Steven Robert on Wed, 16th Jun 2010 12:39 pm
Kamarul did u followed all the steps?
kamarul on Thu, 17th Jun 2010 9:51 am
Hi Steven,
Yes, i followed until step 5 and uploaded into server. But not working.
Steven Robert on Thu, 17th Jun 2010 10:59 am
Kamarul, what error you are getting?
Ravi on Mon, 20th Sep 2010 3:28 am
This really rocks Stephen..you are a genius. Thanks for the script
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