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Music-based social networking site Imeem on Monday morning announced the acquisition of digital rights and content management company, SNOCAP. The deal will provide Imeem with access to SNOCAP’s content identification technology and digital registry, while expanding the tools available to artists and music labels.

“The SNOCAP team built a great technology platform that will be useful to imeem as we continue to grow,” said Imeem founder and CEO, Dalton Caldwell of the acquisition. “Together we’ll build on that work in the coming months, and give labels and independent artists new ways to promote and sell their music through imeem, MySpace and anywhere on the Web.”

What is a SharePoint Server 2010 Quota Template?
A SharePoint Server 2010 quota template consists of storage limit values that specify the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a site collection. When the storage limit is reached, a quota template can also trigger an e-mail alert to the site collection administrator. You can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection in the farm. A quota template can also be applied to a site collection that contains sandboxed solutions. You can limit the maximum usage per day and send a warning e-mail message when the usage limit is approaching. If the maximum usage limit is reached, the sandboxed solution is disabled for the rest of the day, and an e-mail message is sent to the site collection administrator. You can also modify existing quota templates. This allows you to modify storage limits for all of the site collections that use the same quota template. When you modify a quota template, you must then reapply it to existing site collections before the new storage limits are enforced. You can delete a quota template if necessary. However, deleting a quota template will not delete quota values from sites that were created by using the quota template. If you want to remove quotas from all sites by using a specific quota template, you must use the object model or perform a SQL query.

Even SharePoint Foundation has the advantage of this feature using which it controls the amount of storage used by site collections and the resources consumed by user code solutions with improved Quota Templates. Read the rest of this entry »

The Thunderbird 2 e-mail program may not get as much love from its makers at the open-source Mozilla Project as their favored child, the Firefox Web browser, does. Nevertheless, Thunderbird 2.0.0.13 has a very strong feature set, and does its job well; plus, if you are looking for an e-mail client that works and looks exactly the same on most of the different operating systems you may have to deal with, then Thunderbird’s almost the only game in town.

Most Mac OS X users will prefer Apple’s Mail, if only because it’s prettier; unlike Thunderbird, Mail doesn’t have to make aesthetic compromises for the sake of compatibility with Windows and Linux. But if you care more about features than looks, Thunderbird is definitely worth a free download.

Over the last decade and a half, the Internet has evolved from a mere repository of information to an interactive medium for people to share views and work. This transformation was largely possible due to web 2.0 components like Wikis and blogs. But clues to the next phase of Internet’s development seem to lie in its ability to provide rich and compelling visual experience.

Called Rich Internet Applications or RIA, the realm of media-rich Internet has been spurred by tools that enable persons even with basic scripting knowledge to create highly interactive and truly appealing applications. Such applications may be useful to post party videos on YouTube or send animations and banners about products to potential customers.

It’s one main men himself, co-founder Steve Chen, who has recently stated that the popular video site, YouTube will finally offer a live streaming service sometime this year. This big project will have to utilize vast resources including Google (as you remember G acquired YT not so long ago). I think the announcement of Steve Chen is viewable on the site itself.

Now this is something worth expecting. To tell you the truth, with this latest development, I’ve been thinking of the millions of ways people can make use of this particular service to launch their own online careers. Yikes!

SOURCE: Read Write Web

I just love open source!

And now, MTOS (Movable Type Open Source) is an open source project for a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0. It also serves a resource community for Movable Type developers.

Like the Movable type 4.0, MTOS will contain all its features plus some improvements and other bug fixes.

No worries on the themes, plug-ins, themes, templates, designs and API�s of the MT4 as they will all work with the MTOS.

Like most open source projects, MTOS has a reliable built-in support for an unlimited number of blogs and authors plus a sign-in with OpenID.

Technical support for MTOS is provided by community members.

Paid users of MT will enjoy more benefits added by Six Apart. These will include better technical support and custom add-ons like themes and plug-ins in the future.

MTOS can be downloaded at movabletype.org.

Source: Read/Write Web

Another company, this time a fitness company, has decided to take advantage of the latest technology to market their services. The Snap Fitness Inc. has recently announced plans to launch a new online tool for members of its gyms. This large and still growing chain of 24-hour fitness gyms (based in Chanhassen) has formed partnerships with nutritional supplement company Bioceutica (based in Newbury, Mass.-), Health Solutions – a health care assessment firm based in Wisconsin, and HyperStrike , a California fitness firm. to create a Web site for customers to customize their workout schedule. The new tool will enable customers to design a personalized fitness plan complete with designed customized workouts and nutritional assessments. And all these with the help of wellness coaches.

Source: Biz Journals

Picnik, which has already begun to get some traction as the primary editing tool for Flickr has teamed up with Photobox, another large photo host in the United Kingdom.

Photobox is about a fifth of the size of Flickr in active users, and the two have very different services. Photobox provides 1,000MB of storage and gives users more space each time they order prints while Flickr operates on a paid premium membership that requires a yearly subscription of $25.

Also starting today Picnik users will be able to print their shots using QOOP which lets you print your photos on items such as coffee mugs, posters, and T-shirts.

iFob, developed by Montana’s iCloseby and available for the iPhone, the iPod touch and laptop computers, attempts to bridge a gap between social networks and the real world. iFob sends out a “homing beacon” at wireless hotspots like coffee shops, alerting other users that you’re nearby and receptive to socializing.

Two Missoula, Mont., entrepreneurs have launched software for the iPhone, iPod touch and laptop computers that upends the conventional sense of social networking. Unlike online dating and friendship Web sites where connections are made in cyberspace, the software’s goal is moving people from virtual relationships into real ones.

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Here is my list of my favorite web tools 1st of all mozilla firefox as my browser. For me it’s much easier to used and according in one of a magazine I read, on there research it is much stable than internet explorer 8 maybe because IE 8 is still in it’s beta version. Next my web pages editor , I pick dreamweaver because of it’s features and it’s easier to understand and you don’t need too much hand coding. 3rd my search engine, I use google search because some search engine only gives you another search engine as there result. Then www.google.com does not have that much details to load. Less details less time to wait. 4th swiss max like flash it a cool and easy to learn plus the design and the features are all awesome. 5th download accelerator this thing shorten the time of download by increasing the download rate.
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