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• Walking through the forest

  Monday, July 21st, 2008

  More at http://www.sfetcu.com Silence, forest, flowers and bugs Film made by Dan Alexoae

• Google Health and Search Factory Tour

  Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

  Google shows the latest research in various search-related fields and announced the official debut of Google Health. R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the amazing advances Google made in image search, as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. “There are over 300 million digital [...]

• Astronomy live with Microsoft: WorldWide Telescope

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Microsoft researchers has been developing an interesting astronomy application, now as a public beta, allowing you to see pictures from several observatories. The service is free of charge and uses high-resolution images from the world’s best land- and space-based telescopes. WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 application allowing people to easily explore the night [...]

• Winter in Dubai

  Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

  Remember, this is in the middle of the desert…. The very HOT desert where temperatures get up to 120 degrees! (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glume)

• Who likes the children?

  Friday, December 28th, 2007

  (http://groups.google.com/group/funnypictures)

• The birding cat

  Friday, December 21st, 2007

  My neighbours has several trees in their garden where tens of little birds sit all the time and sing all day long. Some days ago, they bought a cat. And it seems that this cat like a lot to watch the birds (and not only!). In the above image, the cat is mounted up in [...]

• Microsoft acquires WebFives

  Monday, December 3rd, 2007

  A bit too late for Microsoft, to enter on the sharing market. But they have enough power to push WebFives (ex Vizrea) through the first such centers. In fact, Microsoft is still the king of desktop applications, even if some of us deny it. Here it is the message of Michael Toutonghi that can be [...]

• Free images for bloggers

  Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

  The company Corbis is offering for bloggers access to its stock photography, in exchange of some ads that it will be embedded into these images. The photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when a Web user runs a cursor over the picture. The [...]