Social Bookmarking

I often wonder why I don't use Social Bookmarking sites, they have been around for ages now. So I decided to first do some research on these sites. Following are some of these Social Bookmarking sites that I'm planning to use and you can start using them as well if you haven't done that so far...

Digg- http://digg.com
Delicious- http://delicious.com/
Mixx- http://www.mixx.com/
Google Bookmarks- http://www.google.com/bookmarks/
Blogmarks- http://blogmarks.net/
Del.irio.us- http://de.lirio.us/
Fark- http://www.fark.com/
IndianPad- http://www.indianpad.com/
Twitter- http://twitter.com/
MySpace- http://www.myspace.com/
Propeller- http://www.propeller.com/
Technorati- http://technorati.com/
Yahoo Bookmarks- http://bookmarks.yahoo.com
StumbleUpon- http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Reddit- http://www.reddit.com/
Sphinn- http://sphinn.com/

In the meantime I have registered on Digg, but not yet started using it. You may be wondering I'm so behind all other netizens, but so am I. Anyways, will keep you all posted...

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is the hot topic these days. Below are some useful links that tell you about it-

* Linux.com's Cloud Computing knowledge base- http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing
* Comparison with Grid Computing, an article on linux-mag.com titled Clouding Of The Grid- http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7332/
* Why is Linux being called the Operating System of the Cloud? Read it on linuxfoundation.org- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxincloud.html
* Read about the Eucalyptus project which provides open source infrastructure for Cloud Computing in this article on arstechnica.com- http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/researchers-to-commercialize-open-source-eucalyptus-project.ars
* On CSO Online, read why Cisco feels that Cloud Computing can be a Security Nightmare- http://www.csoonline.com/article/490368/Cisco_CEO_Cloud_Computing_a_Security_Nightmare_
* Another article on linux-mag.com about VMware vSphere which is being touted as a Cloud OS- http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7315/

These are just a few of the articles listed on linux.com, there might be hundreds of others, which I'll continue to post as and when I find them.

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Swine Flu a.k.a H1N1 Influenza

The Swine Flu, now rechristened as H1N1 Influenza virus has taken the world by storm, even as more than 150 are dead by this disease and a few more elsewhere in the world, including the U.S. I found a very nice article on TIME about the same which you can read here. This article also talks about two more systems which are pathbreakers in the help for detection which could lead to the prevention of this pandemic, and not just this specific but also similar events if they were to happen in the future. These are the Google Flu Trends and Veratect. Go visit these sites and find out a lot about these organizations are using science and technology for the benefit of the human race.

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Firefox 3.0.10

Firefox released the latest update to its web browser 3.0.10 on April 27, 2009. To get this browser for any Operating System and/or any language, go here. To know what's new in this release of Firefox 3.0.10, checkout the Release Notes. Mainly fixed in this version was a security issue, details of which you can find here.

If you are still interested in the older version Firefox 2.0, you can find the latest release of that version Firefox 2.0.0.20 here

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