yowkee essentialyowkee's blog on technology, movies, Malaysia news, trivial stuff in his life...Happy Chinese New Year- January 28, 2006 Chinese New Year is approaching. Wishes all Chinese a happy and prosperous new year ahead! It&8217;s the year of the dog. I was quite unlucky lately. Just two days before Chinese New Year Eve, I had the stomach inflamation. Diarrhea and vomitting &8212; I can&8217;t remember when&8217;s the last time I vomit, bad feeling. So I was weak through out whole day yesterday and luckily some friend could drive me back to home town in this CNY eve &8212; it&8217;s the traditional family should gather...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000261-happy_chinese_new_year.html All England Badminton Semi-Final 2006- January 22, 2006 It was an amazing run for Malaysia men double on quarter final, which all three pairs had advanced to the semi-finals yesterday. It&8217;s such a breakthrough for our men double youngster, would have been something to do with the new coach Rexy. Good job, Rexy! Chong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah advanced into the final today with beating compatriot Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Lin Woon Fui 15-8, 15-7. While in other court, the agressive attacking pair Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Gan Teik Chai was down...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000260-all_england_badminton_semifinal_2006.ht... Reading Summary- January 18, 2006 Sleep deprivation has some impact on me. I am trying to be an early riser starting last week. It&8217;s nice to wake up early everyday, but the keep popping-up night activities didn&8217;t do a help on the need of sleep. Coffee keeps me awake, I probably need one of this. Out of juice to write anything, here&8217;s the stuff I am reading-on: Mark Pilgrim takes a hard look at the recently released Photocast of Apple iPhoto 6 &8212; which spikes critics from the RSS community, and wondering does..http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000259-reading_summary.html Technorati's front page's changes- January 17, 2006 Instead of just listing the &8220;Top Search This Hour&8221;, Technorati is now offering the list of Top Search and Hot Tag at its front page. It&8217;s a minor step forward by Technorati. But it&8217;d sure slowly changing blogger&8217;s habit, pay more attention to Tag, Tag and Tag. With more accurate tagging and your blog posts got more attention. What&8217;d be my wished feature on Technorati I hope it&8217;d separate tagging by different language and providing search based on different...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000258-technoratis_front_pages_changes.html DiggPliggSpyMy- January 17, 2006 I found SpyMy via Jeff Ooi. Initially feeling it&8217;s great that someone is making a similar Digg service for Malaysia, which was long expected. People who following the web trend among blogosphere would find Digg is the good solution to your flooded feed aggregators. Digg&8217;s success is mainly due to its users&8217; posting and voting features, and other &8220;cool&8221; Web 2.0 characteristic, in layman terms it provides more interaction to users. That&8217;s also why its users are...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000257-diggpliggspymy.html Validate Web 2.0- January 16, 2006 The guys at 30 Second Rule create a Web 2.0 Validator at their spare time. It's created with OgNitro in 30 minutes! Now it seem pretty reasonable to judge Web Two-Ooh sites by whether they're using some rapid development tools like RubyOnRails. Ha ha.. Not really. But this is a fun validator to play with. I type in delicious and it got only 7 out of 42 rules (note: the rules are set by users, Web 2.0 is users-oriented, remember). The following is the current set rules: Is in public beta Uses...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000256-validate_web_20.html Wikipedia is 5 years old- January 16, 2006 Wikipedia turns 6 5 years old on January 15, 2006. The famous information resource on the web has served billions of query over the years, despite its accuracy and credibility was under fire a few times over past few months. The issues raised mostly related to people modified entries related to them, or falsefraud information. That including Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, edited his own biography around 18 times, everybody-known podcaster Adam Curry&8217;s edting of Podcasting entry,...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000255-wikipedia_is_5_years_old.html Feed2Podcast- January 16, 2006 I blog about PODZINGER yesterday. It turned audio into text and archiving them. On the contrary, if you want to give your blog a voice, try Feed2Podcast. You give Feed2Podcast a RSS feed, and it&8217;d turn it into a Podcast. In other words, the web service use text-to-speech technology to read your blog feed to your subscribers. It&8217;s a totally reverse conversion service to PODZINGER. One particular difference is, bloggers might not mind their voice to be converted into text and...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000254-feed2podcast.html PODZINGER- January 15, 2006 PODZINGER is a Podcast search engine. Ever since podcast joined the world of weblogging, I&8217;ve been wondering would there be such a service archiving the audio, analyzingindexing the audio content. PODZINGER uses the speech recognition from BBN Technologies &8212; transferring audio into wordstext and archive them. From the returned search result, users could directly subscribe to the podcast to their iTunes or Yahoo! podcast. Or download the audio to your local drive. It claims to have the.http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000253-podzinger.html Technorati is the most friendly web service to non-English blogger- January 14, 2006 At the mean time, Technorati should be the best ping service and blog search engine. It has millions of blogs ping to it and doing a good indexing job, except that sometimes you&8217;d still seeing its searching temporary out of service (due to the heavy traffic). Nevertheless, even if it&8217;s not the best ping service yet, it must be the most friendly towards non-English bloggers. Checking all the other famous blog services and you&8217;d probably notice most of them are English-centric. But.http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000252-technorati_is_the_most_friendly_web_ser... |