yowkee essentialyowkee's blog on technology, movies, Malaysia news, trivial stuff in his life...Ping-o-Matic is down temporary- January 14, 2006 The RPC services in Ping-o-Matic! seem down temporary. My ping in these 2 days all getting error return. Checking the website doesn&8217;t get any clue though. So what&8217;s the backup if you do want to ping to some blog-portal type of services. Some searches lead me to the following: Pings.ws : its allow the manual blog-pinging to around 16 blog ping services (Weblogs.com, Technorati, Blog.gs, My Yahoo&8230;) If you think only Technorati make sense to you (well, it&8217;s the most famous and..http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000251-pingomatic_is_down_temporary.html What's next for Apple- January 14, 2006 Clayton M. Christensen, author of book The Innovator&8217;s Dilemma and Seeing What&8217;s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, think that Apple&8217;s current success might not last long with the proprietary architecture of iPod. iPod is the dominant MP3 player in the market right now. But I don&8217;t think it&8217;s the software inside that made the success. It&8217;s the design being the key to get it standing out of others. The design of the looks-n-feel, how...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000250-whats_next_for_apple.html Google Mini- January 12, 2006 If your company has tons of essentialvital documents stored in the intranet servers, distributed in the various intranet services, wouldn&8217;t you wish to have &8220;local google&8221; site for you googling it Google&8217;s answer to this particular market demand is its new product Google Mini. As the product name revealed, it&8217;s a shrink down version of Google&8217;s technology. It&8217;d index all your files, providing similar interface as the Google search engine, capibility to view...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000249-google_mini.html Google Analytics reopen its subscription by invitation- January 12, 2006 If you are still keen to sign-up for Google Analytics, they&8217;ve now giving out accounts by invitation (you have to sign-up first). From its homepage: We&8217;re pleased to announce that we&8217;ve begun re-opening signups for Google Analytics on an invitation basis. For more information on when you might receive an invitation, please read our Progress Updates page.We will continue to send out more invitations to sign up as we add additional capacity to Google Analytics. If you&8217;d like...http://www.yowkee.com/blog/archives/2006/01/000248-google_analytics_reopen_its_subscriptio... |