MC Hammer to launch WireDoo, his own search engine.

MC Hammer to launch his own search engine -WireDoo


MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell) , the famous 90's rapper, is launching his own new search engine called WireDoo, which he anticipates will outperform both Google, Bing and any of the other similar search engine tools available on the internet. 

 WireDoo, pre beta, was 2 years in the making and has a deeper search capability than what is currently available now. The search engine will also find related information in addition to the information searched for. The search will run deeper than just keywords.

For instance, if you search for the word “car” on Wiredoo, you’ll get results about insurance, safety ratings, and price. If you search for “MC Hammer,” you’ll find links to parachute pants, platinum albums, and bankruptcy. The tag­line for the search engine is “Search once and see what’s related.” 

Currently not available to the public, its website is currently letting people sign up to test the beta and will notify them when it's released to try it out.

Do you think Wiredoo will be a success? Are you interested in a relation search engine?

Are you ready for Windows 8?

Microsoft is expected to launch Windows 8 mid 2012

Although Windows 7 has had great success, Microsoft wanted the next version to expand on their existing features and UI.

Microsoft released the early version of Windows 8 on a prototype tablet last week. Anyone wishing to download the Developer Preview may do so.

It is available for free download, and comes in three different packages:

• (1) 64-bit version – Only the OS
• (2) 32-bit version – Only the OS
• (3) 64-bit version with developer tools

From some of the testing done so far, the developer preview of Windows 8 itself is pretty reliable, but the same isn't true of some of the Metro apps. This developer preview is to encourage developers to start writing Metro applications, and to remind users that an iPad or Android tablet isn't the only option.

Windows 8 features:

• Support for both x86 PCs and ARM Tablets
• Windows to Go
• Windows Store - similar to Mac App store
• Windows 8 User Interface
• Improved Windows Defender
• Internet Explorer 10
• Windows 8 Repair

Windows 8 is Microsoft's combined desktop, laptop and tablet operating system.

Windows To Go will be make it possible to boot from a usb device using user's programs, settings and files using either 2.0 or 3.0.

Other changes include the Windows Logon Screen which can be accessed by tapping on the right areas of the screen instead of the traditional password. The Start Screen is also new grouping all of your applications together. The Control Panel, Video, and Task Manager pages will also look different. An improved Windows Defender with added protection for virus, worms, trojans and rootkits. Windows 8 repair enables you to choose between a full reset and a refresh.

Here are the following minimum system requirements to run Windows 8:

• Processor: 1GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor
• RAM: 1GB (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)
• HD Space: 16GB for 32-bit (or 20GB for 64-bit)

Is twitter a passing fad?

     Do you twitter? 
Do you think twitter is just a passing fad?


Twitter has become a popular microblogging service enabling people to keep in touch by "tweeting" about everything from mundane daily life to disaters in real time. It has become widely used for commercial and political purposes to keep customers, voters and fans up-to-date as well as to encourage feedback. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and is home based in San Francisco Although not much can be said in a single tweet, since you are limited to a 140-character limit, users update constantly, often accessing mobile devices to tweet. You get instant updates in real time to and from friends, celebrities and people with shared interests. Tweets can be private or made public to approved followers (tweeps).

If you think Twitter is just a passing fad that will go away, here are some things to consider:

• 200 million users worldwide

• Users tweet approximately 230 million tweets per day and 50 million active daily users according to the September 2011 statistics.

• 1.6 million search queries per day

• 1 out of 8 couples who got married in the United States in 2009 met via social media.

• Social media has overtaken porn as the number one activity on the Web.

• If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest behind China and India.

The combination of broadband connections, smartphones and iPad devices are allowing social media to explode. Some mobile phones are being released with Facebook and Twitter applications already included.

Twitter went viral when users started using the retweeting feature which repeats useful information to your followers. You can also send and receive private messages via direct message that no one else sees. The use of hashtags (#) to link up an event or idea via a word or set of words allowing all those messages which include the hashtag to be viewed as a group.

On June 1, 2011, Twitter announced its own integrated photo-sharing service that enables users to upload a photo and attach it to a Tweet.

Among the best and most popular Twitter apps include Twitterdeck and Hootsuite, which are both free at most app stores. Twitterdeck features four columns: tweets from friends, tweets from mentions, recommended users and finally current trending words. If you have an iPhone, the app gives you more options such as adding columns to track certain users and  combine feeds. Tweetdeck also features Facebook status integation.

Hootsuite, a feature-rich app which offers almost any features you could want in a Twitter app. After setting up your account you can integrate Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare all from whithin the one app. HootSuite offers many customization options, making it able to manage multiple accounts, mass replay to all recipients and set up scheduled updates. This is a useful app - even for most serious social media users.

New Facebook Timeline replaces your old Profile!

New Facebook Timeline replaces your old Profile!

Over the next several weeks Facebook will be reborn and start it's total transformation into a new social media.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled the company’s much anticipated overhaul of profile pages, transforming the user profile into a virtual scrapbook. A place to show people who you are, what you do and where you've been. Facebook automatically put your information in chronological order.

A key feature in the new Timeline profile is the ability to define different types of "life events." The status update field now has 5 different icons: Work and Education, Family and Relationships, Living, Health and Wellness, Milestones and Experiences.

The new profile also includes a map feature that can show where you’ve been, thanks to Facebook Places. It maps out your travel. You can even mark your place of birth. But perhaps the most striking feature is the cover photo, which displays a giant image at the top of the new profile page.

In the past once your status update left your profile, you more than likely never saw it again. With this new layout you can access everything you've done in the past. You can share more of who you are and find out more about your friends.  On the down side, if you'd prefer to keep your life a little more private this will be more difficult. For some it may become a privacy nightmare, digging up every post from your past.


Here are what your options are for adjusting your settings, based on the level of privacy you want to achieve.

1. How to make all posts friends-only.

Use one of the blanket privacy settings introduced not long ago: "Limit the Audience for past Posts" on the bottom of your privacy setting page. If you decide to use this option, content on your timeline that you've shared with more than your friends—such as public posts—will automatically change to Friends only. With this setting, though, people who are tagged and their friends will still be able to see the post.

2. Limit the posts by others on your timeline.
Limit specific people or lists of people from viewing what others have posted to your wall. To do this, go to your Privacy Settings page, then select "Edit Settings" next to "How You Connect." Select the drop-down menu next to the last item—"Who can see posts by others on your timeline?" and choose "Custom."

In the box under "Hide this from," type the names of the people or the lists that you want to exclude from viewing posts on your wall by others, for example those on your Limited Profile list. Then click Save Changes.

3. Edit every post manually.
While this is a tedious process, it does appear it's the only way to ensure you're hiding exactly what you want from the people you want.

And there's always the "View Profile As" feature, which shows you what others see when they look at your profile. Go to the new timeline, click the gear icon on the right, below your cover photo, then click "View As..." from the drop-down menu. To preview how your profile appears to the public, click the link in the text, or type a person's name into the field and click enter.

Over the next few months there will be new additions to Facebook, like being able to share the music you're listening to at the moment or a movie in real time. It will be interesting to see how Facebook transitions.