
Inspiration Taken from this blog:
http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/inkscape-sticker-with-folded-edge-tutorial/
But i make it by my own method using mostly circle tool of Inkscape.
Lets not describe about me or for this blog this header image is put on my blog in memory of my Grandfather Late Dr. Tarapada Bose he used to work in one of the European Garden at Rangapara now in Sonitpur District. He worked as Doctor he was a great man for me and my source of inspiration I was at Standard III when he expired but few word told by him still my source of inspiration. His birthday was on 24th December. A few words from his grandson.

Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur – delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user interface should be able to cope with. To do that, developers have to consider subtle and well-thought tooltips – used correctly, they can greatly improve user experience and help users to get things done. In Web such "responsive" hints can be provided by tooltips. E.g., unclear input fields in web forms are perfect examples of a situation you might be willing to use a tooltip for.
Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we've also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it's often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the "title"-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables and further elements – basically, it can be almost everything you'd ever wanted it to be.
We'd like to thank Jurgen Koller for compiling an extensive list of tooltip scripts we've stumbled upon during our search. It gives many useful pointers, but we've managed to find some more. You might be willing to use Koller's post as a quick reference for your search.
Let's take a look at 43 handy tooltips scripts for intuitive and well-designed visual clues. It's nice to have them all in one place, once you need them. It's nice to be able to find them, once you don't have time to search for them.




































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Every once in a while we like to focus on different design elements and how to use javascript and ajax to make them more interactive and more flexible to the user. In this article we'd like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Sliders, Scrollers and scrollbar techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs.
jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste has its demos served.
You might be interested to check some of the designs that was mentioned in the posts below:
1) Slider- Horizontal or Vertical bar and slider.
2) Simple images slider to create Flickr-like slideshows- This step-by-step tutorial explains how to customize slideshow and use it in your web projects.
3) Accessible slider- Illustrations and code samples showing how to make a slider UI control accessible to those who aren't running JavaScript or CSS.
4) Accessible Unobtrusive Slider Demo- This method offer full keyboard capabilities as using unobtrusive JavaScript which is a method that separates the JavaScript behavior from the page markup.
5) Slider- Degrade gracefully for browser without the needed DOM support with full mouse and keyboard support. Skinable using different CSS files.
6) Photo Slider Tutorial- Simple to use JavaScript slide show that scrolls thumbnails as smooth as Flash. Tutorial shows how to install and configure the code. The included example uses less than 10 lines of code.
7) Accessible News Slider- Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library.
8 ) Yahoo! UI Library: Slider- The Slider component is a UI control that enables the user to adjust values in a finite range along one or two axes.
9) Fireworks.js- Fireworks.js is a bit of Javascript that creates starburst-type explosions in a web document; in short, it's a fireworks effect someone could theoretically use on their site.
10) Slider Gallery- A similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site. This 'product slider' is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff.
11) 2J News Slider – Joomla Ajax Slider- This is an eye-catching news slider that bring in evidence your content.
13) Ajax Image Sliders Part 2: Intervals with On Demand
14) Multiple Sliders in one page
15) Slider Using PHP, Ajax And Javascript- A slider script implemened in Ajax with PHP.
16) Coda-Slider- Amazing jQuery Coda-Slider can be used for Nice, slick content presentation.
17) jQuery Multimedia Portfolio- This plugin for jQuery will automatically detect the extension of each media and apply the adapted player. with a nice slider to move through the files.
18)Ultimate JavaScript Scroller and Slider- This versatile and lightweight JavaScript makes it easy to scroll text blocks, create slideshows, slide between content, create tickers and more.
19) df Javascript Smooth Scroll- A super small Smooth Scrolling Javascript. This script is too simple to understand and use. Nothing but playing with Anchor Tags. Include the Javascript and you are set to smoooooooooth scroll.
20) jQuery.SerialScroll- This plugin allows you to easily animate any series of elements, by sequentially scrolling them. You can use it as a section slider, text scroller, slideshows, and news ticker.
22) Easy Scroll: Accessible Content Scroller- Easy Scroll is standalone, lightweight script that is very easily applicable developed by Alen Grakalic.
21) Scrolling Div Content with Graphical Scrollbars- Scroll div content vertically or horizontally, onmouseover, onmousedown, onmousewheel or with a gliding motion onclick. Graphical scrollbars and multiple instances supported. Scroll areas can be positioned absolute or relative. New content can be swapped in and updated via ajax. Many more features and extras.
22) Scrollable content - Display content in a confined area. Users can view the entire content via the custom scroll up/down images.
23) Pamoorama- Basically what it does is to show only a part of your fullsize image. The image can then be scrolled by moving the mouse over it. Pamoorama will also display a small thumbnail of your panorama with a small window/frame so you can see which part of the image is visible right now. Dragging this little window is also possible!
24) How To Unobtrusively Scroll A Div With Prototype & Scriptaculous- The goal of this example is to see if scrolling effects can be possible while retaining legacy compliance and insuring "bookmarkability".
25) mooSlideBox 3- mooSlideBox v3 is a small and slim ajax based extension or replacement of the common "lightbox" that can be found on nearly every page. This lightbox clone works in IE 6/7, Opera and Firefox.
26) jqGalScroll v2.1 (Photo Gallery)- jQuery Gallery Scroller (jqGalScroll) takes list of images and creates a smooth scrolling photo gallery scrolling vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The plugin will also create pagination to allow you to flow through your photos.
27) DHTML Scroller- This script can load a file into a div, and scroll it via simple function calls and a fully draggable and sizeable scrollbar. It's small and quite fast to load its content.
28)Mootools Styled Scrollbar- This is an example how to make your own styled scrollbar using Mootools
29) FleXcroll- Flexible and Accessible Custom Scroll Bars. A Cross Browser* and Standards Compliant Custom ScrollBar Script by Hesido.
30)Slider Demos- An extensive set of slider demos.
31)jsScrollbar- It's hard to find a good javascript scroller, check this demos and your scrollbar issues will be solved.
PHP template engines are used widely to seperate the code & the layout.
This makes a website easier to maintain/update & creates a better development environment by enabling developers & designers to work together easier.
It sure has some drawbacks which is generally the performance (most libraries offer great solutions there) & need to learn a new syntax (not always).
To mention, using a template engine may not be suitable for every project. A website with few pages will probably won't need it. But it can improve the development process of a portal, an e-commerce site or another web application easily.
Here are 19 PHP template engines with very nice features & have a continious development:
The most popular PHP templating engine which prefers to call itself a "template/presentation framework" as it equips both the designer & programmers with powerful tools at the presentation layer.
It has a robust caching mechanism as well as a strong plug-in & add-on support.
With the template functions, debugging capabilities, security it provides & continious development, Smarty is a great engine.
Dwoo aims to be a serious alternative to Smarty with a cleaner codebase.
It has almost a totally compatible template & plugin system with Smarty.
Some main features are:
A lightweight templating engine for PHP.
it uses PHP itself as its template language & no need to learn a new markup system.
Template Blocks is a visual template engine, replacing any semantics of previous generation engines with an AJAX interface.
The engine is lightweight, flexible & extensible.
You can give any section with static content any extension of these popular extensions you like: .html, .htm or .php. They will all load up the same content!
The new Open Power Template contains a built-in XML parser that fully understands the structure of your HTML code. It can find unclosed tags and perform complex operations on its structure.
For a better performance, every template is compiled into the PHP code, so that its execution is fast and can be speeded with the PHP accelerators. And results are cached.
A very easy to learn & implement templating system.
It is only 1 file, 1 PHP class with 6 methods & 5 properties.
Simplicity is its power. It can connect to any database, has a caching system & provides easy date-time and numeric formats.
An easy to use and install engine which has 6 tags, 3 PHP functions and 2 PHP classes.
Rain TPL is WYSIWYG friendly, you can work with img/css relative paths & they are converted to the correct server path.
PHPTAL is a PHP implementation of ZPT. To be short, PHPTAL is a XML/XHTML template library for PHP.
While most web developpers continue to use PHP tags as the core language of their templates, the Zope community came with a refreshing idea named TAL which is moving presentation actions inside XHTML attributes instead of using plain tags or elements.
This PHP templating engine uses PHP, not a template scripting language.
It has a straightforward user authentication, session & cookie system. There is a built-in support for MySQL connections & your own classes/functions can be added with ease.
Template Lite, previously known as Smarty Light, is a drop in replacement for Smarty.
It supports most of the features of Smarty. Also, mentioned to be faster & consumes less memory compared to Smarty.
VTE, originally built for Vivvo CMS but distributed for free, is light-weight, easy to use, yet powerful and scalable.
The template engine that can do recursions, object calls, arrays, but still remain within a single class in less than 1000 lines of code!
VTE language is XML-based and it consists of tags and attributes.
XTemplate allows you to store your HTML code separately from your PHP code.
It has many useful features yet code is short, highly optimized & used in various commercial & open source projects.
vlibTemplate is a class for templating PHP applications. It is normally included in the vlib package which has the following 3 classes:
Using this class you set the values for the variables, loops, if statements, etc. which are declared in the template. This enables you to separate all of the design from the data, which you create using PHP.
It has a similar spirit with Smarty.
A flexible compilation engine that allows expressions similar to that of PHP itself is used. It also has a clean and easy to understand syntax.
Output is HTML-escaped by default, instead of requiring explicit escaping like PHP itself, which makes it far less likely to accidentally introduce an HTML or JavaScript code injection vulnerability from user-submitted content.
FXL Template an easy to use template engine covering all the basic features of a template system.
It supports:
The template markup is really easy to learn & for high traffic enviroments a "memcached" cache extension exists.
Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled as a PHP module.
It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers (PHP) and weakly-active templates (HTML).
With 220 lines of code, Vemplator offers:

4 PEAR packages on templating:
QuickSkin, previously known as SmartTemplate, works like a 'template compiler' that converts templates into executable PHP code and stores it for later reuse.
It supports:
Sources: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/19-promising-php-template-engines/
List of CMS (Content Management System), free and open source, written in PHP or other languages.
Click on the name to access the website.
| Name | Category | Supported databases | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ariadne | Portal | Oracle, PostgreSQL | |
| Arti Velocity 3 | Portal | MySQL | |
| b2evolution | Blog | MySQL | |
| BlogCMS | Blog | MySQL | |
| Caravel CMS | Portal | OpenLDAP and PostgreSQL | |
| Chlorine Boards | Portal | MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Access | |
| Chrono-Site | Portal | MySQL | |
| Cwiab | Portal | ADOdb | |
| CMSimple | Portal | One unique HTML file | |
| CMS Made Simple | Portal | MySQL | |
| Coppermine | Image gallery | MySQL | |
| CuteNews | News | Flat text files | |
| DBHcms | MySQL | ||
| DotClear 2 | Blog | MySQL, SQlite, PostgreSQL | Multi-users, multi-blogs. |
| DokuWiki | Wiki | Flat text files. | |
| Drigg | Digg-like | MySQL | Plug-in for Drupal. Very slow. |
| Drupal | Portal | MySQL or PostgreSQL | Sponsored by the University of Oregon. |
| e107 | Portal | MySQL | |
| eGroupWare | Groupware | ADOdb | |
| Elgg | Social network | MySQL 5 | Building a social network with PHP 5. |
| Exponent | MySQL or PostgreSQL | ||
| eZ publish | MySQL or PostgreSQL or Oracle | ||
| FluxBB | Forum | MySQL | Lightweight but complete forum, perfect besides a portal. |
| Freeglobes | Directory | MySQL | |
| Geeklog | Blog | MySQL | |
| GuppY | Portal | Flat text files | |
| IntraLibre | Intranet | MySQL | |
| Itseasy | Portal | Flat text files | |
| Joomla! | Portal | MySQL | Popular CMS, fork of Mambo. |
| Kwiki | Wiki | ||
| Lemon CMS | Portal | Flat text files. | |
| Lodel | Portal | MySQL | |
| Lyceum | Blog | MySQL | |
| Mambo | Portal | MySQL | |
| MediaWiki | Wiki | MySQL | |
| Midgard CMS | Portal | MySQL | Framework for CMS |
| MODx | Portal | MySQL | |
| NitroTech | Groupware | MySQL | |
| NPDS | Portal | MySQL | |
| Nucleus CMS | Blog | MySQL | |
| OpenPHPNuke | Portal | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite | |
| phpBB | Forum | Forum CMS with a lot of themes and mods. | |
| Phortail | Portal | Flat text files | |
| Phorum | Forum | MySQL | Easy to customize. |
| PHP-Fusion | Portal | MySQL | |
| PHPMotion | Video sharing | MySQL | Youtube-like CMS |
| PHP-Nuke | Portal | MySQL | |
| Phpdug | Digg-like | MySQL | |
| PHPList | News | MySQL | |
| PhpMyFaq | FAQ | ||
| phpWCMS | Portal | MySQL | |
| phpWebSite | Portal | MySQL or PostgreSQL | |
| phpCMS | Portal | Flat text files | |
| PhpWiki | Wiki | Flat text files, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more | |
| Pivot | Portal | Flat text files, XML | |
| Pligg | Digg-like | MySQL | News with score, still beta. |
| PmWiki | Wiki | Flat text files | |
| PortalPHP | Portal | MySQL | |
| Prestashop | e-shop | MySQL 5 | Open an online shop with PHP 5. |
| PunBB | See fluxBB. | ||
| PuzzleApps | Web app. | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MSSQL | |
| SMF | Forum | MySQL | |
| SNews | Blog | MySQL | Blog added to a portal website. |
| Spip | Templates | MySQL | |
| Templeet | Portal | XML, MySQL and other BDs. | |
| Textpattern | Portal | MySQL | |
| TikiWiki | Blog-Wiki | ADOdb | |
| Typo3 | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle | ||
| Wikini | Blog-Wiki | MySQL | |
| Wordpress | Blog | MySQL | Very popular and extensible blog CMS. |
| Xaraya | Portal | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, ADOdb, SQL Server | |
| Xoops | Portal | MySQL | Popular modular CMS. |
| YACS | Wiki and more | MySQL | |
| Zikula | Portal | MySQL | Formerly PostNuke. |
| Name | Plateform | Category | Supported databases |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blosxom | Perl | Blog | |
| Bricolage | Perl | Portal | PostgreSQL |
| Cocoon | Java | Dynamic | XML |
| Current CMS | Java | Groupware | MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL |
| Daisy CMS | Cocoon | Portal | MySQL |
| DotNetNuke | VB.NET | Portal | SQL Server. |
| Forrest | Java | MySQL | |
| Graffito | Java | Universal | |
| Jahia Community | Java | Portal | Hypersonic, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server |
| JAPS | Java | Portal | Hypersonic, PostgreSQL |
| Kwiki | Perl | Wiki | |
| Lenya | Cocoon | ||
| Logz | Portal | ||
| Magnolia | Java | Portal | Content repository API |
| MMBase | Java | Portal | |
| Nuxeo CPS | Zope | Groupware | |
| OpenACS | TCL, AOL Server | Web App. | PostgreSQL/Oracle |
| OpenCMS | Java | Portal | MySQL, Oracle |
| Plone | Zope | Blog | ZODB, MySQL & PostgreSQL via Zope |
| PX System | PorPortaltail | ||
| Rainbow | C# | Portal | MySQL |
| Run-CMS | Portal | ||
| Scoop | Perl | Groupware | MySQL |
| Skeletonz | Python | MySQL | |
| Slash | Perl | News | MySQL |
| TWiki | Perl | Wiki | Toute BD compatible avec Perl DBI. |
| Typo | Ruby on rails | Blog | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite |
| WebGUI | Perl | Wiki | MySQL |
| Xiawe | BBCodes | Templates | |
| XSM | Java servlets | Static | XML |
| Zwook | Python | Portal | Zope |
Specialization of the CMS. But some can earn several roles.
Top Web Site Resources for webmasters and those designing and developing their own web site, including tutorials, guides, HTML tag information, tools, downloads sites.
'Torpon'. This day bears immense significance for the Bengalis. It is according to the myths that Sree Rama hastily performed Durga Puja just before he set for Lanka to rescue Sita from Ravana.
According to Puranas, King Suratha, used to worship goddess Durga in spring. Thus Durga Puja was also known as Basanti Puja. But Rama preponed the Puja and worshiped Durga in autumn and that is why it is known as 'Akal Bodhon' or untimely worship. It was considered untimely as it is in the myths that puja was performed when the Gods and Goddesses were awake i.e. "Uttarayan" and was not held when the Gods and Goddesses rested ie."Dakshinayan".
URL shortening is a technique makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.I collected a list of the top 30 free URL shortening services.It will help On Twitter or instant message because status even a 60 character long URL can be too long.




bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier.
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Cligs: Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting


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Some web addresses (URL) are very long and complicated. doiop creates for you a short URL with a keyword you choose, making it easy to remember or give away. This link will not break in emails and never expire.




Short Links. Tiny Ads. Big Payoff.

Linkbee is a URL shortening service that can be used with blogs, forums, websites and Twitter. Linkbee provides the following features.




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cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL





Like other link shorteners, BurnURL lets you take a long URL and turn it into a short one

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Shorten multiple urls into one

Make A Shorter Link has been acquired by TinyURL.com


Source:http://skyje.com/2009/09/url-shortening/

Change just a few circumstances, and there might not be an Apple or a Microsoft today. Yahoo might be the king of the search hill, with Google lagging behind. You might be reading this on a Xerox-built computer via a CompuServe account while listening to your favorite tunes on a RealPod.
People say hindsight is 20-20. If so, our vision is acute. Here are our picks for the biggest missed opportunities in the history of technology.
In 2006, Facebook was a two-year-old social network that most people thought of as a digital playground for Ivy League brats. In the world of social networks, MySpace's 100 million members totally swamped Facebook's 8 million. So when Yahoo offered to buy Mark Zuckerberg's baby for a cool $1 billion--nearly twice what Rupert Murdoch had spent for MySpace in 2005--people said, "Take the money and run, Mark." In fact, the then-23-year-old and Yahoo shook hands on a deal in June 2006.
Then Yahoo posted some bad financials, and its stock dropped 22 percent overnight. Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, reacted by cutting the purchase offer to $800 million. Zuckerberg balked. Two months later Semel re-upped the offer to $1 billion, but by then it was too late.
Today, Facebook boasts some 250 million registered users and is worth roughly $5 to $10 billion, depending on who's counting. Three years and two CEOs later, Yahoo is still struggling to survive.

By then MP3 players had been around for years, but Fadell's concept was slightly different: smaller, sleeker, and focused on a content-delivery system that would give music lovers an easy way to fill up their "pods." (Jobs is famous for driving the design of the iPod.)
Today that content-delivery system is known as iTunes, and Apple controls some 80 percent of the digital music market. Fadell worked at, and eventually ran, Apple's iPod division until November 2008. Real Networks is still a player in the streaming-media world, but its revenues are a fraction of what Apple makes from iTunes alone. (Photo: Courtesy of Apple)

From 2002 onward the two sides wrangled, each signing up allies to support its own competing, incompatible format. In 2008 Sony slipped the knife into Toshiba by paying one of its biggest backers, Warner Brothers Studios, a reported $400 million to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray.
Interestingly the same parties had battled in the mid-1990s over a new high-res format for movies. Back then they settled their differences, combining the best of both specs into something called Digital Versatile Disc, better known as DVD.
The missed opportunity to come out with a single HD format sacrificed years' worth of sales for every company involved. Had the two sides joined forces in 2002, high-def discs would be the dominant delivery medium for movies and shows now. Instead, today DVDs still outsell Blu-ray titles by ten to one, and the future belongs to streaming media and video on demand.

The legend is that Kildall blew IBM off to go fly his plane. The real story is that Kildall was flying to deliver a product to another customer, leaving his wife to negotiate with IBM. Dorothy Kildall didn't like parts of the deal IBM was proposing and sent the executives packing.
Big Blue went back to Gates, who with his partner Paul Allen whipped out MS-DOS, based on Tim Paterson's QDOS (the Quick and Dirty Operating System), which was itself based on CP/M. IBM ended up offering both Microsoft's DOS (for $60) and a version of CP/M ($240) to buyers of the original IBM PC. The cheaper product won.
Before DOS, Microsoft's biggest products were versions of the BASIC programming tool. After DOS, well...you know the rest. Would Microsoft have grown into the monolith it is today without the IBM contract? We'll never know.


Next: Five more blown opportunities, including Napster, CompuServe, and Craigslist.

In 1999, Shawn Fanning's Napster made it incredibly easy for people to share music online. The record companies reacted by suing Napster for contributing to copyright infringement. Then-Napster CEO Hank Barry called for the music industry to adopt a radio-style licensing agreement that paid royalties to artists for music distributed via the Net. His calls fell on deaf ears.
Napster fans quickly moved on to other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as Gnutella and Grokster, and music "pirates" became the RIAA's public enemy number one.
In 2000 MP3.com launched a service that allowed members to upload songs from their own private CD collection and stream them to any PC. The recording industry sued MP3.com for copyright infringement and eventually won. MP3.com was sold and changed business models.
Add to all that the RIAA's suits against Grokster, Morpheus, Kazaa, and some 30,000-odd music "pirates." Talk about your broken records.
Today, of course, music-subscription businesses and streaming services such as Pandora dominate digital music. Had the record companies partnered with Napster, MP3.com, or any of the other file sharing networks instead of suing them, they might control digital music sales today--without nearly as many problems with piracy.

In the early 1990s the Compuserve Information Service had "an unbelievable set of advantages that most companies would kill for: a committed customer base, incredible data about those customers' usage patterns, a difficult-to-replicate storehouse of knowledge, and little competition," says Kip Gregory, a management consultant and author of Winning Clients in a Wired World. "What it lacked was probably ... the will to invest in converting those advantages into a sustainable lead."
Then AOL came along, offering flat-rate "unlimited" pricing (versus CompuServe's hourly charges), a simpler interface, and a massive, carpet-bombing CD marketing campaign. Organizations that had an early presence on CompuServe forums moved over to the Web, which CompuServe's forums were slow to support. In 1997 AOL acquired CompuServe, and "CompuServe classic" was finally laid to rest last June.
CompuServe's failure wasn't due to a single missed opportunity so much as a collection of them, says Gregory. "I really believe [CompuServe is] an important example that reinforces a critical lesson--never stand on your heels in business."

As recently as 2005, classified ads brought more than $17.3 billion into U.S. newspapers' coffers. Since then, the use of classified ad sites like Craigslist (as well as Amazon, eBay, and Google) has more than doubled, according to the Pew Research Center, while classified ad revenues have been halved.
If a consortium of newspapers had bought out Craigslist back in 2005, when classified ad revenues were flying high, things could be quite different today. But first they would have had to persuade Craigslist creator Craig Newmark to sell.
In a January 2008 interview with InfoWorld, Newmark said that his company's role in the collapse of the newspaper industry has been greatly exaggerated--mostly by newspapers. "I figure the biggest problems newspapers have these days have to do with fact-checking," he remarked.

But two years after partnering with Yahoo, Open Text abandoned search and moved into enterprise content management. A year later Google made its debut. The missed opportunity? Not realizing how big search was going to be.
"If anything made Open Text special, it was that they came closer to having Google-like technology than anyone else in their time," says Steve Parker, a communications consultant who helped publicize Yahoo's launch of Open Text's search technology. "With a three-year lead on Google, you have to consider whether Google would have been forced to burn cash at a much faster pace, and if they might have run out of time to overtake the market leader. If things had gone differently, that might have been good enough to get [Open Text] to king of the hill."

Then Apple received a much-needed infusion of cash--$150 million--from a seemingly unlikely source: Microsoft, which also promised to continue developing its Mac Office suite. The deal was negotiated by then-Apple adviser Steve Jobs, whom the Macworld Expo faithful booed at the deal's announcement. Shortly afterward, Jobs took over as Apple's "interim" CEO. We all know what happened after that.
If Microsoft hadn't missed its opportunity to let Apple wither? We'd be struggling to play WinTunes on our WinPhones. The online music and video markets would be stagnant--or worse, controlled by Hollywood. And we'd be longing desperately for better alternatives to Windows.
When not looking back with 20-20 hindsight, Contributing Editor Dan Tynan tends his geek humor empire at eSarcasm . Follow him on Twitter @tynan_on_tech.
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CASE STUDY
HOTELS IN ASSAM
Problem statement: A single point portal for all hotels and restaurants in Assam.
Solution: A portal with all the Hotels and Restaurants in Assam. Detailed database of all the Hotels and Restaurants Categorized by Stars, States and Cities and facilities. Unique Feature for posting Review through Review Form. Review moderated before being Published. Unique Search Features state wise and category wise. The most prominent thing which has been taken care is make this design in template based design, RSS for the reviews, Hits hotels specific, Tag Clouds.
Category: Web Solutions, C2B, B2C,
Benefits: Promotion of Tourism, Customer and Consumer Centric, Business Promotion, Travel and Tour focused, Flourishing the hospitality business.
Technology Used: PHP, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, XHTML, CSS.
Tools Used: WAMP, Komodo, Dreamweaver, SQLyog, Toad, Filezilla
Future Development: Review hotel wise using user login system, More focus to other NER States, More details of Places of Tourist Interests., More user friendly and user participation Portal development of other NE States Hotels (eg: hotelsinmeghalaya.com, hotelsintripura.com)
For Further technical specification (ER Diagram etc) contact Rittik Deka (TL, Xpression). The man who wake up early morning to do all the Technical documentation work.
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