Youtube Slam

Youtube in its official blog has introduced a new feature called youtube slam.

So what is Youtube Slam?

According to its official blog
" Youtube slam is a video discovery experiment. Each week a new crop of videos battles head-to-head in Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance Slams, where your votes determine who wins the Slam and gets featured on the leaderboard"

Google +1 (recommendation) feature

Google recently in its official blog has announced a new feature called “+1” button for search results. This is something like recommendation button shown along with the each search result, by pressing this button it will be shown in search results to your friends(your friends, chat buddies and contacts in Google) that you have “+1’d this” (that you like or recommend this) if they have search for the same term. Now for example your friend searches for the term “computer tips and tricks” and find a site which is very useful for him he may press “+1” button, now when you will search for the same term the search results will be shown along with your friends recommendations “the name of your friend +1’d this” or may be the number of other people will be shown that how many people have “+1’d” (recommended or liked) the particular search result.



 

Following are some requirements to use this feature:

Google profile:

You need a Google profile to use +1 feature, if you don’t have any profile you can create from here.

Make sure you're signed into your Google Account:

This feature also required that you have be signed in to your Google Account so that your name can be listed along with the search results or the name of your friends can be shown, if don’t have any Google account you can create it from here.

This feature is in its initial stages they are slowly rolling it out to Google.com in English, they are also planning to show the recommendations from your friend which are on other social networking site like twitter or may be other so that you can get the most relevant recommandations.

As Google is slowly rolling out this feature it may not be available to you but you can try this feature by visiting Google experiment site.

I think this feature will be very useful as you don’t have to check every search result to find the best one, by using this feature you have to only check that how many of your friends or other people recommends it(+1’d this), saving your lot of time and bytes.

 

How To Choose The Best Anti-Virus

There are many antivirus softwares available in the market, in which most of them use signature based detection system and some others may use Heuristic-based detection system. But the problem with signature based detection system is that the antivirus will not be able to detect the new virus without its signature, this means you have to update your antivirus on daily bases or may be until you update your antivirus the virus may have done its job. So in order to tackle this problem some antivirus use day zero protection or real time protection by using different techniques like Code Analysis, Generic Signatures and Emulation.
So you have to choose the antivirus which uses these detection techniques more efficiently and effectively, it requires bit of time and research, but there are some independent sources online which will do the job for you by conducting different tests.

1. Virus Bulletin.
2. AV Comparatives.
3. ICSA Labs.

An Overview Of HTML5

What is HTML5?
HTML5 is the latest version of HTML standard, which allows any type of content video, audio, interactive graphics and dozens of other features to be handled directly by the browser, without relying on third party plug-ins. Even though HTML5 is still a draft, and it is expected to be completed by May 2011 , but some of the features are available, and browser vendors are deploying these features and generating a lot of excitement in the IT industry.

Below are some features or classes associated with HTML5: