Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

Would you like to know what the weather is going to be like for your area? You could always use a gadget on your desktop to give you a generalized forecast, watch the weather on TV, or you could use Weather.com and get real-time weather for your street!

Weather.com has partnered with Microsoft to bring you real-time weather.  Using Microsoft’s Visual Earth, you can zoom right into your street to see exactly what it’s going to be like. You can also animate it to see what the weather pattern over a couple of hours.

Just like Google Maps, you can select a “road” view or a “satellite” view. I prefer the satellite view just because I like all of the detail. Keep in mind that they don’t have the satellite option for every location. They also have a transparent slider bar so that you can control the view of the weather, and make it as transparent or as bold as you’d like.

I decided to give it a try, so I looked for an area on the map where I saw some activity. The screeshot above shows what the Interactive Weather Map looks like.  Everything is color-coded, and the green represents rain.  It clearly shows where the rain is falling, and by clicking the animate button, it shows what the weather has been like over the last couple of hours.  I animated it, and I could see the rain move in, and out.

Weather.com says that maps are one of the most viewed areas on the website, so it makes sense that they take the time to add new technology to the maps to make theirs stand out over others.

Source: Download Squad

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This article was written on September 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Weekend Website

Google Trends has proved to be a great way to see what’s hot and what’s not in Google searches. There’s a lot you can learn, particularly with their “Hot Trends” which is compiled daily. It’s also proved to be a great way to analyze search trends as I’ve done today with some of the more popular technology competitors. There’s nothing earth shattering about what I’ve found, but it’s interesting to see who comes out on top as far as searches go.

You’ll notice “markers” on the graphs which correlated with a news article. Often times if there are big spikes where these letter markers are located, it tells us that whatever was in the news that day caused the spike in searches. For example, on the graph showing Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs, the spike that occurred at marker “F” was when the “Fake Steve” jobs was revealed.

Finally, keep in mind that these are search trends based upon Google searches.

–Apple vs. Microsoft–

–iPhone vs. BlackBerry–

–Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs–

–HP vs. Dell–

–MySpace vs. Facebook–

As expected, we see Facebook steadily climbing North!

–Flickr vs. Picasa–

I wasn’t expecting Flickr and Picasa to align as closely as they do. Both have seen a pretty decent climb in searches over the last month or two as well.

–iPod vs. Zune–

Is it just me, or is the Zune flat-lining?

–Xbox 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii–

We know that the Wii is currently the best selling console, so it makes sense that there are more searches for the term “Wii” than there are for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

–Twitter vs. Jaiku vs. Pownce–

–Google vs. MSN vs. Yahoo–

Yahoo still leads the way here, although Google is getting close…

–IE vs.Safari vs. Firefox–

Wow, Firefox seems to be popular amongst searches, doesn’t it? I was going to include Opera here, but Google pulled in trends for opera singers, not exclusively the browser.

–Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux–

–Hotmail vs. Gmail vs. Yahoo Mail–

–Gizmodo vs. Engadget vs. Lifehacker–

While Lifehacker certainly wouldn’t be considered a competitor of Gizmodo or Engadget, it’s still a high-traffic blog that I thought would be interesting to compare against other high-traffic blogs.

–Spiderman vs. Batman–

Just for fun Can you tell when Spiderman 3 came out?

–Wrapping it up–

While none of these graphs provide any information we didn’t already know, it’s interesting to see how some of the most popular technology topics compare against others. If you’d like to do your own comparisons, just go to www.google.com/trends and enter in the topics you’d like to compare separated by a comma.  You can enter in up to five different topics. There’s a lot you can learn about what people are searching for, especially with the “hot trends.”

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This article was written on November 15, 2006 by CyberNet.

Looks like YouTube is currently down for some maintenance which will probably anger many people who are looking to kill some time. At least they put up a cool logo in its place which I captured and posted above because I’m sure it won’t be up long. Does it remind you of anything? The first thing the popped into my head was Google Labs.

I can’t wait to see if there are any big changes in store but, possibly by coincidence, Google just announced a few new features for Google Video. Now when you leave a comment on a video you can link directly to a time. That way it is easier for people to skip ahead in the movie and see what you’re talking about.

Google also added one of the coolest statistics features that I have seen for a video service. Now you can see how many views there were on any particular video for the previous day and it is even broken down by views via email and via embedded players. It took me a minute to figure out how to view the advanced statistics but then I saw the very tiny arrow located next to the number of views. Clicking on that link will expand the statistics so that you get a more detailed look.

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Just a few days ago, Alexa added some noticeable improvements to their Traffic details page. This information is helpful to publishers, and gives them a better idea of who their traffic is, and where it’s coming from.

One of the first things you’ll notice is that you can see where traffic is coming from geographically.  For example, I pulled up the traffic rankings for CyberNet, and it shows that 38.8% of our traffic comes from the United States, 9% is coming from the UK, 5.5% comes from India, and the rest is broken down among several other countries.

Not only can you see where the users are coming from, but you can also see how your website ranks in other countries.  Today in the United States, we’re ranked 16,855, but in India we’re ranked 12,484, and in the United Kingdom, we’re ranked 19,281.  Now we have a better idea of how we stand both in the United States and else where.

Another major change is how Alexa expresses how many people have been reached.  Previously, it showed the reach per million. That number always confused a lot of people, so now it’s being shown as a percentage. For example, it shows that yesterday, we reached 0.004% of the people on the Internet. Another example is MySpace which is ranked 5 on Alexa, and yesterday they reached 4.74% of the people on the Internet.

All of this new information is helpful for both publishers, but also potential advertisers who are wanting to advertise on a site.  Advertisers like to know the demographics, and this is one way that they can get them. As a publisher, it’s always nice to know where traffic is coming from geographically, and now Alexa provides more detailed information specifically for this purpose.

Source: Alexa – Web Discovery Machine

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Sometimes it is hard to find a great wallpaper especially one that doesn’t make you download all kinds of spyware and junk in order to use it. So why not use one of the largest photo sources on the Web…Flickr!

That is exactly what Wallpapr does for you. It will probe Flickr to find images from the Wallpapers group that are over 1024 x 768 in size. Sure you could just go to that group and search it yourself but I think it is much easier to see them all nicely tiled on one screen the way Wallpapr does it.

Another great source for wallpapers that I have used for a long time is InterfaceLIFT. It has all kinds of really great backgrounds with the ability to filter them by size as well. Anyone else know some other cool places to get backgrounds because I constantly change mine and like to mix things up a little?

News Source: Digital Inspiration

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