Skidzopedia » Blogosphere http://www.skidzopedia.com A blog focusing on Latest Applications, Gadgets, Tips and Tricks. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:07:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Pimp My Cube Is Looking For You http://www.skidzopedia.com/2012/01/04/pimp-cube/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2012/01/04/pimp-cube/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:22:49 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=5641 This post brought to you by Contest Factory. All opinions are 100% mine.

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2012/01/04/pimp-cube/feed/ 0 iPad, Android and Cloud Computing on the Gartner Buzz Cycle http://www.skidzopedia.com/2011/06/07/ipad-android-cloud-computing-gartner-buzz-cycle/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2011/06/07/ipad-android-cloud-computing-gartner-buzz-cycle/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:08:35 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=5322 Google Wave for example was massively hyped just before its launch in early 2010, but does any individual that obtained an invitation use it any more? For most of us the solution is no, but why is that and what went wrong?

To illustrate why some innovations fade away soon after a time period of hype, Gartner’s hype cycle demonstrates a general trajectory of new tech adaptation in the market place. Gartner devised the hype cycle in 5 phases:

Gartner’s buzz cycle phases

1. Technology Set off: The level when tech is constructed public (e.g. by way of a keynote speech of Steve Employment about new Apple devices) and early adopters are encouraged to check the solutions

2. Peak of Inflated Expectations. A phase when the “bubble of hype” (v. positive aspects obtained) with regards to use of the technologies reaches its peak

3. Trough of Disillusionment. Just after the bubble bursts and men and women say, “I advised you that was just a fad.”

4. Slope of Enlightenment. Is a period in which the innovation tech will become sufficiently mature, standardized and adopted and starts making mainstream industry results

5. Plateau of Productivity. When added benefits start off to flatten out and technological know-how expectations to possibly be reengineered or a new systems is required to increase sector share

Hyped immediately

Cloud Computing and E-book reader reached their peak of inflated expectation in 2009, which is why in 2010 leading Tech giants, such as Google’s Cloud, Apple’s MobileMe and Microsoft’s Windows Azure OS had been promoted so heavily in the cloud computing solutions market place. Similarly the current market for e-readers was flooded seeing that the commence of 2010 with devices like as Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad along with a large number of rumors about Android powered e-viewers. It was a logical step from the smartphone tsunami that due to its restrictions in dimensions lend by itself perfectly to innovation.

Apple’s strategy to launching new items coupled is the capability to develop new improvements on core ideas of preceding accomplishment. Hence primary options from the iPod, iTunes and the iPhone are all incorporated into iPad except for possibly the capacity to make voice calls, but that could have cannibalised the iPhone 4 launch in June one month immediately after.

What is right here to keep

The era of speech recognition was in a Slope of Enlightenment in 2009 and therefore is a build up in function into most smartphones in 2010. Prolonged gone are the days were it was not well worth our time trying as phone Joe would get interpreted as play ‘hey joe’ by Jimi Hendrix. Voice recognition software program know-how has been sufficiently adapted to the marketplace requires and is now functional. while even now much from optimal if you have a noisy background.

What is up and coming?

Tech that hasn’t somewhat hit the Peak of Inflated Expectations still, is on the rise and hopefully to choose from for us to test soon. Two improvements that stick out are surface area computing and augmented fact. In surface computing, the iPad is presently there their multitouch web searching knowledge. Google Goggles brings Android powered mobile phone some early augmented fact attributes.

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Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide, has just released MIYO.

In case you are unfamiliar with Flat World, they preserve the best of the old – books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. They have books in practically every category!  Flat World is using technology to reduce cost barriers and increase access to information. Pairing open licensing and textbook personalization with a radical pricing model gives a formula for disrupting an $8.5bil U.S. textbook market!

MIYO (make it your own) on the other hand,  is a digital textbook customization platform and designed to let professors take one of the many high quality textbooks published by Flat World Knowledge and edit the content so it fits the professor’s needs. It offers a simple drag-and-drop interface that allow instructors to easily move or delete chapters and sections or add other content that is free to reuse under a CC license.

Flat World Knowledge has raised over $27 million over the last 2 years in venture capital from investors including Bessemer and BDMI. When complete, MIYO will save a professor’s work as a new edition which will be offered for sale in a variety of formats from PDF, print, Epub, Kindle, as well as a free version that can be read online.

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]]> http://www.skidzopedia.com/2011/04/29/flat-world-knowledge-launches-textbook-customization-tools/feed/ 0 IntenseDebate Relaunches http://www.skidzopedia.com/2008/11/16/intensedebate-relaunches/ http://www.skidzopedia.com/2008/11/16/intensedebate-relaunches/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:01:03 +0000 Musab Zain http://www.skidzopedia.com/?p=1753 If you are looking for enhancing your comments, you could probably try more or less three types of services, Sezwho, Disqus and IntenseDebate.

IntenseDebate was among the smallest of the three, when it was acquired by WordPress. Upon WordPress’s acquisition, they have been working quite hard and were preparing IntenseDebate to deliver super-charged comments across the web and have pulled IntenseDebate into a private beta that it has finally emerged from.

The video below explains the features of IntenseDebate.

Summary of some of the latest features made available in IntenseDebate:

  • Two-way Comment Sync
  • Profile Sync
  • Admin Panel Integration
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Trackbacks
  • Post Settings

More on WordPress beta plugin? Take a look!

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I consider this month a milestone for Skidzopedia; since it got a PR (page rank) of 2 in the last week of September. I know its not much for some, but considering its age, its more than what i hoped for.

In the month of september, not only my Earnings boosted but a considerable increase in the number of feed readers, plus an increase in Technorarti and alexa rank, was registered.

Blog Traffic:

Visitors: 72,784
Page Views:  129,465
New Visits: 79.39%

Top 3 Most Popular Posts of this month are as follows:

  1. Websites Back in 1998

  2. Weird but Silly facts about Microsoft Windows

  3. 30 Most Creative 404 Pages – Part II

I have also changed my old theme with this one. I would love suggestions/opinions on my new theme for this blog. I have tried my best to keep it minimalistic and cool. You may also inform me by voting.

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Another successful month has finally come to an end for Skidzopedia and thats just a beginning, there is still a long way to go. And I won’t be able to do this with out your help. Many thanks once again, for being a part of Skidzopedia.

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Mygazines allows it users to upload and share magazines online so others can read it for free. It offers a wide range of free online magazines, ranging from computers to news to business and a lot more!

Mygazines has a very friendly user interface, which lets you flip through the magazines seamlessly. It also offers an adult filter, while you need to register in order to turn that filter off or on.

You can even bookmark, add tags or share magazines or articles, that you had liked while reading. Receive instant notifications, setup by member, to receive articles of interest for various topics.

I think Mygazines can prove to be a useful and popular service provided it is able to escape from the legal eyes of the print publishing giants.

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Here are the most Popular Posts, with respect to PageViews in the month of August, 2008. Don’t forget to check them out, if you haven’t!

  1. How Google Looks for the Colorblind – 56,966 Views
  2. 30 Most Creative 404 Pages – 18,864 Views
  3. 14 Most Popular “Sorry” Pages – 22,958 Views

Stay tuned for more latest gadgets, blogging, tips and tricks, in this month (Sept.) and the upcoming ones.

PS: Special thanks to Nasir and Azeem from Nazjam, and Moin from Techiesouls, for all their support and hard work for making this a success. Thanks guys!

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In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Ever Merciful.

Hello World! :)

I am feeling very happy and excited on the birth of my First WordPress Blog, Skidzopedia.com.

As far as I am concerned; my name is Musab Zain ul Abideen, doing Software Engineering and have come all this way to share my knowledge and interests with you! :)

I will try my best to distribute every bit of knowledge that I have regarding Windows, Internet, Blogging, Google, How To, Tips and other similar topics of my interest.

Let me know whether you like it or not by giving feedback.

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