Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Adblock Plus + Content + Semantic Matching = foof

This is the equation Foof believes in and basis its functionality around with the idea springing up from suggestions over various forums. The developers started off with trying to develop something else when they realized that they could integrate their newly found ad replacement feature with Adblock. All it does is use the TextWise‘s semantic matching engine with different content sources that matches the content on the ad boxes.

Whatever Foof replaces within the ad box matches its contents except for pictures. All that you have to do is install the plugin and once done with that, let Foof do its work. All the ad boxes that have  the so unpleasant text all over are replaced by something that is more pleasant and easy on the eyes. What ever replacement it does is relevant to the content of your web sites; you even get to choose the medium from which Foof display the content to you, be it videos, news, blogs and wiki.

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Microsoft has made a lot of changes in their web services in the recent years. They have done so either by restoring or renaming them. As far as restoring is concerned, its somehow fine but renaming the services is a pathetic thing to do. I mean if you’re marketing such a service which is not up to the mark then what you should do is concentrate on improving the service instead of just renaming it. You should have something good to promote and if its not good then it’ll result in the failure just like it happened with the Microsoft web services. A number of Microsoft services have come to an end which includes Windows Live for TV, Windows Live Expo, Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. This certainly shows which direction they are heading towards.

Windows Live for TV was supposed to be a plugin for Windows Live Spaces/Messenger. A plugin which could have incorporated some enhanced features like chat and voice conversations, PC to PC calls and remote access to Windows Live Spaces all through your TV. If they could have achieved their targets, it would be such a big thing but unluckily they never got out from beta stage. The service which started in January last year is said to go down on June 24, 2008.

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IdeaSafe is new way to protect your valuable creative assets; be they your collection of exotic poetry or you highly professional research papers. The idea is to save your work from theft and plagiarism.

IdeaSafe gives you an online safe where you can upload, back-up and guard electronic copies of all your important documents etc. It exempts you off the burden of registering your work going places to find the right person or place to do so. IdeaSafe, with its quick and easy usability, it lets you create records of every thing that is yours and remains yours.

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Facebook has recently launched the Chinese version of their site. The huge social networking company has already got its Chinese clone xiaonei that has raised $430 million and is currently having a lion’s share in the China’s market.

Facebook is working passionately to expand its social network by introducing its multilingual versions. Great China, being the largest and most populated country of mother earth will surely help Facebook to gain a dominant position in the internationally.

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Good news for the fellows like to have a long chit-chat with friends and family members residing across the border. Who pays the phone bills? that is the major issue important to answer.Be, ready keep your PC and headphone working because Voipstunt offer free calls for some countries .Other’s who still needs to pay for Viopstunt call don’t worry about the expensive, calls are still cheaper than local loop.

You can also call all your online friends (peer-to-peer calls) as long as you like, for free. Just click here to download VoipStunt; the download should take only a few moments depending on your connection speed.

New investments from Atlas ventures and Kennet Partners along with existing partners, Debaeque and Elaia Fuels; has taken NTRglobal’s funding to $34 million.

NTRglobal, an international leader in on Demand solutions for remote access, online collaboration and IT system administration considers this to be an expansion in current Customers and Strategic Partnerships for a faster growth.

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If you have to search a book in hundreds of shelves and you’re running short of time, you would really get frustrated. Worry not because Zoomii is here to help you out. It is a virtual bookstore browsing service.

The site which was made public a week ago is built on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Services (S3). Using Zoomii is some what like using Google Maps in terms of navigation as it allows you to zoom in and out of bookshelves and also move anywhere by grabbing your cursor. The bookshelves are decorated so beautifully that it makes you feel like you’re sorting it out from a real bookshelf. The only thing unusual in the shelf is that the book cover is facing forward which I think is cool. Books are categorised by authors. You can also see book sizes and even compare them with each other.

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With Nokia still surfing in towards acquiring more space in the social media that include Twango, Enpocket, Loudeye and a big buy off, of a mapping company Navteq; Nokia has furthered its approach by buying out Berlin-Zurich based Social networking service, Plazes. Though there has been no disclosure of what the terms and conditions of the deal could be.

Plazes was founded in December 2005 with initial funding from Esther Dyson and Marc Andreesen and had successfully raised from Doughty Hanson Tech Ventures worth $3.5 million and has 13 employees. The network provides location based social-activity, which can be used by people to share, record their day to day s social activities.

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Jimmy Wales, Today Observer’s guardian, introduced a new confine slogan for Wikipedia in his column. The site being known as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit�? for a long time sounds more like a typical bazaar language instead of sophisticated, well versed sentence.

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The word which always remain constant in IT market is "Change". The software and hardware industry is growing at rapid pace, people have to know about IT updates and try to experience it. Installed number of software in your home PC and laptop large in number, updates are available but at different sites and it’s a tough task to check the version and start searching software.

It’s time to get relax because Apphit provide better and easiest way to find new software’s and updates for the  existing software’s in your PC. Just browse the site, you can download update checker from the home page of the  Apphit. The update checker scans entire system, find all the software’s need to be updated and forward the information to Apphit to present the list of all updates available. Now it’s your choice to download the update or not but the work has been done by Apphit.

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