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With an advent of online mapping tools, its most important facet ‘satellite imagery’ has also grown with leaps and bonds. And it wouldn’t be wrong to say that mapping tools are incomplete without these satellites imageries. Well-known Internet tycoons have joined the mapping wagon to win race by serving something interesting that can allure millions of users, but most of them such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo indexes same kind of images that gives an impression of duplicate images. Google is taking a step to introduce a set of high-resolution ravishing imageries by signing an exclusive deal with GeoEye.

Internet Giant’s deal with GeoEye will allow Google to use and embed exclusive GeoEye’s images in the web. The imageries will be used in both Google Maps and Google Earth. To serve this purpose a new satellite, GeoEye-1, is expected to be launched on 4th September. You can enjoy a countdown on the GeoEye’s homepage to keep an eye on the time left.

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YOBI.tv, a blend of social networking, reality show contests and user-generated content allows users a range of entertainment! Just a few seconds spent on sign-up and you’re in. Amongst the usual features members are allowed to network with friends and professionals. Upload contest entries – unlimited too.

View all of the contest entries and vote on the YOBI.tv contests, as well as interact through the services’ blogs. Membership is free of course, even the contest entries too.

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There are always people poking their noses in every matter or popping their eyes to have a peep into what you are browsing through online and one feels very irritated (to keep it decent). I for one don’t want this to happen and then one has to toggle windows; waste of time and draws out all interest. Or you can shout back at your colleague but that may very well have you out along with him.

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The Google Calendar team hasn’t been sitting quietly, but has been working on the feedback from its active users over the past months. There have been many subtle changes to Google Calendar that make the experience much better now.

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Scribd, the Youtube of documents has gone through a major and much needed redesign. The website, full of content, was a mess. Now it has changed all that, and cleaned up it’s layout. Now there’s a very prominent scrolling interface in the homepage, which shows the hottest content in a vertical scrolling widget. The search box also looks more highlighted as that is one of the major features required to browse through the vast collection of content on Scribd.

As TechCrunch says,

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If you are a developer and have an awesome code snippet which you would like to share with the Google App Engine developers or with the rest of the world, you might think about having a platform where you can do so. Don’t worry because now Google allows you to share your code with the rest of the world at Google App Engine Cookbook. This cook book is going to be a little different and ‘too many developers are not going to spoil the recipe’.

You will find some options in the Google App Engine Cookbook. Here you can share, rate and comment on different App Engine recipes. Amaltas Bohra, Google Engineer, has written the Google App Engine Cookbook.

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Micasastyle provides you with some innovative and interesting decorating ideas to help you design your home. You can turn your home into a dashing and inspirational place by intellectually working on it. Spending buckets is not the only solution to have an enchanting home, you need few advices and tips to make it better and lively.

You can make your home a heaven place to live by sharing your space. Check out people’s taste by viewing Most Viewed spaces. While you can also go through the ‘most popular’ and the ‘most recent’ spaces to experience some creative ideas and to view some brilliant spaces that can actually fit to your own space easily. There are plenty of available images that has been uploaded by peoples who consider themselves a good designer and think that their space is worthy to share. Its a pretty good idea to learn something from other people’s dream houses and incorporating their fabulous ideas into your own space.

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Comcast has been trying pretty hard to get a hold of its bandwidth threshold along with their feuds with those related to users who choke the service with excessive use, affecting others. The latest development has come up in relation to providing a set monthly data usage per month for users.

Why is this important? The major reason would be to analyze exactly what amount of data can be termed excessive. According to news at Comcast; the new user plan, termed AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) is set to be amended on 1^st October.

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Video captions, a feature that Google Video already had, has been added in the YouTube. They are actually comments of the video which are written in the text format.

Using the feature is simple, all you need to do is to go the ‘My Account’ link in the upper right corner of the YouTube page and click on the ‘My Videos’ link. Select a video in which the captions/subtitles are to be added. Go to the ‘Captions and Subtitles’ section which lies at the left bottom of the page and upload the caption/subtitle file and you are done. Easy, isn’t it?

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LiveStub, a Toronto and Chicago based company, went all out on breaking the market monopoly for online ticket sales. LiveStub is now offering tickets exchange free, and with that said means no commissions charged on sellers. Thus, doing away with the usual 15 percent (commission) charges levied on the sellers by all the trading companies.

As LiveStub decided to pull out its big guns, its competitors StubHub, TicketsNow, and RazorGator might be in a bit of a shell shock. Thanks to Internet though, as selling tickets on a secondary ticket market has been made legal, the method previously known as scalping. The company was lifted up recently by an undisclosed amount of angel funding from Morten Lund (early investor in Skype).

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