Today I found a funny startup Left or Right with a very simple idea at the base. There are two large pictures on the site and the visitors just give their votes for the left or for the right one. Every user can send his own suggestion of subjects to the administration of the website. (more…)
Windows users became yesterday for the first time an opportunity to download and to install Safari web browser on their system. I was very curious about this fact and decided to test the “world’s best browser” how Apple describes its own product. I was shocked! No indeed, I never expected, that such (more…)
One thing that one should remember about the servlets and that costs sometimes really much time to find out, why a servlet does not work properly is the synchronization of the class/servlet variables. Let us have a look at (more…)
In February 2007 a new Web 2.0 startup with a melodic name midomi was launched. The visitors of midomi web site can search for music and singers by singing or humming. The search engine compares your record with its database. Of course there is also a way to execute the search in the traditional manner. The midomi users can create (more…)
Snap shots is an online service that generates and shows a preview of web sites that are linked on your page. Each time the mouse cursor is moved over the link there appears a preview window. To use the service you should go to Snap shots web site and proceed four steps. First of all you configure the look and feel of the preview window, so that it stays (more…)
I can’t help admiring such web projects as Twitter! When I see “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?” I just jump up like a ball and start to applaud loudly. Such a simple idea that gave a birth to a web platform gathering a huge amount of people (more…)