A boring sunday afternoon , yawning , chill-out music , surfing the web and you land up on an interesting site.

Imagini a nice site ,throws some random pictures at you ,read the title click a pic you like and after running through some 4-5 steps you have your very own profile. In the end you get a nice gadget which you can add to your blog (mine is below).

Well so rather than sitting here reading go get going ,go map your DNA (click on the widget below ).

Microsft today released its latest beta release of Windows Live Mail a.k.a Hotmail,this beta is code named the Kahuna M5.
I Being a beta tester for Windows Live Mail Beta had the privilege of experiencing this new beta.
Iam putting up some screenshots here.

The new features in this beta are as below

·Hotmail classic theme with new improvements and features for browsers other than Internet Explorer 6 or later
·Pick your own colour scheme
·Offline mail and more with Windows Live Mail Desktop client
·New user wizard
·Configurable reading pane, plus toolbar control to change it
·Outlook-like shortcuts
·Contact picker when composing a new message
·Find in contacts via word wheel
·Spaces contact card integration
·Custom filters/rules for incoming mail
·Check for new messages, empty all junk mail, and empty all deleted items buttons
·New OOBE [out of box experience] for first time users to discover new features and change options
·And overall performance improvements

New Features Source:Liveside.net

The Screenshots:

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Google today released another new product today,called the Google Page Creator.
Google Page Creator is a online tool that enables you create Basic Web Pages with web space of 100mb provided.

The Features:

Create your own web pages, quickly and easily.
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone
to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.Publish in seconds
With one click, the pages you create are ready
for your friends, family and the whole world

Don’t worry about saving
Google Page Creator saves your changes automatically as you type, so no more nervous breakdowns from losing all your work.

What you see is what you’ll get (WYSIWYG)
As you edit your page, you’re seeing exactly what it will look like when other people see it. No complex tools to learn. No web designers to hire.

View: Google Pages
View: Google Page Created by me

Note: Opera Browser not supported

Virtual Earth from Micrsoft is an online virtual globe mapping application.It provides access to satellite imagery and aerial photography of the Earth.

Earlier it was confined to the western contries Now Virtual Earth has unvieled its Indian counterpart.As per the Virtual Earth Developers Blog it has now released its first Virtual Earth-India public build,christened Virtual India research project.The user Interface would have options to view the site and the map labels in indian languages such as Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil as of now.

As of now the application would show you street level maps of Bangalore only but the team working on including more base map data into future builds.

Excerpts from the developers blog are as below:

Microsoft Research has released a first public build of their Virtual India research project. Language choices for the UI and map labels include English, Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil. Before trying it out, I strongly encourage you to read more about the project at their site for background. Then check out the application. Street level maps are limited to Bangalore for this release, but they are working to integrate more base map data into future builds. This is a great first release and I’m looking forward to seeing where they take this. A discussion forum for the project is availible if you’d like to send feedback to the team working on this

View: About the project
View: Discussion Forums
View: Virtual India

Just been reported at Neowin,Yahoo has added the Yahoo Messenger Avatars to its Yahoo Mail service.
You get these avatars that you have made in your Yahoo Messenger on the main page of yahoo mail after you sign in to your yahoo mail.
If you dont know anything about this avatar well you get a animated human figure whom you could dress up change its face etc
i.e make him look like you.
Well not exactly a big advantage or rather i dont see any but just makes your email that bit personalised.
If you havent yet made an avatar for yourself dont worry iam giving you the link below get on with creating one.

View: Yahoo Avatars
View: Yahoo Mail

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc.’s online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings – an experiment that figures to test the public’s appetite for information from alternative sources.

Under Yahoo’s new approach, a keyword search for online news will include a list of relevant Web logs, or “blogs,” displayed in a box to the right of the results collected from mainstream journalism.

Google Inc., which runs the Internet’s leading search engine, so far has treated blogs differently.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company last month introduced a specialty search engine that does nothing but sift through blogs. Meanwhile, Google’s news section continues to focus on material from mainstream media.
Yahoo’s inclusion of blogs in its news section represents another validation for a growing group of people that are bypassing newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets to report and comment on topical events.

Although many top bloggers lack formal journalism training, it hasn’t stopped them from building loyal readerships or breaking news that the mainstream media either missed or ignored.

Those scoops have helped rally more support for “citizen journalism” – a cause that Yahoo wanted to recognize by spotlighting some of the news appearing in blogs.

“The traditional media doesn’t have the time or resources to cover all the stories going on,” said Joff Redfern, a Yahoo product director.

But the blogging community, or “blogosphere,” also is filled with rumors and inaccuracies. While the traditional media still faces the same problems, professional newsrooms ostensibly have more checks and balances to guard against incorrect or unsubstantiated information from being published.

That distinction is one of the reasons Yahoo is listing its blog results in a box separated from the roughly 6,500 “trusted” news sources tracked by its search engine, Redfern said.

Yahoo’s news users can view blog results exclusively by clicking on the box.

That option also shows relevant images posted on Yahoo’s photo-sharing site, Flickr. Amateur photos posted online have drawn particular heavy interest recently after major news events such as the terrorist bombings in London and Hurricane Katrina.

Redfern declined to specify how many blogs are included in Yahoo’s news search. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is inviting bloggers to submit their sites to the Yahoo index.

He said the blog selection would be based on the most popular blogs among Yahoo users.

source: dialyfreeman.com
View :Yahoo News Search
Do :Blogging submissions

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the Internet giant, on Monday unveiled plans to get into podcasting with a test release of a service that will let users download and review online radio programs.

Increasingly popular podcasts, which allow users to download audio programs from the Web and listen to them on portable music devices, have attracted interest from some of the biggest names in technology, including Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research).

Yahoo’s new service will allow users to download shows from National Public Radio, the weekly presidential address, and independent shows with subjects ranging from sports to knitting, the company said.

The service — at http://podcasts.yahoo.com/ — will allow users to rate and review various shows. It also includes searching functions that allow users browse from a directory with tens of thousands of podcasts from across the Web.

News Source:reuters.com
View:Yahoo Podcast Beta
Read:What is a Podcast?

Google Reader is a web-based Rss feed reader.

Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web.

*Spend your time reading what you care about most
Reader automatically gets the latest news and updates for your favorite sites. You can sort your reading list by relevance, which will guess what’s most relevant to you based on how you use Google Reader (such as which items you decide to actually read).

*Find the blogs and news sites you’ve been missing out on
The amount of information on the web is rapidly increasing. Use Reader to discover new content you don’t want to miss.

*Share interesting items with friends
When you come across something worth sharing, quickly email or blog it from within Reader. Star or labels items you want to save for yourself.

View:Google Reader Beta
View:Google Reader Beta Tour