Of the billions of terms searched on Google, the three fastest-growing searches this year all had to do with community or sharing music, news or facts, according to the company’s 2005 year-end results released this week.

“Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit studying the social effects of the Internet. “That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.”

More people than ever searched Google this year for MySpace, the online community. That was followed by Ares, the file-sharing software, and Baidu, the Chinese search engine, the company says.

Google doesn’t release its top searches, only those that dramatically increased in number.

Monitoring what people are asking is a way to see what they’re interested in, Rainie said, adding that 60 million American adults use a search engine on a typical day.

“In the old days, the way to get this information was through polls or man-on-the-street interviews,” he said.

Dean Tsouvalas, who writes the “Lycos Daily 50″ column analyzing the top queries on the search engine Lycos, sees the year-end results as a slice of American life.

Hurricane Katrina was the most-searched-for news event on Lycos since 9/11.

“It not only gives us a pop culture barometer of what people are thinking about, but it’s also a snapshot in time,” Tsouvalas said.

Yahoo top searches:

1. Britney Spears

2. 50 Cent

3. Cartoon Network

4. Mariah Carey

5. Green Day

Lycos top searches:

1. Paris Hilton

2. Pamela Anderson

3. Britney Spears

4. Poker

5. Dragonball

6. Jennifer Lopez

7. WWE

8. Pokemon

9. Playstation

10. Hurricane Katrina

With the above results its proved, that Internet keeps its users sharing.

US based PeerMe Inc launched its Internet voice communication systems in India which the company said would be free and unlimited.

The company’s peer-to-peer voice system provides sound quality almost equal to Public Switched Telephone Network, free and unlimited to any Internet connected PC user worldwide, PeerMe Director Shailendra Kumarsaid in a release.

The company provides free communications over the Web like voice and instant messaging, besides enable direct communication between online users, he said.

“It can provide unlimited, free PC to PC Internet voice communications using free software downloaded from the company website or from hundreds of software download websites available”, Kumar said.

With India’s rapidly growing internet population, currently over 25 million users and fifth largest globally, company’s vision is to bring a human touch to Internet through voice-enabling system, he said.

With the launch of Peer Me software in India, the market of PC to PC voice communication market is going to heat up. The market have giants like Skype (who offers this service too), Yahoo! (with the voice chat facility in there messenger) etc. One intresting fact here is, that Peer Me and Yahoo don’t have any voice communication softwares for Linux users like me, but Skype have a nice looking software for it with voice clarity equivalent to MS Windows. So i am gonna use Skype, thats for sure. I have heard that Yahoo! is working on the voice communication software for linux too, but don’t know when its gonna release.

However, whatever would be the result of this corporate fight, one thing is for sure, thats users are going to have a ball in Voice Communication market.

We are receiving 100’s of querries daily about Ajax. Clients are asking questions like “What it is?”, “How it can help me?”, “I want a site in ajax, can u do it?” etc etc..
We are trying to explain them, that AJAX is not new, we at Xaprio Solutions are using it from a long time, the difference being, we used to call it the use of XML HTTP REQUEST, but seldom uses it because of negative effects like
1. Anti-Search Engine.
2. Pages cannot be bookmarked.
3. Back/Forward button of browsers can’t be used.
4. Browsers should be javascript friendly.

Thats why, We will say, that ajax is not new. It is there from a long time and would remain there. No need to create chaos about it.
Ajax is good to a limit, but complete websites on ajax are not practical.
If you are thinking about a project in ajax, please feel free to contact us at Xaprio Solutions Help Desk or Xaprio Solutions Support Forums or feel free to drop us an email at support@xaprio.com

We would be glad to solve your querries.

Hello,

We were getting a number of querries from our clients and friends, asking about what AJAX is? With the development of Microsoft’s Live, everyone is going crazy about AJAX. So, we at Xaprio Solutions thaught of publishing this small article about AJAX, which will help you guys understand it better.

Like DHTML, LAMP, or SPA, Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together. In fact, derivative/composite technologies based substantially upon Ajax, such as AFLAX, are already appearing.
The Term AJAX refers to, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

For a number of tasks, only small amounts of data need to be transferred between the client and the server, allowing a number of Ajax applications to perform almost as well as applications executed natively on the user’s machine. This has the effect that pages need only be incrementally updated in the user’s browser, rather than having to be entirely refreshed. “Every user’s action that normally would generate an HTTP request takes the form of a JavaScript call to the Ajax engine insteadâ€?, wrote Jesse James Garrett, in the essay that first defined the term. “Any response to a user action that doesn’t require a trip back to the server — such as simple data validation, editing data in memory, and even some navigation — the engine handles on its own. If the engine needs something from the server in order to respond — if it’s submitting data for processing, loading additional interface code, or retrieving new data — the engine makes those requests asynchronously, usually using XML, without stalling a user’s interaction with the application.â€?

Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server does some processing, and responds by sending a new web page back. Because the server must send a whole new page each time, applications run more slowly and awkwardly than their native counterparts.

Ajax applications, on the other hand, can send requests to the web server to retrieve only the data that is needed, and may use SOAP or some other XML-based web services dialect. On the client, JavaScript processes the web server’s response, and may then modify the document’s content through the DOM to show the user that an action has been completed. The result is a more responsive application, since the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server is vastly reduced. Web server processing time is also saved, since much of it is done on the client.

The earliest form of asynchronous remote scripting, Microsoft’s Remote Scripting, was developed before XMLHttpRequest existed, and made use of a dedicated Java applet. Thereafter, remote scripting was extended by Netscape DevEdge at around 2001/2002 by use of an IFRAME instead of a Java applet.

Pros

Interactivity
Ajax applications are mostly executed on the user’s computer; they can perform a number of tasks without their performance being limited by the network. This permits the development of interactive applications, in particular reactive and rich graphic user interfaces.

Portability sample
Ajax applications target a well-documented platform, implemented by all major browsers on most existing platforms. While it is uncertain that this compatibility will resist the advent of the next generations of browsers (in particular, Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7), at the moment, Ajax applications are effectively cross-platform.
While the Ajax platform is more restricted than the Java platform, current Ajax applications effectively fill part of the one-time niche of Java applets: extending the browser with portable, lightweight mini-applications

Cons

Usability Criticisms
One major complaint voiced against the use of Ajax in web applications is that it might easily break the expected behavior of the browser’s back button (see Jakob Nielsen’s 1999 Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design). The different expectations between returning to a page which has been modified dynamically versus the return to a previous static page might be a subtle one. Users generally expect that clicking the back button in web applications will undo their last state change and in Ajax applications this might not be the case. Developers have implemented various solutions to this problem, most of which revolve around creating or using invisible IFRAMEs to invoke changes that populate the history used by a browser’s back button. Google Maps, for example, performs searches in an invisible IFRAME and then pulls results back into an element on the visible web page; it is possible to track user behaviour via callbacks which are called whenever the back button is pressed, restoring the application state that existed at the time.

A related issue is that the use of dynamic web page updates makes it difficult for a user to bookmark a particular state of the application. Solutions to this problem have likewise begun to appear, many of which use the URL fragment identifier (commonly known as the anchor, or the portion of the URL after the ‘#’) to keep track of, and allow users to return to, the application in a given state. (Many browsers allow JavaScript scripts to update the anchor dynamically, which allows the Ajax application to update it in parallel with the contents of the display.) These solutions also address many of the issues related to lack of back button support.

Response-time concerns
Network latency — or the interval between user request and server response — needs to be considered carefully during Ajax development. Without clear feedback to the user
[1], smart preloading of data
[2], and proper handling of the XMLHttpRequest object
[3] users might experience delay in the interface of the web application, something which users might not expect or understand.
[4] The use of visual feedback to alert the user of background activity and/or preloading of content and data are often suggested solutions to these latency issues.

JavaScript must not be disabled
While no browser plug-in is required for Ajax, it requires users to have JavaScript enabled in their browsers.
Some browsers do not support JavaScript or ActiveX. Security settings might cause Internet Explorer to not support Ajax (e.g.: JavaScript or ActiveX might be disabled).
As with DHTML applications, Ajax applications must be tested rigorously to deal with the quirks of different browsers and platforms. A number of programming libraries have become available as Ajax has matured that can help ease this task. Likewise, techniques have been developed to assist in designing applications which degrade gracefully and offer alternative functionality for users without JavaScript enabled.

Search Engine Optimization
Another CON of AJAX is its incompatiblity with Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With the growth of Internet, the competition of webmasters, to show there site up in search engines then others is growing at a fast pace, for which SEO is a must. But AJAX creates a problem here, since all the work including form submissions, links and all are on same page and displayed on a single page. All of the code of the page is in JavaScript, which is striped by search engine bots, so effectively your webpage don’t have any effective content hence u goes down with the search engines.

Hope the above will help you know what AJAX is.

IBM is learnt to be considering a name change for its call centre operations in India. According to industry sources, the company is in advanced stages of changing the name of IBM Daksh. The BPO is likely to be rechristened as IBM Global Services. The name change may come in effect sometime early next year.

Though at an official level IBM Daksh maintains that “there is no such plan for a name change as of now�, well placed sources in the company say much headway to the affect has already been made. In fact world-wide, IBM Global Services is the uniform name code adopted by the services arm of International Business Machines Corp, referred to as IBM in common parlance.

However, sources feel that the US giant had agreed on IBM Daksh as the name for its India operations owing to certain local compulsions, after it acquired Daksh e-Services in April-May 2004.

The speculation is now are that the company is trying to implement the name change at the earliest possibility. This is also expected to be followed by a series of aggressive reforms that the company may push for in its India operations.

According to our source, “The name change may effect a series of structural changes in the company’s larger India plan as well. Daksh achieved a highly accelerated growth trajectory ever since the IBM acquisition. Perhaps the company’s topline management is now eyeing the next level in the value chain by imbibing IBM philosophy in its name as well.�

In fact, since the acquisition got over in May 2004, the BPO has increased its employee headcount by more than double and its business has grown even faster. Recently, the outsourcing major has also expanded its delivery network to three new centres, one each in Pune, Chandigarh and Kolkata, taking the network up to 10 centres.

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