Cool Technology

Enhance Your Blog with Zemanta

2008-06-05T11:55:00.000-07:00

Do you write blogs, but don't know how to enhance them, A new tool Zemanta can help you.
This tool can be installed as browser add-ons. once installed, it will be activated automatically when you open your blogger editor.
One of the feature is link so when you are writing blog, new tool bar near to your editor can find all the possible words in your blog and can prompt them to make link, so user can easily navigate to external site to get more information. This Zemanta is automatically created by tool. It suggest relevant images in Gallery so you can add them directly to make blog more interesting.

It also suggest tags, At this moment for this blog, it is suggesting Zemata,Weblogs, Blog, Tool, Blogger, which make sense, so I don't need to think a lot on that and i can apply them directly.

It suggest articles and can add them in your blog directly like this

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YouTube - Annotation

2008-06-04T12:19:00.000-07:00

YouTube has just added new and very cool feature called as Annotation, so now after uploading your videos you can add interactive commentary to different scene of video. You can easily select frame and highlight some portion with spotlight and put comments within video. This way video becomes more interactive.
I am sure it will be very helpful in demo and tutorial kind of video to make them more user friendly. I am sure you will find numbers of video with lots of annotation.

What is great?

Auto save is just great and can avoid data lose when you are in add annotation.
No need to wait, Just add annotation and publish it.

What is missing?

Ctrl C, Ctrl V is not working.
Spelling correction is not there.
Collaboration is not possible (My friends can not change anything on that).
As of now, Annotation is not working on embedded videos,. You can notice that, if you play video added in this blog directly, it will not show annotations, but when you play them on YouTube site (by double clicking) it works.

Want to know more about it, Just have a look on below video. I have also tried my video.

Just give a try and share your videos and comments here.

Google Apps Engine

2008-05-31T15:51:00.000-07:00

Google recently announced their new product Google Apps Engine. This is a developer tool by which you can run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. That's mean you can port your application on google clouds, so massive infrastructure will be easily available, so no need to worry about scalability. It is free to start but you have to pay after certian usage limit.
But the problem at this moment is you can write your application only in python. I am surprise why GWT applications are not supported there. It will be great if Google provides easy integration of J2EE Applications.
You can watch announcement of Google Apps Engine in Google I/O Seminar.