Few days back Orkut introduced the concept of Orkut themes. Orkut also released 12 official themes for it's users.
In this post, i will explain how can you change your Orkut theme with the help of Firefox web browser and Greasemonkey, a firefox extension. Greasemonkey allows you to customize the way your webpages look and function. Greasemonkey works with user scripts on firefox version 1.5 - 3.0.
To change your Orkut theme, you first need to install Firefox, then install Greasemonkey. Once your installation is done, you have to download the user scripts for Orkut. The collection of many good Orkut user Scripts and installation procedure is given here.
Below are few sample Orkut themes to show how your Orkut profile will look like.
Spiderman Orkut Theme:
Aishwarya Rai Orkut Theme
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Opera, the leading web browser today announced that it has added Ask.com, a leading search engine to it's latest version of Opera desktop browser.
Opera 9.51 is the latest version of Opera desktop browser and because of this collaboration, Opera users will be able to take advantage of a popular search engine. Below is the snippet of press release from Opera.
“The cooperation with Ask.com is a great complement to the search options people have on Opera desktop browser today,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Opera believes in offering people a rainbow of choices. Ask.com provides an innovative search experience, preferred by millions of people across the world.”
“This deal with Opera adds to Ask.com’s expansive partner network,” said Andrew Moers, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Ask.com Partner Network. “As the 9th largest property on the Web with millions of customers who come to Ask.com to seek answers on a daily basis, our presence on Opera’s browser will introduce our unique search experience to even more consumers around the world.”
Opera 9.51 is a free web browser that let you load your websites faster and provide high level of security and good browser experience.
Adobe labs today released the beta 2 of Flash Player 10 code name "Astro" with new features and bug fixes. Beta 1 was released in May, 2008. The new features in Flash Player 10 beta 2 are-
Linux WMODE Enhanced Sound APIs unloadAndStop Video4Linux v2 Support Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access
Also there were long discussions going on between flash developers about new protocol "Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)" released by adobe along with the release of Flash Player 10. Adobe has also released the RTMFP FAQ, which will give more insight on this new protocol.
BigDownload.com is the name of new PC gaming websites launched by AOL today. BigDownload.com website is a website targeting the PC gaming users. It will provide all stuffs related to gaming such as game reviews, game downloads and related news and updates.
BigDownload.com is the result of joint project between AOL Games and Weblogs Inc. Below is the snippet of official press release from AOL.
"Unlike competing sites, BigDownload.com offers fast and free file downloads with no required sign-up process, subscription fees or lengthy queues," said Barbara Dybwad, Senior Producer, Weblogs, Inc. "Our staff of writers eats, breathes and sleeps PC gaming so they can bring readers a deeper level of analysis. They’re also committed to a diverse range of original and community features, exemplifying BigDownload.com as a participatory media where the "audience" is encouraged to be a part of the site."
According to AOL, BigDownload.com website will be a one stop destination for game lovers. In the joint project, BigDownload.com will offer free games, game reviews, demos and trailers while weblogs will provide the complete and comprehensive coverage of current PC gaming market.
Dimdim, the free open source web meeting service, today announced that they are soon going to release Dimdim V4.0. The big noticable feature will be Deskop Sharing for Mac.
In an earlier announcement made by Dimdim, they shared that "Mac/Linux screensharing is leading the pack followed by recording and archiving of meetings". Dimdim team was working hard to bring Dimdim Mac for it's users.
Other than desktop sharing, the cool features are "recording", "multiple presenters". You can also take part in testing Dimdim for Mac. More details are available here.
Adobe Systems today announced the beta 2 release of Ads For Adobe PDF Powered By Yahoo. Last year Yahoo and Adobe partnered to bring ads for pdf files.
About Ads for Adobe PDF:
"Ads for Adobe PDF" is a free service that let you earn money by including ads in your PDF documents. To provide this service, Adobe has partnered with Yahoo. Yahoo will provide the ads for Adobe PDF by matching the contents of the PDF. When user will click on ads from your PDF documents, you will be paid.
Currently Ads for Adobe PDF beta is open to participate with only limitation that the PDF content should be in English and targeted at a U.S. user base.
hi5, the popular social networking servcice today announced it's acquisition of PixVerse Inc. PixVerse is a leading provider of rich and real-time interactions within social networks. PixVerse is known for its Flash based virtual world platform as well as highly interactive Pix Chat and Pix Wall applications which run on hi5 and other popular social networking services.
The hi5 acquisition of PixVerse Inc. is a step towards enhancement of Real-Time User Interaction.
Below is the snippet of official press release from hi5.
“PixVerse has great technology that delivers a very immersive end user experience,” said Ramu Yalamanchi, CEO of hi5. “Communicating with friends is one of the primary benefits of hi5, and this technology and team enables hi5 to deliver a much richer, more visual medium of interaction for users of our network.”
“When we set out to build our applications, we were immediately drawn to the hi5 platform,” said Charles Ying, co-founder of PixVerse. “Access to the social graph enabled us to leverage hi5’s 80 million users to drive our growth. And the fact that hi5 is part of OpenSocial, rather than a proprietary platform, meant our work was extensible and reusable.”
PixVerse was just one year old company founded in 2007.
Platform-A, the advertising business from AOL today announced that they will offer one of the industry’s highest CPM rates for Bebo and Facebook applications. It's a clear sign of AOL's jump into social network advertising.
AOL will offer a guaranteed CPM for U.S. traffic to application developers of Bebo and Facebook for their applications. This offering is a part of WIDGNET publisher network launched by Platform-A this year.
Below is the snippet of official press release from AOL.
“This announcement reinforces Platform-A’s commitment to helping developers generate revenue and monetize their Bebo and Facebook applications in the rapidly evolving social networking space. Advertiser interest in social networks is rising at a steady rate, and Platform-A is making an unprecedented flat-fee commitment to help application developers generate revenue and guarantee monetization of their applications,” said Dave Jacobs, Senior Vice President of Publisher Services, Platform-A Advertising.com Networks. “Platform-A views social networking applications as an area where we can add significant value by letting developers focus on expanding their install base, without worrying about monetization of applications.”
AOL is seeing big potential in Social networking applications for advertising because currently 30,000 applications for the Bebo and Facebook are available and representing tens of millions of installs and millions of active users.
Google today announced that It's retiring the Adsense Referrals in order to improve AdSense by providing best results for publishers in monetary terms.
According to Google Adsense team, the AdSense Referrals program will retired during the last week of August. Google has also suggested the alternate of Referrals to publishers. The alternate option is-
Google Affiliate Network:Google Affiliate Network is for those advertisers and publishers who want to increase sales through affiliate marketing. This was the result of recent Google acquisition of DoubleClick affilate operations.
Other than Affiliate, publishers can also replaced their referral ad units with standard AdSense for content ad units if they have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page.
Google also suggested it's publishers to remove the referral code from their sites because it will not display ads at the start of last week of August.
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