People living outside the United States, UK and Germany will have to subscribe to the service at a price of €3.00 each month which accounts for approximately $4 USD.

Last.fm notes on their blog:

In order to keep providing the best radio service on the web, we need to ask our listeners from countries other than USA, UK and Germany to subscribe for €3.00 per month. In return you’ll get unlimited access to Last.fm Radio, and a promise that we’ll be hard at work improving the service for years to come.

Apparently, you will only be charged for the radio service. Other features such as scrobbling, recommendations, charts, biographies, events, videos etc. will remain free and available to all users and subscribers. There will also be a 30 track free trial on the Radio which “will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio”, as their team notes.

The leniency towards the blessed three countries is probably because Last.fm’s largest subscriber base resides there. For the rest outside, will have to pay for the radio. If are interested in listening to more than 7 Million tracks on their Radio, get ready to loosen your wallet.

We recently asked our friends on twitter whether they will pay for the service and mostly all of them replied in negative. If you are that type, stay tuned, we will be getting a list of alternatives soon.

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Not even the creator of World Wide Web, Tim Berners- Lee, would have ever thought that his creation will lead to the formation of the biggest human communication network. Since its creation, the Internet has evolved dramatically from being a mere platform to promote consumerism to a platform which promotes socialism and human interaction. New technology has transformed the way people use the World Wide Web. Today the internet users are looking more than just information; they are searching for rich experience.

The era of web 1.0 ended with the burst of the internet bubble in the new millennium and gave way to the birth of web 2.0

What Is Web 1.0?

Yahoo!, MSN, AOL among others are pull based, vendor driven, web content providers of Web 1.0. With web 1.0 the webmasters were constantly burdened with the responsibility of updating their websites to keep the visitors informed and engaged. Some common features of web 1.0 websites includes: collection of static pages, guest-books which asks for user to give feedback, diverse use of some common HTML tags like <marquee> and <blink>, flashy banners and gif images, etc.

What is Web 2.0?

Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger among others are pull based user driven web content providers of Web 2.0. The webmasters share the responsibility with their internet audience for keeping the website informative and engaging. The modern website has become a dynamic place for people to regularly gather and interact rather than a simple place to store information.

Some features of popular web 2.0 websites

Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

Judging whether a given site belongs to the category of Web2 or Web1 can be a difficult proposition because websites do have a version number! Moreover there are no fixed norms and outlines to classify a website.

If we analyze all the Web applications and sites that have been framed into the Web 2.0 sphere, one of the main ingredients would probably be the use of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming technique — a technique that adds an object of real-time interactivity to Web pages. Web 2.0 has now become a platform for users who wish to share their opinion and thoughts on a preferred topic. Web 2.0 contains more organized and categorized content then Web 1.0 ever had. With web 2.0, the user is no more external to the system, but an integral part of it.

There is already a buzz about the future of Web and experts are anticipating Web 3.0 which will be a semantic web, an intelligent web with new levels of user integrity which may have features like network computing, distributed databases and more intelligent applications.

In general, Web 1.0 was "read-only", Web 2.0 is "read and write", and Web 3.0 will be "read, write and execute".

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del.izzy on the other hand, offers users a full text search on the bookmarks which includes searching within the page content of your bookmarks, in addition to title and description search.

Though the service does sound promising, we were unable to use it to search our bookmarks and kept getting a error disallowing us to login to our delicious account.

Techcrunch on the other hand was able to successfully test the service, we are wondering if Yahoo has started blocking the service already. Have you been able to use del.izzy? Do let us know through your comments.

del.izzy – Del.icio.us bookmark search engine

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The delicious team have been playing around announcing the release of Delicious 2.0 for quite some time now, they have faced several problems in past with the release, but it was definitely a happy day for them today as they announced the release of Delicious 2.0 to the public.

One of the changes with delicious 2.0 is the move to a new domain called delicious.com from the old del.icio.us. With this release they have also made the service more faster and provided users with better search and design.

Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster.

Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful.

Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks).

We gave the delicious 2.0 site a spin and saw a lot of improvement in speed, the search interface is quite good too, you now get tag suggestions as you type keywords in the search box.

Delicious also has a improved browsing experience making navigation much more easier, they have added several drop down menus for better navigation.

We don’t see any option to go back to the old interface though, all users of the old del.icio.us site will be force migrated to the new delicious.com (del.icio.us redirects to the new site). The overall features and new design look good and we guess you won’t be annoyed with the force switch to the new interface.

[Via TechCrunch]

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Well the tag line of the site is pretty much misleading it says “Search your stored keys and serial numbers” whereas it shares keys and serial numbers uploaded by other users.

Well the site can get a lot of trouble since its not underground and stores the serial keys on their site itself which could be a disaster once the privacy guys for various company get to them.

Please do not share your serial keys online it is illegal and get you into trouble.

We have purposely not linked to the website and have written this post to just make you aware of various problems you may land into if you make use of the service.

All in all a web2.0 disaster to happen.

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Bookmarks inSuggest is a new Web2.0 service which will suggest you new websites based on your current bookmarks in del.icio.us.

To get suggestions for your current bookmarks store in del.icio.us enter the username in the box provided and click on Continue. Once you have provided the username Bookmarks inSuggest will query your current publicly available bookmarks and suggest you websites that may interest you.

There is a option to view suggestions based on the tags you have in your account too, clicking on any of the tags will only show you suggestions for that particular tags.

So far I have discovered and bookmarked a few interesting websites, so this can be quite useful if you want to find websites based on your interest.

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PDF Search Engine is a speciality search engine to find and download PDF files. You can search for PDF files just like you search in your regular search engines, but the difference is that the results will only show you links to PDF files which you can download and read at your own leisure.

What We Liked About PDF Search Engine

We put the search engine to a little test and were happy with the results we got. The search term we used was “Composite design pattern”, we got quite a few results many of which matched our search keywords.

We were also impressed by the fact that they directly link to the PDF files rather than us having to visit any website and then download it.

What We Didn’t Like About PDF Search Engine

The titles of the search results are bound to cause confusions and PDF Search Engine needs to definitely improve on those. For example we searched for “ORielly” one of the biggest publishers of technology books and came across several results. But there were some misleading titles such as “Apache” and “Web2.0” which are deceptive with regards to what the actual content might hold. It could be a book Apache Web Server or it could be Apache’s Tomcat or it could be Apache’s Axis. The only way to know what the book holds is after you download it.

PDF Search Engine also needs to add in support for human queries rather relying on known terms, for instance the keywords “Composite design pattern” did return satisfactory results but a search for the keywords “Composite design pattern in java” did not fetch any results at all. Though design patterns are not isolated to Java itself there are many authors who write design pattern books specific to languages.

Can We See Legal Issues With PDF Search Engine?

Looking at the Terms of Use of PDF Search Engine we were a bit surprised that they put the onus of Copyrights on the user rather than themselves. Here is a excerpt from their TOU.

pdf-search-engine.com offers its files search technology on an "as is" basis. pdf-search-engine.com distributes information supplied by third parties and provides Internet links and references gathered from outside sources. Therefore, you should not assume:

……

that your use of the service will be uninterrupted, or that the material linked within the pdf-search-engine.com database is not copyrighted

This is bound to be a problem for users since ORielly and for that matter Manning Publishers PDF’s (which are available) are copyrighted and they are available through PDF Search Engine. A definite sore point which is legally valid and “many so called search aggregating websites” follow with a disclaimer saying it is up to the users to act on any copyrighted materials.

So before you start downloading books I highly suggest you read their terms of use just to stay safe as they put the onus on the user. Sadly there is no way to determine what is copyrighted and what is not.

Summarizing

Overall this is a good service since it isolates to only a certain type of search but there is still some time till we can actually make it a one stop search for PDF documents. We also love the direct download feature as it is convenient and saves us lot of time.

The fact that we have to look to avoid downloading copyrighted material is what will keep us away from this service till they take the onus on themselves and start removing the copyrighted materials from their search results, till then it’s good old Google.

Do you use any PDF search engines other than Google? Do let us know through your comments. Also try this service out and let us know how it works out for you too.

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The interface looks quite similar to a Unix Shell and can be easily adapted by anyone who is bored using the normal web browser way of searching.

To use Goosh you will have to type commands like you type in UNIX to get the search results, and example of a command to find “Techie Buzz” in Google search is;

web Techie Buzz

You can also search Wikipedia using Goosh, the command for searching Wikepedia is;

wiki Bill Gates

There are also other commands using which you can search Google Unix style, to see all the commands simply type “h” or “help” without the quotes and press Enter, you should see a list of commands you can use along with the parameters you need to pass to it.

Overall Goosh provides a decent experience for heavy UNIX users and I can say that transitioning from Putty to Goosh will be a piece of cake and over time I may definitely ditch the regular Google Search .

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