ajb{log}: learn something new each day

Live.com Search updated their background with the cool image of Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium

You can see it over here.

Windows Mojave is actually Vista. It was just renamed in an experiment to prove that Vista doesn’t really sucks.

The videos on the Mojave Experiment proves that you can’t really judge a book by it’s cover. Participants were surprised to know that it was Vista after all.

Ok, Vista wins this round.

First off, what is Baidu? Why does it make sense to submit all your websites there? Ok, simply put, Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. According to Compete, the Baidu has more than 1.5 million monthly visitors. And that’s the main reason why.

I can’t understand Chinese. How and where do I submit my site? Here’s how:

1) Go to this URL: http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html

2) You should see something like this:

Just enter your URL (web address) on the first input box.

3) Enter the code that you will see just right at the bottom (It’s Y2C2 in my case. That code changes randomly).

4) Click the submit button beside it and you’re done!

Easy huh?

Here’s the URL again http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html, bookmark it for future use.

Here’s the English translation if you really wanted to know.

Here it is:

“Publishers with websites, creating content
Wondering about their sites
If with their content, they could show some ads
Before the day was done
Something in AdSense, was so inviting
Something about those ads, was so exciting
Something in our Help Center
Told them they must be one
Publishers with websites, yearning for earnings
They were just publishers with websites
Up to the moment
When they placed their first ad code
Little did they know
Revenue was just a click away
A happy-user-generated click away and –
Ever since that day, they’ve been monetizing
Newbies at the start, they’re now optimizing
It turned out so right
For publishers with websites.
Newbie, newbie dooo, da da da daaaa da…”

Originally posted here

Top level domain extension dot me (.me) landrush starts in an hour (at least to us).

Grab one here.

This is great news for all Gmail junkies. I personally dislike that (un)feature. Here’s what Google posted on their blog:

“Google has finally realized that it’s a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you’ve sent an email. An updated version of Gmail’s contact manager has a separate section for the people you’ve emailed: “suggested contacts”.”

I love this move. Now, I have to give some time cleaning up my Gmail’s contacts because it’s currently marred with emails I don’t personally know.

Love it Gmail team!

More information

Here’s the bytecode:
%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88

Found at:
http://obvious.com/secret…itter-20080709-151432.jpg
http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/854077761
http://www.andrewmager.co…%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88/

Google also doesn’t know it

Here try it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Pretty cool huh?

Converse has a new website OutOfYourLeagueGirl.com. It’s some sort of hotness tips from some hot girl.

Not sure how this video is related to Converse.

Holy Shmoly! posted an update on WordPress MU that is already version 2.6 beta 1.

Download wordpress-mu-2.6-beta1.zip

For the geeks out there, here are the changes.

I get feeds from Ajaxian daily and love the posts there. It was surprising to see today that I got a post marred with Viagra and Cialis links. (See below)

Were they hacked? Or did somebody accidentally copy/pasted a JS code or a hidden div on the post? In any event, hope they can fix this soon.

Oh and one more thing to note — Google Reader allowed it to show. Ungh!