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This blog has a pretty good outline of Saas vs PaaS vs IaaS and compares what Google, Amazon, Azure and other "cloud" providers offer. Here's generally how they breakdown:
For more information check out this blog post about how Cloud computing compares vs traditional dedicated servers or VPS/VMs.
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If you own the website then Google Analytics is the way to go.
If you don't own the website then it'll be a lot trickier. You can use something like Alexa ranks to track traffic generically, but that won't tell you anything about specific traffic.
Or if you'd rather track the traffic you are sending to that page from your link I'd suggest linking to the ...
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There's a link called "edit subject" that you click on to reveal the text box for the subject line.
But you shouldn't change the subject line, unless your reply really has a different topic (subject)! Here's why:
For one thing, if you edit the line just to remove "RE:" then Gmail will treat the message as a new thread and won't match it to the existing ...
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A basic description of how Google Web History works:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54068
[...]
Note: Depending upon whether or not you're signed in to a Google
Account when you search, the
information we use for customizing
your experience will be different:
Signed-in personalization: When you're ...
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Some info can be found here:
http://www.alexa.com/help/traffic_learn_more
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach ...
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As I see it, SaaS is a subset of Cloud. SaaS specifically relates to Software that makes use of the Cloud. There are other Cloud technologies like IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service, e.g. Force.com, Google App Engine), storage (e.g. Amazon S3) and so on...
As for ASP, I think that's pretty much synonymous with SaaS...
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It could improve existing web office applications that store data by uses the "Web Storage".
Coding social networking sites could be easier with SQL Databases and Web Workers to load different parts of the page. Also support for Notifications.
Online Photo Editors could use Drag and Drop.
These are just some ideas of how to use the new features of HTML 5 ...
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Pinterest is tricky with this.
Use the following link http://pinterest.com/<yourUsername>/following/
The way the un-follow button works is a tad decieving but it works
It looks disabled even on rollover, but clicking it does indeed un-follow a user.
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You would need to encode the encoded space - effectively, it looks like the LinkedIn.com website is unencoding the %20 to an actual space, which it then runs through a verification check which fails, as spaces in URLs are not supported.
So if you want to have a site with a URL like:
http://www.example.com/?id=this%20rocks
You'd need to enter:
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I'm posting a very late reply here for others who may come across this post in research. There are several great PaaS (Platform as a Service) providers out there who provide Java in the cloud.
Here are just a few that I've used.
Google App Engine: It's not totally Java, more like a trimmed down version of Apache Harmony in a Java namespace. For most ...
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You'd probably have to write your own youtube player to do it. They have coded it this way on purpose, it really cuts down on the bandwidth on youtube's servers. Think about all the people that might visit a site, but not click the button...they would still download the file anyways, wasting both their and google's bandwidth.
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You could use greasemonkey ( extention needed for firefox , chrome and opera support greasemonkey natively) with a user script that does it
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In case of Gmail it depends on how you delete it.
Google support writes about possibilities of regaining your username depending on how you have deleted your account.
Recovering a deleted username
Canceling your Gmail address
Therefore, it seems that your username won't be available for others to use in any case.
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Here is an article that attempts to explain how Google Web History works, primarily from a user experience standpoint: http://searchengineland.com/google-search-history-expands-becomes-web-history-11016
Does this answer your question, or are you looking for something more technical?
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The important thing is the domain of the link. When you hover on that link, if the URL that shows up (usually at the bottom left of the browser window) starts with http://facebook.com or https://facebook.com, then it is safe no matter what follows the site root.
That being said, the link you gave opens a Facebook page to Report Mistaken Email. It says:
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I am using Google Docs and Microsoft Office Live Space, and both are free.
Other free Document Collaboration tools are:
Writeboard
Zoho Writer
Crocodoc
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There are probably 5 most talked about features
Web workers - allows developers to run scripts in background work so a web application can do more than one thing at a time.
Video tag - An easy way to do flash free video online, we just need a standard codec
Canvas - Exactly what it sounds like, a way to create an image on the fly within the browser window
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Google App Engine (GAE) supports Java, if your application is designed to run on the cloud it can be hosted for free, until you have many users / bandwith requirements.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/
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Upload your KML file anywhere on the web. You can use any of the free upload services out there (see Online File Storage Services for a list of options). Then, go to Google Maps and enter the exact URL of the KML file into the search bar. The KML will be loaded into Google Maps in your browser.
For example, entering ...
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You might want to check out T-Shirt Forums one of the examples on there called No-Refresh has T-Shirt designer that allows for user uploaded images.
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My three favorites are CSS3, Canvas and WebSockets. Combined they can provide really powerful collaboration features to any webapp. WebSockets would replace pseudo-realtime messaging with ajax polling. The few things I see it used so far is web-based chat (lame) and mind mapping webapp (looks really cool when two people are mapping some project).
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The Canvas and Web Worker Threads are the most exciting aspects of HTML5 to me. I have written some web apps that make use of those features:
GioAUTHor [sic] makes extensive use of the canvas to let you plot paths on a map and then find the shortest route from the start to the finish (via Dijkstra's algorithm in JavaScript).
JavaScript Thread Demo makes ...
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there's quite a few. I'm fond of dropbox for this - while its primarily a file sync application, using the public folder allows you to give a direct link.
Both the desktop application and web interface work well, and its free for 2gb + some bonus space.
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There are many options that I'm aware of, and probably some beyond that too.
As for something you can host yourself, that's open source, I'd check out the Community Edition of Alfresco.
Now, if you can stand not to host it and don't require it be open source, then take a look a Google Docs.
Finally, if you're a keen masochist, there's always Sharepoint. ...
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It should be working (though of course from myblog.blogspot.com to www.myblog.com - because myblog.blogger.com does not exist).
There's a post in Blogger's "Known Problems" blog this morning saying that custom-redirects are currently suspended. This makes me think that there's a fairly serious issue with this feature at present - they don't usually admit ...
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Unless Google will decide to implement that feature, there is nothing you can do about it, since you don't have access to the HTML source of your email. If you had you could add some CSS rules (float:left) that would do the trick, but for security reasons Google is not giving you the chance to change directly the source of your message.
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There are a few similar applications, like Amazon Test Drive, and I think all use the same technique. As Amazon announced, Test Drive run your Android application in an EC2 virtual machines. So as Pieceable Viewer: they may, in the easiest way, create multiple VMs each run an iOS simulator. Output is forward to your browser, using VNC or any similar ...
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wget is the standard tool for downloading web sites in Linux. It is quite configurable, so you can tell it to only download a single page, or follow all the links within a single domain, or even cross domains, as well as many other things.
You will want to familiarize yourself with the wget man page.
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Try Homepaw.
What is HomePaw?
HomePaw is a startpage / homepage.
It lists all your bookmarks in one page.
All your bookmarks are in categories.
Your bookmarks are accessible from all your computers, anywhere.
Your most visited bookmarks are moved higher in each category (and marked if they are overall most visited).
Your least visited ...
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You may also want to check out http://sourceforge.net/create/ Your application is made available for download, and you will also receive stats. There is a great community behind SourceForge, and there is a built in bug tracking system!
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