Web Concepts

Companies IBM and Google together with six largest universities have started the program on promotion of the concept of programming for the distributed calculations.

The distributed calculations assume use of a plenty of the computers incorporated in a uniform network for carrying out of global scientific researches, complex modelling and other calculations demanding greater computer capacities. Thus the general speed of a network of the distributed calculations can exceed productivity of the most powerful supercomputers of the world. However, according to experts, the quantity of the professionals, capable to carry out programming of similar problems, is insignificant.

For project IBM and Google have allocated large computing claster uniting some hundreds computers, systems Google and servers IBM BladeCenter and System x. Students to whom access to the Internet will be given, can test with its help the projects within the limits of a training course on programming for parallel calculations. In servers кластера the software with the open initial code, including OS Linux, virtual XEN environment, and also technologies Google developed within the limits of project Hadoop under aegis of fund Apache Software Foundation, in particular, the mechanism of information search MapReduce and file system Google File System (GFS) will be used, informs TechWeb.

It is filled with the customer in case of absence of TPS on the web-project for acceleration of a development cycle of design of the web-project.

The first impression the most important (!)
And we receive the first impression of a site considering its WEBSITE DESIGN.

Any site clearly demands an individual approach but underwritten positions can be considered as the list of the unified positions, important by development of TPS on a site. It is possible to speak about detailed variant of TPS only on the basis of the concrete order.

Substantive provisions of TPS on development of a technical part of a web-site:

Position 1. Registration of the domain
Choice and registration of a domain name.

Position 2. Application of technologies
Technologies on the basis of which the program part of a site will be made are defined.

Position 3. Use of program modules on a site
Modules for use on a site get out. A forum, gallery, news, etc.

Position 4. Testing of a site
Testing of a program part of a site (working capacity of a cursor), testing of a site for convenience of using (the attitude of users to a site). The scheme of performance of service is defined.

Position 5. Service of a site
The moments of maintenance service of a site.

Substantive provisions of TPS on development of appearance of a web-site:

Position 1. The purpose of creation of a site
Idea of a site and the reason of its creation.

Position 2. The characteristic of a prospective audience of a site
Investigation for personal characteristics and qualities and preferences of a target audience of a site is spent. Interrogation of target group of visitors.

Position 3. A choice business-model of a site
Causes features of appearance, purpose, structure and imposition of a site. Examples business-models: a site an information portal, a site the Internet shop, or a corporate site, etc.

Position 4. Distinctive features and functionalities of a site
Commercial and structural advantages of a site on a background of analogues and sites of competitors are defined.

Position 5. A choice of style of registration of a site
In view of specificity and purpose of a site its appearance and the scheme of imposition is defined. Standard styles the Internet of sites: tabulared style, bionic style, a techno-style, style pixel design, etc.

Position 6. Structure of a site, system of navigation on a site
Structure of the main page and internal pages. It is defined according to the pursued purposes and problems.

Position 7. Rules of use of firm style on a site
Rules of use of firm style stipulate.

Positions of TSP on promotion of a website in a network the Internet:

Position 1. Promotion
Ways of promotion. Terms of achievement of results.

Position 2. The Advertising campaign
Manufacturing and accommodation of banners, clauses and other promotional materials.

Special positions of TPS on development of a web-site:

Position 1. The budget of a site
The estimate on a spectrum of services on development and promotion of a site pays off.

Position 2. Features of conducting works on a site
In this item the special moments connected with specificity of development of a site stipulate. Confidentiality, terms of performance of works, variants of interaction of the parties during work, variants of the decision of questions at issue, etc.

Human rights movement organization “Reporters Without Borders” in cooperation with the Chinese Group of defenders of human rights has published the exclusive report made Chinese Internet-expert. The author of the report wished to remain anonymous investigated mechanisms of censorship, shadowing and propagation which operate in a cyberspace of the China.

Before the seventeenth national congress of Communist party of China legal experts also have called the government of the country to allow to have to Chineses the rights to freedom of press, self-expression and the information. According to legal experts the system of censorship in the Peoples Republic of China has no equal the world and offends spirit of on-line freedom. ” Reporters without borders ” consider that before the Beijing the Olympic Games it is extremely necessary that the Chinese authorities have stopped to block thousand sites, censoring on-line news and to put in prisons the Internet-active workers.

In the report “China: travel to the center the Internet-censorship” is spoken that the government of China has involved enormous human and financial resources to prevent an on-line freedom of speech. The Chinese news sites and blogs are under the vigilant control of the device both on national, and on local levels.

In the report in detail speaks how the supervising system operates and its main characters among which Administrative committee the Internet-propagation, the Bureau of the information and public opinion, and also the Internet-committee of the China refer to. The author of the report results set of examples of censorship of news sites which carries out the Beijing administrative bureau the Internet-information. In a final part of the document results of a series of the tests showing work of the mechanism of a filtration on keywords are resulted.

To familiarize with the full text of the report ” China: travel to the center the Internet-censorship ” is possible here.

Community Mozilla.org plans to release the mobile version of browser Firefox.

Vice-president emphasizes that now many users log in the Internet from portable devices. Besides the sales volume of mobile devices in twenty times surpasses a sales volume of personal computers. At the same time, Firefox for today is the most popular browser with the open initial code. The quantity of loadings of the given software product recently has exceeded 400 million.

It is supposed that support of mobile devices will be added in structure Mozilla2 - the second version of a program platform on which it is constructed Firefox. Users of the mobile version of a browser can load and establish expansions, and foreign developers will have an opportunity to create additions with application XUL, expanded language of the description of the user interface.

The presentation of final updating Firefox 3 should take place or in the end of it, or in the beginning of next year. Not clearly also, on what portable devices will work Mobile Firefox.

It is necessary to notice that the browser on the basis of code Mozilla was developed for portable devices within the limits of project Minimo (in abbreviated form from Mini Mozilla). Last updating of the given product with an index 0.2, intended for use on devices under control of Windows Mobile 5.0, was issued in March of this year. According to Mike Shrepfera, Minimo was a pilot project, and to develop it in the further it is not planned.

Company Google has presented the fifth generation of equipment rooms of Search Appliance, focused on large corporations and the governmental organizations.

Devices Search Appliance are capable to work with more than 220 types of various files including documents HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF, PostScript, WordPerfect, Lotus and many other things. At drawing up of inquiries use of auxiliary logic terms is supposed, and given out results can be sorted as necessary. Besides it is necessary to allocate means of automatic spelling, function of dynamic search (results appear on the display in process of input of inquiry) and an opportunity of search in the set range of dates.

The fifth generation of equipment of Search Appliance, under applications of developers allows to carry out search in a lot of sources. Thus given out results are characterized by greater relevance in comparison with previous updatings Search Appliance. Function of universal search Universal Search provides communication with four systems on management of a corporate content - Microsoft SharePoint, IBM FileNet, OpenText LiveLink and EMC Documentum. Besides the modified user interface and the expanded means of safety are mentioned.

Cost of equipment of Search Appliance makes from 30 thousand US dollars. By the way, besides devices of ruler Search Appliance company Google offers less dear equipment of Google Mini. These devices depending on model index from 50000 up to 300000 documents and are focused on use in spheres of small and average business.

Many People can’t imagine there life without the Internet today. We use it for chat, work, shopping, searching and other reasons. And it goes without saying that talking about Internet, people don’t think about protocols and cables either as they don’t think, that TV - is a set of cables and communication satellites use to transfer tv-channels.

Let’s determine the Internet itself: Internet - is an integration of nets of the world, where all the computers “talk” using a special language - net protocol TCP/IP, also it’s based on this protocol and available for using services (such as e-mail, Web & so on). This is a present-day definition. But many years ago the conception of the Internet was different.

Let’s briefly talk about the history of the Internet. The Internet we know today grew from seeds planted by the U.S. government.
And was developed to regain technical superiority for the United States as a response to the USSR that launched Sputnik.
J.C.R. Licklider first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it.

About this same time, a RAND researcher by the name of Paul Baran was working on a classified U.S. Air Force contract
about a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike. Baran’s finel proposal was a packet switched network.
Leonard Kleinrock also developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections.
Packet switching is an approach that slice a message into separate, discrete pieces(datagrams) or packets.

Each packet then moves from its point of origin to its destination over any open route, regardless of which path the other packets take. When all the packets arrive at the destination they are reassembled — and the message is delivered intact. To embody this ideas, that were needed technologies, the Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) used a competitive bidding process.
In 1968 BBN won the ARPA contract. So, The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the ARPA which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). Later some other branches were added. So, the physical network was constructed in 1969. Anyone who used the early Internet, had to learn to use a very complex system.

Needless to say, that in the beginning was chaos as it always happens when people are trying something new, using there great energy and excitement, differing techniques for creating common standarts and protocols. E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972.The telnet protocol, enabling logging on to a remote computer, was published as a Request for Comments (RFC) in 1972. At first the extraction of the information from the Internet was connected with a program called FTP(File Transfer Protocol). FTP-protocol allows a user to connect to a remote system and then exchange files with it. But this system was inconvenient, because required to know for sure the name of the file. Later more convenient FTP-clients with graphic interface were created, but there were still no tools to index the resources that were available.

The first effort to index the Internet was created in 1989, as Peter Deutsch and his crew at McGill University in Montreal, created an archiver for ftp sites, which they named Archie. This software would periodically reach out to all known openly available ftp sites, list their files, and build a searchable index of the software.

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Company Yahoo after competitors has updated a cursor of the search system having expanded its opportunities and having raised accuracy of given out results.

Till May 2004 Yahoo used technologies of competing company Google. However three and a half of a year back Yahoo has passed to application of own cursor constructed on the basis of operating time before got companies Overture and Inktomi. Firm technologies of struggle against a spam have been built in a search cursor thus for a filtration of superfluous references and search dust.

Present updating of cursor Yahoo Search became the most scale from the moment of refusal of development Google. The new version of Yahoo search engine provides more relevant results, and the mechanism of the unified search as informs The Wall Street Journal, allows to receive the information from sources of various types, for example, from collections of images, usual a web-sites and news resources. Besides in results of search data on forthcoming cultural and business events from a database of service Upcoming.org are added.

Company Yahoo also has improved built in mechanism Search Assist. After input of first three letters of inquiry on the screen there is a falling window with several words or the word-combinations containing typed symbols. The user can or choose a suitable variant by means of arrows of management of the cursor or mice, or to continue a set of inquiry.

However, marks Associated Press, innovations Yahoo generally are similar to functions which already offer competing search systems from Google and Microsoft. In opinion of some experts, having updated a cursor, Yahoo has only reduced backlog from contenders, not having presented thus of any innovative decisions.

Company Adobe Systems within the limits of conference Adobe Max in Chicago has informed on purchase of firm Virtual Ubiquity - the developer of on-line text editor Buzzword.

Editor Buzzword executed with use of technologies Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash, allows to create qualitative documents with graphic elements and demanded structure. Thus printed versions of files in accuracy will correspond to their on-line originals. It is expected, that editor Buzzword will add a set existing web-appendices Adobe into which number enter Acrobat Connect and Create PDF Online. In the long term Buzzword can make a competition to on-line office appendices from such companies, as Google, ThinkFree, TransMedia, Zoho and others.

Besides at conference Adobe Max 2007 company Adobe has declared start new web-service Share, intended for an exchange of documents and their publication on the Internet. Users Share can dispatch notices on occurrence of new files to the colleagues or friends, establish restrictions on access to documents and so forth Service Share is free-of-charge.

On action Adobe Max 2007 number of the known companies, including AOL, PayPal, Philips Lighting, QVC and SAP AG, new appendices on the basis of cross-country-platform of Adobe AIR environment have shown. Besides company Adobe has presented software Flash Lite 3 intended for use of technology Flash on mobile devices. The announced product provides an opportunity of viewing on mobiles phone and smartphones animated rollers, and also sites on the basis of Flash.