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Finally Google has taken one further step for its precious product, Google Finance and launched the UK version of it. I really like the simplicity but rich content of Google Finance and hope to see Google extend Google Finance’s services to various countries with stock exchange. At first comes Turkey!

A new cheat sheet for the famous AJAX library Prototype has been published by “perfection kills”. Check it out.

If you also think that all the “X wants you to take the Y quiz!”-style Facebook requests are annoying, yep, I found a solution…

Check the IgnoreAll, bookmark it, then use it. It’s very simple and works!

Today, I have found a very big list of mostly used Social Networking Sites.

The OnMedia presented last week the top 100 companies which have shaken the industry by bringing different points of view in every aspect.

Here is the list:

Community Platforms
Associated Content
CafeMom
Clupedia
Community Connect
hi5
imeem
Live Gamer
meebo
Multiply
Passenger
Spiceworks
StreetFire Media Network, The
Takkle
TeeBeeDee
ThisNext

Digital Publishers
Blurb
DesiHits
Gigya
Glam Media
Jacked
ON Networks
PubMatic
Real Girls Media
Ripe Digital Entertainment
RockYou
Slacker
Slide
Vuze
Youku

Mobile Marketing and Advertising
4INFO
5th Finger
1020 Placecast
Ad Infuse
AdMob **OVERALL WINNER**
Amobee Media Systems
Apptera
bluepulse
Blyk
Kyte
Millennial Media
Quattro Wireless
Thumbplay
Transpera
Vringo
YouMail
YoYo Mobile

Next-Generation Search
Baynote
CastTV
Collarity
Kosmix
Like.com
LinkExperts
Medio Systems
Retrevo

Online Advertising Service Providers
Access 360 Media
Active Athlete Media
Adap.tv
Adify
Adknowledge
Adzilla
Clickable **NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR**
Consorte Media
EyeWonder
Four Spots
Guidester
Kiptronic
NebuAd
Ooyala
Openads
Qmecom
Ripple
Rubicon Project, The
ScanScout
Specific Media
Sphere
Spotzer
TargetSpot
Tremor Media
Turn
VideoEgg
Voodoovox
Yume

Technology Enablers
BlueTie
Building B
Conduit Labs
EffectiveUI
Exponential
ImageSpan
Magnify.net
Mochila
Move Networks
Navic Networks
Pando
Real Time Content
TrialPay

Web and Media Analytics and Research
Adchemy
Biz360
Revcube
Visible Technologies
Vobile

Former Technorati CEO David Siffry has launched a new site to review the webpages if it’s hot or not. It’s quite an interesting idea.  It will be maybe a little spammy but if used and/or secured properly, it would be a great source to see a review of a website.

The editors of IGN have published a list of games for various platforms like Wii, PS, PC or XBox which will rock the gaming world this year. Here are the lists:

PC

10) The Agency
9) Sins of a Solar Empire
Age of Conan: Hyborian
7) Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
6) Far Cry 2
5) Rise of the Argonauts
4) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
3) Fallout 3
2) Spore
1) Empire: Total War

PlayStation

10) Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots
9) Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Guitar Hero IV
7) Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
6) Resistance 2
5) Fallout 3
4) God of War: Chains of Olympus
3) Killzone 2
2) LittleBigPlanet
1) Grand Theft Auto IV

Nintendo

10) Animal Crossing Wii
9) Boom Blox
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
7) ASH
6) Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword
5) King’s Story
4) Disaster: Day of Crisis
3) Wii Fit
2) Mario Kart Wii
1) Super Smash Bros. Brawl

XBox 360

10) Saboteur
9) Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Bionic Commando Rearmed
7) NHL 09
6) Too Human
5) Brutal Legend
4) Fable 2
3) Fallout 3
2) Grand Theft Auto IV
1) Ninja Gaiden 2

I was not sure when I clicked on the download button for Firefox’s latest version 3 which is at the second beta stage, but I found out that it has great advantages over Firefox 2 and still safe to use, I gave it a try.

I will report my review as soon as possible…

Please give me a feedback about your choice to track this site in English or Turkish.

I’ve realized that in past times there were ore visitors than today and the language of this site was Turkish.

I’m waiting for your comments.

As you may know, HTML 5 is coming on its way and I wanted to emphasize some major differences between the new version and the current one, namely 4.

Firstly, it is a very powerful attribute that HTML 5 will be backwards compatible.

Character encoding is possible by using 3 different settings:

• At the transport level. By using the HTTP Content-Type header for instance.
• Using a Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) character at the start of the file. This character provides a signature for the encoding used.
• Using a meta element with a charset attribute that specifies the encoding as the first element child of the head element. <meta charset="UTF-8"> could be used to specify the UTF-8 encoding. This replaces the need for <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

The HTML syntax of HTML 5 requires a DOCTYPE to be specified to ensure that the browser renders the page in standards mode.

There are some new elements in HTML 5:

• section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure.
• article represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article.
• aside represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of the page.
• header represents the header of a section.
• footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.
• nav represents a section of the document intended for navigation.
• dialog can be used to mark up a conversation like this:

  <dialog>
   <dt> Costello
   <dd> Look, you gotta first baseman?
   <dt> Abbott
   <dd> Certainly.
   <dt> Costello
   <dd> Who's playing first?
   <dt> Abbott
   <dd> That's right.
   <dt> Costello
   <dd> When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
   <dt> Abbott
   <dd> Every dollar of it.
  </dialog>

• figure can be used to associate a caption together with some embedded content, such as a graphic or video:

  <figure>
   <video src=ogg>…</video>
   <legend>Example</legend>
  </figure>

Then there are several other new elements:

• audio and video for multimedia content. Both provide an API so application authors can script their own user interface, but there is also a way to trigger a user interface provided by the user agent. source elements are used together with these elements if there are multiple streams available of different types.
• m represents a run of marked text.
• meter represents a measurement, such as disk usage.
• time represents a date and/or time.
• canvas is used for rendering dynamic bitmap graphics on the fly, such as graphs, games, et cetera.
• command represents a command the user can invoke.
• datagrid represents an interactive representation of a tree list or tabular data.
• datalist together with the a new list attribute for input is used to make comboboxes:

  <input list=browsers>
  <datalist id=browsers>
   <option value="Safari">
   <option value="Internet Explorer">
   <option value="Opera">
   <option value="Firefox">
  </datalist>

• The datatemplate, rule, and nest elements provide a templating mechanism for HTML.
• event-source is used to “catch” server sent events.
• output represents some type of output, such as from a calculation done through scripting.
• progress represents a completion of a task, such as downloading or when performing a series of expensive operations.

…and it continues. For more information, please check W3C’s relevant webpage.

NOTE: HTML5 is still a draft!