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Bill Gates in not unreachable anymore. Newsweek readers can ask Bill Gates questions. He will answer selected questions.
The last date to submit your questions is Sept. 28th, 2007. The answers will be published on Oct. 10, 2007.
Click here to send your question to Gates | Read this article on Newsweek
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I installed Wordpress 2.2 version on a new blog of mine on Indian Real Estate sometime back and was trying to add a Sitemap page to it today.
I added the Sitemap page and it gave a 404 error (page not found). My permalink structure was set to “Date and name based”. I switched to “Default” permalink structure and the page would come up. I needed the “Date and name based” option (useful from SEO point of view) to work for me though.
I was looking at the page options (from the admin interface) and tweaked around the “Page Slug” option and named sitemap-propertysamachar instead of sitemap.
Viola! the page started coming up.
I hope this helps people who ran into this issue. If anyone knows why this would happen, then please leave a comment here.
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Mary Jo Foley, in her blog All About Microsoft on ZDnet has an interesting video on Microsoft code names.
Microsoft products start life as a project codename (e.g. Longhorn which later was launched as Vista).
Let us take the Operation System Line up from Microsoft:
| Code Name | Product |
| Whistler | Windows XP |
| Longhorn | Windows Vista |
| Blackcomb | Windows Seven (next version of Windows after Vista) |
| Creekside | Windows XP Starter Edition |
All of them have something in common, they are all skiing resorts in British Columbia.
Coming to the development tools:
| Code Name | Product |
| Whidbey | Visual Studio 2005 |
| Orcas | Visual Studio 2008 |
| Rosario | Team Foundation System |
| Hawaii | Visual Studio 2010 (unconfirmed) |
All of the code names are islands!
You can find more info on codename on the video here.
Wikipedia has a comprehensive list of Microsoft Codenames for those interested.
Source: (here)
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Based on a technology acquired by DeepMetrix in 2006, Microsoft is testing a new free website analytics tool, codenamed Gatineau. It is most likely a direct competitor to Google Analytics.
(Picture taken from Microsoft ‘Gatineau’ sneak peek)
Here is a video presentation from Ian Thomas (at OX2 Web Analytics Day Brussels, Sept 14, 2007) giving a sneak peak into Gatineau:
The tool will be closely tied with Microsoft AdCenter. Some of the supported features are:
You can register for tool here: http://gatineau.adcenter.microsoft.com/gatineau/index.aspx
I tried to register to use it but could not login (was always redirected back tot he login page). Probably it is still in beta, as the beta invite page is still available.
Gatineau Finally Revealed With Screenshots article shows you few screen shots from the tool.
We do not have enough details on the tool and would be able to comment more when we see the tool live, so let us wait.
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Google India has launched a competition called the Product Prodigy Competition. The competition is open to Computer Science students of select Engineering Colleges.
The theme of the product should be:
To organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
The objective is to provide an impetus for entrepreneurship in product engineering that will hopefully result in innovations that benefit the consumer in the sphere of internet and mobile services.
The team sizes can range from 2-5 students and they would prefer a faculty of the Computer Science department to be the guide.
The prize money is over Rs. 2,000,000.
You can download the registration form here. Hurry registration is only open till September.
This is a very good opportunity for students to show their talent and count on Google to promote their ideas.
Google has already help international competitions like the Google Summer of Code earlier, which brought students and open source project mentors together on exciting projects.
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Poshd is a site dedicated to showcasing best of the real estate sites. The sites which break the mold and make the for an exciting real estate experience for everyone are the ones which qualify.
The main page features snippets of pages from the sites which are short listed and every month there is one site which is a featured site of the month (gets a banner at the top).
The users visiting the site can vote for the sites they like (voting uses AJAX, making it easy for anyone to vote)
If you feel you have a good site you can submit your site here. If your site is featured you can use the poshd badges on your site.
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Yahoo’s open Hack Day is coming to Bangalore on the 5th and 6th of October 2007.
Here is what Yahoo has to say about the event:
We’ll be inviting 200 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web’s most respected developers. We’ll then dive into 24 hours of hacking on a very nice collection of tools, APIs, and data, and end with awards from the sponsors plus bragging rights until the end of eternity or the next Hack Day, whichever comes first.
Please head out to http://www.hackday.org/ for more details and to register.
Booking was easy but the site said the even will be held at Taj Residency Hotel and when you get the confirmation email it says the event will be held at Grand Ashok Hotel, Bangalore!
They have already hosted hack day at Sunnyvale and London before this, both very successful.
More details can be seen here: Flickr group, and Facebook Group
Here guy sharing his experience on Sunnyvale hack day:
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