John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a manner far superior to any before him. In his embrace of America and his outsized personality and achievements, he represented the new American people of the United States……

Source & Story : http://www.google.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon

Google is bringing its “street view” technology indoors. With the announcement Tuesday in London of the Google Art Project, the Internet giant jumps into the online art arena with tools that will allow Web surfers to move through 17 of the most prominent art galleries in the world, with the option to look more closely at individual artworks, including some that will be digitized so exhaustively that individual paint strokes and hairline cracks in the surface will be visible. The project will give high-profile exposure to the idea of creating “virtual” galleries that museums have been exploring for years. It may also help build collaborations between institutions that have been working separately on digitization projects. But will it reinvent the museum experience? It’s not clear that even Google can do that. Yet.

Included among the institutions that have teamed up with Google are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Collection in New York, and the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington. Museums in London, Madrid, Moscow, Amsterdam and Florence, among others, are also contributing.

The Freer has allowed a popular work by James McNeill Whistler, “The Princess From the Land of Porcelain,” to be digitized through the “gigapixel” process, which stitches together multiple high-resolution images. Now available online, the Google Art reproduction makes it possible to see the faintest trace of white paint Whistler used to make his subject’s eyes glisten, as well as the nubby, gridlike texture of the canvas underneath.

“On average there are 7 billion pixels” per image, said Amit Sood, leader of the Google Art Project. “This is a thousand times more than the average digital camera.” “The giga-pixel experience brings us very close to the essence of the artist through detail that simply can’t be seen in the gallery itself,” said Julian Raby, director of the Freer, in a statement. “Far from eliminating the necessity of seeing artworks in person, Art Project deepens our desire to go in search of the real thing.”

Other art museum directors who have seen the technology are impressed by it, though not convinced it will substitute for a scholarly eye in direct contact with an actual painting. Brian Kennedy, director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, said the gigapixel images can bring out details that might not be visible to ordinary museum-goers in a gallery. But scholars will still want a three-dimensional view of the art, which even a very high-resolution two-dimensional image can’t provide.

Many important art museums have already produced extensive databases of their collections, and provide access to some of their collections online. The Google Art Project differs in its combination of a “walk-through” function, letting visitors see how paintings are hung and organized as they move virtually through the collection, with the ability in some cases to see high-resolution images of specific works. It also brings prominent galleries from around the world together through a single interface, with Google’s extraordinary online reach.

A trial of the technology Tuesday proved both enticing and frustrating. Images often appeared grainy and washed-out when using the walk-through function. Navigation arrows take a certain dexterity to use, so as not to see paintings at unnatural angles. And if you hit the wrong navigation arrow, you are sometimes thrown out of the museum altogether to an exterior street view. The rooms of the museums are also free of visitors, which would be a rare luxury if you were there in person, but is strangely haunting when exploring online.

Elizabeth Merritt, founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, called the walk-through technology an interesting experiment, and the kind of experiment that most museums can’t produce on their limited budgets. But after experimenting with the tool, she also had questions about whom it would appeal to, and what kind of audience it might find. As someone “who sits at a computer eight hours a day,” she wasn’t sold on the walk-through function except for museums that she might not be able to visit personally. But she liked another functionality, which Google calls “Create an Artwork Collection,” allowing visitors to assemble online personal collections that can be exchanged with other users.

“It certainly fits with the research we’ve been doing that people like to create their own experiences and their own mash-ups and share them with other people,” said Merritt.

But if the walk-through still feels gimmicky, the highest resolution images are a delight. The interface includes a bar for zooming in and out and a marker on the image that indicates where the zoom is happening. It’s a useful way of connecting the microscopic and macroscopic landscape of the painting.

Story and source : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020106442.html

San Francisco, Dec 31 (DPA) Facebook passed Google as the most visited website in the US in 2010, according to a survey by the web tracking firm Experian Hitwise.

The social networking site also claimed the top search term of the year, with variations on its name filling four of the 10 most popular searches, the survey found. In all, Facebook searches accounted for 3.48 percent of all web searches in the US in 2010, a 207-percent increase over 2009.

The study found that Facebook accounted for 8.93 cent of all US website visits in the year, ahead of Google.com’s 7.19 percent and third-placed Yahoo Mail with 3.85 percent.

However if all Google’s various properties are taken into account, the web search giant did overtake Facebook with 9.85 percent of all website visits. Microsoft’s msn.com and bing.com also made it into the list of top ten websites, as did myspace.com.

Other terms in the top 10 searches included ‘youtube’, ‘craigslist’, ‘myspace’, ‘ebay’ and ‘yahoo’.

Sourceand story : http://in.news.yahoo.com/facebook-beats-google-most-visited-2010-20101230-171523-632.html

COMPUTER users are under threat from a software flaw similar to one that hit government systems two years ago.

The weakness in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser would allow hackers to take control of a PC through a booby-trapped web page.

Most vulnerable are Windows XP users.
Rik Ferguson, senior security analyst at Trend Micro, said: “The attacker can run programs directly on the victim’s computer.
“It is highly reminiscent of a bug two years ago which prompted national governments to switch to an alternative browser.”
Microsoft said that there had been no reports of attacks but advised those concerned could use the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit protection system.

story and source : http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/24/windows-xp-users-on-red-alert-over-internet-explorer-bug-115875-22803854/

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Top 10 domains: World

1. twitter.com
2. maps.google.com
3. facebook.com
4. google.com
5. en.wikipedia.org
6. wordpress.org
7. validator.w3.org
8. flickr.com
9. youtube.com
10. digg.com

Top 10 INDIA:

1. indianexpress.com
2. dnaindia.com
3. sify.com
4. timesofindia.indiatimes.com
5. business-standard.com
6. zeenews.com
7. mydonline.in
8. cinema.thamil.in
9. financialexpre
10. erovideo.in

Source & Story: http://staging.seoprofiler.com/monitoring/top-backlinks

Story and Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/Whats-new-in-Google-Earth-6/articleshow/7014343.cms

A man has been captured on Google Street View apparently climbing into the boot of his car while naked.One Internet user told the CNET website he thought it was just ”an illusion” with the man wearing tight skin-coloured shorts while fixing his brake light.
However Google has removed the image from Street View, which only went live in Germany at the beginning of the month.
It is not the first time a Google Street View image has provoked debate.In August a photo emerged of what appeared to be a dead schoolgirl laying on the side of the road in Worcester.However, it turned out to be ten-year-old Azura Beebeejaun who was lying down playing dead with her friends.

Story And Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8152990/Naked-man-spotted-in-car-boot-on-Google-Street-View.html

Computer details of current and former defence staff, including a former Royal Navy head, were posted on the internet after a hacker broke into a military website and shut it down.

The Royal Navy website was taken offline after being “compromised” by the hacker, codenamed TinKode, who has a history of breaching government databases including Nasa, the US Space Agency and the Pentagon.

The Ministry of Defence stressed yesterday that no “malicious damage” had been inflicted on the Royal Navy site, which did not contain any classified information. However, the site has been down for three days and TinKode, who is Romanian, posted so-called “hash values” for Ministry passwords he claimed to have obtained from his illegal entry. With hash values, hackers can crack passwords a lot more easily. One of the named accounts was for former First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band.

In the wake of the disclosure, other hackers piled in with additional material including five passwords for other members of staff. The MoD insisted that the information posted would not allow anyone access to secrets.

The electronic break-in took place on Friday night. Visitors to the website yesterday morning were greeted with the message “Unfortunately the Royal Navy website is currently undergoing essential maintenance. Please visit again shortly.” A message posted by TinKode on the social networking site Twitter read: “Minister (sic) of Defence United Kingdom – HACKED”. According to members of the hacking community, TinKode used to be a member of Hackers Blog, a collective of cyber activists who ran a campaign of breaking into websites to highlight security flaws.

Members of the group were known as “white hats” who did not harm the websites. But TinKode is said to have since become a “grey hat” – someone who deliberately publishes sensitive information online.

TinKode is believed to have used a “SQL injection attack” to target the Navy website, a common method which exploits vulnerabilities in databases used by websites. Once entry has been gained, the hacker can look at and download sensitive data as well as upload malicious software.

Rik Ferguson, a cyber security analyst at the company Trend Micro, said: “It’s always embarrassing when something public is successfully hacked and should serve as a warning to anyone who has a presence online to take all the necessary steps to secure their websites.” The MoD said: “There has been no malicious damage, but as a precaution the website has been temporarily suspended. Security teams are investigating.”

Officials said the site had the level of security needed to prevent “things like silly pictures being put in”. TinKode’s actions, said one official, added nothing to the debate on cyber security.

Story and source : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hacker-compromised-royal-navy-security-2128774.html

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