 Mr & Ms Chennai Times talent hunt was held at Ethiraj college with Actor R. Madhavan and Singer Chinmayi as judges. A total of 20 colleges participated and from that Mr Chennai Times winner was Sachin and Ms Chennai Times winner was declared as Vaidheki. This is a talent hunt conducted in all the colleges of the city to bring out the talent in the young students.
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Weblog: Elgg comes with a personal and friends weblogging system. This weblog is a central piece and can link to items in the repository. Each weblog post can be shared with who ever the learner wants.
Social networking: Elgg is all about the creation of a learning landscape therefore it is necessary to link to, and find, others with similar interests. Elgg uses social networking as a means of finding and sharing knowledge with others.
File repository: Elgg has a file repository which can be used to house many different file types.
Access control: This is one of the strongest features in Elgg, a powerful access system allows fine-grained privacy to all aspects of an individuals Elgg.
Tagging: This is now a popular way to search and find other objects and people of similar interest.
Customisation: Elgg comes with some standard templates, however, we recognise the need for people to customise their own landscape. This is done through the templating system.
XML-RPC: use external blogging clients to post to an Elgg site.
Community building: using the communities function learners can create their own communities around shared interests. This is also proving popular for research collaboration.
Wiki: Integration with MediaWiki
Profile data: link to other learners and resources through your profile data.
Syndication: RSS - there are RSS feeds for learners, weblogs, communities, tags, files and FOAF.
Podcasting: Elgg is an extremely effective podcasting platform.
Reference: Http://elgg.org/
From Google blog :
Today, T-Mobile announced the world’s first Android-powered phone. This marks an important milestone in the young history of Android. It was less than a year ago, on November 5, that the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, announced plans to create a complete mobile platform that would facilitate the development of advanced mobile applications and give users the best the web has to offer on a mobile device.
Software developers are key to driving innovation on the web, and also for mobile. That’s why, over the past year, we’ve released several early versions of the Software Developer Kit (SDK) and worked with developers from around the world to make it better and more complete. This has culminated in today’s release of the Android 1.0 SDK R1. Through the SDK, developers have unprecedented access to the hardware and software capabilities of the device, enabling them to innovate freely. More than 1,700 applications were developed as part of the Android Developer Challenge. Google engineers have also been busy developing Android applications. Many of our products (Search, Gmail, and Maps, among others) are available on a wide range of phones such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile devices, and many more. Today, they’re also available on Android, and you can check out the Google Mobile blog for more details.
But there’s more to the Android story. Not only does it allow all applications open access to the phone’s functionality; the platform itself will also be open. The Open Handset Alliance has announced its intention to open source the entire Android platform by the end of the year. Along with the other members of the Alliance, we hope that Android can provide a meaningful contribution to all players in the mobile ecosystem: the developers, the wireless carriers, the handset manufacturers, etc. Everyone will be free to adopt and adapt the technology as they see fit. By doing so, we hope that users will get better, more capable phones with powerful web browsers and access to a rich catalogue of innovative mobile applications.
Yeay!
Most people do not readily realize how old the Internet actually is these days. The Domain Name Server, or DNS, was created in the year 1984, and by 1985; there were already several different top level domains that could be used, including .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, .cctld.
The first .edu domain names to be registered were cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu, all of which occurred in April of 1985. The first .gov domain name registered was css.gov in June 1985. The first .org domain name registered was mitre.org in the month of July 1985.
The first .com domain name was registered on March 15, 1985. The first domain name ever to be registered on the Internet was Symbolics.com. Although the website is not much to look at, it is still up and running even today, more than 20 years later.
This is a list of the first 100 domain names ever to be registered. Some are well-known names, and others are less well known, though they were important companies twenty years or so ago.
1985 – Only six domain names were registered this year, which should speak volumes about how popular or accessible the Internet actually was.
Symbolics.com, on March 15 1985.
BBN.com on April 24, 1985.
Think.com on May 24, 1985.
MCC.com on July 11, 1985.
DEC.com on September 30, 1985.
Northrop.com on November 7, 1985.
1986 – The year 1986 experienced a much larger growth in domain name registrations, with 54 of the first 100 domain names registered coming into existence this year.
