Source favicon23:37 More gadgets, more places » Official Google Blog


We've released the Personalized Homepage feature in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand, so that more of you around the world can put the information you want on your Google homepage.

And given the football frenzy now underway, we've included the gadget for the World Cup in these new editions to make live scores, standings and schedules available. So hop to it now for soccer updates or other info (like news, weather, recent Gmail messages, and feeds from your favorite sites).
Source favicon22:57 AWStats: 14 additional robots available in robot detection file robots.pm » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
We've updated our version of robots.pm to detect 14 additional robots .
Source favicon22:13 手机铃声与鸟鸣 » 桑林志
© 桑葚,来自桑林志 | 固定链接记得看到过个报道,讲科学家们发现林子里的鸟的叫声越来越像手机铃声了,似乎文中还谴责了下手机铃声的污染,给鸟社区带来一定混乱。我变换了...
Source favicon21:40 SSL 2.0 真的不是很安全 » DBA notes
前几天用 Nessus 扫描自己用的笔记本, 报告有安全漏洞: The remote service accepts connections encrypted using SSL 2.0, which reportedly suffers from several cryptographic flaws and has been deprecated for several years. An attacker may be able to exploit these issues to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks or decrypt communications between the affected service and clients 阅读了一下推荐的文档 Analysis of the SSL 3.0 protocol, SSL 2.0 果然存在不少问题. 其中一个问题是 SSL 2.0 容易受到密码组回滚攻击(CipherSuite Rollback attack). 关于 ciphersuite rollback attack: An attack against how Secure Socket Layer version 2 (SSL v2) negotiates the cipher suite. The aim is to convince Alice and Bob to use much weaker encryption than they are capable of using. 该攻击方法通过恶意编辑在 hello 报文中发送的所支持密码组的明文列表而使得使用者被动选择弱化的出口加密算法.这几乎是 SSL 2.0 的致命缺陷. 另外一个问题是由于美国安全产品出口法的限制: 只能使用不超过 40 位的 MAC( 报文验证码, message authentication codes). SSl 2.0 使用 MAC 后添加字节的块加密模式,但是添加的长度字段是未经验证的,这给了主动攻击者会删除最后的内容的可能. 对于 SSL V2 也可能存在中间人攻击(man-in-the-middle attack). 虽然 Diffie-Hellman 是目前最为完美的公钥算法.但是在 SSL V2 的缺陷使得供给者能够巧妙伪造一个数字证书, 让客户以为他是和真正的服务器通讯. 在 SSL V3 中则对该缺陷进行了改进. 推荐文档:SSL技术详细说明 一直对 SSL 的安全性比较模糊. 唉 
Source favicon21:04 PicasaWeb is getting close » Googling Google
Last week a change to the Picasa page had everyone talking about a Flickr-like service from Google.  It is called Picasa Web, and though it has not been launched yet, the domain picasaweb.google.com now actually resolves -- which signals something will likely happen soon.Even though it says "not found" when you visit this site, there [...]
Source favicon15:06 这两天上海放假 » 闾丘露薇 ROSE GARDEN
因为开上海合作组织峰会的关系,上海明天和后天放两天假。有点觉得夸张,因为算算只不过十一个国家,当中包括五个观察员,然后开会就是15号半天。参加过这麽多次的峰会,上海这次算是最隆重的,隆重到需要全市人民的配合。不过韩国也这样做过,那就是去年的釜山apec,不过那次参加的首脑人数多很多,包括最可能带来麻烦的美国总统,而且会议的日常要多很多。
不管上海人好像没有什麽怨言,反正是为了上海好,上海人都是挺愿意作出配合的.明天下午开始交通管制,管制区里面的商铺平白无故少了一天半的生意,要是在香港,肯定会吵翻天的,去年的世贸部长会议期间就是这样,不过那次有韩国农民的激烈表演,大家看得高兴,很快也就忘了自己的损失。
 
朋友告诉我,为了这次会议,安保方面特别紧张,就好像港口货物进出,危险品已经不能够靠岸,正常的贸易都有点点受影响,当然这个消息是没有经过证实的,我听说的而已。不过紧张还是需要的,想起2001年,上海召开apec,会后有人告诉我,在会议召开之前,根据美国方面提供的情况,清除了一批东突分子。恐怖分子现在是无处不在,反恐需要周密的计划,有的时候,也需要牺牲一下大家的便利。
 
对于采访的记者来说,如果没有车证,明天就要坐穿梭巴士到新闻中心,不过这次不比apec那次的大手笔,如果中午和晚上饿了,要麽做穿梭巴士到外面没有管制的地方去吃,要麽就带上面包算了,因为对于我们这些人来说,明天下午开始,时间是按分钟计算的,吃饭的事情,只能够放在最后了。好笑的是,管制的只是一部分浦东地区,但是对于大部分初来乍到上海的记者来说,感觉上是,明天的浦东就变成寸步难行了。虽然上海的报纸有详细的地图,不过说实话,对于我这个上海出生的人来说,依然没有任何的帮助。
 
明天的重头,内贾德晚上到上海。这次他绝对是国际媒体最最关注的。通常上合组织的峰会,吸引不到西方媒体的眼球,不过这次就不同了,我就知道有美国的通讯社就出动了北京分社的绝大部分,还从伊朗调派了一名摄影师,因为需要懂伊朗语。
 
预告一下,内贾德答应给凤凰一个独家专访,伊朗对于凤凰,应该说对于中国的媒体相当的友善,这个月底,就会有一个中国的媒体代表团应邀到伊朗采访。很可惜,因为我有其他的安排,所以错过了这次机会,不过还好,已经去过伊朗几次,所以遗憾还算是比较少一些。对于中国媒体友善,我想还是在于希望透过中国的媒体向国际社会发出他们自己的声音,因为对于西方媒体会不会断章取义,他们还是有一定的担忧。16号胡总会和内贾德会面,之后内贾德就会举行记者会,当然,参加的人数还是在他们的控制之内的。
 
其实伊朗成为上合的观察员并不是现在,只不过之前的峰会,他们派出的是副手,而这次,内贾德亲自上阵,又正好在伊核问题陷入僵局的时候,怪不得美国如此关注,也怪不得美国有的人,提起上合组织总是有点点心里面不是滋味。
 
胡总到了上海,其实上海和上面的关系如何也是大家都非常的关注,之前的宏观调控,外界就有不少的传说。不过他这两天去了哪些地方,大家还需要等几天才会看到详细的报道。
 
对了,后天就要出发去非洲,有网友猜对了,采访pm wen的非洲之行。通常这样的采访会有几次当面提问的机会,如果大家有哪些想法,可以告诉我,而我到时候问什麽,我也会及时告诉大家。
 
 
Source favicon12:53 google-minesweeper coming soooon… » 刻录事
google-minesweeper coming soooon… Originally uploaded by Ravi Sankar Ivaturi. google的扫雷游戏?! 是真是假;D
Source favicon10:26 web2.0应用:地图服务比较 » laolu

6月8日,CNET就web2.0应用报道了第二个比较研究:地图服务。对Google、Yahoo、Microsoft、AOL(Mapquest)、Ask的地图服务做了比较,同样也给出了一个详细的对比表

web2.0应用:地图服务比较
  Google Yahoo Microsoft 其他
网址 Google Maps Yahoo Maps beta
Windows Live Local beta Mapquest Ask Maps 2.0
与其他服务的集成(Integrates with other services) Gmail, Google Calendar beta My Yahoo Outlook, Messenger, Favorites, MSN Spaces No No
卫星视图 (Satellite views) Yes Yes Yes No Yes
商业列表
(Business listings)
Yes Yes Yes Yes No
路线(Directions) 2点之间的驾车路线 最多24点之间的驾车路线 2点之间的驾车路线 2点之间的驾车路线 最多10个地点, 走路或驾车路线
街景照片(Streetside photo views) No No 单独的Virtual Earth demo 利用Amazon的
A9 Maps
No
即时的交通资料
(Live traffic data)
No Yes Yes No No
Tag地点(Tag locations) No No Yes No No
保存地点
(Save locations)
No Yes Yes, 且可对地点加注释和上传照片 Yes Yes
自然语言查询
(Natural language queries)
Yes No No No Yes
打印地图
(Print maps)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
发送地图到手机
(Send maps to mobile phone)
Yes Yes, 收费 No Yes, 收费 No
键盘快捷键
(Keyboard shortcuts)
Yes Yes Yes No Yes
鼠标右键快捷菜单
(Mouse right-click shortcuts)
No Yes Yes No Yes
开放代码(Open code) No Yes Yes Yes, beta No
第三方mashups
(Third-party mashups)
Yes Yes Yes Yes No
广告(Ads) 文本 文本 文本 图像 No
底层代码
(Underlying code)
AJAX Flash AJAX Javascript AJAX
打印(Print) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
链接和邮件发送页面
(Link to and e-mail page)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
右键地图
(Right-click map)
No Yes, 且能拖放地址 No No Yes
来源:CNET

结论的第一句话就是:创新的Google Maps,虽走出了beta测试,却已经被竞争对手在特性上所超越,令人尊敬的Mapquest也遭受了同样境遇。

延伸:近一年前的“地图网站的市场份额

08:00 2006/06/13 08:00:00TQ洽谈通搜索力指数排行榜 » TQ洽谈通搜索力指数
 搜索引擎  搜索力指数  排名升降  份额
1. Baidu  158747586     71.40%
2. 3721  20896854     9.40%
3. Google  17513514     7.88%
4. Sogou  13757118     6.19%
5. QQ  5747026     2.58%
6. Yahoo  2136422     0.96%
7. 163  1428794     0.64%
8. iAsk  1034190     0.47%
9. Zhongsou  605282     0.27%
10. China  373622     0.17%
11. Tom  107658     0.05%
Source favicon07:49 Google Earth Linux版推出 » Blog on 27th Floor
下载文件16.3MB,是一个bin文件,加x权限,然后 ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin 开始安装。解压缩后有图形安装界面,不过要选的东西只有安装目录和是否生成执行文件的连接。缺省安装目录在 /usr/local/gogoleearth 。安装占用46MB空间。从文件上看确实是使用了qt和GL的。

从界面上看,感觉比Win版还要创新一些,直接在图形区显示一个透明的操作盘,非常方便,右侧滑动条可以放大缩小,而上面的滑动条可以改变视角。

初步试用。系统,Debian Sid,显卡是MGA G200,8MB显存,640MB SDRAM,Duron 1200MHz。

google-earth-linuxgoogle-earth-linuxHosted on Zooomr
Source favicon06:06 大推荐: GVO TW » 变态家族

PornToy 组织的GVO翻译的台湾站点终于出炉了, 这里是这个翻译计划的介绍。 简单的说就是翻译全世界的草根声音的一个计划, 也许你能从这个计划中看到一个完全不同的世界, 或者是你以前从未关注过的世界。 至少Portnoy是已经有了这个体验的。 如果你有兴趣, 可以去这个讨论组, 参加他们这个充满激情的小组。 据说大陆的站点不日也将推出。 翻译就有很有意思的事情, 比如说undersound前几天写的这篇, 就被从英文翻回了中文, 看得undersound自己都是很感觉怪怪的。 还出现了经常在翻译中看到的搞不清姓名的情况, 出来了肖(萧?)这样的地方, 很是有意思。

很是佩服龟干事情的冲天热情, 我总是觉得他以后很可能当个台湾领导人……

对于自己不用服兵役, 感到还是很庆幸的。 他的故事告诉我们, 每个台湾的年轻人都要去军队服上一年多的兵役的, 就像韩国一样。

Source favicon05:38 MSDN Using MSN to Build Customer Satisfaction » MSN Search's WebLog

On April 18th, MSDN launched site-wide its first effort in improving the customer search experience by building a targeted UI that is powered by the MSN SOAP API.  This allowed us to offer our customers the following benefits:

·         Improved Performance

·         Content Relevance – Benefit from ever-improving MSN Search

·         Community Searches across MSDN blogs, Forums, and CodeZone Partner Sites

·         Customer Feedback opportunities through MSDN Search Blog, and MSN Search Feedback loop.

These features were enhanced by the fact that we built off the MSN Service.  The results have been outstanding! In the time since we have launched we have seen big improvements in customers’ responses to search as well as big advances in click throughs on the first page of the results.  You can view this new UI at MSDN.

The cool thing for MSDN is that because of the flexibility of MSN, we have been able to listen to the customers and build even more unique experiences in an effort to assist our customers.  (To understand the approach take a minute and watch this MSDN TV article).  As we examined future possible outcomes and implementations, we came up with the following UI that we would like to introduce for your consideration, our first iteration of these features.  You can see the search and play with it at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/search/refinement.aspx. 

In contrast to our released design, there are no tabs in our prototype. We removed the tabs because we heard from customers that they didn't see them. But we also heard you wanted the content, so we combined the content into a set of queries we can send to the API and we then use the data returned to let you filter out the content you don't want.  For example, if you are searching for a term like “ATLAS,” you can remove the blog sites from the results.  

Additionally, it is important to remember because we built on the MSN Search API, in any version you can modify your query with the MSN query language.  Here are some examples of how this helps MSDN queries:

Operation

Syntax

Examples

All Terms

term1 AND term2
term1 & term2
term1 term2

Console AND WriteLine
Console & WriteLine
Console WriteLine

Any Terms

term1 OR term2
term1 | term2

Word OR Excel
Word | Excel

Exclude

term1 -term2

FindWindow -CE

Group

(term1 term2)

FindWindow AND (CE OR MFC)

Exact Phrase

"phrase"

"Provider Toolkit"

Preference

prefer:[op]term2

FindWindow prefer:MFC

So play, have fun, and let us know what you like and don’t like.  We are working on a few more features including; Narrow by Product, Narrow by Keyword, Text Suggestion, and more.  You can influence this process. If something is not working let us know the query you tried, and what is the nature of the topic you are looking for.  We appreciate your feedback and hope to hear from you soon. You can send me feedback at the MSDN Search blog.

---Jeremiah Andrick, Program Manager MSDN

Source favicon05:30 麻生的演讲 » 变态家族

听了他的演讲, 我还是可以理解麻生为什么会这么受日本国民喜欢的。 虽然其貌不扬, 但是讲起话来给人感觉非常真诚, 给人的感觉是心里想什么口里就说什么。 由于习惯性的--也有可能是天生的--歪着嘴巴, 给人不屑以及非常自信的感觉。 笑料很多, 几乎隔不久就会有一些--虽然大部分笑话我都听不懂, 但是还是可以从周围的n-1个都笑出声来(n是会场的总人数)的事实判断出这是一个笑料的。 而且特别喜欢漫画, 这个大多数日本人, 特别是年轻人都喜欢的东西, 连很多ppt里面都有漫画人物。

不过我觉得最重要的一点是可以让台下的人有良好的感觉。 演说的题目是日本外交的展望, 首先给了一个卫星地图, 是从北极的上空拍得一个照片, 日本在旁边的一个小地方。 他说所有国家的地图都是把自己放在世界的最中心, 这个变一变角度是不是就不好找了。  指了指旁边的巨大的中国, 俄罗斯, 还有韩国,朝鲜,印度等。 说不要以为我们小就不行, 其实我们还是很强的。  列了一下04年GDP的统计数据, 换算成美元, 美国是11.67兆, 第二位是日本4.62兆, 看了一下中国,那时是1.65兆。 又强调了一遍, 我们还是很牛的。 然后说我们的人均寿命是最长的, 不仅长, 而且健康, 退休以后还可以工作。 说我现在就超过六十岁了, 可以拿年金, 但是不拿, 还要继续工作。 说美国纽约人到了日本, 印象最深的就是日本的地铁, 说竟然如此干净, 晚上竟然还有女孩子敢坐地铁--据说在纽约是不可想象的事情。  

然后说起来日本的外交政策, 由于宪法规定不能拥有军队, 外交基本是靠钱。讲解了一下日本的ODA(Official Development Assitant)政策, 说我们到处给别的国家ODA, 还是起了很大的作用的。 现在的泰国, 印尼要是没有我们的ODA, 现在都肯定不是这个样子。  让台下众人颇有救世主的感觉, 一阵鼓掌。 比较诚实, 没有说日本ODA是为了世界发展, 人类博爱, 而是说这是要传播日本的软力量。 实力分为软硬, 他去美国之后, 发现日本软力量的影响其实更大。 比如3J--J Pop,J Animatoin, J fasion(日本的流行歌, 动漫, 时尚)。 又是一阵举例, 这些例子我有些倒是知道, 比如女王护士林檎在世界上如何出名, 还有キャプテン翼(就是我们说的足球小将, 翼就是大空翼), 自卫队在伊拉克的给水车上印上大空翼, 伊拉克 人都很熟悉, 还说到法国的齐达内也很喜欢足球小将。 后来还说美国的米老鼠都是仿造日本的机器猫来的---个人觉得这个吹得过了点…… 说到现在亚洲比较发达的国家, 如台湾, 韩国, 新加坡等, 都受到了日本很大的影响, 日本的文化可以说深植这些国家之中。 (旁边的主持人在麻生说完这段话以后说, 这个台湾…… 记者就不要拿这个问题来写了, 我证明麻生是口误, 麻生笑)

举了一个具体的例子, 是他参与过的一个印度的ODA项目, 给印度新德里建设地铁。 建完了以后, 说极大的改变了印度人。 印度人以前是极度没有时间观念的,从那以后, 由于是和日本人合作, 地铁也可以准点。 铁路也有了时刻表。 (这个让人真是很难相信)

说到了日本今后的外交政策, 就是文化+经济外交, 说“日本の夢を売りましょ!”, 就是把日本梦卖出去, 听得台下人又是很高兴。 

到了提问时间, 人太多了, 都没有叫到我。 有个大学生问麻生, 我和我的中国留学生同学交流, 发现我们对历史问题的看法的差别竟然有那么大? 为什么会是这样呢? (事实上我也想问这个问题, 我和reika也有这个问题 ) 麻生没有解释为什么, 说这是很正常的, 有时候就是同一个国家的人对历史问题的看法也可能不一样。 比如美国认为独立战争是伟大的正义无比的战争, 但是英国人就会觉得这个就是一个殖民地的成功地叛乱。 这是很正常的, 没有什么关系。 但是始终没有解释这是为什么。 不过说到了两国可以一起商量, 这个教科书的问题。 让我想到了前一阵子法德两国共同编写教科书的新闻, 当然不可能在每一个细节上都双方统一意见, 不一样的话就会标明两个国家的各自的观点, 让学生自己讨论。

历时两个小时, 完毕以后台下人使劲鼓掌, 怎么也差不多有一分钟吧。 

搜了一下, 发现麻生太郎也有自己的blog , 写的还挺勤快。

Source favicon05:25 Happy Birthday, Google Earth » Official Google Blog




We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. Yes, we're releasing simultaneously for PC, Mac (universal binary for full performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs) and for the first time ever, native support for popular Linux distributions. And we should say "salut," "ciao," "hallo," and "hola" to our French, Italian, German and Spanish users, because Google Earth is now fully localized for those languages in addition to English. This includes a UI localized to French, Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as local search, driving directions, geo-coding, and unique local information layers for those countries.



Got data?

The streamlined new UI is bound to make you crave new places to explore, so we put together a little update to our database — we increased our global coverage by about 4X. Google Earth now covers more than 20 percent of the landmass of the entire globe with high-resolution satellite imagery (soon Google Maps will too). When we say "high resolution," we mean the good stuff: you can see cars, houses, buildings in more than 200 countries and territories. Not every house is covered, only about two billion of them. That's our best estimate, anyway — that about 1/3 of the population of the Earth can now see their homes in high-resolution. Google Earth has had medium resolution global satellite coverage since the beginning. But that was at 15 meters per pixel. This new global coverage was produced in conjunction with our exclusive satellite partner, Digital Globe, and is at approximately 70 cm per pixel. We have even better data for many countries, up to 10 cm per pixel.



What global insights can this new data produce? Google Earth has already helped save tsunami, hurricane, and earthquake victims, not to mention find a lost Roman villa, track severe storms, discover new meteor craters, track the outbreak of avian flu, visually index magazine articles and photos, host travel videos, redefine the house-shopping process, track airplanes in flight, recognize every Medal of Honor recipient, and many other uses we never expected. Only time will tell what it will bring, and it will only be fully realized when energetic and creative people use powerful tools like KML to exploit the new data and features.



Why not KML in Maps?

We asked that too. KML is such an amazingly flexible way to create and share geographic information - whether it's sharing vacation photos with your friends or publishing important data like the realtime earthquake feed from the U.S. Geological Survey — we thought it would be useful to be able to view KML in Google Maps. So here it is! You can now view KML in Maps by entering the URL for your KML file. To browse hundreds of thousands of interesting KML files, see what the half million members of the Google Earth Community have created.



Feeling inspired?

Google SketchUp and Google 3D Warehouse have enabled creative individuals around the world to model their world in 3D. A new version of SketchUp is available today that enables the export of fully-textured 3D models to 3D Warehouse and Google Earth. This will bring even more realism to the collectively-authored 3D world SketchUp users are creating.



Ready to mashup?

Our legion of Maps API developers asked us to support geocoding. So we decided to push that out today too. Street-level geocoding is now available for the U.S., Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Let the mashing begin.



Are you enterprising?

Finally, now there's Google Maps for Enterprise, offering a fee-based service and support for businesses that want to embed a Google Maps experience in their websites or internal applications. It leverages the Google Maps API to enable businesses to map customer locations, track shipments, manage facilities or view any other data source in a geographic context.



Whew. I'm exhausted from writing all of that. Our first year has been a busy one. We hope you enjoy these latest efforts in our mission to geographically organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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