Suanie posted an entry about some sweet memories in the 90s. It reminded me that I was still a teenager that time who only used PC for games and entertainment.

For some of you who were web surfers back in 1990s, might still remember how the old Yahoo! and Google looked like. Just to bring back the old memory of these 2 search engine giant, here I present you Yahoo! in 1996 and Google in 1998. For those who have not seen the old version of Yahoo! and Google, enjoy too. :)

Yahoo! in 1996

Well, back in 1996, Yahoo! was still a web directory itself comprised of around 370,000 sites. That time, Yahoo! was more or less a place served as Yellow pages and to search for latest news. For your information, this is the 2-year-old Yahoo! as Yahoo! was created in April 1994.
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Yahoo in 1996 & Google in 1998

Google Talk has yet to have video conferencing like the other two competitors’ Instant Messengers (IM), MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Therefore, Santa Cruz Network has developed a plugin for Google Talk enabling Google Talk users to conduct video voice calls. They named the plugin Festoon.

Santa Cruz Network just launched the plugin for Google Talk few days ago followed by its success in launching the most popular video plug-in for Skype with more than 2.75 million downloads so far. For you information, Festoon works fine with both Google Talk and Skype now.

Festoon allows Google Talk users to talk to and see each other just like any other video conferencing feature in other IM, share applications, and engage in video experiences from 2 to 200 face-to-face communication. It offers high-quality group voice utilizing the industry leading GIPS audio codec used also by Google Talk, Skype, and AIM Triton.

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Video Conferencing Plugin For Google Talk

While checking my pathetic Google AdSense income 2 hours ago, I found that Google just updated their Terms Of Services and started offering referral program to its users.

As you can see just right above the title of this entry there is a Google AdSense banner. For you information, this banner attached with my referral ID and it will redirect you to Google AdSense sign up page. According to Google AdSense, I will NOT get any benefit until you reach your first USD$100, so please feel free to sign up now via the banner. Once you have signed up as a Google AdSense user, you can start putting advertisement on your website and earn from the market leading pay-per-click scheme. For Bloggers/Blogspot users, you can also sign up via the banner, then follow some easy steps to put advertisement into your blog too.
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Google AdSense Offers Referral Program Now

Microsoft is preparing to launch a newer version of MSN Messenger very soon. The next generation MSN Messenger tentatively is named Windows Live Messenger and it is still in beta testing stage. Like the next version of Hotmail – Kahuna, Windows Live Messenger is also accepting beta users to test on the new service but unfortunately I do not have the invitation for this one.

Anyway, I’ve got you all some screen shots of Windows Live Messenger.

While remaining most of the features we already familiar with, such as text and voice messaging, emoticons, and video conferencing, Windows Live Messenger integrated VoIP and File Sharing of any kind of documents.
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The Next MSN Messenger – Windows Live Messenger

Good news for all WordPress users, old and new. A brand new theme viewer was launched by WordPress yesterday. This theme viewer will definitely give you a nice browsing experience while selecting theme for your blog. Instead of going through the lengthy theme list in WordPress Codex, you are now able to browse 8-16 themes at one time. This will certainly save you some time.

Other than viewing the theme in thumbnails, you can check the demo site of a particular theme by just clicking on the PC-like icon at the right bottom corner of the thumbnail. The Download icon just sits on the left of the Demo icon while More Info icon is on the right.
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New Theme Viewer From WordPress

I just got an invitation from Microsoft last Friday to test the forthcoming Hotmail service, Kahuna. I am definitely not the first to do a review for Kahuna but I hope this entry shares the experience of using it from a diffrent point of view. Well, there are quite a number of good reviews written, such as this article from PC World, this article from PCMag or even this comprehensive list of features from MSN.

Kahuna is the next version of Hotmail and it will have 2GB capacity. It utilizes the latest web technologies such as AJAX, which GMail is also using. Since Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express is still having the largest user base for Windows-based email client applicaiton, Kahuna tries to bring the same user experience into the web application.

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Mail Box

On the Today page, which happened to be the welcome page, we will see some messages from Microsoft regarding this beta version of next Hotmail. To give us the user experience of Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, we will see the user interface of Kahuna is very similar to them with three columns design:-
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The Next Version Of Hotmail – Kahuna