Google has signed a contract to use GeoEye the newest half-billion dollar satellite after it launches in September this year. GeoEye would exclusively provide its imagery for Google Map and Google Earth. Imagery will be available at as high as 41cm in black and white and 1.65 meters in color. The deal will only allow Google to use a maximum resolution of 50 cm.

Google has launched a 3D virtual world called Lively just like Second Life with cartoon like avatars. You can create your own virtual rooms and post it on a blog or social network profile. Lively runs on Firefox and IE but the download is only for Windows Vista/XP. Mac users can use virtualisation through either Parallel or VMWare.

Yahoo! Presence Image Generator. This is for you guys, who want to use my Yahoo! Presence Image but don’t have web server to upload it. Insert your Yahoo ID (this is required), your name to be displayed (optional) and alert message (optional) when someone click your Yahoo Image Presence. Then copy the code and paste it to webpage where you want to be appear. Maybe it works in friendster. I don’t know, i don’t test it yet. As long as your webpage suppot iframe, it will be works Read the rest of this entry »

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A handy tool to check on page health and popularity.