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Ms. Dewey is a Viral Marketing campaign started by Microsoft in October 2006. It also refers to the character of the same name, who is the campaign’s main subject. The Ms. Dewey website is an Adobe  flash-based experimental interface for Live search. The interface features a modern-looking cityscape as a backdrop with the character on the left side, while the search results appear on the right. The cityscape backdrop changes depending on the time of day.

Developed by advertising agency Mcann-Ericsson San Francisco and interactive production firm EVB, Ms. Dewey appears to be an interactive search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style and makes random actions when idle, including taking props from behind her desk. The responses actually consist of about 600 video clips recorded over a period of three days.

Microsoft is not overtly marketing the website, and appears to be relying on media coverage to draw users in. Janina Gavankar plays the role of the Ms. Dewey character

Source: Wikipedia

This time during my vacation i visited my friends place in KOTA(kundapur).. Although my initial plan was to visit his house thats all.. I left from my house at 9.00 am(28th July) sharp.. got a express bus to udupi and managed to get seat… the moment i sat i paid the money to the ticket and dozed off immediately …I am such a kind of person no matter how bumpy the road is i manage to sleep well..Then suddenly the bus comes to a stop near Katpadi..approx 15km away from udupi… the reason is an accident..Two trucks have broken down on the road…It was 9.45a.m.The Jam was huge traffic on both sides of the road..My bus halted for half – an- hour . then finally i reach udupi at 10.45 dodging the traffic..Its usually one hour journey to udupi frm mlore… It took 1 hr 45 min due the jam..

I managed to take a kundapur express bus frm udupi..another half an hour i reached my friends place finally.Then we spent time chatting.A senior of mine who studies in the same coll as mine had come over…Finally had lunch.All traditional Amchigele items..Ate nicely..My initial plan was to return bak the same day.But my friend forced me to stay over.I had to agree..then took a nap in the afternoon..

Evening we set out to visit all the temples and then to the beach…The drive to the beach was awsome experience..paddy fields on both sides of the road.wind hitting my face…totally wonderful.we reached the beach.. It was beautiful with waves roaring with great force. spent some time there..had dosa  in a restaurant and went over to my seniors home had a chat and bak to my fren’s house at 10pm. then had dinner ,ate fruits and then as usual sleep…

Next day visited the anegudde temple .. and temples surrounding it..i visited a total of 10 temples..:-)

finally that afternoon i set out for my home… finally reached at 3.30 in the afternoon…

It was a wonderful experience driving on the NH-17,the beach,the food…..

Microsoft keep continuing their amazing things.And now its Worldwide telescope

Microsoft has released a free public beta of its world wide telescope that lets stargazers explore the universe from their PC’s. It’s a rich web application that accesses high resolution images  taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The main screen of the Worldwide Telescope contains stars visible to the human eye that are mapped into constellations. You can navigate with your mouse in any direction and zoom in or out with its scroll wheel. Points of interest appear when you mouse over. You can also use the top menu or search to find celestial bodies. Here you can see that the edge of the Big Dipper’s cup does indeed point to Polaris or the North Star, which is located at the plus sign.

Isnt it great…Its definitely great:-)..

I was chatting with my friend recently and he asked me to visit this particular site www.joomla.org. And i was astonished visiting that:-) here’s what its about

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalisation. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

The name Joomla is properly written with an exclamation mark as that is part of the name, but this is commonly omitted.

It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default.

So what are u waiting for..Have a look at it:-)

Zune is a name of a brand of digital music products and services sold by microsoft… It includes digital audio players , softwares and an online music store..The devices can play music , display images and also play videos.. The Zune software allows the user to manage the files on the player..The software is available for both Windows XP and Vista…

This is is one of the direct competitors of  Apple’s iPod products

Google does it again…Every year they come up with a nice intelligent idea of fooling people and this time it was Gmail’s Custom time…. and the other one was Virgile

Wondering what is??

just visit

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

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