Explore Google Map

This video clip helps you learn about all cool things you can do with Google Map. There are 5 video clips set up by Google showing all features of Google Map.

Exchange your used books

BookMooch is a new social site for exchanging used books. The service is essentially a cross between eBay and a social network - you can browse books and members and build a network of friends. You also need to create two lists - an inventory of the books you’re willing to trade, and a wishlist of the books you want. Check it out here

People Search Engine

This one one is particular as it allows you to list yourself, your friends or any other person on the planet...Try it out here

More Countries maps to be explored on

Google has announced via its official blog last week; Sept 13, that 54 new countries being added to Google Map! Asia continent now gets three times more data to be explored. Here's the list of those Asian nations :

Bangladesh
Brunei Darussalam (limited coverage)
Bhutan (limited coverage)
Cambodia
Indonesia (limited coverage)
Laos
Myanmar (Burma)
Mongolia
Nepal
Philippines
Papua New Guinea
Sri Lanka
Vietnam

MS-DOS Rap Promo Video Clip

This hilarious video clip reminds me of those old days under the reign of MS...

Visual Search engine

oSkope is a new visual search engine for finding products. It currently allows you to search on Amazon, eBay, Flickr, and YouTube and displays relevant images that can be viewed in a variety of ways.

Blogger play

Hey Blogger just released a new play tool...that's great. It shows the pics that are uploaded to blogger account in real time.

Oracle Gets Social

Oracle is getting involved in building the Entreprise Social network application that can be deloyed and leveraged in short periods of time. It is a great job being done by Oracle Apps Lab.

Web 2.0 Applications Awards

Nowaday there are bundles of utilities, tools, applications delivered everyday on the web, but we have no idea what works, what's really worth and as one said time is money, so it came the Webware 100 Awards program organized by

Webware.com

for their Community users and readers voted for its best Web 2.0 (is as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core) applications. Click here for the complete list of winners.

Here are my votes:

- Browsing; YourMinis.



- Community; DeviantArt is a service to host the users created Art.



- Data; Bittorrent.



- Media; UstreamTV is a broadcasting network.



- Mobile; SoonR shares files, talk with your Skype buddies on mobile phone for free.



- Publishing; Vox is a social network and blogging tool.



- Office Tools; Zoho is a kind of MS Office online but it's 10 times better. It is my favorites Web 2.0 applications of all.



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Go and make your own judgement at Webware.com

Free Databases For Learning

Yeah, Believe it or not: IBM, Oracle and Microsoft offer their Databases Management System for free. Is it their New Way to Advertise their products and get known on the market? :=) Who care ? Just download it And Learn...

IBM offers DB2 9 Express-C Free to develop, deploy, distibute:no limit.



Oracle Corp. provides it Database XE 10g to those who need a free starter database for training, delpoyement and developpment with Open source application.


And the last one is Microsoft SQL server 2005 Express, it's included the reporting services for the creation of your intercative reports.


The sign-up is needed to access those sites.

Webshpere DataStage of ex.Ascential

The most powerful ETL tool that i commit myself to master it as good as possible in the next coming months as it will be the main tool in my next IT Project.

Oracle database unbreakable ?

Have received recently a copy of Oracle Unbreakable Linux?! from Technet.oracle.com
but i have a doubt regarding it unbreakable for there is a book titled "The Oracle Hacker's Handbook" written by David litchfield, that i've just bought it. You can read the excerpt of the book here.

My new assignment in one of the World's Local Bank :=)

My news tasks are mainly focused on ETL and the bank data analysis.