This yearly business, design and technology conference offers a broad agenda with over 60 sessions and special-day programs. Entrepreneurs, designer, Business Angels, web-developer will present their projects and speak about E-business and advertising, RIAs, social networks and communities, the future and the mobile web, design and usability and of course recent developments in multitouch and augmented reality.

Get some impressions from last years conference here or follow up on twitter.com/webinale.

The conference next week in Santa Clara, USA covers how companies use and should use technologies around the web 3.0. Speakers invited e.g. from Google, Microsoft, Expert System or Yahoo will talk about the chances and inferences of the Semantic Web for marketing, corporate information management, publishing, customer service or personal productivity. But what is Web 3.0? Watch the presentation below to get an overview.

The Evolution of Web 3.0

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This Weekend Facebook announced a new Facebook Felloship Program for 2010-2011. The program supports full-time Ph.D. students working on topical areas like Internet Economics, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Systems or Information Retrieval. Students must be enrolled in e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture and recommended by a faculty member. Deadline is Friday  February 15, 2010. Further information, the application checklist and instructions can be found here. It’ll be a tough competition. Good luck everybody!

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Link: ustream.tv – Live from Google

Google Nexus One website

So what’s new?

New is the AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) display, which means that each pixel is controlled via an active matrix and has its own power connection. The big advantage of OLED is that it needs no backlight like LCD displays. Black pixels are not emitted black instead they are turned off. This yields to a higher contrast and saves the battery. Below you will find a short comparison with HTC Hero and the IPhone 3GS.

Official Nexus One intro video

Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleNexusOne to watch more N1 videos.

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Top 5 plus 1:

From time to time we want to google something more precise or detailed and have to think twice about the search string. Here are the six most useful shortcuts for advanced googling. Notice that your results will be even better when you combine them.

1. planet OR world - either the word planet or world (OR has to be written in uppercase) [view]
2. “top-down regulation“ – looks for the exact string [view]
3. planet -music – planet but not music (no blank after the hyphen) [view]
4. define:neuroscience – looks for definitions of the word neuroscience [view]
5. planet * world – looks for the words planet and world separated by one or more words
6. site:www.times.com “Obama“ – looks for Obama mentioned on NY Times Online (no blank before and after the hyphen) [view]

Math and conversions

You can also calculate arithmetic and advanced equations, constants, convert Dollars into Euros, Pounds into Kilos, here are some examples:

1. basic arithmetic using +, -, *, /, ^, nth root of, mod or % of
2. advanced math:
   • trigonometric functions using cos, sin, tan, sec, csc, cot
     
   • inverse trigonometric functions using arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc
   • hyperbolic functions using sinh, cosh, tanh, csch, arcsinh, arccsch
   • logarithm using ln (base e), log (base 10), lg (base 2)
   • exponential functions using exp
   • Factorial !
3. constants using e, pi, Euler’s constant, Planck’s constant
4. conversions using currency, mass, length, volume, area, time, electricity, energy, power, information, quantity, numbering systems

[For more details please visit GoogleGuide.com]