YouTube Will Soon Visit Android Froyo
Google will soon release YouTube application for Android version 2.2 Froyo. Applications for the video-sharing site is reportedly will come with a number of interesting features for the Android Frozen Yogurt.
The interesting feature in question, among others, is a web page that allows users to read the comments while watching videos. An additional feature is to play the video into fullscreen and personalized- display screen.
As quoted from the IT ProPortal on Monday, users can also upload videos directly from the application and not upload them separately. YouTube service can also be enjoyed via Google Buzz, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. YouTube standalone application for Android 2.2, is said will allow Google to release an application update in the future.
Some Software Behind Facebook Gallant
Facebook is proven as the largest social network around the world, with more than 500 million members worldwide sure it is not an easy matter to take care of. As quoted from Pingdom Sunday, Facebook must serve up to at least 570 billion page views every month. In addition, there were approximately 3 billion photos uploaded every month by all users, and about 30 thousand servers that existed until 2009.
In addition to hardware supports, facebook survival could not be separated from the role of supporting software such as:
Memcached, a software that served to distribute the cache memory on the up. That said, Facebook has been using this application for several years. But of course with some adjustment to the needs of today.
HipHop for PHP, the application is responsible for converting the programming language PHP into C++ to accelerate the processing of data within Facebook.
Haystack, this tough application is in charge of images storage in the database. For information, Facebook has 80 billion photos in various resolutions.
In addition to the three software above, several other applications such as BigPipe, Cassandra, Scribe, Hadoop and Hive, Thrift, and Varnish, are used to maintain the continuity up to the present.
Suvey Said 52% Kids Are Internet Addict
A survey over 1500 kids in ten big cities in India had shown that 52% kids from eight to eleven was categorized in excessive number. The survey was taken last month by Assocham Company as quoted from Hindustan Times.
More than a half of the respondents confessed that the use more that five hours in a day surving on the cyber world, but in general the online activities are still in positive mainstay like doing their home works, school projects, email, real-time chatting and social network.
The survey also revealed that boys were more addicted than girls, the trend appears prominently in urban area where both parents are commonly posses their own career.
But the side effect of the excessive online activities may cause some disturbance like insomnia, lack of social awareness, and even susceptible for obesity. Feeling inferior and lack of parents control in fact are two reasons behind the addiction.
