Turkey: "The end of Youtube Ban"

Youtube serves as the top video streaming website all over the world. Every one of us, especially those who are fond of making videos, find the website as a way of sharing thoughts through videos of course. However, some people violate this privilege of sharing videos by uploading inappropriate things, such as violence, false news reports and the like. As a result, some countries banned the website for such improper use. These countries are Iran, UAE, Morocco, Thailand, Turkey, and many more. See list of countries that banned Youtube.

In May 2008, Turkey banned the access to Youtube because some videos insulted their founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, which was against their law. After which the government have been communicating with Google (owner of Youtube), to make amends for those uploaded videos. Google then made such changes, and the said videos were removed. Now, after two years of banning Youtube, Turkey finally decided to end the prohibition to access Youtube to their country.

What have we learned from this? There’s always freedom to express yourself, through any means you wanted. However, there are limits to where such expression goes.

New Gmail Beta Features Added!

For four years now, Gmail has been undergoing reconstruction and development, in order to serve their users with their best interests, and what's going to make them more interested to Gmail. It is quite a long time for the Google developers to take the development of the Gmail to a complete email processing, multi-processing, and user-friendly. Just imagine, four years, and it is still under development, how serious Google is, especially on the user-friendliness of their Gmail feature.

Some of the new features added to Gmail are:

• Custom Keyboard Shortcuts


• Mouse activated actions - users can use mouse movements to do a particular action


• "Labs" tab for user setting

These features are only 3 out of 13 new features of Gmail. For the list or for the overview about an article about the added features, click here.

Google VS. Yahoo! Earth Day Logos

I haven't blog and posted a new topic for about.. hmmm.. 1 month? WOW. That's too long. I was busy doing our projects in SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DESIGN, however, we were'nt able to pass the subject, WHY?? Hmmm.. because our program got so "buggy" when we presented it, and I myself, got shocked with what had happened. Oh well, enough about that.. Hmm.. thinking of a new topic, since it's Earth Day, let's talk about how google and yahoo (two competing search engines) showed their appeal to the said event. Well, as many of you had seen that every time an event tooks place, these two search engines create new themes for their logos (ofcourse a theme that would fit the event). So, I started to collect these images (just at this moment), because I really like looking at those logos they've created.

Without any doubt, these theme-related logos are much of a commercial based act, however, they also show that these organizations care a lot, in celebrating such important events. Here are the logos:

For Google:

For Yahoo!: