SPIP (Système de Publication pour l’Internet Partagé or Participatif) is a free software content management system designed for Web site publishing, oriented towards online collaborative editing.

This software, known for its easy setup, use and maintenance, is widely used by networks of people, in public or private institutions. The last P in the word SPIP both stands for Partagé (shared) or Participatif (participative), in the sense that the software is especially tailored for collective online editing.

Its mascot is a flying squirrel, an allusion to the squirrel nicknamed ‘SPIP’ which accompanies the comic character Spirou (The word spip actually means squirrel in some areas of Belgium).

SPIP was originally conceived for the uzine.net site, then designers decided to give it away under GPL License. Since its launch 2001, it has also been tested by le Monde diplomatique and www.vacarme.eu.org.

SPIP integrates a cache mechanism, an authentication system, an automatic setup module as well as an interface for administration and input of articles. SPIP’s main feature is the creation of dynamic pages without any PHP knowledge, thanks to a template system relatively easy, known as ‘skeletons.

In early 2003, the 1.6 version permits to decline the private interface in several languages[1]. A space for translators is set up in order to multiply the number of available versions[2].

In January 2004, the 1.7 version of SPIP allows to manage multilingual websites, and boasts a search and content indexation module; It also enables syndication of other sites’ contents.

In April 2005, the private interface of version 1.8 has been reworked in order to take into account the ergonomic analysis [3]. An important modification for developers is SPIP’s core that is from now on constituted from a new compiler. It becomes then possible to elaborate skeletons with more and more complex functionalities without any work in PHP.

Numerous re-workings are currently under way, such as the reworking of the private interface in the form of skeletons.

The 1.9 version (1) introduces a plug-in system and numerous changes, notably in the files organisation (particularly the transition from ‘.php3′ to ‘.php’ files extensions.

The 1.9.1 version 1.9.1 introduces a template system, akin to Wikipedia.

The 1.9.2 version modifies the directory structure to allow a better mutualisation of sources.

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1. Go to http://www.images.google.com

2. Fill in “cars, motors, flowers” or anything else.

3. You will get a page with a lot of images thumbnailed.

4. Now delete the URL on the address bar (example: http://images.google.nl/images?hl=n……………….)

5. Copy the script down here, and paste it in your address bar!

javascript:R= 0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images ; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i

Today, at the inaugural Search Marketing Expo West conference, Yahoo plans to unveil a project code-named “Search Monkey,” a set of open-source tools that allow users and publishers to annotate and enhance search results associated with specific web sites.

The new enhancements differ from Yahoo’s “Shortcuts” that sometimes appear at the top of search result pages. Shortcuts are served by Yahoo whenever the search engine is confident that the shortcut links are more relevant than the other web search results on the page. Often, shortcuts highlight content from Yahoo’s own network of sites.

The new enhancements can be applied to any web site. Publishers can add additional information that will be displayed with the web search result. For example, retailers can include product information, restaurants can include links to menus and reviews, local merchants can display operating hours, address, and phone information, and so on—far more information than a title, URL, and description that make up current generation search results.

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Source: Searchengine Land

Hulu is NBC Universal and News Corporation’s online video joint venture. The site focuses exclusively on professional content and does not take on YouTube directly as a viral video destination. The site raised $100 million in financing from Providence Equity Partners.

Hulu videos are played in their own embeddable branded player. Content from at least a dozen TV networks and two major film studios is promised. Initial distribution partners include AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo.

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Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant Ï€ (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in American date format), due to Ï€ being equal to roughly 3.14. Sometimes it is celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. (commonly known as Pi Minute). If Ï€ is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 p.m., Pi Second (or sometimes March 14, 1592 at 6:53:58 a.m.). Pi Approximation Day may be observed on any of several dates, most often July 22 (22/7 (European date format) is a popular approximation of Ï€). March 14 also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.

The first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, and then consuming fruit pies; the museum has since added pizza pies to its Pi Day menu. The founder of Pi Day, the “Prince of Pi”, is Larry Shaw, now retired from the Exploratorium, but still helping out with the celebrations. They have also recently added the first Pi Day celebrations in Second Life.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology often mails out its acceptance letters to be delivered to prospective students on Pi Day.

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Breaking-up – some do it with a text, others with a letter, the brave in person, but Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, used the online encyclopedia to dump his girlfriend.

But the jilted one-time Fox News pundit Rachel Marsden is having her revenge and suitably enough it’s online.

Right now anyone who cares enough – or cares too much – can own a little bit of this virtual saga. Marsden has put items of clothing belonging to the Wikipedia founder, universally known as ‘Jimbo’, on the auction site eBay.

Marsden can be seen modelling the dark coloured T-shirt on eBay. She claims he was wearing it when they met. Bidding is heavy and is expected to pass the $500 mark by this evening.

Explaining her unruly hair in the photograph of her in Wales’s T-Shirt she wrote at the bottom of the page: “PS: Sorry that my hair is such a mess – I’m in break-up mode right now and really couldn’t be bothered.”

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Source: Web User UK