Posts Tagged news
Be a Microsoft Student Insider
Posted by Kinnar Shah in Technology on December 17, 2009
Microsoft has launched a new program, called Student Insiders, to enlist college students to blog about Microsoft products. In return, the Microsoft “Student Insider” will be able to attend Microsoft conferences, such as Microsoft’s developer conference, PDC, and others and then write about their experiences and the products. The student will get all expenses paid to attend conferences as well as receive free training on Microsoft products. Student Insiders are expected to cover 15 events or topics a year, with at least “500 engagements per event/topic.”
It appears that Microsoft will try to recruit students with “established blogs” to write about a wide variety of Microsoft products.
This program is different than Microsoft’s Student Partners program, which is a program student evangelists of Microsoft products.
IIMs say no to Paper Pencil CAT retest | Aggrieved candidates to be rescheduled mid-January
Posted by Kinnar Shah in Mix-Up on December 17, 2009
News update after the IIM meeting on Wednesday 16th Dec. :
Source: Times Of India
NEW DELHI: Despite a demand by HRD secretary Vibha Puri Das to IIM directors to explain the causes of disruption of online CAT and steps taken to remove the problems, IIMs have decided to go ahead with the online test Read the rest of this entry »
Google Browser | Helpful tool for every web developer
Posted by Kinnar Shah in Articles Over The Web on December 17, 2009
A much needed tool from Google… interesting things can turn up in the free 20% time 
the news snippet as provided by google:
In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it’s a really important piece, then it’s placed “above the fold,” which means you can find it on the top half of the first page — the bottom half is folded behind and isn’t readily seen when you first look at the newspaper.
The same concept applies to browsers as well. There’s no clear line for “above the fold” on a browser — there are many different sizes of monitors, browsers are not always full screen and other things like toolbars can take up space. Consider a “Donate” button on a non-profit site. If it’s far down the page, you may not see it when you first view the page. You can of course scroll downwards, but many people don’t scroll and will miss it entirely. For example, on the download page for Google Earth, the install rate increased by 10% when we moved the “Download” button 100 pixels upward. We can attribute that increase to users who wanted to try out Google Earth, but didn’t see the button before.
