During the last few months we (I and Alexey Kovyrin) have been working on a major Best Tech Videos site platform update. If you have not seen it before — it is time to take a look at it because really soon everything will change. I don’t mean that site idea would change (you would be able to find there the best tech videos), but usability, information availability and many small but useful things will be changed for good.

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My best friend Alexey Kovyrin founded new blog — Homo-Adminus Blog. As he mentioned in our conversation this blog was intended for improve his english skills. I think we’ll find many interesting news and ideas on this page.

Here You will be able to read my notes about my admin’s life, about some interesting news in IT world, maybe some links to interesting web resources.

The patent covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders (Source).

As reported by CNET:

Internet design company Balthaser announced Tuesday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it a patent for the design and creation of rich-media services over the Internet.

Balthaser apparently intends to license the patent to companies that deliver rich-media services over the Web using technologies such as Adobe Systems’ Flash, AJAX and Java.

There is interesting fact that the company filed the patent in 2001.

Today I found an interesting resource about AJAX - AjaxLine. There are many news, articles and other usefull information about this cool technology can be found on this site. It’s posed as specialized community and it has a good chance to become the most popular AJAX-developers area in the Internet.

In the end of summer Alex Tew, one of the British students, has submitted wonderful idea - to sell a place on his page for one million dollars (you can look page here). The idea is very simple: it has drawn a grid 100×100 squares, each of which has the size of 100 pixels (10×10). To any interested person it suggested to buy each square for $100 (i.e. on $1 for each pixel). It would seem - what interesting in this idea? It was surprisingly when the idea has earned, and now Alex sells the remaining 1000 pixels (a rectangular area 5×2 squares) on eBay auction.

Alex’s success has caused an avalanche of clones of his idea, there were whole catalogues of similar sites, various visits trackers and rating systems was created. Time has shown, that initial idea was more ingenious, than it is looks for itself,- but its clones… are looks like pity attempt to pick up crumbs from a pie which is bitten by the British student. Few days ago Phillip Lenssen has published article under the name Formula for Creating Unsuccessful Million Dollar Homepage Spin Offs, which very well characterizes a current perspective of million pixel sites.