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At Neohide, we have just upgraded to the next version of Drupal 6.17, a maintenance release fixing issues reported through the bug tracking system. Although it was reported that there was no security concern, upgrading to this latest version is still recommended.

Some of the changes include improvements of session cookie handling, better processing of big XML-RPC payloads, improved PostgreSQL compatibility, better PHP 5.3 and PHP 4 compatibility, improved Japanese support in search module, better browser compatibility of CSS and JS aggregation and improved logging for login failures.

Interested users can download Drupal 6.17 version here.

LinkShare Symposium East 2010 is coming to town on June 22^nd, 2010 in New York. Registration is now open to you.

It is highly recommended that participants start registering for hotels as early as possible.

Booking for the most fabulous hotel - Trump Soho Hotel - is now opened. Rooms are currently averaging $599 and higher, however, LinkShare has secured the amazing rate of $265 for Symposium East attendees!

This special rate for LinkShare Symposium attendees ends on May 7^th – make your reservation today!

In an attempt to challenge Twitter and Facebook, Google launched its very own social networking service last Tuesday, known as Google Buzz. As announced on its blog site, Google Buzz is built into users' GMail accounts and allow users to post status update (similar to that of Twitter), share photo and videos.

Leveraging on the Google Map, it also allows the service to publish the geographical location of the users. Unfortunately, to many users, analysts have spelled out that Google might have come along a little too late.

(Read more about Google Buzz...)

NeoHide has recently been heavily spammed by some visitors, mostly originated from Russia. Having traced the source of the spam, it has also revealed that the topic that is being commonly spammed on is phpBB SQL Error MySQL4 - forum_last_post_subject doesn't have a default value.

To avoid further load on the site, comments for this post have been disabled (unfortunately), until further notice. In addition, security has been tightened to ensure there is minimal risk to attacks.

Hopefully, by doing so, this will be a deterrence to all spamming attackers, leaving nonsensical comments on this site.

I am putting up some prestigious (.asia) domain names for sales. They are:

• bullrun.asia
• seonet.asia
• livenet.asia
• flynow.asia

These are pretty hot stuffs. Their expiry dates are 23^rd March 2010. Interested personnel, please contact me here. In your note, please quote your best offer price.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Keith

Skype has just released a piece of news on its blog site. Skype has recently closed a deal with a group of new investors, with the deal valued at US$2.75b.

Give this distribution, eBay still retains a bout 30% of its stake on Skype, with the investor group led by Silver Lake controlling the remaining 70% of the share.

Background Information

Group of investors includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Joltid Limited and founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.

Will this move gives end-users a better support for Skype? We'll have to see in times to come.

Twitter has, once again, released a new "beta" feature - known as Retweet. I happen to receive this invitation, as I was part of the beta group.

How this works? It's simple. Users will get to see tweets as "retweets", or rather forwarded tweets, in a new interface (see sample screenshot above). Users who still does not have this feature will see retweets prefaced by "RT".

New Updates (Nov 22, 2009)

For clarity, I have provided another screenshot of how it looks like in actual tweets below.

Good news for all Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail) users, Microsoft has integrated the Windows Live Messenger into Hotmail, such that you can log on to Messenger even when you are doing your email. No more downloading of client software - all integrated into Hotmail.

Users can chat directly from Hotmail Inbox, share contacts between two people and even see online friends and get ready to chat with them. Furthermore, there are future plans to improve Hotmail by allowing users to check other email accounts from one place, with storage space that grows as you need it. Interested? Find out more here.