Recently Google got a bug that started labelling every website with the message "This site may harm your computer". The complete details are given below.
Google has literally committed one of the biggest mistakes of its decade long history.Google labelled every website on the web as 'malicious' for nearly 55 minutes(between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m.).Millions of users all over the globe were completely unaware and astounded of what had happened to the world's most popular
search engine.
Google,which has really become synonymous to 'search'(Googling = Searching) today,wouldn't have even imagined such a terrible situation in its wildest dreams.Precisely,Google started labeling every website on any given search with the message
"This site may harm your computer !" between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m.
And to millions of all those folks who blindly believe in Google(and whatever Google shows),it felt like
the entire World Wide Web has undergone a malware attack.Thanks to proactive
Blogosphere and Twitsphere,which helped folks around realise that Google can also commit a blunder !
Few hours later,there came an official apology and justification from Google,clarifying what really happened
But soon I realised that the guy had some wrong notions about "Cloud Computing".And I think, it's not just him but many others who're still not able to interpret the word "Cloud computing" in correct sense.
And even various sources on internet describe "Cloud Computing" in their own way.In general,Cloud computing is described a concept through which the customer gets billed only for the duration and the extent to which that customer uses the web services(mostly 'servers') rather than paying a fixed rental for a service(servers).
But actually the above description is known as "Utility Computing".
within our readership domain),we have come up with a list of websites which are making a significant(if not great) contribution in the field of education of different sorts.
But there is one thing that remains common among all the sites that have made it to this list...
They are all e-learning 2.0 websites,which means they are open(unlike closed,transaction based systems),community fueled(unlike tutor sourced) and employ Web 3.0 technologies to execute their mission(and that's actually a special and unique thing about this list).
They defy the old methods of learning on the web and have certainly achieved their goals to an remarkable extent.
So,here goes the list :