Apps.gov

Apps.gov is a latest initiative by the General Services Administration to modernize the IT services through cloud computing and agencies can use the cloud and many othe useful apps for business, Cloud IT, productivity and Social. There are option for login and registeration for agencies using services from GSA's Apps.gov.

Frequently asked questions about the Cloud and Vendor are given on the website.

Apps are available for four types i.e. Productivity, Business, Cloud IT and social which are further of following types:

• Brainstorming / mind mapping
• Text editing
• Office tools and suites
• Document and content management
• Workflow
• Project management, scheduling
• Collaboration, meetings, conferencing
• Analytics
• Surveys
• EDI/XML translation
• Geographic info
• Operating Systems
• Communications
• Asset management
• Sourcing and auctions
• ERP
• Financial
• PR and marketing
• CRM
• Business intelligence
• Simulation
• Educational and training
• Engineering
• Publishing
• Business processes
• Business management
• Security
• Electronic commerce & auction tools
• Utilities
• Configuration management
• Network applications
• Knowledge management
• Design
• Testing
• Travel
• Dashboard
• Medical
• Media
• Data management
• Tracking and monitoring tools

Warning has been issued by the United States General Services Administration Computer System for official use only.

One can visit the GSA Apps or website or individual agency to know the policies and procedure for Cloud services.

Website: https://www.apps.gov

HHS - Department of Health and Human Services

HSS.gov is the website of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. One can browse through the website for various information about the HHS Department or visit the FAQ section/

One can know about the Agency's structure and division of staff and operations.

To know about the jobs /employment or Grants / Funding one can visit the respective pages.

Information about the Diseases, prevention, preparedness and regulations are also given here. You can get latest news and email updates on subscription.

Various useful visits and how to stay connected options are also given.

Health Information Privacy - HIPAA / Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is the most important topic which is searched to know about it in detail by thousands of users. One can get to know by going through the link given on right hand side of sidebar.

Monthly spotlight are given on various services or issue: recently information about Head Start Awareness Month and National Health Service Corps were given.

Important website with dot government [.gov] domain extension by the HHS initiative:

• StopBullying
• HealthCare
• StopMedicareFraud
• HHS Recovery
• FoodSafety
• HHS Open
• InsureKidsNow
• LetsMove
• Flu

Link to more resources have been given for public use. One can watch, listen, share or subscribe to the following services:

• Audio / Podcasts
• Image Galleries
• Video / Webcasts
• Email Updates
• Blogs
• RSS
• Twitter
• Facebook

Contact:

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. - Washington, D.C. 20201

Website: www.HSS.gov

Website Usability

Usability.gov is the USA government based website for the website designers of US govt. It is an open and easy guide for developing usable and useful websites.

Web designers are supposed to visit this for general information and developing a website have more usability and user centric design.

Things have been explained that how to increase the user experience. Various factors have been given in the various sections for usability, testing, development etc.

Website developers should plan and design usable site before developing prototypes. One should examine through usability tests and find the results. Measures the trends and demographies.

Public domain templates for use of government developers have been uploaded on this website which can be downloaded by the web designers and developers.

Step by stem guides are given for various methods to develop user centric website.

Contact:

Attention HHS Web Communications and New Media Division

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

200 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20201

Email: usabilityinfo@hhs.gov

Phone: 202-260-1252

Google URL Shortener

Goo.gl is the url shortner service from the search king and with in short time span it has become one of the most popular url shortner services in the world.

One can use this service for shortening of their long url or weblinks. No registration is required by the users generally using this service. Those who wants to save their url history can create use their Google account details or if they do not have create their account on Google.

It is basically, real time url redirection service by the company which have become very useful while sharing the links through services like Twitter.com where one can just update a message upto just 140 character. When the charaters are the limit set by some services then link shortener turns very useful.

You can also find the past query details in the history with the option like two hours, day, week, month or all time details of clicks.

Official website: http://goo.gl/

I Paid A Bribe

I Paid A Bribe Dot Com is well knwon Indian website which has been making news again and again for its unique initiative by Bangalore based NGO Janagraha. According to IPaB, they are collecting the data from all over Indian from those who have been victimised / bribed through the corrupt employees of the Central or state governments in India.

I Paid A Bribe - Uconver the market price of corruption

In this web portal, you can submit your story, read the bribe stories by others, ask from Raghu, discussion forum and faqs etc.

Detailed analytics about the bribe reports have been generated by the IPaidABribe.com

You can also read the most popular articles, expert speak, bribe fighters and media coverage of I Paid a Bribe in Indian and international media.

EmployeesAgainstCorruption is the new initiative by the IPaB.

You can follow the I Paid a Bribe via Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Orkut, Delicious, stumbleupon, reddit etc.

You can become a volunteer or participate in the movement or find the latest opportunities / vacancies for career and jobs in the IPaB / Janaagraha.

Contact:

I Paid A Bribe

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

4th Floor, UNI Building, Thimmiah Road

Vasanth Nagar

Bangalore 560052

Website: www.janaagraha.org

Email: info@ipaidabribe.com

Ph:+91 80 4079 0400

Top Universities In The World

Education is the one most important aspect in anyone's life. Good education is the path to the brighter future. In the world, there are thousands of universities and educational institutes but there are few dream institutes for the learners / scholars from all over the world. To rank the various educational institutes and universities various organizations have started ranking through various methodologies. Points are given to various universities on different parameters and finally the ranking is done. The popular few world universities ranking are THE QS World University Ranking, US News Universities Ranking, ARWU/ Shanghai Ranking are few popular methodologies and ranking list.

The list of Top 50 Universities in the world according to QS World University Ranking 2011 / 2011:

• University of Cambridge
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Yale University
• University of Oxford
• Imperial College London
• UCL (University College London)
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University
• Stanford University
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Princeton University
• University of Michigan
• Cornell University
• Johns Hopkins University
• McGill University
• ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
• Duke University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Toronto
• Northwestern University
• Australian National University
• King’s College London (University of London)
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• The University of Manchester
• University of Bristol
• The University of Melbourne
• Kyoto University
• École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• École Polytechnique
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The University of Sydney
• Brown University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Seoul National University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• New York University (NYU)
• Osaka University
• Peking University
• Tsinghua University
• The University of Queensland
• The University of New South Wales
• The University of Warwick

QS Ranking 2011 Link: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011

Visit the official websites of the universities for details.

Google Doodle

It is just re designing of Google logo on some specific occasion. Doodles history in details can be found at the official website. It was started when Larry Page and Sergey went to burning man festival in Nevada, USA. They redesigned a logo [change in second "O"] to make people aware that the founders are out of office. As it was later became a regular event and now a team of Googler Doodler gather from time to time and create new logos for the company for USA or international events. Till now more than 400 USA and more than 700 international doodles have been used in the website interface on various occassion.

Now the company also organize regional and global contest for Doodles, inviting entries from the school students of different class levels.

To know more about the event, participating, proposals, prizes and judging etc one should visit the official page of Google 4 Doodle.

You can search about the Doodles over the years, which have been used from 1998 to 2011: http://www.google.com/logos/

All the relevant information about the people engaged and events can be accessed trhough http://www.google.com/doodle4google/