By Shawn Collins; Jan 8, 2006, 03:17

The Affiliate Summit 2006 show started up today at Bally’s Las Vegas. The events began at noon with a workshop on Google AdSense by Joel "Dr. AdSense" Comm. This was followed by another workshop on blogging from famed blogger, Dave Taylor.

In the evening, hundreds of folks assembled for the speed networking session. This was one of the highly anticipated events of the conference, and the attendees seemed to really enjoyed the spirited, short meetings with eight people each in the span of two hours.

R.O.Wise and MediaWhiz sponsored this session and generously provided an open bar to lubricate the conversations.

The wonderfully-named Dr. Anita Borg (1949 - 2003) was a rebel with a cause: ensuring that technology itself has positive outcomes, and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Today the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology carries on her vision. And because Google shares that passion, we are pleased to sponsor the . We are inspired by the -- and in hopes of finding more, the program is expanded this year to accept applications from students entering their senior year of undergraduate study as well as those enrolled in a graduate program. we awarded 23 scholarships; this year we"d like to do more.

Tell your friends, or yourself - the deadline is January 20.

LAS VEGAS — Google Inc. is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer Inc."s pioneering iTunes store.

Google’s video expansion, announced 06/01/2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show, already has lined up commitments to sell thousands of downloads, including recent television broadcasts of popular CBS shows and professional basketball games, as well as vintage episodes from series that went off the air decades ago. A launch date for the expansion has not been released.

JAN. 6 7:01 P.M. ET Google Inc. is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer Inc.'s pioneering iTunes store.

Google's video expansion, announced Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show, already has lined up commitments to sell thousands of downloads, including recent television broadcasts of popular CBS shows and professional basketball games, as well as vintage episodes from series that went off the air decades ago.

"It's the biggest marketplace of content that was previously offline and is now brought online," said Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video.

For your information, Priya Jain wrote about Grid Computing in tech primer section of Express Computer.

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A grid is a group of computers, servers and storage, which is virtualised as one large computing system across an enterprise. Grids unleash latent power that is not being used at any point in time. They can radically accelerate compute-intensive processes. Grid computing involves applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time—usually a scientific or technical problem that requires a large number of computer-processing cycles or access to huge amounts of data. Grid computing uses software to divide and farm out pieces of a program to as many as several thousand computers. A number of corporations, professional groups and university consortia have developed frameworks and software for managing grid computing projects.
Grid Computing - Express Computer