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IBM Enters the Bandwagon of Social Computing

Sitting at Food Court across IBM Daksh Office in CBD, Makati, I saw a huge poster of a product IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections. Now that sounded interesting. Lotus is a CRM Suite that is used in most of the corporations. I use specially for mailing, engaging Clients, messaging, paging, calling etc,  all from my [...]

TheF!nd.com. Next Gen Search and Shopping Engine

     Here is a next generation online shopping engine focussed on Lifestyle segment. Thefind the website has been on platform for sometime now, the latest news is that they have got a funding of 15 million $’s from Bain Capital Ventures. Based in Mountain View,California, the venture also has backing of Red Point Ventures & [...]

Postini , Yet another Aquisition by Google

The last article I had written was some months ago on Technologies Top Deal Makers. So here comes another deal from Eric Schmidt’s table. The aquisition of Security complaince provider Postini by Google. So this would be another open item on Google Apps portfolio, which is targetting on Small and Mid Tier Business.
Postini the [...]

Technology’s Top 5 Deal Makers

Core Source: Forbes
 This article is about the most famous deal makers based on the profits they have made, by taking in companies to Public and sold. According to Forbes 460 Venture Backed Firms were sold for whooping $35 Billion last year. Internet is still dominating. Some of the other Tech and WEB firms that have [...]

Gyaati.com - Split ur Expenses

 Sharing accomodations and expenses, is a way of living for most of the foreign students and legal workers from other countries in US. The trend is picking up in other countries as well. The worst part of staying in a group, is to maintain the bills and expenses. Usually each and everyone has turns to [...]

Security Vulnerability of AJAX

A Security vulnerability has been found in Direct Web Reporting (DWR) module of AJAX based applications by Imperva Application Defense Center. According to this, the client level application, throgh which a attacker can create more and more browser requests, using DWR. Though the requests doesnt reach the server, the client system is more affected as, [...]

MySpace rules the Social Networking Space for 2006

 
Myspace is the messiah of Social networking and had been ruling the roost. The number of registered users in MySpace has increased by 40% in last year. Check out the article by Dion Hinchcliffe on The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006.
The pre-eminent granddaddy of all social networking sites, MySpace needs no introduction.  And while it’s [...]

A Round up on AJAX, JSF, Web Services & SOA

                            These four technologies are the four pillars of present application development in any business line. Applications in present business scenario needs to be more dynaimic, development has to be efficient and the products must be customizable. This article is an high level round up and some examples on applications based on these. AJAX: This has [...]

Tech Crunch Wins Search Blogs Awards 2006.

TechCrunch wins the best search blog for the year 2006 on WEB 2.0 platform. Techcrunch is an awesome blog site. I my self used to take leads from the site for Wat some times.  Edited by Michael Arrington , who is editor for Crunch notes, the blog started in mid 2005, has been a weblog [...]

Now an Algorithm for Recruitment.

                                                                             Gone were those days when a candidate would be almost exhausted reaching the 6th round of Google Interviews (Out of Experience:) ). Google are desperate to Hire more and More engineers and sales staff for their Online Adsense projects. Google has always been into slecting A Graders and the interview process would take almost [...]

The Online Search Industry: Predictions for 2007

                Here are some interesting predictions floating around the Web on the potential for radical moves in the online search industry - and most of the ideas involve what Yahoo (YHOO) needs to do to stay competitive with Google (GOOG).
For instance, today’s 2007 prognostications from ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog proposed that Yahoo’s (YHOO) Panama [...]

Google Space

Google has team up with the Large Synoptic Survey Project, in an effort to give users an experience of navigating through space. This is similar to what they did with Google Earth. Right now Google doesnt have any business model for the project and is just starting this as an experiment. Once the project is complete, [...]

Speech-to-Text Search on YouTube

                              Speech-to-text video and audio search engine Podzinger has made changes to their website through which they can search videos and audios inside YouTube videos with a tab on the front page of Podzinger. The functionality was added late in december. The funda is that the word you type in is matched with word spoken in the [...]

Wiki’s getting too Hot

            The Wiki Model (aka Collaborative System for writing an edit entries), is really getting hot these days. The model makes, all the services delivered to a user, by another user. The collaborative methodology (Open Source in Web2.0 terms), has really picked up starting with the most famous wikipedia. Some of the new websites include
Shopwiki [...]

Google not gonna answer More

                      It was a successful project by Google, which had been up and alive for past 4 years. A project called Google answers, which was started by Larry page and 4 others, which would accept questions and answer them. This was a user driven product (Some thing like wikipedia, where one can post info) and [...]