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Namaste,fellow readers, I am Divyansh sharma a regular reader here at WATBlog, and absolutely love the startup culture, so when i saw an opportunity to contribute towards it by writing an article for WATBlog, i jumped on it!
On 5th september i attended Google Social Web and Cloud Computing Conference in Delhi, the event dealt with the [...]

David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. Website owners will be able to use the hosted application to allow interactions with visitors from social-networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, by copying and pasting snippets of code into their site.
 
“The web is getting better by getting [...]

This comes in via Mashable - Google has introduced a new widget (its more like a GTalk feature) and its called Chatback. Its function is pretty simple - it lets you embed GTalk into your blog or your website (well any website that allows modification of HTML at-least). 
 
When users visit your site, they’ll see a badge like [...]

Orkut has announced its opening of platform to developers way back in November. Since then there has been no news as to when would these applications finally be seen on the orkut platform. But now the orkut blog updates all on the issue with a statement that soon some of the orkutters would be able [...]

The Web is already Social. But engagement and interaction is still a problem.
 
 
There are multiple networks. The trouble with API’s today is that one application is restricted only to one network. And there are multiple networks.
 
So developers have to question –
 
-       Which API’s should I learn?
-       Which network should I get bet big [...]