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Facebook launches Developer Contest in India

Facebook launches Developer Contest in India

Facebook seems to be capitalising on its popularity. There’s always a buzz about Facebook across the Internet. Be it articles on “Is there a possibility of Facebook soon becoming the new Myspace.” (Check PCWorld analysis – not that we totally agree with them ) or the new excitement over Facebook declaring revenue worth $500 million. [...]

7 of The Best Web Development Tutorial Sites on The Web

7 of The Best Web Development Tutorial Sites on The Web

Today while blogging about the Outlook standards saga, I remembered how I wanted to write a post on the best tutorial sites on web design and development. One of the major reasons why standards aren’t adopted as much as they should have are because of lack of awareness and knowledge. And one of the main reasons why people are beginning to talk a lot more about standards it is because of Tutorial sites like the ones below. Essentially they serve these dual purpose of awareness and knowledge dissemination.

6 Website Trends That Came and Went By

6 Website Trends That Came and Went By

I am in mood for nostalgia,maybe because it is exactly a year and 1 day since I first blogged on WATBlog. Nevertheless, my nostalgic trip made me think about the good ol’ days of making websites. The days when we used to put shiny blue text on black backgrounds and hosted websites on Geocities and Lycos and the likes of them.

Recession Blues Spurring Online Ventures - AskSaurabh - a New Job Portal

Recession Blues Spurring Online Ventures – AskSaurabh – a New Job Portal

AskSaurabh, a portal set up by Pune-based Mr Saurabh, talk about inspiration for a name. Saurabh recently lost his job in Yahoo, has started this portal along with his friends Mr Anthony, Mr Iqbal Gandham and others. It is a job portal where users can post CV and jobs in a wide range of areas such as design, engineering finance, general, HR, quality assurance, testing and software development, among others.

All About The Great Indian Developer Summit

‘The Great Indian Developer Summit’ held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, saw large scale participation from the Bangalore IT Developer community.  On the  19th of May, 1200 developers attended the two day Bleeding-edge.NET conference.
 
The Great Indian Developer summit is an effort to bring together the world’s leading software giants, technology innovators, creators, [...]

A Glimpse into How Google aims to Change the World of API’s with Open Social

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 [...]