After making waves in USA, I always thought a service like Twitter will be hugely popular in India. To the uninitiated, twitter is a service where you can register and create your channel. Now you can send a messge from your cell phone or IM or web to that channel. Your friends can subscribe to [...]
Kinan from Tectactic.com has created an interesting mash-up/beta website to write resumes. Thingsicando.com comes with a different perspective to introduce yourself. It enables the user to express himself in a better way. More liberty and more power to communicate skills and strengths. You add a skill or “thing” as per the site’s terminology [...]
Ruby on Rails is the biggest thing since sliced bread! Ok ok, I am dramatically exaggerating it. Nevertheless, it is really GREAT! I myself have worked on java, struts, spring, turbine and many more frameworks but none can match the prowess, simplicity and speed of rails! I sometimes still lean towards perl when it comes [...]
With the success of youtube, myspace, facebook, del.icio.us, flickr and many more; every one wants to replicate these websites and make money! So many clones of myspace and facebook are being created, same is true for flickr, youtube and other. But there are some web 2.0 websites that are really innovating and introducing very unique [...]
List of top 10 web 2.0 companies has been published. I was very happy to see a non-profit company wikipedia to make the top 10 list. Will there be more individuals and groups who would try to replicate the success of wikipedia? Here is the list:
MySpace
YouTube
Wikipedia
Bebo
Digg
Flickr
Netvibes
Del.icio.us
Meebo
This is the tool that I always wanted to build. In fact, just a month back, I started to work on it! And here comes Tabber.org. Depends on how you look at it, It stole my idea or validated my idea Whatever it may be, it was a pressing need. I think it [...]
Lots of companies, VCs and investors are betting big on mobile phone web users. With the increasing smart phones and iPhones, the bet is getting bigger and bigger. I have my own apprehensions around it. How many people really surf web over their blackberries, N73s or jazzy samsung smart phones? I do not know many [...]
Webyantra posted an interesting blog on Mapunity.
Mapunity is a Geographic Information System (GIS) solution. GIS is -
“In a more generic sense, GIS is a tool that allows users to create interactive queries (user created searches), analyze the spatial information, edit data, maps, and present the results of all these operations.”
There are couple of [...]
With all these web2.0 websites, here is an unique one that I would like to try my hands on. Mydesignin.com introduces an useful concept; design your home with your friends and family.
What can we really do with web 2.0? Can it mine all the information on the internet, understand my wants, needs, behaviour and give me all the information that I am interested in? Can it be a push based information model instead of current pull/on-demand model? Web 2.0 probably needs to evolve into more semantic [...]
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