Web 2.0
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 |
Web2.0 has changed our lives, its now relatively easy to get productive and use handy online tools in order to plan and organize our tasks, which thereby increase our productivity and efficiency.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a powerful and most accessible tool that one could use to add events on the calendar, create additional public calendars so that you can share it with others on your teams or friends.
Each calendar’s events can be color-coded, it is so simple to use and you can do so much with it.
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007 |
Employers all across the world are banning the use of social networking sites like Facebook, but an interesting news has come that an increasing number of organizations use theses websites as recruitment resource. For reference check!!
This is based on a survey report which was conducted by UK recruitment firms Crone Corkill and FSS, it states that 7.5 per cent of employers are using social networking sites as an informal part of the referencing process.
This percentage figure is expected to rise now that Facebook profiles can be viewed on search engines like Google. (more…)
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 |
The Search engine Quintura has raised several millions US dollars. Quintura is based on what they call “natural associative search principles”. The result is a truly innovative search engine interface. When you do a search on Quintura the left half of the browser window is filled with a tag cloud of terms. Your search term is at the center of the cloud surrounded by related terms that can help you narrow your query.
With a funding from Mangrove Capital Partners, they plan to use the capital to scale the Quintura affiliate model for site search and build a semantic web index using their neural networking techniques. Quintura now also plans to start selling graphical advertisements such as images, logos, and icons within the Quintura search cloud. (more…)
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Friday, June 8th, 2007 |
Hey Have you checked out Experience Project?
It is a unique community that connects you to others through shared life experiences and beliefs, not how popular you are or what you look like.
Discover things about your friends that you never knew, or meet new friends who share whatever defines you. Discover hundreds of thousands of life experiences, stories, and goals and real people behind them.
Experience Project is a peer-to-peer knowledge community connecting members who share life experiences, interests and goals. It helps users build custom support and friendship groups by networking people who understand each other. Its a cool way to map people…. I would call it a step towards second level social networking.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 |
Kayuda is a free ad-supported AJAX mindmapping / visual wiki tool for mindmapping, brainstorming, and online writing. Users can link any node to any node and store large amounts of text in nodes.
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Monday, April 9th, 2007 |
Heard about Vlip yet? the cool Interactive video community and online video service by SightSpeed.
SightSpeed is innovating into video calling and many other upcoming innovations, vlip is one of their effort to start Interactive video community.
They have just added a new “ASL” category for deaf people who use the “American Sign Language” to communicate.
Sightspeed’s CEO speaks in his blog, video calling can change all that and empower users, especially with video relay services who “translate” sign language and help bridge communications.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 |
Yahoo is launching new services aimed at helping publishers get their content onto the phones of consumers and to leverage Yahoo’s existing technology for delivering ads alongside that content.
This Ad service is meant to augment oneSearch, the mobile search service Yahoo formally rolled out an upgraded version of in January.
Yahoo’s launch comes as much of the mobile phone industry is gathered in Orlando, Fla., for the annual CTIA convention, where mobile applications from video to banking are being rolled out by carriers and handset makers.
Meanwhile, Yahoo said it had enrolled its first three publishers to use oneSearch and the ad platform. Yahoo will place ads alongside content delivered by MobiTV, which provides TV and music services; go2, which offers local business listings; and on the browser pages of Opera Software, the maker of one of the most heavily used mobile browsers.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007 |
Microsoft is planning to pay approx $800 million to buy TellMe Networks, a company that specializes in voice recognition technology in web-based applications.
Cisco has also acquired WebEx for $3.2 billion, a service company that provides web-based business collaboration services.
If you want to explore the web-based business collaboration services market, known by some as Web 2.0, attend the Web 2.0 Expo from April 15-17 in San Francsico.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007 |
Another web 2.0 application called Wrike, lets you keep track of your tasks list along with your team members. This way hundreds of various tasks and diverse projects can be managed with the minimum of effort. You can use Wrike to amass all your tasks and have all your team members edit them as required or when the tasks are completed. All new tasks trigger off alerts to the team members.
Wrike gives you the facility to activate deadlines to your tasks, create your own groups, include any task in several groups depending on your own idea of how they relate to each other, assign access to anyone to certain tasks, add attachments to your tasks, see the revision history, and gets email reminders whenever there are any changes in your tasks. (more…)
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Friday, January 19th, 2007 |
MySpace has announced on Wednesday that they are developing a parent notification tool and age verification software. The software, codenamed Zephyr, will be a desktop application.
The current MySpace age verification software online does not allow children under the age of 14 to gain access to register for an account, it is unknown on how it works
There have been a number of reported cases of minors who have been violated, removed from their underage MySpace accounts, and MySpace along with parent company News Corp intend to stamp out the chances of minors gaining access to the site and so they will improve this facet so that minors are not harmed from their service.
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