Saturday, July 11, 2009

E-mail your CV without the Internet

Nows thats an innovative offering / feature ...

naukri.com
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have access to a computer or internet, don't panic.

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SMS, using the Naukri ExpressCV service. Just send us an SMS and your CV will be
e-mailed at the desired e-mail address.
All you need to do is type FWD destination email ID on your mobile and send it to 56070.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fwd: FW: Web 2.0 toolkit repository

I came across a website that encapsulates a number of wonderful Web 2.0 tools:

http://jdlasica.com/education2

This site incorporates primarily OSS offerings, for services such as document management, spreadsheets, word processing, development tools, event management, file management, photo editor, web conferencing etc. Using mashups as a backdrop, it would be interesting to see how many of these could actually be used at client locations, to create an integrated view of multiple sources of information.

Credit: http://technoview.co.cc/


Monday, June 8, 2009

The original ... better late than never ...


Saturday, June 6, 2009

Blog Concept: Family Blog

We've seen 'em all - Tech Blogs, Professional Blogs, Team Blogs, Hobby Blogs, Personal Blogs, Photo Blogs ... here's not so popular form of it (but something which should have been more common) - Family Blog. Kudos to the Khares of Orange City for maintaining this ... 

May be we too should start a blog for our family ... 

Visithttp://khare.com 

 I write this so I can keep our family (in India and San Francisco) and friends from all over the world up on our latest adventures.

These are our kids: Nikhil, Annika and Vikram.

kids4-2005.jpg


We live in Orange County, California.


Monday, June 1, 2009

Google Wave - Mindblowing concept

If Google can pull off overcoming all the user interface and usability challenges in implementing this concept - it would present the biggest change in the way we consume information since the advent of the Graphic User Interface or WYSIWYG interface developed in 1970s. 

Source: http://www.cio.com/article/print/493707

Google unveiled Wave - For consumers, Wave represents Google's answer to the emergence of streaming, or real-time, internet applications, as evidenced primarily by the rise of social networks. A "stream" is represented best by a Twitter homepage or a Facebook News Feed. On those web pages, content flows down the page for you to consume at your leisure. You might comment on a piece of content, share it with friends, or just let it pass downstream without touching it.


Wave seems to embrace this streaming interface by using e-mail and messaging as a starting point. In one fluid view, a Wave homepage includes short messages (think: Twitter), communication with large groups (think: Facebook) and basic collaboration tools to engage with the content (think: instant messaging and e-mail).


Friday, May 29, 2009

Bing from Microsoft - Changing the Search landscape?

Today, Microsoft announced a new avatar of its search engine – Bing. M$ claims that it's not just a search engine, but designed to help make decisions. 

In fact they are calling it a 'Decision Engine' and claim that It empowers people to gain insight and knowledge from the Web, moving more quickly to making the important decisions.

On the outset its pretty cool! The new snazzy design will have  a beautiful daily image on the homepage which will have  hotspots embedded in it to let you explore the picture in detail

 Bing launches globally on 3rd June and some of the features will roll out in India in the coming months. 

You can check it out at www.bing.com.


Screens Round the town

GMail cross promoting Chrome and GMail outage on May 08, 2009


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Customizing the Help Manuals

Often software products have different set of audiences and the challenge is not to write tutorials for each set but to help them locate the tutorial for meant for them. Mozy.com an online backup service has found a simple way to do this. 

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Simply ask!! 

While it may not be so striaghtforward for most products, products can try different variants of the selection form above (like a stepwise workflow which helps you find your area). 

Google Groups Help also encourages you to search for your doubt before you fire a query and to "force" this habit on users it provides an auto complete of the subject line. :-) Clever eh? 


Sunday, May 24, 2009

Have we heard this before?

Wowd, in its early stages now, is developing a platform that would help one find the best content online.

Source: http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Markets-Finance/Enterprising-Repositions.html

CLEAN TECH DRIVE: VCs hope for big 
successes in this industry, directed mostly at 
fighting climate change. But since it is not 
capital-efficient, VCs need to invest more to 
make it a success (Bloomberg)
HEALTHCARE AND PHARMA PUSH: 
Always sunrise industries, healthcare
and pharma continue to interest VCs. 
Healthcare reform in the US and 
declining drug pipelines of large 
companies will help start-ups 
develop new businesses


Sunday, May 17, 2009

How Our News Sources Changed in the Last 200+ Years

Our primary sources of information in the last 200 years - Timeline

In the early 19th century, the only way to get news was face-to-face
communication but that started to change with the advent of printed
newspapers and magazines in the 1900s.

Then came radio, followed by Television which still dominate the
medium but people are quickly moving away from traditional media as
Internet websites and social networks are fast becoming our primary
sources of news and information.

This shift in the way we consume information has been brilliantly
captured in these graphs by Thomas Baekdal who also predicts that
traditional media reporting on newspapers, Television & Radio will
disappear by 2020 to be replaced by social news.

"The traditional journalistic reporting is by now completely replaced
getting information directly from the source. Everyone is a potential
reporter, but new advances in targeting will eliminate most of the
noise. The journalists will turn into editors who, instead of
reporting the news, bring it together [from citizen journalists or
live sources like Twitter] to give us a bigger picture."

Read Detail: http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Management/market-of-information/


Saturday, May 16, 2009

Educational Videos

Source: A Fabulous, Fabulous Resource

Salman Khan, a portfolio manager in California has created hundreds of free educational videos, available on his web site, the Khan Academy and on YouTube. These videos cover the basics of banking, finance and the current credit crisis — I saw a couple and they're quite good.

Even more importantly, there are hundreds of videos on mathematics (algebra, calculus, trignometry, probability and more) and physics. Salman has three degrees from MIT and one from Harvard, so he knows what he's talking about.

Anyone, anywhere in the world can benefit — all you need is access to the Internet. A good idea, fantastically implemented.

Thank you, Salman for investing all this time and energy.


Friday, May 15, 2009

Best presented election Results

Check out http://www.hindustantimes.com/election09/Map.aspx#

Presenting information well is an art - and HT has done a good job
here. For more on effective communication of complex information,
check this out:

http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/36_slides_that_.html


Monday, May 11, 2009

OpenID provider JanRain

Sane Advice from JanRain / RPX ... 


We recommend that you put the javascript at the bottom of the page because it will help the page load faster. Modern browsers block the page inline while loading javascript, so putting it at the bottom of the page will reduce the page load time.

Has any of you tried the RPX - single sign on / Open ID - tools provided by JanRain? Am Looking for some feedback.


Friday, May 8, 2009

Get SMS alerts from GMail via http://wwwb.way2sms.com

http://wwwb.way2sms.com

Way2SMS 
The Biz Model
Each text message that is sent out has an advertisement appended to it - Way2SMS generates revenue through Mobitisements.

Mobile users can register at absolutely no cost with Way2SMS.com, and start sending out text messages to their near and dear ones across the country. Receivers of the messages need not be registered Way2SMS users.  


Tuesday, April 28, 2009

New firefox version out

It may not be the big 3.5 release that everyone's been waiting for, but it's good to know that your net surfing will be a little more secure and bug-free with the new 3.0.10 release. The two new issues that were fixed in this release are:

You can also find a complete list of bug fixes here.

Download the new Firefox 3.0.10 release right here.

Link Courtesy: Shubham 

http://tech2.in.com/india/news/internet-tools-internet/firefox-3.0.10-released/65932/0