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Thursday, October 30, 2008
http://www.firstphera.com
Wedding Site maker !
Point in case - the idea of such a site itself is VIRAL !! (Refer Purple Cow / IdeaVirus concepts by Seth Godin)
If one user uses, HE/SHE (both) will publicise their wedding (micro)site ... thereby publicising the FirstPhera site itself .... The site too is good with some good features and links to shopping sites for shopping as well as gifting ...
Started in Sept'07 based out of Ahmedabad - created by a bunch of guys and gurlz ..
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
E2.0 Case Studies
Beside the Hotel Search results for a particular city, they have a box in the sidebar which shows a couple of photos of the location sourced from flickr. There is also a link "show more photos" which redirects you to flickr.
This is similar to Narula Travels who "uploaded about 30 travel videos depicting various Indian themes ... designed to generate curiosity and interest in the mind of the viewer " on YoutTube. This move was meant to boost traffic to their website Narula Holidays. [Reference Link ]
WebTop .. desktop on the Web
A concept many have fiddled with - creating a web-page which acts for the web what your desktop screen acts for your computer. A place form where you access all your favourite Web Services through single click Icons.
Just like your desktop you save files (music, photos, documents, sheets), access web-based (SaaS) software, maintain account info etc. All that you do on your desktop. But wait!! there's more - you can share documents with your friends and family (click the 7 circles links) , receive newsfeeds from popular dailes, create groups, write blogs etc - things which were never possible on a desktop.
Enter MyVishwa - a new player in this category.
As far as I have fiddled with it - you can only upload and share files but I hope it will soon also allow me to "create" documents and spreadsheets (not just upload them) by using Google Docs or Zoho or their own technologies.
There are more flaws - unlike similar attempts like Meebo which allows you to log on to all your messenger accounts at once, myVishwa is closed, you can't access messengers, you can't log on to your email, groups are not linked to other mailing list services...
I have a lot of suggestions for this initiative, they NEED to open it up!! New icons should be allowed, files should be allowed to be saved anywhere (i.e. Google Docs, Yahoo briefcase etc) - this one stop webTop should merely act as a single access point - not try to lock people in and never try to to become "everything" - in fact use as many support services from other players.
The start page concept which pageflakes or iGoogle started has gained a lot of traction. The webTop concept is simply an extension of the startpage thing. But it need to be implemented properly, and as openly as possible.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Google Help : Cheat Sheet
| ADVANCED OPERATORS | MEANING | WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS) | ||
| site: | Search only one website | admission site:www.stanford.edu (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.) | ||
| [#]…[#] | Search within a range of numbers | DVD player $100..150 (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150) | ||
| link: | linked pages | link:www.stanford.edu (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.) | ||
| info: | Info about a page | info:www.stanford.edu (Find information about the Stanford University website.) | ||
| related: | Related pages | related:www.stanford.edu (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.) |
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
GMail Tip - Did You Know?
If you can add "EOM" or "(EOM)" at the end of the subject line (short for End Of Message), Gmail will silently send the message without the unnecessary prompt.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Contact
You can contact me by leaving a comment here or on my other blog http://the-complete-man.blogspot.com.
I will usually get back to you within 24 hrs, unless I am travelling or otherwise without access to my email.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
http://www.mint.com
Useful website .... http://blog.mint.com/blog/
Personal finance that works for you
Mint downloads, categorizes, and graphs all of your finances automatically every day— so you don't have to. Know where you're spending, without spending any effort.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
TIBCO products
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO Software Inc. (http://www.tibco.com) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success.
TIBCO is an enterprise grade product and is known for its "Messaging and Bus" products which are used by organizations for interfacing different applications in their Application landscape. However, TIBCO now has many products which help in building the underlying framework for E2.0 adoption.
TIBCO Ajax Message Service
TIBCO Ajax Message Service™ software provides a mature and scalable approach to pushing or streaming real-time information to browsers and other applications over HTTP networks. Since there are no web browser plug-ins, ActiveX controls, or applets required, the solution is very friendly to browsers, proxies, and firewalls.
Organizations use Ajax Message Service to intelligently stream data, events, messages, and notifications in situations where access to current, real-time information over the web is required. You can now build real-time applications with Ajax technologies such as TIBCO General Interface™, and even deploy other clients such as Java, .NET, and Flash applications over the web since you can now stream data to them in an HTTP firewall-friendly way.
TIBCO General Interface
TIBCO General Interface™ is the award-winning Ajax solution for rapidly building and deploying rich internet applications (RIA), Ajax components, and portlets that look and feel like desktop software.
TIBCO General Interface™ Framework is an Ajax engine, a set of lean JavaScript libraries that load and run completely within an end user's browser. General Interface Framework provides a complete application development stack with over 100 extensible object-oriented classes for MVC data binding and caching, communications, XSLT transformation, publish/subscribe, localization, logging and debugging as well as rich cross-browser GUI controls and graphing packages.
No Server Required: Applications using General Interface run completely in the browser – no browser plug-ins or server-side code needed. Deploy the framework and application files with your static HTML files! The application can talk to your existing web services over HTTP. Run standalone or integrate into existing web pages or portals.
TIBCO Ajax Message Service™ software provides a mature and scalable approach to pushing or streaming real-time information to browsers and other applications over HTTP networks. Since there are no web browser plug-ins, ActiveX controls, or applets required, the solution is very friendly to browsers, proxies, and firewalls.
Organizations use Ajax Message Service to intelligently stream data, events, messages, and notifications in situations where access to current, real-time information over the web is required. You can now build real-time applications with Ajax technologies such as TIBCO General Interface™, and even deploy other clients such as Java, .NET, and Flash applications over the web since you can now stream data to them in an HTTP firewall-friendly way.
TIBCO General Interface
TIBCO General Interface™ is the award-winning Ajax solution for rapidly building and deploying rich internet applications (RIA), Ajax components, and portlets that look and feel like desktop software.
TIBCO General Interface™ Framework is an Ajax engine, a set of lean JavaScript libraries that load and run completely within an end user's browser. General Interface Framework provides a complete application development stack with over 100 extensible object-oriented classes for MVC data binding and caching, communications, XSLT transformation, publish/subscribe, localization, logging and debugging as well as rich cross-browser GUI controls and graphing packages.
No Server Required: Applications using General Interface run completely in the browser – no browser plug-ins or server-side code needed. Deploy the framework and application files with your static HTML files! The application can talk to your existing web services over HTTP. Run standalone or integrate into existing web pages or portals.
Monday, October 6, 2008
For Web Designers
Some nuggets of wisdom from Adaptive Path's blog
The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams
Every Web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.
There's a lot about the Apple Store experience that we can apply to the design of many other kinds of products — and a few lessons we can take from Apple's missteps as well.