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/

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

http://tantrauniverse.com/

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 ... 

Visit: http://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.

We live in Orange County, California.

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).