What Does A Combined Microsoft Yahoo Look Like?
Hot on the heels of the $44.6 Billion Offer made by Microsoft to Buy Yahoo, the web is going crazy with discussions on this. This deal if takes place, could well be the defining moment of Internet in 2008. This deal has large ramifications, beyond just about you and me can think of. I’m not entirely sure, if this deal makes sense for Microsoft. The only reason Microsoft seems to be running behind Yahoo is to beat Google in Search and Online Advertising. The Bid seems to be a good... Read The Rest →
Over Half a Million Private Myspace Photo's leaked
This is not good news for the News Corp owned Myspace. Myspace has had its fair share of privacy concerns in the past. But this major leak puts all of them to shame. Over half a million photos have been leaked on BitTorrent, and the catch here is that all the leaked photos have been taken from private albums on Myspace. Well that just made just about everyone’s private moments for the whole world wide web to see. This sets a very bad precedent for Myspace, and I am sure... Read The Rest →
WordPress.com gets Enhanced Feeds
If you are a WordPress.com blogger, then you have many reasons to rejoice this festive season, and the feeds on WordPress.com have received a major upgrade. And Ofcourse that latest addition from Automattic is Enhanced Feeds that has for long been associated with Feedburner. Read on to find out what these Enhanced Feeds really are,
Hack Attack : Record Video on the iPhone
When the iPhone first came out, many people complained about the lack of Video recording capabilities in the iPhone. Many People including me thought it was pretty lame for Apple to release iPhone without the video editing features in it, because Apple touted the iPhone as a complete Multimedia device, and I haven’t really seen a Multimedia phone that comes without Video Recording. Heck even my Nokia 5300 does it pretty well.
Google Takes on Wikipedia with Knol
This is has to be the biggest announcement coming from Google at the end of this year. Google is planning to take on Wikipedia with their own project titled “Knol” which apparently stands for Units of Knowledge.. While the title doesn’t really say much about the project, but they are definitely trying to create a more accountable version of Wikipedia, that will be monetized and will also also feature in Google Search Results, giving Wikipedia a run for its money.
GMail Adds Colored Labels, and AIM Support
The GMail crew seems to be working hard these days, ever since the launch of GMail 2.0. GMail has finally given us one of the most important features we’ve been waiting for quite long and that is Colored Labels. Well Labels was a great feature GMail already had, to help us organize our inbox, but these Colored Labels, help us easily spot out the message we’re looking for. A Screenshot below, shows the colored labels feature in action. You can now set a different color for each label so you... Read The Rest →
GMail adds Group Chat and Smileys to Chat
Ever since the Introduction of the new GMail, a lot of new features are being added to GMail on a regular basis. The latest one is the addition of Group Chat and Smileys into the Chat client that it is inbuilt into GMail. I have to say this is a cool new feature coming from the GMail team, because I can read through all my emails while having a group conversation will all my classmates for the next class outing! Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link... Read The Rest →
Google to Launch GDrive Soon
For how long has this rumor been going around in the blogosphere? Well atleast this time Wall Street Journal believes that Google is working to release a service rumored to be GDrive pretty soon. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on specific online storage plans aside from “storage is an important component of making Web [applications] fit easily into consumers’ and business users’ lives.” I believe that GDrive is already existing in the form of the storage that we have in numerous Google services like GMail, Picasa, Blogger, Docs etc.... Read The Rest →
Zoho Leaps Ahead, While Others Lag Behind!
There exists a fundamental flaw in the way online Office Systems work, and that is the requirement of a Internet connection to use the online Office Suite. With the absence of Internet connection you just can’t create documents and edit, but that is all set to change with Zoho’s announcement of the addition of Offline Feature into Zoho Office Suite. To use Zoho Writer in offline mode, just install Google Gears and restart your web browser. Then login to your Zoho account and click the link at the top that... Read The Rest →
Flickr to map the world's latest photo hotspots
My favorite online photo service Flickr seems to get better with every other passing day. Its nice to see Yahoo continuing with development of Flickr. Flickr yesterday announced a new feature dubbed Places that aims to help you in Finding photos taken at a particular place. This new feature will allow you to use Flickr Places to explore places you’ve never been to. Flickr has handpicked over 10,000 places worldwide to showcase photos that were shot over there. Flickr will also provide other information like Maps, Weather and Time at... Read The Rest →
