Can We Really Connect With Google’s Friend Connect?

“Website owners can make any site social!” This is the claim of Google with it up and coming service, Friend Connect, which aims to aid in adding social features to a website without any programming involved.

Google’s director of engineering David Glazer described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. “The Web is getting better by getting more social. We’ve baked social features into the infrastructure of the Web, and it is not tied to any particular site,” Glazer said. “Users can interact with any of their friends anywhere they go on Web, and with any app.”

Loki on May 26, 2008 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment

Google Does A SalesForce With Its Apps Engine

Google has entered the emerging platform-as-a-service race with the announcement of its App Engine that would be the first incarnation of a Google product similar to Salesforce.com’s force.com platform and Amazon’s EC2.

Arun on April 9, 2008 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

The Evolving Concept of Virtual Worlds

Rise in bandwidth for the Internet has seen rush towards moving content online. While video, audio and text represent a bulk of this data movement, identity is also making a transition online. The rise of virtual worlds has proven that there is an online frontier of immense capacity that is waiting to change our perception of presence on the internet.

Arun on March 5, 2008 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

Pumped Up Podcasts with PimpMyNews

Wouldn’t it be cool if you literally HEAR the news that you read in the Internet? Well, worry no more, because with this hip websites, you’ll hear news available in the Internet like you’ve never heard them before!

Loki on February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 10 Comments

Google Unifying Identity of Its Product Users

We are all familiar with Google Accounts. Its a single time sign-up that lets a user field the same user name and password to use any of Google products such as Blogs, Gmail, Maps, GTalk, Orkut, Office Apps etc. Now, Google seems to be coming out with a profiles options which lets users maintain a single entry for their profiles that gets reflected across all the services.

Arun on December 24, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment

Study Shows 73% of Americans Haven’t Heard of Online Office Suites, Should We Be Surprised?

Download Squad is reporting on a recent NPD study that shows 74% of Americans haven’t heard of Google Docs or any other online office suite. Out of 600 PC users, NPD found that around 94% had never tried any web-based office suite, although around 20% have at least heard of them. You can catch the full breakdown of results on the chart below.

Devindra on December 20, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

Facebook Opens Platform, OpenSocial in Trouble?

Barely a month after Google backed by other social networking sites announced its OpenSocial platform for interoperability between social networks, Facebook has announced that it would also be keen to license its APIs. Depending on how you look at it, this could be the best or the worst thing to happen to the social networking space.

Arun on December 16, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 4 Comments

On Ginger: The Latest Netvibes Update

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Continuing with their spicy naming scheme for major releases, Netvibes founder Tariq Krim recently posted the first preview of the next update to Netvibes, Ginger. The updates mentioned so far sound enticing, and as a devout Netvibes user I’m already feeling the itch to test out this new build.

Devindra on December 12, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

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