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SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend launched successfully
Relieved. Last week saw the release of our new offering - The Tell-a-Friend widget, under SocialTwist brand. The product is not only scaling up well to support the large number of widget serves, which quickly ran into millions (thanks to Amazon EC2 and S3), but working well for hundreds of websites and blogs. You know [...]
Hot Startups of 2008 from India
Great to see a lot of entrepreneurial activity in the Indian software industry. NEN has been doing a great job of bringing people together to create visibility for startups.
From a country with great engineering talent and high visibility into the global software industry, it should be certain and sooner that world-class products start coming out. [...]
Using Facebook for marketing new products
Social Networks and Major events (sports, entertainment, etc) provide a great opportunity for marketing. While the former provides a community and medium to target, the latter gives an effective reason for sending new a message.
Those of you who visited Java.com or other sites of Sun Microsystems might have noticed a promotional game called myPicks Beijing [...]
Web for seniors now live
Web does not exclude anyone. While most web 2.0 sites/services are targeting the young, BigscreenLive brings a special service for senior citizens.
UI challenge of creating an interface for seniors is big. We had a great time working with BigScreenLive team in developing it. For developers on the project, putting themselves in the user’s shoe was [...]
Netgear agreement with Dekoh
Pramati Technologies recently signed an OEM Agreement with NETGEAR, Inc. Under this agreement Dekoh Media Sharing Platform will be shipped with ReadyNAS product targeted at home consumers market. Home users who are experiencing explosive growth in their digital photo collection can buy ReadyNAS ($399 on Amazon now for 500GB) and they will get easy-to-use ReadNAS [...]
Segmenting web platforms
Web as a platform is an interesting topic for most people in the software industry. Marc Andreessen (Ning) recently made an attempt to classify this platform in his post The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet. In the follow up analysis posted by Josh on ReadWriteWeb Platforms on the Web are Platforms [...]
Yahoo! acquires Zimbra
Today Yahoo has announced acquisition of Zimbra. This is great news. Zimbra was a brilliant team with very good product. With Yahoo owning Zimbra, the product will have greater reach. Zimbra had an offline client, it will be interesting to see if Yahoo mail will have an offline version. Offline and desktop-web integration technologies will [...]
Desktop integration increases user interaction
An active internet user may voluntarily visit up to 15 websites like email, social networks, shopping sites, online banking etc. However, the number of services and interests of a person is much higher. Typically, what gets attention and a visit to a web site is the current interest (momentary). The reason why it is [...]
Desktop Apps built like the web
I was heartned to find this early posting on Netwizard’s blog that points to the thinking behind Dekoh.
Writing applications using markup instead of platform-API-based code is so much more easier. Browser-based UI brings significant advantage of using combined teams with programmers (who generally can’t build great looking UI) and graphics and UI specialists (who can’t [...]
RIA - is it “Rich Interface Application”?
Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has written this good post Too Rich For My Taste: The RIA Q&A questioning the value of Rich Internet Applications to end users. Some of the observations are very accurate. Two of them related to Internet Applications are very important:
1. We spend more time using browser based applications than thick-client desktop applications (exceptions are developers). Browsers [...]
