By Daya Baran at February 22, 2008 0 Comments
Wow! is this the same company that was sitting idle which Google reached US$200 Billion in market cap. Yesterday, there was the semi open sourcing of code for Windows and related applications and today SkyDrive. SkyDrive is Microsoft’s online storage service. Microsoft launched the product last year giving user 500MB of free storage. Today the company announced that it is increasing that by 10 times to 5 G of free storage. Previously SkyDrive was only available in the U.S., U.K. and India. Today the service is being rolled out to 38 other countries.
SkyDrive competes with More»
Labels: Microsoft, online services
By Daya Baran at February 21, 2008 0 Comments
Bungee Labs has released a service called Bungee Connect an on-demand service that helps developers build rich internet applications that can be hosted by Bungee.
The service includes wizards to simplify specific workflows for developers and it supports the ability to import code from different projects, style sheets and APIs. The service aims to slash the time and costs associated with the entire application life cycle.
“It’s time to stop developing ‘here’ and running ‘there.’ Today, most applications are coded in one environment, then tested in another, and redeployed to yet another for production,” said David Mitchell, Bungee’s More»
Labels: online services, web applications
By Daya Baran at February 13, 2008 0 Comments
Google’s share of the U.S. online advertising market dropped to 23.7% from 24.2% in the third quarter reports IDC.
Online advertising is made up of primarily display and paid. Google still maintains a dominant position in paid advertising. However, display advertising is experiencing tremendous growth as brand advertisers are shifting their ad spend from traditional media to the web because that’s where the audience is.
That is why Google is busy releasing applications and services daily, partnering and acquiring properties that engage audiences so that they can get a bigger share of the display ad More»
Labels: Online Advertising, online services
By Daya Baran at January 09, 2008 0 Comments
LongJump has just launched an online database service called Database as a Service (DaaS). DaaS enables you to quickly provision an online database for your web site very much like how you provision your hosting or storage.
LongJump hopes to eliminate the hassles of installing MySql on your server, reduce infrastructure More»
Labels: Amazon, online services
By Daya Baran at December 20, 2007 1 Comments
The web is about pushing boundaries and first movers usually have the advantage. Recently, I was fortunate to meet with Lord British aka “Game God”, the creator of Tabula Rasa.
Tabula Rasa is a MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) about humanity’s last stand against an alien race called “The Bane”. Massively multiplayer online games have exploded with the growth of broadband internet access. Hundreds of thousands of players can play the same game together over the web. Sound like a social network? Indeed. The next generation More»
Labels: online services, web applications
By Daya Baran at November 30, 2007 0 Comments
Network Solutions has come up with a clever way to promote your web site to 30 million visitors a month for a $1.
The service enables you to place an ad inside your own whois record. Instead of just displaying contact information and your address you can now place whatever text you want inside the record. The service called “Enhanced Business Listing” allows website owners to place more descriptive text inside their whois record. When anyone looked up the whois record they would see your opening sales pitch before they even approach you about buying your domain.
Enhanced Business Listing is More»
Labels: Online Advertising, online security, online services, Search
By Joseph Hunkins at November 29, 2007 0 Comments
Tim Berners-Lee, the closest thing we have to an “inventor” of the web as we know it today, is calling for more integrated, broad studies of the internet rather than the mostly piecemeal academic work being done now.
He’s absolutely right of course. The internet is arguably the most profound change in human communication in history, and it’s just getting started. As social networking explodes into the dominant socializing mechanism for humans we are experiencing many new opportunities and many challenges, especially as the online environments create new relationships More»
Labels: internet, online services, web 2.0
By Daya Baran at November 27, 2007 0 Comments
Mashable is reporting that Intuit, the company behind QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax software, has acquired Homestead Technologies for about $170 million. Homestead offers website creation tools and other e-commerce and marketing products made for online use, the combination of Intuit and Homestead will present opportunities for Homestead’s technologies to be used for small businesses both internally and with direct interaction with customers.
The plan is to basically offer a suite of solutions for companies looking for an integrated option to extend their businesses into the online sector, reach out to customers and retain More»
Labels: online services, web applications, web strategy, websites
By Daya Baran at November 26, 2007 0 Comments
Yahoo! Small Business the service for powering shopping carts for small businesses is down and closed for business. The services is suffering from intermittent outages today as shoppers flock to e-commerce sites on company time. “Cyber Monday” is an important day for e-tailers, and such an outage is quite embarrassing for Yahoo.
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Labels: eCommerce, online services, Yahoo
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