By Reshma Kumar at October 21, 2007 10 Comments
Last Wednesday, the WebGuild held its monthly event on the “Next Generation of Social Networking” featuring Jonathan Abrams, Founder & CEO of Socializr & Freindster fame, Jia Shen, CTO of Rock You, and Sundeep Ahuja, Founder of Appfuels. It was a highly social event - well attended and high energy.
If you missed it, the video of this event will be available in about a week. More»
Labels: cisco, eBay, Facebook, Gruuve, Online Advertising, online services, Social Networking, technology, usability 2.0, user experience, web 2.0, WebGuild
By Reshma Kumar at October 17, 2007 10 Comments
HP has just announced that it will be making it easy for you to print your customized content from the web. This is part of HP’s Print 2.0 Strategy to offer internet users new and enhanced printing options to control what they print and how they print it. HP has partnered with high traffic sites like Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live Spaces, and Disney.com to offer this improved print capability. HP plans to deliver this via Web 2.0 technologies such as those developed through an acquisition of web-based app, Tabblo, and others.
“People are frustrated with printing More»
Labels: Blogs, Facebook, online services, Print 2.0, Print 2.0 Flickr, user experience, web 2.0, widgets, Windows Live Spaces
By Daya Baran at October 04, 2007 0 Comments
Microsoft launched a free web site for managing personal health and medical information called HealthVault. The site search will be powered by Live.com and the web site will be ad supported.
HealthVault enables users to search and find information about health care and provides users a repository to store health-related data such as medical histories, immunizations and records from the doctor’s office and hospital visits as well as measurements from devices like heart rate monitors.
The web site enables users to invite and share their information with doctors and family members and other people they trust.
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Labels: Microsoft, online health, online services
By Daya Baran at October 04, 2007 0 Comments
UC Berkeley has joined the internet revolution and is making available courses for free via YouTube.
University officials announced that over 300 hours of UC Berkeley classes and events are available online at the web address www.youtube.com/ucberkeley. The classes include lectures on peace and conflict studies, bioengineering, sciences, technology and computer programming.
UC Berkeley was one of the first major universities to embrace webcasting and podcasting and now YouTube.
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Labels: Collaboration, google, online services, Youtube
By Daya Baran at August 30, 2007 11 Comments
The latest issue of The Economist has an article on the rising power of Google (NASQ: GOOG). The article makes the case that the internet giant is more like JP Morgan than Microsoft. The article is harsh at times as when quoting Eric Schmidt “Our goal is “not to make money”, as its boss, Eric Schmidt, puts it, but “to change the world”.
Google is the white knight that rescued silicon valley after the dot com bomb and prevented it from becoming death valley. Google ignited More»
Labels: Advertising, online services, web 2.0
By Daya Baran at August 16, 2007 11 Comments
It was another jam packed event at the Googleplex, with tonnes of great food, great companies and fantastic panel on “The Future of Online Platforms”. Before the speakers talked about the future, Ismail Ghalini, focused on the definition of the platform. Twenty years ago, we all understood what a platform is. It’s essentially an OS, and you had three options: MS-DOS if you want the large market, Mac OS if you’re edgy, and UNIX if you’re really technical. They all did pretty much the same thing, More»
Labels: appexchange, applications, Gdata, mashups, online services, salesforce
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