Zoho has introduced a tool called Zoho Share that aggregates content from Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show. The tool enables users to share, publish or embed their content in a blog, rate, bookmark, email documents or make them publicly accessible online.
The offering is similar to SlideShare with exception that documents created using Zoho products get automatically added to Zoho Share. It also has features to create a social experience around the documents. With the growth online collaboration these features will come in More»

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Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, was egged by a student during a speech at the Hungarian University in Budapest. The student threw eggs at Mr. Ballmer and accused Microsoft of stealing 45 Billion in Hungarian taxpayer money.
Many African countries have said that the aid Microsoft provides them in the form of free software, benefits Microsoft many times more in the end. Microsoft donates free software to governments and universities and hence gets them hooked on it. Shortly after the donation, the software requires More»

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Microsoft’s proposed bid for Yahoo was its fastest way to gain the scale necessary to compete against Google for online advertising dollars. Even before pulling the Yahoo offer, the company he had begun laying the groundwork for a strategy to compete with Google in online advertising. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is convinced that online advertising is crucial to its future. So much so that he sees online advertising making up as much as 25% of the company’s business within a few years. Google generates approximately US$ 22 billion versus Microsoft’s US$ 3.3 billion from online More»

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Google has befriended Salesforce.com and recruited the company to battle Microsoft. Salesforce’s customer relationship management software and Google’s suite of office productivity applications, which includes e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets programs will be integrated into a single software package that will be offered over the web.
The offering competes with Microsoft’s customer relationship management software, which is integrated with the its Office suite. Google is seeking to displace Microsoft by offering a web based alternative.
Dave Girouard, Google’s Vice President said the product would have new features like letting users keep track of e-mail sent More»

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Google gave the cloud computing initiative a major boost today by launching Google App Engine. Web developers can build and run their web applications on the Google infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it’s receiving significant traffic and has millions of users.
The service is similar to Amazon Simple DB and SalesForce App Exchange where developers can online demand applications or SaaS applications. Google More»

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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»

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Super Tuesday was super cool with Google and Twitter showing real-time tweets from voters, pollsters, pundits and analysts. Wow! how the web is changing society so fast. I am sure the candidates or their deputies were watching all this excitement unfold right before their eyes. Click here to view real-time tweets. To add this widget (gadget) to your website click here>>

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Andy Beal recently wrote that Google’s stock is far from the $2000 a share predicted by Henry Blodget publisher of InternetOutsider. After missing analyst estimates and the announcement of the Microsoft - Yahoo takeover (predicted here), Google’s shares (GOOG) have been hit very hard. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Ram Shriram who own majority of the Class B shares (which control the company) have seen the fortunes drop by US$16 Billion collectively. The Microsoft Yahoo overture shows Google’s vulnerability. Over 90% of the company’s revenue comes from search advertising. If I ran Google, I More»

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Want to develop applications for Google’s new Android mobile phone platform and make a cool $275K?! Google has put $10M into a competition to do just that. The idea is to develop a lot of original cool apps that are highly functional as well as usable. The apps need to access core Android functionality like location-based services, accelerometer and always-on networking.
The smartphone market is heating up and Google is looking to the development community to create the killer app that’s going to make people switch to Android. Apple also recently announced that More»

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The WebGuild’s kickoff event for the new year on The Future of Web Apps was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who attended and to everyone who contributed to making it a success. Many thanks to the speakers: Brad Neuberg, Google Gears; Raju Vegesna, Evangelist, Zoho; Bill Scott, Director of UI Engineering, Netflix; and John Rowell, Chief Technology Officer, OpSource. The video will be available shortly.
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