[By Prashant Sharma | 7 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Youtego: Exploring World with Self-Visualization

Social Networking is an inevitable part of our life today but honestly, it is nothing more than an extension of our Social life onto Web. We prefer connecting to folks who’re real life friends of ours, not strangers.

Our cause of friendship on these social networks is our pre-established real life relations. This is all what Facebook, Myspace, Orkut etc are all about.

Now, it’s time to for you to explore a new social life, purely built around you and everything that’s just about yourself,  in a different, refreshing way altogether. Meet Read the full story »

Startups, Utility focussed »

[By Prashant Sharma | 30 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Clockspot Helps Employers Clock Their Employees Efficiently

With the advent of internet across the globe along with contractual work outsourcing, employees (both regular and contractual) of medium/large sized businesses are becoming a lot more geographically diversified. No matter where the employees reside, the efficiency and work throughput remains unperturbed, thanks to the fast adoption of Cloud computing and plethora of collaborative web technologies available at zero cost to the users.

But one critical aspect of speculating and enhancing the efficiency of location independent or contractual work strength is to track whether they’re actually working for …

Announcements, Best of Web, social network »

[By Prashant Sharma | 15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Is Facebook Playing with “Privacy” of 350 Million Users ?

Now that Facebook has grown to well over 350 million users, it’s an uphill task for them to implement even a small policy change to the entire network population. You never know how users will react to the new policies. Nobody can forget the Beacon controversy and now there is another BIG Policy change rolling all across Facebook these days. And this one is tough, really tough to handle(did we hear why ?) Because, it’s about your Privacy folks.

Privacy is something that’s most critical for any Facebook user, as nowadays, …

Announcements, Gadgets, Product launch »

[By Prashant Sharma | 12 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Breaking : JooJoo Pre-ordering Kickstarts ! Should you buy it ?

Finally, the (controversial) JooJoo is here ! The much hyped CrunchPad(now JooJoo) tablet, so-called brainchild of TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington, has opened its floodgates to start taking Pre-orders for their Internet Tablet device.

The company behind this internet tablet, Fusion Garage, is currently in a tussle with TechCrunch, a highly infuential technology blog that brought up the whole idea of an Internet Tablet, some 1.5 years back. TechCrunch named the internet tablet as CrunchPad, and kept updating the media on the progress of the CrunchPad with pictures …

Utility focussed, google chrome »

[By Prashant Sharma | 11 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Top ‘Beta Chrome Extensions’ so far !

Before getting onto Chrome extensions directly, lets have a quick look at how Google Chrome evolved itself in the past one and a half years to become a real threat for leading web browsers.

Since the launch of Google Chrome, i have been one of its all time fans and also a loyal Chrome user for over an year now. Although Chrome faced some level of criticism in its early days, i stuck rock hard on Chrome for certain reasons, except once.

After early excitement for …

Utility focussed, dummies guide »

[By Prashant Sharma | 7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
A Much-Needed Glossary for ‘Torrent Freaks’

Torrent is one such word that’s hugely popular across the web and most of us very well know why we need it but ironically, it is among those words in the tech glossary, that general public feels most perplexed about.

Users know what’s the core purpose of a torrent but they hardly have any idea about its actual meaning and fundamental concept behind it. Surrounding the word torrent, there are several other words being regularly used but the literal meaning is not yet clear.

This write-up sheds light over the most common …