Articles Archive for August 2008
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From the old booming days of dot com industry,we have always witnessed Yahoo! being symbolised as ‘Y!‘ (and not as ‘Y‘). That means,it must have been a well thought idea of integrating exclamation mark(“!“) with their brand name “Yahoo” to portrait their brand,being different from others.
But that’s not the case.It was,rather a forced decision to add an exclamation mark to the name “Yahoo“.But,then who forced Jerry and Filo to put an exclamation to their brand ?
It’s EBSCO Industries ,which forced the two founders of “Yahoo” to …
User gen. content, Web 2.0 app »
When it comes to sharing your slideshows with your friends,one site that definitely comes in your mind is Slideshare and that’s why it’s growing at such a fast pace.
But,the reason,why it is gaining such a momentum is not only its service but also (rather,majorly) its PR activities.Slideshare had a tough competition earlier in Slide but then it created its own space and smartly projected itself as “Youtube of Slideshows“.
There has been a number of web services ex. Myplick,Sliderocket etc,offering better quality with an extra cluster …
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All you guys who have been following TechPluto will witness even wider coverage of Web products,services and lots more from now onwards.
Till now,TechPluto confined its domain to reviewing startups/early stage web services only.But from now on,you will witness much more on TechPluto.
From Tech events to silicon valley gossip,from giant mergers to controversial acquisitions,from hard-hitting comparisons to social media analysis,from critical statistics to Number crunching…..All fully loaded stuff
And yes,this re-ideation also includes our “more casual” approach towards things that matter on WWW.
Why this…?
A cluster …
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Do you spot a “creative edge” in yourself which hasn’t been utilized for anything BIG ? Or you find a lot of ‘absurd’ & ‘Out of the box’ ideas bubbling out of your brain about different things.Then a website can probably be of good use to you.That’s Supervirals
Supervirals is a website that offers you a way to exercise your creative mind by creating promotional videos,audio,pictures etc for brands and get rewarded by the brands if you
3D applicaions, User gen. content, Web 2.0 app »
It’s an all new service launched by Microsoft that lets its users create 3D experiences through photos.
Photosynth,being for quite sometime in Microsoft Live Labs finally opened its doors for users on Aug 21 but the team behind this service haven’t really promoted this launch even as a ‘Beta Launch’ for Photosynth.
According to the team,there is lot more to come which will enhance the capabilities and results of the service.As there have already been a cluster of services offering some manipulation …
Business oriented, portals »
What’s that !
If you belong to India,then being financially conscious and sensitive is a default trait in you but the financial services that we use or plan to use are limited to a count but the service providers are endless in number.
Hence,it becomes really tough to decide which bank to prefer for a loan,which property should one invest into,which credit card scheme is better and similar things like that.
PaisaWaisa is a solution one can consider if he is facing the above issues.It’s a financial portal providing a cluster …
User gen. content »
The likes and dislikes of different people are way apart but generally most of us enjoy music(of some sort or the other) and admire renowned singers/artists and music composers for the music those guys create and help the disco theks rocking.
And then,there are a chunk of people who can broadly be called as “Music Enthusiasts”(bathroom singers to singing aspirants),who love to sing and get appreciated for the passion they carry for music.
Muziboo is actually an online platform for the second set of people(Music enthusiasts).It serves …
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What’s that !
Gone are the days when live video broadcasting required heavy infrastructure(like the ones news channels have in plenty ex. satellite,VSAT paraphernalia etc).
Videocasting on the net is usually pre-recorded.But with the growing technology trends,live videocasting is just a matter of a smartphone(which carries with it some basic livecasting pre-requisites).
Kyte is a website which facilitates Live videocasting and proving to be a trendsetter in this arena. It lets you create your own channel,produce your own shows with

