Articles Archive for June 2009
Digg out, Utility focussed »
WiMAX(Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is one of those telecommunication technologies, which have been quoted as the ‘Future of Data Communication’ by many industry experts and there are enough reasons for WiMAX to be called so.
WiMAX is basically a technology that enables Wireless transmission of data packets at broadband data rate. It empowers computer or mobile terminals with enhanced mobility and ability to access ‘High Speed Internet’ without the need of connecting the terminal to any cable network or Wi-Fi hotspot.
Startups »
If you’re one of those folks who would like to share your experiences with the merchants(mostly local) you deal with, to help other customers stay aware and also to resolve the issues with the merchant involved then you can give a shot to FeedbackJar.
FeedbackJar is a web service that works somewhat similar to Yelp, a community review service but tries to innovate further, by bringing merchants and customers on the same table and resolve the issues mutually.
As Merchants would never want any negative feedbacks …
Best of Web, Digg out, Utility focussed »
Microsoft has recently announced that Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s self-owned web browser, which currently commands over 65% market share of worldwide browser usage will NOT be bundled with Windows 7, the next upcoming version of Windows operating system, which is scheduled to launch on October 22,2009.
Such a step has resulted due to the Anti-trust elegations on Microsoft by European commision. Microsoft has previously been fined a sum of $1.2bn by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour concerned with pre-installing Windows Media Player with Windows OS and now, when …
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‘Tenant Txt‘ is a web service that has a niche but utility-focussed issue to address- establishing quick and effective communication between tenants and apartment managers/administrators. This service basically empowers apartment administrators to instantly communicate with the cluster of tenants they got to deal with, without any hassles.
Usually, the area managers/admins post a message/alert/notification on some Community Noticeboard(which is hardly noticed), but if there’s any emergency message to be communicated then such old ways of notifying community participants go lame and ineffective. Solution ? Use new …
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Quiet recently, i got a call from one of my college time friends who asked me about ‘Search Engine Optimization’ required for his startup. As his startup is basically an ‘offline’ firm, i couldn’t expect his website to be more than ’5 to 10 static webpages’ and hardly a hope of addition of fresh content to his website on a regular basis.
Spending money wasn’t really a problem for my friend but he wanted to top Google results for ‘extremely common keywords’ (Think of a keyword such …
Twitter apps »
It might be a case that you’re planning out an event and trying to engage the invited guests and keep them notified about any update related to the event. If that’s the case with you then you can try out an easy way out, TwitFunr.
TwitFunr, a twitter based app is basically meant to help you twittercast (broadcast on Twitter) your minute details related to the event you may be planning and live tweet about the event you’re involved in.
It’s an app from …
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It seems that ‘Crowdsourcing’ is the next big revolution in the Web 2.0 era, where work is no more limited to be outsourced to BIG IT giants only. It’s the talented crowd that is taking the lead and helping clients in fulfilling their work requirements at much lower cost.
And the platforms which are bringing ‘clients’ and ‘talented crowd’ together, to let them fulfill each other’s requirements are playing an important role in the whole scenario of Crowdsourcing. Creative.gd is one such crowdsourcing platform.
Creative.gd is basically …
Startups, Twitter apps, Utility focussed »
By now, if you’re still not on Twitter then you’re certainly missing out some of the coolest apps to play with, especially when these apps fetch you some cool rewards. TwitGuru is just one of them.
TwitGuru is a newly launched Twitter application that urges Twitter users to guess(by tweeting) the closest or exact price to the highlighted product. The competition remains open for guesses for roughly 72 hours from the instant the competition opens up and at the end of 72 hours, the closest(or …
