Articles Archive for December 2009
Startups, Utility focussed »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 …
Startups, social network »
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
Utility focussed, dummies guide »
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 …
Gaming »
As we’re about to bid adieu to the year 2009, lets take a glance at the Gaming Industry as a whole and the most anticipated game titles lined up this Christmas.
While recession blues were haunting almost every corner of industrial landscape, whether it be Technology, Internet, Aviation, Hospitality among many others, one sector that flourished and was once considered Recession-proof was no other but Gaming Industry (both offline and online games).
Year 2009 has truly been the Year of Sequels as many smash-hit gaming titles got their sequels released this …
Business oriented, Startups »
As majority of online population is on Facebook, Myspace and other social network today, it’s quite intuitive to figure out reasons why Online Social Networks have become unbelievably important to our personal lives. Most of us have some sort of community on these networking sites, where we communicate amongst each other, share pics, videos, play games, listen to music and do similar stuff.
Now, like social networks, do we have such a rich community oriented platform to benefit our businesses ? Well, you might say LinkedIn but LinkedIn is limited to Business …

