Archive for November, 2008
If you want to know how much money you are losing through spam emails then you should try Google’s new ROI Calculator. The calculator is specially designed to examine the amount of money a business is losing. All you have to do is to put in some information and see the results. The information required from a user includes the following:
I thought I would never be hearing this but it’s finally here, a web-based p2p startup known as LittleShoot, founded by one of the creators of LimeWire. P2P would definitely be expanded many folds if this models turns out to be a success great in comparison to traditional downloadable file sharing websites.
You just have to enter a search term, and Walla, a plethora of results that you can download right to your computer, ranging from videos via YouTube, images from Flickr, and yes content from LimeWire itself.
The popularity of the Facebook is growing day by day. Seeing the importance, different companies are trying to make their presence on the social network. NBC News is now offering a trivia game for Facebook through an application called “What’s Your ICue?”. The trivia questions are on current events, history, arts and technology. The educational site of the NBC News iCue.com is already using its archives. According to Adam Jones, NBC News’ CFO:
The new beta version of the front page of Yahoo’s mobile site has been leaked. This URL was allegedly redirecting to the new page, but hours within the leak, Yahoo had it blocked, but not soon enough for web fanatics to take some snaps of it.
Ever wished that there was a global business directory that allows users to edit information about companies? Worry not, Brownbook, is here. Brownbook combines the power of wikis, peer production, and social networking to change the way business directories are presented online.
Brownbook help’s you edit and update business listings, provide reviews with video and photos, and receive rewards by commenting on businesses, making it different from traditional business directories like Yellowpages.com and Yahoo’s business directory.
OAuth which is a privacy controlling open web authentication standard, has been adopted by Google for its widget platform Google Gadgets. OAuth provides a way for users to authenticate a website on which their personal information is stored so that they can share the data on other website or widget. According to Google’s senior product manager for security, Eric Sachs:
TorchMobile, a recently launched startup, today introduced IRIS, the mobile browser, in beta version. While only available for Windows Mobile phones 5+ platform, the company aims to get feedback from beta testers and then, sell the robust version to the manufacturers to release it preinstalled.
Coming to what it has got, I can surely say that it has a lot of common features such as search, various rendering views, zoom, bookmarking, a mouse, find in page, image capture, and tabs, similar to what we already see in Opera Mobile, Skyfire, and Mozilla’s mobile Firefox alpha, Fennec.
