Google has opened its application hosting platform, Google App Engine, for all.  Now, anyone can build a web application with the in-built Python IDE and deploy applications on Google’s own infrastructure which is highly scalable and reliable.  When Google App Engine was launched, I had written a detailed post on what you need to know [...]

Google Data API team has announced the support for Contact Groups and Contact Photos in the new Google Contacts API.
With Contact Groups functionality, web applications will be able to offer grouping the contacts, access to Google Contact groups, and the basic CRUD operations on contact groups.
The Contact Photos feature will allow for accessing, editing, and [...]

Did you know that you can use Word 2007 as your offline blog editor?  If not, then read on to find out how.
If you have a blog hosted on Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft SharePoint Services, Google Blogger, WordPress, TypePad or Community Server, you can start blogging using Word 2007 almost immediately.  If you have a [...]

I must admit that I am not a big fan of Live Search but this time Microsoft has made some changes in the Live Search for videos which gives it an edge over others.
You can now search for videos and then filter the search results on the basis of duration as well as sort the [...]

I decided to write this post, even if it looks unrelated to this blog, to share some of the aspects of hiring practices followed by Indian companies as well as the multinational companies operating in India.  Companies should respect potential new hires and value their time, effort and monetary contribution involved in the entire process [...]

Every business, be it small business or medium and large enterprise, needs revenue and sales function is the revenue generating engine.  That is why sales team becomes a crucial component of any organization and sales a crucial activity.  To sell your product or service to a potential customer, more so for a startup, you need [...]

Spinvision.TV lets you create a video playlist and watch YouTube videos from around the world on a 3D earth model.  The site is sponsored by flickrvision which lets you see flickr photos on a 3D earth or world map as and when the photos are uploaded.

Spinvision’s user interface is nicely built and very easy to [...]

PublisherSpot is a place that you should check before deciding on any advertising network for monetizing your blog or website.  The site has information, reviews and rating for various ad networks which includes CPC, CPM and affiliate networks.

PublisherSpot provides comprehensive information about the ad networks which includes:
Features

Sign up process
Ad Types
Control Panel and [...]

Hop-on has launched a new ultra-affordable mobile phone, Hop 1800, priced at $10 only.  The Hop 1800 is available in the United States and works with over 40 wireless carriers including Hop-on’s own wireless service.  The phone also works across Asia and Europe on GSM networks.
The Hop 1800 is a GSM phone which only does [...]

Faviki is another entrant in the semantic tagging space which lets you tag your saved web pages with semantic information from Wikipedia.  The idea behind Faviki is that all people should be able to use same tags to identify any web page.
Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which lets you save web pages and suggests [...]