My software company Shapia Software has come up with a cool new Social Networking site called as linkpetals. It has practically every feature that you can think of! Just go to http://www.linkpetals.com/join_us.php and sign up for free. And enjoy the feeling of being linked…. To the rest of the world. And do forward the link to all of your friends and contacts…. Enjoy!
It has some of the coolest features down the planet like games, custom profiles, albums, chat, shop, polls, rating, mailbox, blog, bookmarks, forum, groups, events, classifieds, journal, videos, music, instant messenger and lots more.
Google has done it yet again. Google is challenging Microsoft’s dominance in the web browser market, by launching a free web browser named as Chrome. Google launched this new browser on Tuesday ( 02-Sep-2008 ), opening a yet another challenge which is going to revolutionize the way people access internet worldwide. Google is known for its competitive and innovative offerings on internet based technology.
Chrome browser is an universal gateway to the internet, providing access to not only internet applications, but also cell phones and other mobile devices, hence widening the utility of web and web advertising. With Chrome not widely available for public, this now widens the rivalry between Microsoft and Google, and marks a paradigm shift from Google, which has had earlier backed the open source browser Mozilla Firefox.
The biggest ever technology acquisition is on the fray. Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company has made an audacious offer of $44 billion to buy out Yahoo. Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo at a share price of $31, which is at a premium of 62%. The marriage between Microsoft and Yahoo is to counter Google’s dominance in the online advertising market.
Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of “Hotmail” has launched the first free conference service in India – Sabsebolo . Sabeer Bhatia was declared “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 1997, and was also named by Time magazine as one of the “People to Watch” for, Sabeer Bhatia came up with this idea of launching a free conference service, when he was trying to conference people from 3 different cities in India. He found the conferencing to be very expensive, and saw this problem as an opportunity.
Here is a quote from Oreilly, ” Web 2.0 is an attitude, not a technology”. This speaks all about the idea behind web 2.0 ventures. Let us first of all try to look at different web 2.0 ventures that are available in the market today. Some of them are based on - Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, Rich Interactive media, Blogging, Podcast etc. Major crux of web 2.0 websites are that it is community oriented. The main reason for success of web 2.0 sites has been that it has empowered users to express themselves. It is an innate behavior in human beings to showcase their ideas, thoughts and concepts to everyone. Web 2.0 sites have made maximum utilization of this need in everyone, and hence explains the success. Any and every business can be a success if it can satisfy some deep human urge and need.
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