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(Cross posted from my other blog)
My favorite company these days, Lijit, has a new feature. They actually scooped me on this by announcing the Blog Explorer on their blog while I was driving back from work. Earlier today, I noticed a new button at the bottom of my Lijit Wijit, and sure [...]

(A slightly different version was posted on my other blog)

One of the key features of today’s web, especially when it comes to audio and video is being able to use the distribution power of the internet as a viral means of spreading media. The Splashcast player is an embeddable Flash-based player that can be [...]

Zoho Writer, online equivalent of Microsoft Word from Zoho Inc., has just added offline functionality to its feature set. They have used Google Gears to implement this functionality. You can watch this video about the new offline functionality in Zoho Writer. With this feature, you can store your Zoho documents for offline working and get [...]

More than a week back, Google decided to shut down the web rentals and sales of Google Video. Google also announced that it will compensate the customers who will no longer be able to watch their purchased videos. This announcement kick started a huge backlash against Google. Today, Bindu Reddy, Google Video Product Manager, made [...]

Adobe fights back against Microsoft in the online video market with the support for H.264 video codec on its Flash Player. H.264 format will offer a HD quality video and it is based on open standards. The update will also support a superior AAC audio codec. Microsoft recently announced Microsoft Silverlight, a cross browser, cross [...]

We saw a major Skype outage that kept consumers without an important communication tool for more than 24 hours. The blogosphere had its own reaction to this outage. There were rumors about Russian hackers compromising the Skype service, which was promptly denied by Skype. This outage definitely brings into focus the question about whether VOIP [...]

Paul Kedrosky points to a Financial Times piece on bloggers and niche job boards. A niche job board was something that I first saw by way of 37signals, but very soon a number of influential bloggers had started their own job boards with the help of companies like SimplyHired and JobThread.

Skype’s long outage is creating waves in the internet. Even the stocks of Ebay has taken a hit, though it is not clear if it is directly related to Skype’s problems. This raises a very important question regarding viability of Skype to replace your business phone line. I do agree that even the traditional phone [...]

I have blogged frequently about Lijit on my life science blog. Lijit is a Colorado based company and recently raised a round of funding. Recently I got a chance to meet Stan James, the CTO of Lijit, and Andy Stanberry, the UI guru at the company, at Gnomedex where we got a chance [...]

At Gnomedex, Gregg Spiridellis, the “Jib” in JibJab talked about how JibJab has evolved from a low volume, high risk content creation company, to a platform that enables the long tail of content creation and distribution. They recently launched Starring You, which allows users to create their own content on top of storylines/shorts created [...]