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Google launched Google Sites yesterday after a long 16 month wait. After acquiring the promising startup, Jotspot, Google went into a long hiatus with rumors of impending launch coming out in regular intervals. Finally, Google released it as a part of Google Apps Suite yesterday night. My first reaction to the release was one of [...]

Off late, the name Yahoo appears synonymous with depression and whatever can go wrong with a company. The top level reshuffling didn’t have the much needed impact and there are rumors (expectations?) about impending job cuts. If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I would be deeply frustrated with what is happening in the company. [...]

The big news today is the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems. This is significant in many ways but I am excited that this deal debunks the myth that there is no big money in open source software. Sun has paid $1Billion for MySQL and it clearly shows how valuable MySQL is to the future [...]

Deepak’s post on Information as a Service got me thinking. The discussion about Twitter’s business model (or lack of it) and the standoff between facebook and Robert Scoble made me dig deeper. These events and the nature of business in the Web 2.0 era raises a very important question, which I would like to call [...]

Recently, facebook launched a new ad program called Facebook Beacon, with much fanfare. First, it failed to elicit the expected positive response from the media. Then immediately after the launch, the tech blogosphere was full of news about how Facebook Beacon is intruding into user’s privacy and a way to block it in Firefox. Since [...]

Al Gore and the UN Climate change panel has won Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations to them. This is significant because their efforts had gone a long way in creating the awareness among the masses regarding global warming and its dangerous impact on the earth. Mr. Gore has been the part of this campaign from the [...]

Ever since facebook opened up its application platform, the blogosphere is full of hype paralleled only by the hype during dot com boom days. The hype these days is almost at the delusional levels, with valuations going to 100 billions. I am not an anti-facebook person. I use it extensively. As Robert Scoble [...]

Here is the press release by OAuth working group
The OAuth Working Group is pleased to announce publication of the Final Draft of the OAuth Core 1.0 Specification. OAuth (pronounced “Oh-Auth”), summarized as “your valet key for the web,” enables developers of web-enabled software to integrate with web services on behalf of a user without requiring [...]

The office 2.0 space got crowded today with the news about Microsoft’s online office suite and Adobe’s acquisition of Buzzword and its release of Adobe Share. Techmeme is buzzing along with the news from Adobe and Microsoft. The online office space is pretty crowded now and it bodes well for consumers as competition drives innovation. [...]

TechBizMedia and others have reported about Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra, the open source enterprise messaging company. Zimbra has made collaboration easier with their suite containing email, contacts, shared calendar, VOIP, online document authoring, etc. Zimbra already boasts of powerful clients like Comcast, educational institutions, etc. Yahoo has already teamed up with IBM to develop an [...]