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In response to Michael Arrington’s post at Techcrunch about the exclusivity of certain walled communities, Bernard Lunn of Read/Write Web is arguing that such an exclusivity is needed to establish the trust. I completely disagree with Bernard that you need a gated community to establish trust. You don’t have to be exclusive to have a [...]

There is a meme going on after Noam Cohen wrote an article on NY Times highlighting some of the moral claims about online advertising. I don’t buy the moral claims about ad blocking software like Adblock Plus. I am not against online advertising. I do understand that it is one of the major reasons why [...]

Zoho, the most active Web 2.0 company around, is considered as a direct competitor to Google for quite some time now. Today, Zoho will announce Zoho Business at Office 2.0 conference. Essentially, they are categorizing their services into Zoho Personal and Zoho Business. Zoho Personal is same as their current offerings. It includes all [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When Jason Calacanis took hold of Netscape, he tried to rope in top users of Digg by offering them paycheck for jumping over to Netscape. This time, with Mahalo, he is not doing anything blatant. He is trying to woo users by offering them a Mahalo browser sidebar, where the users can compare their search [...]

Microsoft is going to offer web based office applications. Microsoft, a strong leader in the traditional office space, was not talking about their plans in the web based office space. Their silence allowed companies like Google, Zoho, Thinkfree, etc. to get a very good market share in this space. In fact, the success of Google [...]