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For over a month, I have been sitting on a post about people search, wondering how to tie some of those thoughts together. The news that Facebook was going to open up itself up to search (see Techmeme discussion) makes me glad I waited, although the following has only passing resemblance to the original [...]

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 [...]

From Jeff Barr’s Twitter Stream, I found out about The Start-Up Project. The Start-Up Project is a set of half-day events that Amazon is hosting in several cities to showcase how the suite of web services that the company offers can help get companies get off the ground.

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]