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Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-64186591685741326412009-07-08T17:32:00.001+05:302020-06-30T03:10:29.220+05:30S. Africa - Land of OpportunityS. Africa is considered the fourth fastest-growing mobile communications market in the world. It has witnessed a huge success in the adoption of mobile communications, and also in the acceptance and growth of mobile advertising. The secret behind this tremendous success lies in the inherent behaviour or the market, including social and economic factors.<br />If we examine the success of S. Africa closely, some interesting facts emerge. Firstly, mobile penetration in S. Africa outnumbers PC penetration by a ratio of 2:1. Credit has to also go to S. Africa’s highly progressive user base, which has adopted the mobile Internet in a huge way. Mobile data usage is encouraged by the competitive operator market, which provides low-cost Internet access. In fact, S. Africa recently witnessed a whopping 90% cut in data charges, with the average now standing at approximately 2 Rand/MB (£0.16). In all, the favourable ecosystem, working in tandem with the competitive market, provides the right environment for the growth of mobile advertising.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Market insights</span><br />This market has shown some unique trends that create a good mobile advertising opportunity for publishers and advertisers. The number of publishers in S. Africa is significantly lower than the number of advertisers. The reason for this boils down to a simple supply and demand phenomenon. The user base in S. Africa is more inclined towards international sites rather than local sites. Over time, seeing the successful adoption by users, the number of local advertisers began to grow at a fast pace. The increase in the number of international publishers was much slower. This resulted in a large number of advertisers compared to the number of publishers, creating a high demand for publishers in the market. The outcome of this is high cost-per-click (CPC), giving publishers opportunities to generate high ad revenues.<br />At mKhoj, we strongly believe that in S. Africa, publishers stand to gain from the advantages of early adoption, such as lower competition. We have seen our partners have a great experience wiuth their mobile advertising campaigns, due to the high monetization capabilities of the S. African market.<br />From an advertiser standpoint, though the industry standards demand a high CPC, the customer usage helps to maintain the profitability levels and justify the investment. The user base is very content download-friendly. In fact, in the month of May, 85% of our network traffic from S. Africa was driven by content downloads.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Useful services</span><br />We believe that the services that are valuable to S. African mobile users will be the ones that are useful, simple, uncomplicated and easy to use. They will make users’ lives easier, or give them access to services that were previously unavailable or too expensive.<br />Over the past couple of months, the mKhoj network has seen a tremendous growth in mobile Internet traffic in S. Africa. Mobile advertising in S. Africa is being demystified. The time for advertisers, agencies and publishers to capitalize is here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2009/07/s-africa-land-of-opportunity-.html">Main Article on Mobile Marketing Magazine</a>
Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-19468674775826880422009-06-08T11:51:00.001+05:302009-06-08T11:53:15.855+05:30What Are The Most Popular Downloads For Mobile Phones?Guest Post By Hemant Kumar<br /><br />We have seen ringtones and wallpapers being the favourite downloadable content so far, but slowly this favouritism is accommodating other contents as well. The reason for this is manifold. Firstly, the handset capabilities are improving continuously. For e.g. most phones now are video enabled and users can download and watch videos, the ringtones have moved from simple monotone to the much preferred polyphonic ringtones. Phones are being dubbed as walkmans causing phones to range from cellular devices to music players. Secondly, the data charges are dropping while the mobile internet speed is increasing. These reasons provide a suitable environment for content downloads.<br /><br />If on one hand we have the suitable environment aiding the content download industry, on the other hand we have the behaviour of the mobile users itself which is accelerating the growth. Mobile is moving from being a just a communication device to a mode of entertainment. Think of how mobile phones are used by people nowadays. Phones are extremely personal devices and people carry it on them all the time. They levels of engagement is also high where people are hooked to their phones. You can see people use it on a bus or train, while walking, in restaurants, parks, whether they are by themselves or with someone. In fact, it may be one of the devices which is considered as private as a person’s journal and you tend not to allow anyone else use your phone. Given this, people like to personalize their phones and make it depict their tastes and preferences with ringtones, ringback tones, wallpapers etc. Users like to stay updated to the latest trends like ringtones of songs topping the charts, wall papers of the latest movies, latest versions of games etc. This results in a constant need for new content as the demand is consistently high.<br /><br />mKhoj, a leading ad network, were asked to categorize the contents downloaded in their network. Games, ringtones and wallpapers occupied the top 3 spots in terms of traffic. The gaming industry has always enjoyed a high demand and now users can play while on the move. This is the dream come true for any gamer. The user experience of the games are also constantly increasing with better graphics, more challenging games, games on the latest trends and of course multiplayer games that can be played via Bluetooth or internet. mKhoj experts also pointed out that ringtones and wallpapers are the best means to have your signature on the phone making the content download industry hit the ceiling.<br /><br />The top 5 downloaded contents are:<br /><br /> 1. Games<br /> 2. Ringtones<br /> 3. Wallpapers<br /> 4. Themes<br /> 5. Videos<br /><br />Other than these major players, the other preferred content downloads are:<br /># Texts (jokes, horoscopes)<br /># Entertainment applications (IM, community applications, music players)<br /># Business applications (antivirus, pdf viewer etc)<br /># Maps<br /># RSS feeds<br /><br />This story is available on <a href="http://telecompk.net/2009/06/06/most-popular-downloads-mobile-phones/">telecompk</a>.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-48594725023627176102009-06-08T11:43:00.001+05:302009-06-08T11:50:26.166+05:30Focus on IndonesiaIndonesia has been in the mobile advertising limelight in the recent past. The wireless user base in Indonesia recently crossed the 100 million subscriber mark, and is expected to grow to 146 million by the end of 2010. With this growth, Indonesia is set to become the third largest mobile market, after China and India. Insights into the region show that the demographics of Indonesia is a key contributor to mobile’s strong uptake in the region. Young people below the age of 27, who form over 72% of the population, have shown a high affinity towards the web, and are driving the bulk of the mobile web usage in this country.<br />Accelerating the growing success of mobile web is the poor quality of fixed line infrastructure, which is either unreliable, or completely non-existent in places. The mobile Internet forms the obvious surrogate, providing stable connectivity, at extremely cost effective prices. The operators in Indonesia are getting more competitive by the day and the data prices are dropping. In Indonesia, an average user browses 358 pages per month, well above the global average. Understandably, a vast majority of people are choosing mobile phones as the obvious choice for connectivity, and in many cases the mobile is exposing users to the internet for the first time.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Preferred medium</span><br />Indonesia ranks second in terms of Mkhoj’s network traffic, and has seen growth of 62% in the last quarter alone. In Indonesia, communities and content downloads form the top two traffic segments. It is only natural that mobile forms a preferred advertising medium in economies like Indonesia. The key is in educating our advertiser partners to the nuances of the region. Big players in the mobile industry have already taken to mobile marketing in this region. Indonesia has seen several successful campaigns, with various advertisers and publishers, who have enjoyed high ROI and monetization with the help of ad networks like us.<br />These days, mobile advertising is synonymous with emerging markets like Indonesia. The Indonesian government is also aiding this growth by giving incentives to foreign investors. The government is shifting its focus from larger cities to suburban areas and small towns by earmarking a part of the yearly revenues for the growth of rural areas. The sheer number of users, and the revenues being generated, confirm that mobile advertising is set to shift gears and zoom forward.<br /><br />This story is available on mobilmarketingmagazine <a href="http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk/2009/05/mobile-advertising-a-peek-into-indonesiahemant-kumar-asst-manager-online-marketing-and-advertising-sales-at-mkhoj-offer.html">here</a>Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-38730384942764425972009-04-15T22:03:00.000+05:302009-04-15T22:08:28.642+05:30The Indian OpportunityHemant Kumar, Asst Manager Online Marketing and Advertising Sales at Mkhoj, offers an overview of the Indian mobile market.<br /><br />Early in 2008, India overtook the US as the second largest mobile population in the world. The number of mobile users in India recently passed 362 million, more than five times that of the UK. Adding roughly 10 million new subscribers a month, it does seem that the Indian mobile market has become one of the world’s most lucrative, both in terms of its growth rate and overall size.<br /><br />There are some key reasons why the mobile Internet phenomenon is likely to be more sustainable than the Internet revolution in India. Firstly, mobile presents a lower barrier to entry. A wired web connection is far more onerous, with the cost of the PC, as well as high monthly usage charges. In addition, the mobile Internet, as the name suggests, provides true mobility. Finally, 70% of India’s 1 billion people are below the age of 30. So while mobile Internet connectivity speeds may be nothing to write home about, for most consumers, their first Internet experience is through the mobile.<br /><br />A report from India’s telecom authority, TRAI, seems to confirm this hypothesis. It reported an increase of over 100% in a 12 month period. We at mKhoj, as the leading mobile ad network for Asia and Africa have seen growth of more than 90% in our India traffic just over the past quarter.<br /><br />As our CEO, Naveen Tewari, put it recently:<br />“It is only natural that mobile be a preferred advertising medium in economies like India. The reach is tremendous, targeting cuts down spillage and you have an instant call to action. We have delivered very successful campaigns to some of the biggest Indian and International brands. The key is education and nurturing our advertiser partners. For a lot of clients this is their first mobile campaign or the first attempt in this geography.”<br /><br />Demand for wireless Internet access is likely to continue to skyrocket. The Indian Cellular Association expects 200 million people to log on to the Internet with their mobile phones by 2010. Even a couple of minutes a day multiplied by that many people spells swelling coffers for handset makers and mobile carriers targeting the Indian market, and greater opportunities for market innovators.<br /><br />This story is available on mobilmarketingmagazine <a href="http://www.mobilmarketingmagazine.com">here</a>.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-9545419226582390772009-03-03T22:09:00.001+05:302009-03-03T22:15:34.009+05:30Amazing Mashups:- A new Browising ExperieceHere is the Demo..From Mozilla<br /><br />Ubiquity allows translating, Google mapping, twittering, flickering, tinyURL, bookmarking etc in a way which is refreshingly simple and easy to use and understand.<br /><br /><object width="400" height="298"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1561578&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1561578&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="298"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1561578">Ubiquity for Firefox</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user532161">Aza Raskin</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-39259757703189678162009-02-14T23:52:00.005+05:302009-02-15T00:22:06.537+05:30Imminence of mobile advertising<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/SZcRNSDSaiI/AAAAAAAADFA/laeHDv6pwqk/s1600-h/Mobile+Advertising.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 284px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/SZcRNSDSaiI/AAAAAAAADFA/laeHDv6pwqk/s320/Mobile+Advertising.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302726006133647906" /></a><br />The manoeuvre of presenting any product or service offered by a particular company to its potential target consumers to purchase the same is referred to as Advertisement.<br />This can be done via various mediums which are: television, Radio, Cinema, magazines, Newspapers, Bill Boards, video games, Internet etc…<br />Every company communicates about its products and services to captivate the potential consumers.<br /><br />Even the archaeologists have found the traces of rock art, from the ancient civilizations of 4000 BC through which the then sellers, used to publicize their products.<br />Images associated with the trade were used to deliver the message of the product or service. With the advancement of Education, newspapers came and created zeal of advertising on them which are being used till now. But the intensity has reduced.<br />19th century brought with itself the growth in economy along with which Radio as a wonderful communication medium came into existence. Companies sponsor various programs to enthral the audiences for their branding and delivering their message.<br />In 1980s Television with its cable network created its footprints and acted as a staggering modus operandi.<br />Internet marketing boomed in 1990s and is still acting as one of the most lucrative and thriving way to woo the target audiences by the advertisers.<br /> The avant-garde fad is of Mobile Advertising which is pioneering all the mediums amongst the advertisers, and has already become a chronicle even before its full start.<br /> The advertisement via mobile devices is referred to as Mobile advertisement.<br />With the patronage of technology advancing every moment, mobile devices are creating rage in the society. Carrying an attractive mobile device has become the media magnet amongst the masses which is congruently rooting for the advertisers for their promotional endeavour.<br />The type is even dominating the online advertising because of the wide reach of mobile phones of approximately 4 billion in 2008 in comparison of desktops and laptops as a whole of around 800 million only. Some stupendous results from the scrutiny shows that, Mobile phones are not only popular amongst the urbanized people but the rural comrades too where even the computer are yet to step in.<br />Martin cooper, project manager with Motorola made the first portable device in 1973 which brought cellular phones, to talk, listen and dial in market in early 1990s. With its advancement mobile was upgraded on GSM standards by Elisa in Finland and came “short message service” popularly abbreviated as SMS, which became the inconspicuous two way communication. This caught advertiser’s attention to present their offers directly in front of their target group due to its quality features of fast delivery, lucrative cost, steadfast delivery and region sensitivity.<br />The immaculate diverse styles of mobile advertising include:<br /><br />* Mobile Web Banner- The banner space can be utilized to communicate the brand offer of an advertiser due to its presence on the top of the page.<br />* Mobile Web Poster- This kind of banner enjoys the place at the bottom of the page and allures the user with its animating message.<br />* SMS advertising- It rules all types mentioned due to its plausible quality features.<br />* MMS advertising- The higher form of SMS, multimedia message service which involves the animation of images, text, audio and video is also an ultimate medium to present your products and services.<br />* Advertising within mobile games and videos- The type came into existence because of the emergence of interactive 3D games, social networking games and massive multiplayer games. This generated the concept of sponsoring a game or delivering promotional messages within the game which is referred to as Advergaming.<br />* Advertisement during mobile TV receipt.<br />* Full screen ad while requesting mobile content or when a web page is loading.<br />* Audio adverts- jingle from voicemail recordings.<br /><br />The efficacy of mobile ad campaign can be gauged on variety of ways like the number of ad impressions or units served, click through rate i.e. the ratio of clicks happened to the ad units displayed, conversion ratio like click to call rates and various other interactive measurement tools.<br />The paradigm is approbating amongst the advertisers to acquaint their products and services, as the masses are getting well versed with the fashion of upgraded mobile phones for the usage sake and personality sake too.<br /><br />Upasna Malhotra at her <a href="http://upasna.shareurworld.com/headline/imminence-of-mobile-advertising">blog</a><br /><br />10 February 2009Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-18403645830979582812008-08-25T17:23:00.001+05:302008-08-25T17:23:18.645+05:30Heard of Tell-a-Friend from SocialTwist?<p>I am posting this using a new service called Tell-a-Friend from <a href="http://www.socialtwist.com">SocialTwist</a>. This service lets me announce about a site or a blog to my friends using Email, IM, Blogs and Social Networks. It can be used to spread the word about search engines results or interesting product offers, blog posts, etc.</p><p>This is so different from other such services because:</p><ul><li>Users can reach out to friends across social networks</li><li>Simpler and faster means to spread the word</li><li>Default context-rich message which can be personalized</li><li>Wide range of buttons and widget themes</li><li>No sign up, risk-free option</li><li>No need to copy-paste widget for every change of widget configuration </li><li>Incisive analytics to measure spread</li></ul><p /><p>You can add it to your site or blog for free at: <a href="http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com:80/web/redirect.jsp?-615411335327384112021">tellafriend.socialtwist.com</a></p>Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-17375644911604567722008-03-13T19:16:00.006+05:302008-07-11T11:18:30.776+05:30Bebo valuation is less when compared to facebook acquisition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R9kxUbeMfdI/AAAAAAAABpI/RwTvTXqE5AU/s1600-h/bebo_acquaisition.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R9kxUbeMfdI/AAAAAAAABpI/RwTvTXqE5AU/s320/bebo_acquaisition.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177223473680645586" /></a><br />Bebo, A famous biggest social networking website in Britain, the Irish Republic and New Zealand is in process to be sold.<br /><br />Current valuation of the third biggest social networking site (bebo) in the US is $850m.<br /><br />The Price is less when compared with the valuations of similar websites. Facebook 1.6% of stake is being sold for $240m, News corp brought Myspace for $580m but now estimates for worth more than $15bn. <br /><br /><br />HemantHemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com95tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-89236847935689229002008-03-12T21:34:00.011+05:302008-03-12T21:48:39.850+05:30Yahoo OpenSocial Alliance?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R9gCTLeMfcI/AAAAAAAABpA/-ObBsU8Ncqw/s1600-h/opensocial.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R9gCTLeMfcI/AAAAAAAABpA/-ObBsU8Ncqw/s320/opensocial.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176890300182592962" /></a><br />New alliance is hot in the OpenSocial world. Google, Friendster, hi5, imeem, Linkedin, Dekoh, Myspace, Ning, Oracle, Orkut, Plaxo, SalessForce, Six Apart, Xing and many others on a GoogleOpen Social board. Yahoo is considering Google’s OpenSocial alliance, which would be the big throttle that will bring a tool and service which work across many web platforms. Everyone is there in the OpenSocial team, except Facebook, whose founder have some issues regarding secretive and cryptic.<br /><br />Mildly positive comment on these rumors by Yahoo’s “yahoo has a rich history of supporting open standards, as they believe industry collaboration is beneficial to the developer community and the web as a whole, while they are evaluating OpenSocial as an emerging standard, they do not comment on speculation or rumors<br /><br />Facebok will make there own life difficult by acting against the wishes of others, it will take them so far, at the end they will probably have to announce there support here.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-82003796693219122572008-02-14T11:51:00.005+05:302008-02-14T12:35:33.518+05:30Android Mobile Mob2.0!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R7PfKPJLc8I/AAAAAAAABnQ/CZ4NgB8G_lQ/s1600-h/android_robot.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R7PfKPJLc8I/AAAAAAAABnQ/CZ4NgB8G_lQ/s320/android_robot.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166718564480807874" /></a><br />Google released a new Android Mobile open development platform.<br />Waiting for cool updates.<br />Wana name this generation Mob2.0 <br />Mobile of next generation.<br /><br />Though the telephone package has not been updated yet.<br />In November google launched Android along with the open handset Alliance. Handset, chip makers have said they are planning to support Android products and services.<br /><br />Product are due out later this year.<br /><br />JoyHemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-54730909176077165662007-11-22T13:08:00.003+05:302008-02-19T16:38:46.835+05:30Googler’s nabbed by facebook….<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R0UzGlN7SVI/AAAAAAAAAH4/PPckKRx_9D0/s1600-h/google_facebook.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R0UzGlN7SVI/AAAAAAAAAH4/PPckKRx_9D0/s320/google_facebook.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135567138248673618" border="0" /></a><br />Will Facebook UI gets better than ever…?<br /><br />As TechCrunch Reports, facebook is capturing the google employees.<br />Facebook is allegedly grabbing google employees. How and why? Because google become calm, and crossed his <span style="font-weight: bold;">halfway of his age</span>, while facebook have a cool offers for goolge employees.<br /><br />According to sources, good number of top performers have made the switch over the last two months. Googler’s expect to continue seeing at least two to four more leave for facebook each month. Know facebook is targeting <span style="font-weight: bold;">skim of the team</span>. Many of the googler’s are leaving, or being actively recruited.<br /><br />A steady stream of google employees are making the switch to facebook, and competition for top college graduate is fierce as well. Facebook just seems to have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">hell of a lot “sexier” offer than Google</span>.<br /><br />Good, Maybe facebook will get a face lift and get a better. If only for the face lift, facebook is grabbing googler’s ..it seems to making competition with google. If face lift is the only reason then here is a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://ux.pramati.com/">good UI</a></span> company.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ux.pramati.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R0U09FN7SXI/AAAAAAAAAII/VU6c7IVW8sk/s320/uitlogo.gif" alt="user experience, user interaction technology" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135569174063171954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> "For Facebook and Google reference </span><br /></div><br />Anyhow, by these competition employee are getting a hell lot <span style="font-weight: bold;">sexier</span> then ever…cross the finger…and pray for this competition.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-5238152402399583762007-11-19T11:26:00.000+05:302007-11-19T11:36:18.791+05:30Flickr by place<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R0El41N7SUI/AAAAAAAAAHw/kDPaIrEY1QM/s1600-h/place.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/R0El41N7SUI/AAAAAAAAAHw/kDPaIrEY1QM/s320/place.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134426708467468610" /></a><br />You can find a new way to browse the worlds happening.<br /><br />Flickr, Yhaoo Inc’s online photo-sharing site, introducing a set of mapping features, this week, that makes it easier to find photo based on their location.<br /><br />“Places” the new service identify latest hot-spots on global map for photo contribution.<br /><br />Flicker is going to start on Monday his new service “places” where web user can browse photos from millions of geographically located photos on the site www.flickr.com.<br /><br />Web user can now search photo that might interest them, by more than 100,000 geographical places names. More of the countries, city and regions have their own featured pages.<br /><br />User can click on a category tag, that will take them to selection of photo, giving them a glance of other flicker users what they find interesting on that tag.<br /><br />Now the site will give more local appeal to users, as well as attract prospective travelers seeking to get beyond photos of landmark for places they plan to visit<br /><br />Flickr is increasing new location pages per week. <br />Places will be available in the eight languages that flickr now offers—English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese.<br /><br />Ref:<a href="http://ca.today.reuters.com">Reuters</a>Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-48377847919904522432007-10-25T12:20:00.000+05:302007-10-25T12:51:14.057+05:30Skyrocketing value of online communities<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/RyBDPp_GnsI/AAAAAAAAAHg/anHyOXbtW94/s1600-h/social_networking_sites.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/RyBDPp_GnsI/AAAAAAAAAHg/anHyOXbtW94/s320/social_networking_sites.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125170312195251906" /></a><br />It’s surprising about <span style="font-weight:bold;">Microsoft corp’s</span> investment in <span style="font-weight:bold;">Facebook Inc.</span> - <span style="font-weight:bold;">$15 billion</span> for 3 ½ year old internet hangout, or the rare shun of online leader Google Inc.<br /><br />Microsoft paid $240 million price for 1.6% stake in Facebook. This clear the view, world largest software maker, crudely wanted to deepen its relationship with a startup that didn’t have $200 million in annual revenue.<br /><br />By stamping the deal, Microsoft had loosed previous high-stake biding battles to taking stake in AOL, internet ad service DoubleClick Inc, and taking the ownership of online video sharing pioneer YouTube. Microsoft finally cooked-up Google by taking the stake of Facebook Inc.<br /><br />Microsoft’s investment, increase the value of online communities like Facebook, Orkut – a place where people look for dates, share music videos and photos, connect with family and friends.<br /><br />News corp. in 2005 paid $580 million for outright ownership of <span style="font-weight:bold;">MySpace.com</span>. Microsoft established the current market value of Facebook to $15 billion, by his investment in the same.<br /><br />Although Myspace remains the largest social network, while there is so many social site for different activity, like <a href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a> (community-based popularity website), <a href="http://www.del.icio.us">delicious</a> (social bookmarking), <a href="http://www.dekoh.com">Dekoh</a> (<a href="http://www.dekoh.com/photos/index.html">Sharing photo</a>, <a href="http://www.dekoh.com/music/index.html">music</a>, books etc direct from there desktop without uploading), <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flicker</a> (photo sharing), <a href="http://www.orkut.com">Orkut</a> (social interacting website) and many more…. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/RyBAt5_GnqI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/gGXg5sKbOrs/s1600-h/dekoh-o.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/RyBAt5_GnqI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/gGXg5sKbOrs/s320/dekoh-o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125167533351411362" /></a><br />Google’s current social network (Orkut) has seen relatively good success on the globe. <br /><br />32 year old company Microsoft becoming more internet savvy by his successful courtship of Facebook.Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-75660356607371466332007-10-23T12:42:00.000+05:302007-10-23T13:08:34.983+05:30Test your sanity against online players...MySpace (social networking website)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/Rx2jgZbTC5I/AAAAAAAAAG4/rLfOMzSsk5I/s1600-h/serenity.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-K20QpKjrAE/Rx2jgZbTC5I/AAAAAAAAAG4/rLfOMzSsk5I/s320/serenity.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124431727994014610" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">MySpace Games</span> is expected to launch in 2008, the companies said.<br /><br />Privately held Oberon Media was founded in 2003 and backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Oak Investment Partners and Lehman Brothers.<br />MySpace games is expected to launch in 2008.<br /><br />MySpace formed a partnership with Oberon Media to create a new gaming channel on the website. Oberon Media is privately held company founded in 2003, backed by Golman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Oak investment partners.<br /><br />Users can choose their favorite games from list of games and can add them to their WebPages.<br /><br />Ref:<a href="www.reuters.com">reuters</a>Hemant Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325712924957989621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-68646404065798959652007-07-05T18:21:00.000+05:302007-07-05T19:21:34.893+05:30Free Calls!!.<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gm06mVz9V94"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gm06mVz9V94" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Well getting her number is definitely a big deal but her 'Jaxtr id', could be an easy one. Since their Public Launch the traffic is soring new heights every day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/Rozty8oewhI/AAAAAAAAAAc/tk6YdZP7_gE/s1600-h/jaxtr-traffic.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/Rozty8oewhI/AAAAAAAAAAc/tk6YdZP7_gE/s400/jaxtr-traffic.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083699538919604754" border="0" /></a><br />It is really late to write about Jaxtr and it features, so I would just let you watch this video :<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nRHe7BMms0k"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nRHe7BMms0k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />The interesting part about this is the traffic, though it has very recently <a href="http://jaxtr.blogspot.com/2007/06/india-china-russia-hong-kong-south.html">launched in India</a><br />but the most of the traffic comes from India around 32.7% of the complete traffic.<br /><br />I got the email about Jaxtr in the morning and I forwarded it to some 236 friends. I was chatting with few of them and I discovered that many of them had forwarded the invitation to their complete mailing lists.<br /><br />The motivation is simple free calls!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-36887710276616861492007-06-27T12:17:00.000+05:302007-06-27T13:00:15.430+05:30Facebook Users Vs Mayspace Users<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/RoIR9coewgI/AAAAAAAAAAU/plb0sB-lfZQ/s1600-h/myspace-facebook.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/RoIR9coewgI/AAAAAAAAAAU/plb0sB-lfZQ/s200/myspace-facebook.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080643076983013890" border="0" /></a><br />Ran across this really cool comparison between the users of Facebook and Myspace by <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/06/26/facebook-users-vs-myspace-users/"><span class="entry-time"><span class="author vcard"></span></span></a><a class="url fn n" title="View all posts by ">Adam Ostrow.</a> According which Facebook is a preferred place for good kids and Myspace for art fags, punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids. Well <a href="http://beyondwww.blogspot.com/">Beyondwww</a> would agree to that fact that Facebook is the fastest growing Social Networking site today with over 100,000 new registrations every day and would be the biggest very soon. It would be still early to conclude the comparison as Myspace is still the largest.<br /><br />Everybody has a beautiful MySpace page and all the pages in Facebook look the same. There are few more <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/06/26/facebook-users-vs-myspace-users/"></a><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/06/13/myspace-vs-facebook/">diffences</a> in which Myspace is ahead of Facebook, but 85% of the college crowd is in Facebook. So until we give some more time its difficult to categorize the users of both the Networking sites.<br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2007/06/26/facebook-users-vs-myspace-users/"><span class="entry-time"> </span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-16638016909082766632007-06-22T00:05:00.000+05:302007-06-26T10:23:31.155+05:30Google Gears Vs Adobe Apollo ??Overtly dramatic title, aye??? The whole world is talking about <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/">Adobe Integrated Runtime</a> (started the buzz as Apollo) and <a href="http://gears.google.com/">Google Gears</a>. So, why shouldn't we too talk about that. In one of the blogs written by Adobe employees I found an earnest but futile attempt to sell a product that no doubt has elegance and finesse but falls flat when it comes to value proposition it offers.<br /><br />I have nothing against Gears or AIR, they are working towards the same cause as we are but I still consider them as a different league altogether. They don't share the same philosophy and certainly not the same route to a common goal that we are all trying to achieve.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The Common Goal</span><br /><br />Suddenly there has been a sharp rise in offline applications, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application">RIA</a> platforms, AJAX, Web 2.0 etc. And thanks to Google and Adobe, people are taking it seriously. The common goal is to provide a desktop based Rich Internet Applications platform, that allows applications to run in offline mode and have the flexibility to sync-up when online.<br /><br />This would ensure a lot of end-user control on the applications making them more interactive and usable by the ever growing Internet user community. All the major players have acknowledged this sudden trend as an important and necessary step towards growing their market share and are fiercely competing to outrun their contemporaries.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Identifying the Best Way to this goal</span><br /><br />There is still a bit of a disarray as a standard has not yet been formed and all the players in the market wish (along with working hard on it) that their's becomes the <span style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span> standard. Who will win the race will be largely dependent on who comes out with a simple and yet robust idea, crosses the threshold visibility early enough and offers a value proposition that no one can deny being genuine.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6nPRzI2len0/RnrUUQAfziI/AAAAAAAAAAc/SZ6qkyKowws/s1600-h/adobe_air_225x50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6nPRzI2len0/RnrUUQAfziI/AAAAAAAAAAc/SZ6qkyKowws/s200/adobe_air_225x50.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078604974173179426" border="0" /></a><br />AIR talks about providing yet another runtime, after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Runtime_Environment">JRE </a>and .NET, to be installed on our machines and then to be maintained version after version after version. They are have ignored the importance of browser based application by writing it off as :<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">...runtime environment that allows you to use existing web technology for apps on the desktop is an obvious next step from building desktop like <strong>Ajax</strong> applications that seem to be awk</span><span style="font-size:85%;">wardly confined to a browser window. (<a href="http://rdews.com/?p=40">Ryan</a>)<br /></span></blockquote><br />Also, their focus remains strongly on making elegant UI simpler to create. But to what end are they pursuing this simplicity beats me. What makes an application worthy is its business proposition, functionality, ease of deployment and availability. These are the issues one has to focus even while providing a platform for end-users. Or a platform that focuses on making online stuff available offline. Both developers and end-users appreciate the need of having offline environments but how far is making classy UI building platforms going to help them. That is something I have strong doubts about.<br /><br />The only thing that they talk about which makes sense to me is using existing web technologies. Taking away the pain of going through an entirely new learning curve. Incorporating <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html">GWT</a> is also a wise decision and even using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex">Flex</a> can enhance the applications' look and feel but trying to belittle the importance of browser might become a cause to regret later. A hint at that is, Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Flash have both been plugged in to the browsers which enhanced their popularity.<br /><br /><br />Gears as of now, according to me, is playing it too easy and making things slightly more dicey. Even though a noble concept, it doesn't sound like a fully thought through one.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6nPRzI2len0/RnrUAgAfzhI/AAAAAAAAAAU/hrlXEINwHz0/s1600-h/gears_sm.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6nPRzI2len0/RnrUAgAfzhI/AAAAAAAAAAU/hrlXEINwHz0/s200/gears_sm.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078604634870763026" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The configuration has to be taken care of by the end-user or developer, a database support is required just to cache resources and provides no other flexibility. The entire sites would require to be re-written using gears <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">api</a> in order to be made available offline. There is no duplication, yet the decision for making content available offline has to be made at the time of designing the site and it certainly doesn't sound the best solution for making offline availability possible for websites.<br /><br />Gears is just a tool for creating applications.There is no platform as such that might take away the housekeeping pains and let the developers focus on just building applications. The framework sounds 'just ok'.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Road Ahead</span><br /><br />I would rank AIR much superior than Gears in terms of utility and flexibility. However, both of them have to understand that it's the end-user and then the developers who are governing the market today. You can't simply make things sell just because you are huge brand name. There has to be something special and long lasting to make it big on the popularity list.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-72853076667176979952007-06-20T13:03:00.000+05:302007-06-20T13:39:33.379+05:30Yahoo/4 = Myspace<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/RnjbeNNGw2I/AAAAAAAAAAM/ynmvLducnLA/s1600-h/yahoo.myspace.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 72px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cc1T8kswTCc/RnjbeNNGw2I/AAAAAAAAAAM/ynmvLducnLA/s400/yahoo.myspace.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078049891847422818" border="0" /></a>Wondering is it worth that much???<br />Well <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/myspace-yahoo/">Peter says</a> its a bad deal. Till some extend I also agree with the fact that they missed out on crucial buys like YouTube and FaceBook and Myspace might not be worth quarter of $ 37 billion. But it all depends what do they plan after that? May be Yahoo has a concept which needs Myspace collaboration. Any way its still a rumor so lets wait and watch!!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-27676833468391324262007-06-18T17:27:00.000+05:302007-06-18T17:35:04.207+05:30Top 10 Web OSs Reviewed!!Well the list is huge and you can see more things coming up in the comments section of the<a href="http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/06/16/another-10-web-operating-systems-reviewed/"> post</a>.<br />The review is definitely a valuable feedback to all the featured products and should help them improvise on their current Web OS venture. the question is how many of them take it seriously and get the required modifications and additions into the market before the others.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-18274874045040321382007-06-14T20:12:00.000+05:302007-06-14T20:22:50.774+05:30Win a trip for LIfe Time!!You saw the bus and the bar, now there is prize to win too!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adobe calls it the trip of a life time.</span><br /><br />Use the AIR beta software to build the most unique Adobe AIR application. Then enter it into the Adobe AIR developer derby for your chance to win a trip of a lifetime or other amazing prizes.<br /><br /><p><strong>Grand Prize / Best of Show</strong><br />The Best of Show winner will receive the trip of a lifetime, a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice!</p> <p><strong>Five category winners will each receive</strong> “The Ultimate Development Environment” to power your Adobe AIR development (and play) for years to come:</p> <ul><li>A Mac Pro 8Core with 4 gigs ram, 1.5 TB (2×75) of storage.</li><li>(2) Dell 2707WFP 27″ widescreen monitors.</li><li>(1) one Sony Playstation 3.</li><li>(1) $200 gift certificate to Amazon.com.</li><li>(1) Herman Miller Aeron chair.</li><li>(1) Bose Quiet Comfort 3 noise canceling headphones.</li><li>(1) copy of Adobe Flex™ Builder™ version 3, Macintosh edition.</li><li>(1) copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection for Macintosh.<br />And one squishy stress ball.</li></ul> <p><strong>Plus each winner also receives:<br /></strong>A trip and conference pass to the Adobe MAX 2007 annual user conference.<br />Your application showcased on Adobe.com for the world to see.<br /><strong>Contest open for following categories:</strong></p> <ul><li>Best Business Application</li><li>Best Community Application</li><li>Wild Card</li><li>Grand Prize / Best of Show</li></ul> <p>This Contest is open to individuals who are citizens or working or studying under a valid visa/permit in the 50 United States (including Washington D.C.), Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey.</p><br /><p><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/special/airderby/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The AIR Derby</span></a><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="return false;" tabindex="7"><span><---------Click me to know more<br /></span></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-72032068528887097932007-06-14T12:50:00.000+05:302007-06-14T15:15:13.168+05:30Adobe is not ( AIR)!!As the launch(Adobe Apollo-----> AIR) took off on 11th Monday, AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime) also announced the Bus tour for 18 different cities to make people aware of the things they might require in the near future. The Bus will be covering Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, LA, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, St Louis, Cincinnati, New York and few <a href="http://onair.adobe.com/index.php">more cities</a>.<br /><br />Well the bus looks some thing like this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1372/536118308_c2a44dbde3.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: centre; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1372/536118308_c2a44dbde3.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/536118282_db0b8c2313.jpg?v=0"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/536118282_db0b8c2313.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: centre; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/536118282_db0b8c2313.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The bus will be wrapped when it goes for the tour so thought of showing it in its initial stages.<br /><br />Now what happens when the bus reaches Portland?<br /><br />Well they hit <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kells Irish Pub(you want to see that as well)</span>:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://p.vtourist.com/2234008-BrewFood-Portland.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: centre; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://p.vtourist.com/2234008-BrewFood-Portland.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://p.vtourist.com/2850060-BrewFood-Portland.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: centre; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://p.vtourist.com/2850060-BrewFood-Portland.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Who all are invite? Anyone interested in learning more about the AIR.<br />What happens? A one night conference on Adobe AIR with technical sessions, showcases and discussion.<br /><br />How much to shell out ? Its free and very much open to you if you are in the city on 12th July, all you need is to register prior your visit.(Please go to Adobe's web site, I cant give you the link here ).<br />What to Bring? Yourself, laptop, any Flex, HTML and JavaScript apps you want to get running on Adobe AIR. They will provide the <span style="font-weight: bold;">beer, Red Bull, coffee, food, XBoxes, schwag, knowledge, venue and bits.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well I certainly think <a href="http://www.dekoh.com/">Dekoh</a> also has things building up at its end. Lets see what have they got to offer except for their incredible product?</span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-731361991923720992007-06-12T17:56:00.000+05:302007-06-14T12:29:33.497+05:30Adobe AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime)<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>The new name for <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo">Adobe Apollo</a> is now Adobe AIR(Adobe Integrated Runtime).</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Adobe is also announcing a beta version of the runtime, which will include Ajax and HTML support. This means developers can create an Apollo application entirely based on HTML, without using Flash at all.<br /><br />AIR would be releasing by the end of this year.<span id="_ctl5__ctl1_BodyText" style="color:Black;"></span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:black;">AIR and Flex 3 released on Monday.<br />First time Adobe is simultaneously releasing its programming model and runtime for building <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application">rich Internet applications (RIAs)</a> that can be run both on the Web and locally on the desktop.<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">AIR competes with other so-called Rich Internet Application runtimes, including Microsoft's new <a href="http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx">Silverlight</a> software and <a href="http://gears.google.com/">Google Gears</a> and the much talked <a href="http://www.dekoh.com/">Dekoh</a> which also supports other web technologies like JSP, Servlets on the desktop.</span><span style=""><br /></span><span style="">Dekoh addresses this hole which Adobe has left. <a href="http://www.dekoh.com/blog/news/entry/dekoh_beta_now_available_along1">Dekoh</a> is a social media platform on the desktop bringing web 2.0 functions like sharing, tagging, commenting, rating and RSS to the desktop.The second difference is Apollo applications run outside the browser, more like desktop applications where as dekoh runs inside the browser....<br /><br /><span>Apollo also announced a </span></span><span style="">bus tour in which Adobe will be traveling to 18 cities to perform demos and spread the word on the platform.</span><span style=""><br /></span><span style=""><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-79949722755311391742007-06-11T14:08:00.000+05:302007-06-11T15:02:45.786+05:30Music at your Office Desktop!!Before I say some thing more, few questions I you need to answer<br /><br /><ul><li>Can you take your iPod to the office?</li><li>Can you carry your camera phone which has an mp3 player?</li><li>Can you open <a href="http://www.raaga.com/">raaga.com</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com">youtube.com</a>, or can you <a href="http://www.cooltoad.com">download</a> mp3 to your office system?</li><li>Can you smuggle CDs or may be DVDs into your office premises? </li><li>Do you think if you could listen to your favorite music, you work efficiency would be hampered?</li></ul><br />Well if you are unable to have a 'yes' in your mind while reading this, welcome to my tribe.<br /><br />May be a<a href="http://www.dekoh.com/music/index.html"> solution</a> awaits you saying <span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">"</span><span class="highlighthometxt" style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Bring Life to Digital Music. Access Your Music from Anywhere ".<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am waiting for the music widget, which I would put on this blog to show off my collections and may be the next time you read some other post of mine you might pull that off to your blog as well.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8928367210395337489.post-25629893987145497192007-04-19T15:46:00.000+05:302007-06-07T18:27:50.260+05:30First user-generated Web 2.0 awards program<p><span><span><span>An award program of it own kind.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span>Here are the 10 categories for the Webware 100:</span></span></span></p><p></p><span><br /><br /></span><ol><li><span><span>Browsing: Web browsers, extensions, widgets, and security </span></span></li><li><span><span>Communications: e-mail, chat, VOIP </span></span></li><li><span><span>Community: social networks, groups </span></span></li><li><span><span>Data: search, storage, backup, sharing, and sync </span></span></li><li><span><span>Entertainment: Games and contests </span></span></li><li><span><span>Media: audio, video, photo </span></span></li><li><span><span>Mobile: portable utilities and apps </span></span></li><li><span><span>Productivity: apps, business tools, commerce </span></span></li><li><span><span>Publishing: blogging, web content, design tools </span></span></li><li><span><span>Reference: Mapping, reference works, and education</span></span></li></ol><br />Well all the 10 categories almost cover web activities going on right now. <a href="http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html">The products to watch out for.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0