Posts under ‘Web Tech’

With google coming out with it’s speech-to-text app for iPhone, there is something there for not-so-great bloggers too. Something that they should be really happy about.

Over the years, the web has been immensely revolutionized, with a lot of rich content, browsers that are capable of displaying rich media, technologies such as AIR effectively taking and web app seamlessly to the desktop, data mining and data exchange taking place across domains in a second, and a host of other things.

On the point of “Why to python from rails” - the new project that me and my friends are going to develop in the coming few months (brainstorming still) is going to be awake on django. This just because my friends are already awfully fond of python and django, and as you say, India is a democratic country, and the majority votes win the candidate. So, my candidate (RoR) was beaten hands-down this time around

There are only two ways to market your product. Either you build a product that is so brilliant that it PULLS the customers; or you build a strategy to PUSH your product to the masses.

This has to be one of the better iPhone apps - the wordpress app for iPhone. Nice nice :)
This definitely is one of the top 10 iPhone apps….easy to use, hassle-free and just enough for the main purpose of blogging - reading and writing :)
Just wish they add image support too soon, or maybe I [...]

So, it’s been like ages since my last useless post, on even worthless topics. Umm (just trying to be a little modest there)
So, I just chalked out certain areas that I have been dying to write about in the last few months, and hopefully, I’ll be able to blog on certain of these topics in [...]

Yeah, you heard it. Finally, orkut has launched a few selected apps for the general public. It’s been said that the apps are currently available to a few selected users only (maybe developers only, or GOD knows who are the chosen ones), and Orkut needs to first test the stability of the OpenSocial API on [...]

I was over at Rashmi Sinha’s (of the slideshare.net fame) weblog and there is a very interesting article that she has written about the possibility of wordpress becoming a social networking platform, and comparable to Facebook.
It’s a must read really. Go checkout the blog entry, and also do some more reading at further links in [...]

Web 2.0 is not just a version of the web anymore. It has become a platform for quick-money-on-the-go. Have an idea, will earn millions.
The amount of money in a web-2.0 venture can be made out by these quick facts - Facebook is worth $15 billion, Feedburner a $100 million, Youtube a cool $1.65 billion, and [...]

In the AD-age, when online advertising is growing by leaps and bounds, the search for the perfect ad network is still a delusion. In a recent survey by McKinsey Quarterly about online marketing (requires free registration to read), a large number of companies (major part of which are Fortune 500 companies) do plan to invest even heavily (if not doing already) in online advertisements. And not surprisingly, companies are in the search of new and unexplored methodologies / ways for online advertisements. The bottom line is, companies are ready to shell out money, but on newer medias