web 2.0

Chilirec is a new music site, another entrant into the web2.0 stage.It extracts individual tracks from internet radio stations. It then plays lets you play the music and also allows you to save an mp3 copy of your favorite music. You start with Chilirec by choosing from a preselected set of a few
hundred channels. Two downsides: you can’t load your own channels and

Facebook chat launches - Tour & First Impression

Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail

Pune Google Technology User Group

Idea behind Pune GTUG

Gmail's New Version Is Now Available

The new version of Gmail

"Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that's supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite," said Google Blogscoped publisher Philipp Lenssen in a blog post. "Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management. 'Gmail 2.0' -- possibly the announced update -- was also mentioned in Google's internal company goals last year, the aim being to achieve '70% user happiness' for that version."

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IAMAI’s premier conference on Web 2.0, scheduled for 22 June 2007 to be held at Mumbai, offers an opportunity to meet people who are already excited about Web, people who want to know more about the flourishing media and people who have done it and are there to share their experience.

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Web 2.0 is virtually affecting every area of business. This conference shall see ideas flowing from both sides of the table. Everyone shall have a equal opportunity to share their views and experiences.

According to reports, Reliance Entertainment is the latest to join the online social networking fray with the launch of its 'Big Adda'.

Social networking Web site, 'Big Adda' is currently in 'alpha' testing stage, and hence, available to Internet users on an 'invitation only' basis, Reliance sources say.

Sources add that the Web site actually started in March this year, when it invited users to choose a logo from among 9 to 10 design options. Later on, the site asked users to pick the template they liked best.

SAP AG users this week applauded the vendor’s road map for adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to its software, though some acknowledged that they aren’t yet ready to use the new capabilities.

At the Sapphire 2007 user conference held here earlier this week, SAP executives outlined the company’s long-term plan to add SOA and Web 2.0 capabilities to its application software and NetWeaver middleware products.

Here's the six Web 2.0 companies, most likely to reach the soaring success of YouTube, Wikipedia or Flickr.

Hitwise, which collects Internet usage data directly from ISPs to measure the traffic to more than 800,000 Internet sites, has tapped the six Web 2.0 companies most likely to reach the soaring success of YouTube, Wikipedia or Flickr. To do so, it looks at the types of early adopters now using the sites.

The list includes Yelp, StumbleUpon, Veoh, WeeWorld, Imeem and Piczo. Hitwise announced its projections here at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo.

It compiled the list by measuring the sites on the Internet that have the most users in demographic categories described as Money and Brains, Young Digerati and Bohemian Mix, said Bill Tancer, general manager of Hitwise. These user groups were most likely to favor sites like YouTube and Flickr before they became as wildly popular as they are today.

Here is a run down on what these six Web 2.0 companies do:

• Yelp offers an online guide that allows users to rate various goods and services.
• StumbleUpon allows users to recommend Web sites to others with common interests.
• Veoh provides software to allow users to collect, publish and watch high definition videos.
• WeeWorld allows users to create a graphic alter ego to be used for online or mobile communications.
• Imeem is an online community to allow users to promote their content, blogs, music, photos and videos.
• Piczo is a site that allows users -- it targets teenagers -- to create their own customizable Web sites.

As part of the same study, Hitwise also found that visits to "participatory" Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube that allow users to provide content has increased from 2% of all Internet traffic in 2005 to 12% of all traffic as of last week -- a jump of 668%.

"One of the questions I am asked most often ... is if [Web 2.0] is just a fad or will it get traction," Tancer said. The Web 2.0 and participatory Web really is gaining traction." Hitwise's research also revealed that only .16 % of YouTube users are uploading video, while .2 % of Flickr users are adding photos and 4.5% of visitors to Wikipedia are editing content on the site.

Source : http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?

It was a mixed experience at the Unconference made possible by Entrepreneur 27 , a group started by university students in Singapore after borrowing the concept which they experienced during their year long stint at Silicon Valley.

I am still recovering from the hangover of the event which actually did not serve alcohol! But the experience of the unconference itself was so alcoholic especially for me when I was amongst those energetic youngsters!!

After Two Years of Industry-wide Development Involving Open Review
by Java News Desk
(December 11, 2006) - Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java technology and the Solaris Operating System and the world's leading contributor of open source code, today announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). The Java SE 6 release is the result of over two years of industry-wide development involving open review, weekly builds and extensive collaboration between Sun engineers and over 330 external developers.

Google has aquired JotSpot, the first application wiki company. Founded in 2004 by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, the company is pioneering do-it-yourself application publishing to enable anyone to create, publish, and share collaborative and personalized wiki applications.

http://www.jot.com/

IN the wake to make Mash up to build More Mashups!! :-))

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