There have been some reports about a new experiment that Google is conducting to let users move an item in search result up or down, or even hide it. It also apparently allows users to add an url to the search result if you think that url should have been part of search result but [...]

I wrote a Wordpress plugin to enrich the content of the post in a configurable manner. This plugin is generic enough to be used in wide variety of situations so I am sharing this with all of you.
Here is the problem that I was trying to address. Many a times, we want to link to [...]

We as users of internet visit tons of sites, add feeds to our readers, buy certain products, comment on news and views and so on. There is nothing new about any of these. However with billions of websites around, whatever gets our attention is of course very valuable. The data gathered about the web users [...]

MoveOn.org’s campaign against Facebook’s Beacon program is gathering momentum. The number of users who have joined MoveOn’s Facebook : stop invading my privacy group has been steadily increasing over the last few days. There are many blogs/sites as well which have come out in favor of MoveOn’s campaign.
Facebook’s Beacon is way for Facebook users [...]

Using MD5 or other hash functions is common to store sensitive information like password. Many websites authenticate the user by hashing the entered password and matching the hash with the hashed password stored in their database. This addresses the security concern associated with passwords kept in clear text. This technique works since given a hash [...]

Big financial firms, which so far were ignoring the web 2.0 technology and concept are finally realizing that it’s not something that they can ignore for long.
We already see a few things already happening in this direction.  Some banks/financial institutions are using it for building relations with prospective clients and to get into a dialogue [...]

You may know by now that Amazon announced their e-book reader called kindle today. In short, it can be used to read ebooks (of course), order/download books on-the-go and browse the web.
There have been other readers in market, however what differentiates it from other e-book readers out there is it gives the ability to read/download [...]

There have been some views in blogosphere recently relating to the future of emails. A few days ago I saw a post on New York Times blog about Yahoo and Google turning emails into social networks. Then there have been some threads claiming that email is dying. Coming across contradicting news and views is not [...]

Those who till a couple of weeks ago thought that Android is just a vaporware would be biting their tongue now. First it was the release of actual platform on Nov 5, and as if that wasn’t enough, now comes the news from Wall Street Journal that it’s planning to buy wireless spectrum that it [...]

If you have used Yahoo Pipes, you would have noticed that it’s great at combining feeds, applying operators, filtering etc, but when it comes to showing the data on UI, you’re pretty much left on your own. The “Run Pipe” option does come with some sort of UI, but it’s not useful if you [...]

Now even the core technnology companies like Oracle are joining the Social Networking and Web 2.0 bandwagon with an enterprise twist to their offerings.
In today’s Oracle OpenWorld, they provided a sneak-peek into the Social dimension and mash-up like applications that they are going to support in their next-gen “Fusion” release. Following is a quote from [...]

Google today released the SDK for Android, which is their mobile application development platform. The SDK is based on Java running on Linux based phones and comes with a plugin for Eclipse IDE. In a bid to draw the attention of developer community towards recently launched Android platform for mobiles, Google is going to offer [...]