Amazon said that MacBook was the highest selling computer this holiday season. In fact 3 Mac models have made it to the top 10 list this time. This must be a great news for Apple and for the first time today Apple’s stocks crossed $200.
However, as Macs get more and more popular, I think it [...]

We recently heard about “w00t” being chosen the word of the year by Merriam-Webster. Now “Facebook” has been added to the Collins English Dictionary.
This has been added both as a noun meaning “a popular social networking web site” and a verb that means to search someone’s profile. In fact the Collins guys are so impresed [...]

I often don’t look at the screen of my GPS since voice instructions are more than enough (I made sure the GPS tells the street names before buying it). In fact looking at that small screen while driving can’t be comfortable to anyone in my opinion. But what if you don’t like to listen to [...]

As all of us know, an application comprises broadly of 3 tiers, the presentation, the business tier and the database. The Web 2.0 phenomenon has had a huge impact on the way applications are designed and developed. The most obvious changes are on the presentation layer because that’s what’s visible, but the business tier [...]

Google yesterday has made public it’s intention about ‘knol’ - a word that apparently stands for a ‘unit of knowledge’ (though not sure in which language). It let’s people author articles on any subject and let’s them add the content to internet. Once you author an article (hopefully on a subject that you are expert [...]

In the first part of the series (Choose right tools for your blogging needs), we discussed a few factors that can help you decide which blogging tool is right for you. In this post I am going to share my experiences and views on building a good user interface.
All of us of heard that “Content [...]

LinkedIn announced what they call “LinkedIn Intelligent Application Platform” earlier today. The platform will offer 2 ways to integrate with LinkedIn: first by using their APIs to build widgets than can augment the functionality of an existing site and secondly by building the application that gets hosted on LinkedIn website using OpenSocial API.
As of now [...]

Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time setting up this website, choosing softwares to use, customizing the look and feel of site, researching how to publicize (and potentially monetize) the website content and so on. So I am planning to do a small series of posts sharing with all of [...]

Google yesterday released a chart API that let’s you create great looking charts on the fly using the data/settings provided in the url. It supports a bunch of charts like line chart, bar chart, pie chart, Venn diagrams and gives you pretty much complete control over how the charts look. You can choose size, color [...]

We all use Facebook for socializing, interacting with friends/colleagues, expressing our opinions on groups/forums etc, but pretty much all these activities are for fun and leisure. In fact, it’s common for people to brand Facebook as a “fun” site. However, we engage in a lot of similar stuff at work as well, albeit in slightly [...]

Check this out if you haven’t. The familiar “Please tell Microsoft about this problem” and “Send Error Report” displayed out loud right on Times Square mega screen
http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/12/02/if-you-crash-crash-big/

I came across a few posts recently which claim that OpenSocial is not going to help Google much since it’s just a platform and it won’t help them increase the Orkut popularity. I don’t disagree with this argument, but what they go on to conclude is that OpenSocial is no big deal and probably is [...]