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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]