If you are familiar with web 2.0 arena you must know “Facebook Connect”, the service that allows people to log in to other websites using their Facebook details and interact with friends. That’s a way to expand social interaction across the web without the needs to create registration details again and again. Guess what! Twitter just jump onto the bandwagon of going Viral, with the announcement of its @Anywhere platform at the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSW) this Monday (March 15th 2010). It hopes this technology will further embed the service into every corner of the web. It’s designed to make it easier for Twitter partner sites to offer Twitter links with just a few lines of JavaScript. …
There was a time when e-commerce was either costly bespoke development or extension of popular CMS . But those days are long gone, last few years e-commerce development really started to take off. e-commerce has its own platforms to choose from for easier and rapid development and deployments. e-commerce platforms gain immense amount of popularity not only among clients but as well to the developers due to the fact is:
It’s easier and faster to go in production phase.
Able to deliver feature rich online stores.
Integrated SEO, analytics functionalities.
Easier to install, deploy and maintain. …
There is commotion floating around the net that MyBlogLog will cease to exist next year (2010) January. According to ReadWriteWeb and Search engine land, “sources closed to project” said Yahoo will shut down MyBlogLog next month. Oh! That means just less than 30 days, and no one knows? That’s disappointing! I understand MyBlogLog isn’t hotshot it used to be, but still a significant amount of blogger does use it. It’s been 5 years since MyBlogLog started putting visitors’ faces and profile link on the blog/site. Those who are not well aware, …
On our first tier of Web conferencing solution and software we will be looking at Dimdim. Dimdim is a web-based platform for real-time, rich-media collaboration and meetings. Dimdim is originally made available as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance. Good news is an open source edition which is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows users to install and host Dimdim in their own networks. Bad news is latest open source edition which is hosted at sourcefourge.com lacks installation instructions, which is a blow to many users. They do offer a free hosted version called Dimdim free, which is available to be used freely with up to 20 people. …
Few Decades ago there was a time when our ancestors used to consider teleconference i.e. the telephone conference is simply fascinating. Well we came a long way since than to an age where teleconference got a broader meaning. Teleconference is now may contain one or all of these- Voice, Video & augmented reality etc. Especially because of the bandwidth efficiency and low costs that VoIP technology can provide in recent years most teleconferencing started to change into web conferencing. Now through Web conferencing we conduct live meetings, training, or presentations; hack someone told me there …
We ought to know a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. Obviously in last few years why we have seen a huge number of users are switching to use alternative browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Which used to be a safe computing practice before by many industry experts, but it seems it no longer is; Reason a huge number of malware targeting the most popular alternative Firefox. There is a sneaky new spyware initially pretends to be an Adobe Flash Player update and, when executed on a user’s …
I am well aware that there is millions of folks out there just use windows firewall and antivirus, which comes as a bundle with windows. Well if you want something out of the ordinary and a bit crazy about safety “ZoneAlarm Suite” might be a good candidate to start on. Security software suite are today’s hot business, reason- 75% risk increase on online identity safety and the percentage just keeps going up. Check Point’s Zone Alarm division is refreshing its Zone Alarm Extreme Security Suite. The suite has more than a dozen segments …
Trac is undoubtedly one of the most issue/bug tracking and project management software to date. Trac installation is far more complex and tiresome than what TracInstall page says it is. First of all it got a huge list of very complex dependencies that can take up your whole day to take care. It’s more painful when it comes to shared hosting installation; I do understand the fact most shared hosting doesn’t even give SSH access. Recently when I was installing Trac for a client came across with tons of issues and had to device a long list of to-dos to take care of the situation. So without further due let’s get on with how we can install Trac …
Long awaited windows 7 pricing was finally announced by Microsoft. In addition with Windows 7 retail pricing, there were also upgrade information, launch details, and a preorder deals in the announcement. Not sure if it’s heat from competitor Apple’s $29 price point for OS X Snow Leopard (coming in September, 2009) or the vista damage control initiative force Microsoft to slash the price of its most popular Home Premium to $119.99 (both upgrades and full copies). Vista premium original pricing were around $40 higher. Same slashed priced applied for Windows 7 …
Let’s face it; spyware is part of our digital life. No matter how many world class anti-spyware we use, some will always slip through. But that doesn’t mean you should drop all of your guard and let the spyware take over your PC without a fight. That’s the reason we still need, use and trust different kinds of anti-spyware who are our last line of defense against all the badwares. But what will you do when the defender become offender? That means when the anti-spyware itself is working as a spyware. We all …