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World of Web 2.0

Feb 13

Posted by Swapnil in Business thoughts, Tech thoughts | No Comments

I found the following photo via Stumbleupon and I was really really impressed with the work done by the author for creating this picture of social networks and various Web 2.0 technologies used in the world.

This is really impressive piece of art.  Full credit to Brian Solis & JESS3 for their work and I take my hats off for them. 

World of Web2.0

Copyright: Brian Solis & JESS3

I am sharing the above picture under the Creative Commons License and if you want to copy this, please do so under the same.

There is another work of art done by AJ Batac on http://eggnyte.com/ and that is also very good. However, I like the one mentioned above because it segregates the portals based on their usage / category and its easy to map to your needs.

worldofweb20_webfront

Again, the above URL is copyright of AJ Batac and is shared under Creative Commons License and I am sharing the same under the license. This is also a very good work by the author and must be acknowledged. 

Also, if you want to search your favourite site within the world of web 2.0, you can do so by visiting the site http://www.go2web20.net/. This is a search engine for finding out and discovering the sites based on their tags. So off you go and find out your on useful sites of web 2.0

Please respect the copyright and enjoy the world of Web 2.0

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Really simple syndication and how it helps me keep up to date with life around !

Feb 5

Posted by Swapnil in Tech thoughts | No Comments

Are you a freak about wanting to know the latest developments around yourself in the world? Do you use smartphones, laptops to keep yourself up to date with them? Do you use RSS (Really simple syndication) to do so?

If the answer to above question is yes, then I think you must be aware of the power of online tools that allows you to keep your life in sync with all the latest gadgets that you have with you. And more over you must use tools provided by NewsGator to do so ! They are so good and so simple !

www.newsgator.com

All you require to do is to go to NewsGator site , create yourself an account and add the feeds you need.  Then, you have a vast variety of clients available to use and install on your owned devices such as Windows Mobile phone, Java based phone, Laptops, Computer, iPhone, Blackberry etc., and keep all your feeds in sync.

I have the NewsGator clients installed on my laptop (called FeedDemon), one on my Windows mobile handset (called NewsGator Go!), one on my Symbian S60 based Nokia N95 phone (again NewsGator Go!) and one on my iPod touch (called NetNewsWire). This helps me to organize and keep my feeds in sync and allows me to read the latest news and information across the world through my feed subscriptions on any of my devices. And the coolest part is it keeps the read / unread status in sync too .. !

If you are in a need of a really good news syndicator and do not want to open your computer every time you want to know about the latest news, then I would really recommend you to try out your hands on this.

Click here if you want to go to the page directly and download the clients for your compatible device.

Its really simple and very effective !

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Get a disposable (or melt-able) email address here..

Feb 5

Posted by Swapnil in Tech thoughts | No Comments

Just came across the site http://www.meltmail.com that allows you to forward emails to your real email address behind the disposable email address given to you when you enter your real email address on the site.

meltmail.com_ Really cool feature when you require to do submit your email address but do not want to permanently subscribe to the emails.  And also useful when you need to have to really hide your real email address from spammers and junk-emailers to safeguard your privacy.

As per the information on the website it says,

“With Melt Mail, you only give your unique Melt Mail address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of time (the melting point) the Melt Mail address will be deleted.”

You can have your meltmail email address for a period of up to 3, 6, 12 & 24 hours so you can do all your job of using this email address as per your need.

The site also says,

“After the melting point is reached, we delete your real e-mail address from our database and also the Meltmail won’t be available anymore.
So, we only store your e-mail address during the period of time you defined with the melting point.”

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Top tech feeds to keep yourself up to date in tech world

Feb 3

Posted by Swapnil in Tech thoughts | No Comments

Do you use RSS feeds to keep yourself updated with the news all over the world?  If you do, then I hope the links might help you keep yourself up to date with regards to the happenings in the Tech World.

They are my favourite links and I use them in my RSS feed aggregator.

Gadget news

Engadget – http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
Gizmodo – http://gizmodo.com/index.xml

Generic tech news

IT Pro – http://feeds.itpro.co.uk/ITPro/Today
MakeuseOf – http://feeds.feedburner.com/Makeuseof
Stuff.tv – http://rss.feedsportal.com/stuff/news/default.aspx
Cnet – http://www.cnet.co.uk/feeds/public/0,39030724,1,00.htm
The Register – http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
ZDNet – http://feeds.feedburner.com/zdnetuk/highlights
Slashgear – http://feeds.slashgear.com/slashgear

Mobile news

Phone Arena – http://feeds2.feedburner.com/phonearena/ySoL
Mobile Tech Addicts – http://feeds.feedburner.com/mobiletechaddicts/piha

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Technology explanations in plain English

Jan 28

Posted by Swapnil in Tech thoughts | No Comments

Web 2.0 is here and there is an ever increasing need of being socially aware of the technologies surrounding us such as Wikis, RSS, Social Networking sites and so on.

To aid us understand them in plain and simple language there are tutorials available on popular video website Youtube for each one of them.

Leelefever Youtube channel provides several such media presentations that are simple to understand and they are really really well presented.

I would highly recommend you to visit the site here to go and check out yourself.

There are several easily understandable video tutorials available for you to view online.  Unfortunately I may not be able to embed them here due to potential copy write issues so giving you a link here again.

http://uk.youtube.com/user/leelefever

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