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A new breed of web application that aims to replace desktop applications

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.Cappuccino is designed for applications, not web pages. Cappuccino applications do as much as possible in the client instead of on the server. 280 Slides is the first Cappuccino application and it. With Cappuccino, you don't need to know HTML. Cappuccino runs in all modern browsers. Want to learn more about it then visit

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Have you made a Living will for your Virtual Life?

I had never thought about this but today while browsing the internet and coming across the article written by The Consumerist about the facebook incident it got me thinking. Well the article about facebook incident was that Stephanie Bemister lost her brother. She contacted facebook requesting to delete his profile as he was no longer living. Facebook did not agree to this and responded that it was their policy to keep dead members profile's in a "memorialized" state. Consumerist put up a post regarding this and very shortly Facebook responded to Stephanie confirming that they have removed his profile. To

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

The Cost of Building a Website From Scratch

Recently over a cup of tea i was discussing the scenario of building a web portal inhouse versus buying an off the shelf and tweaking this. I am sure there have been numerous articles published on this topic but either way i thought i should share the conversation: Pros of a customized developed solution: If you have a clear idea of what you want, you should get a website that does exactly what you need. When i say this i mean you have the right blend of tech guys onboard who look at the app from all angles, database computing, performance,

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

The blatant truth about a few social networking websites – Unscientific (Yet Accurate)

Some of us actually just go with the hype and join multiple social networks there by boosting numbers for these networks. But in actually fact do we use all the social networks we join. We like to talk about them more than actually use them.

There has been a report published by Brainz which gives an excellent overview of how social networks operate

The figures aren’t actually based on any kind of real data, its really interesting a few of the commons ones are show below. For the rest please do visit Brainz

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[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Wikis Go Printable

Yes yes i know this could be termed as out dated news. PediaPress established a long term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation to print your favourite wiki articles as a book.You select the content from your favorite wiki and PediaPress takes care of the rest to ship the book to you. From last week onwards the functionality was activated for six more languages besides German. As of 26th Feb the functionality has now been extended on the regular English Wikipedia (restricted to logged-on users only for now). The roll-out for English Wikipedia users will be gradual out of fear for

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[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News |

Google works on monetising Orkut in 2009

Google’s social networking platform, Orkut is in discussions with the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket to create brand positioning campaigns and even an IPL profile page for Orkut users. Mahesh Narayanan, senior industry manager, Google says around 10 entities, including FMCG, telecom and movie producers, will be the big-ticket advertisers for Orkut in 2009. The Indian advertising industry in 2008 drove an estimated 45 million internet subscribers advertising market to Rs 240 crore which is around US 55,713,382. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry feels that by 2011 Indian would have touched Rs 2,500 crore which is

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Tim O’Reilly – Work on stuff that matter – Part 1

A conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The subject of the discussion is his recent talk on Working on "Stuff that Matters" Check out this video

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Tim O’Reilly – Work on stuff that matters – Part Two

Part 2 of the conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The subject of the discussion is his recent talk on Working on "Stuff that Matters" Check out this video

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Web Business Life Strategy |

Good Sales people are closers – Are u one of them?

They say Sales is not about a one time shot. It's not about overselling. Your customer should never be passed on from one person to the other. In a downturn economy, it's now more vital than ever to build a pipeline of business. Its a tough world out there and Alec Baldwin in the film Glengarry Glen Ross presents the salestalk, though sarcastic it actually is an eye opener. Check the Video out

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Web Business Life Strategy |

Raise cash ahead of when you need it

Mike Levy gives entrepreneurs the top 3 aspects that every startup should bear in mind specially when setting out to do your own thing. Check out his tips in this video. Its a short clip but the last tip raises a bell.

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Web Business Life Strategy |

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