All About Web Innovations

As if the EU hasn’t just banned the Pirate Bay people and sent them into their respective cells, here comes Norway-based, Moot, a file sharing service that allows locally linked individuals connected through the same WiFi connection. They can be friends, strangers or even the police for that matter as long as they have the necessary software installed allowing them access to the file-sharing capabilities of the software. On your mobile, you get a sort of radar screen that shows the relational location of registered members who have the software installed. It is still in it’s infancy and for it to be of any use for anybody. Read the rest of this entry »

From geo-tagging, where digital pictures were loaded with locational data from an attached GPS receiver to today’s geo-caching which is a way of reminding you where you wrote note, took a picture or did something online while on the move, the file sharing service Drop.io allows geocoding of all your files that have been uploaded to their system and that’s just the beginning with more features to come. You not only get to share content with the world, you also get to access your content, quickly through an abbreviated URL making it available anytime and every time as long as you have an internet connection. Like dropping candy for Hansel and Gretel to pick-up, you gain the ability to browse a map representing a specific area, move your mouse around and find stuff (files, notes, pictures or just about anything you deem fit to upload to their servers). Read the rest of this entry »

Geo-aware applications are rapidly establishing a niche of their own which has a combination of some of the web’s most innovative technologies combined. From Google’s Mapping data and huge data centers, the social notes of social web sites and the real-time positional data of mobile computing through smart phones, they all meet and converge to produce maps with social function making it the latest “IN” thing all over the web. The internet has evolved many times before but the advent of the so-called WEB 2.0 (much hyped by Microsoft) that was greeted with gusto’ by many a web users simply as the social web it continues to evolve to this day. Add to that the huge leaps in computing power and getting them into the hands of the millions of computer users and smart-phone owners the world over and they connect into one very useful and social tool at that. Read the rest of this entry »

Social networking sites have become very common nowadays - with sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Multiply to name a few - so it is only natural that the professional world have its own social networking site.

While LinkedIn is a social networking site, your goal here isn’t primarily to make friends or find romantic relationships - LinkedIn is geard towards using the physics behind social networking to expand an individuals professional network of contacts. LinkedIn is a place where you can post your resume and curriculum vitae, along with all your other credentials, and get people to hire you. Employers use LinkedIn as an easy means to find potential employees or people to do part-time or contractual work for them. The referral system also insures that bad eggs don’t get to have a repeat performance.

They may have been in talks a few months back about a possible merger but they’re back at it again, Google Inc and Yahoo are now neck to neck in the image search market with Yahoo improving by leaps and bounds as they improve on their search engine design and capabilities. Google has long been the search engine of choice for a long time mainly due to the speed and capabilities of their search engine and their massive server banks that till recently have been unknown as to their existence(Images were leaked of Google’s vast data centers being housed in 40 footer container vans away from the peering eyes of anybody who may be out to get even or do the company harm).
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Instant Messengers are one of the greatest innovations in the internet that it ever had. The only problem with it was that they seem to be limited to their own clients. However, with the rise of 3rd party IM clients like meebo, the walls of division are coming down.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

It has a ton of great features like changing your wallpaper and themes, however it won’t tbe able to do the features specific for Yahoo Messenger and the other lot.

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The plan by Metaplace to enable users create a virtual world and enable use of social networking conventions for the users to enjoy is now backed up with the fact that it had accumulated over $6Million of fund to be able to push on with the project. The team is led by Crescendo and Charles River Ventures. There are also indie financiers like Marc Andressen and Ben Horowitz. metaplace hopes to create a virtual world for the users to use to communicate and interact across the globe. It will use an open platform. The huge vision of the project is to spread the habit of collaboration, socialization and commerce inside the virtual world. The question still remains, will it be able to thrive where There.com and Secondlife have failed?

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The internet is bringing families closer together, contrary to popular belief. Technology is paving the way to bridge the gaps between loved ones. Based on research, regularly use their mobile phones to check on their children and partners. The internet and mobile phones enjoys a spot in the family affairs. We may think that the rising trend of advanced technologies continue to slowly hurt the family ties and togetherness. While in fact, these necessary evils provides new ways of connecting and interacting with our loved ones. It is becoming an integral means of communicating between parents and children. Families can become networks. And can bring them closer together.

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We all need to back up our files from our personal computers. It is an important practice that users must observe. Yet it is always often taken for granted. When we fail to do so, we lose important documents, photos, videos and contacts and so much more. Sad to say hard drives are not always safe to back your files up. It has a life cycle. Given around 8-10 years. Considering that it doesn’t bog down due to power surge. You may opt to use file recovery applications. But these are often than not, time consuming.The best way is to prevent it from happening rather than looking for softwares to retrieve your lost files. So as a rule of thumb, we are suggested to back up our files every time you have a new and important file to keep.

Some important data to back up are:

• Family photos
• Documents
• Bookmarks
• Address book
• Emails
• Work files and folders

There might be files you want to save. Its really up to you which is important to keep in case your hard drive fails. You should go through your computer and think about any information you would not want to lose if your hard drive should fail.

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Firefox Mozilla is one of a great Internet Browser of all times. And with these Add-ons Installed on your Mozilla, it sure to be a burning one!

Smart Search: To look for the selected text through your background menu, using any of your bookmark keywords.

Rollyo: Make modified search engines for your Firefox Search Bar anytime!

Yahoo Toolbar: Use Yahoo! and the web faster, safer, and easier with new mail notification, search suggestions, online bookmarks, free spyware scanning, and more.

Snap Links: allocates users to easily open several links in new tabs by drawing a box around them. Links can also be opened in new windows, new tabs on a new window, copied to clipboard, bookmarked or downloaded without trouble.

Translator: Translator is web translation extension that allows you to translate any web page into nearly any language at the click of a button.

Con Query: Context searching for everyone and URL manipulation tool for advanced users.