All About Web Innovations

Metaplace Gets More Funds

Faye — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:22:01 +0000

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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?

A Family that Surfs Together, Stays Together.

Faye — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:21:09 +0000

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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.

Backing Up Your Data: Online

Faye — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:28:56 +0000

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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.

Firefox Flaming Add-ons

Faye — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:29:08 +0000

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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.

Web Innovations and Technology

Faye — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:26:39 +0000

New Web technologies are being used to change how organizations communicate both internally and as well as with external partners. These technologies have been integrated into an exciting academic discipline that is integral to all business activities. This page introduces a category of articles that will talk about innovative technologies and describe how these powerful systems have fundamentally reshaped modern organizations along with our society. Using online collaborative technologies that were developed in the context of social networking and online communities, corporations are reengineering both internal business processes and those related to customers, suppliers, and business partners. Developing innovative ways to communicate and collaborate can lead to new business opportunities, and new efficiencies. This group of articles investigates the technologies, methods and practices of developing online communities, and how this knowledge and these skills are applied to reengineer business processes, for example how products, services and information systems are developed, and how geographically disperse virtual teams collaborate.�Links may be found here (source): �http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Web_Innovations_and_Technology�

WEB INNOVATION 2007

Faye — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:20:29 +0000

WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business opportunities.This edition of WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be held in The Grand Ashok Bangalore, from 18-19 December. It will focus on the following:

Web 2.0 & beyond
Evolution of the web design and development markets
Define how the web will drive newer successful businesses in the days to follow
Innovative Technologies, Models and Methods for building and harnessing the Next generation Web
How technology and business enterprises could collaborate and harness endless business opportunities, maintain market leadership and competitive edge
The Trade show floor showcasing the Web 2.0 tools, trends and technologies

Source: http://www.webinnovation.in/

Blogging

Avatar — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:24:25 +0000

What started out as one of the most mundane way to use the internet has become one of the most prolific aspects of today’s web 2.0 or what we commonly know as the social internet. It all began as a platform on which people simply began keeping tabs of their daily activities that began as internet-based web logs, more and more people came to see it as an acceptable way to go on the net and share their experiences. Sooner or later someone began to see the full potential of the concept and began developing systems that would make it accessible for all. Then came Wordpress and the many social platforms that mainly came from the open-sourced community which was the trend of times to come. Open-sourced systems became more and more fashionable as people became irritated on how big businesses still maintained control over the internet and the tools that worked with them.Social blogging is now one of the most profitable ways to earn money and some social leaders have jumped on the band-wagon whereby all aspects of daily life have a blog that specializes in them. Blogging would remain one of the most prominent children of the social internet and improvements are still on the way for the future of the internet that has a soul, the Social Internet

Privacy, Still on top of the technology issues

Avatar — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:55 +0000

There are more communications gadgets that are out on the market to date that has the ability to access the internet. From mobile phones, ultra-compact laptops, PDA’s, Laptops and desktops, all of them have allowed unprecedented access to the internet like never before. Imagine stuck in traffic on the bus while you browse and chat with friends, why not call them on VoIP which is steadily gaining ground. All the access technology and all the improvements to the internet but still, the same old problem SECURITY. Identity theft, online fraud, phishing, vishing and many more problems that have to do with security of information personal, corporate or whatever relevance are gaining notoriety and some people are beginning to realize that it was kind of nicer when there was no instant access to the internet, no mobile phones and PDA’s just plain old silence.
Privacy is one of the things we have lost since we all went online and more and more people are beginning to see technology as an invasive presence. most now crave some distance form the frequent calls or email and just want some time away from all the technology to appreciate things we used to love and get bored with. Peace of mind is also out the window for wherever you may be, somebody can get in touch with you, anytime they wish to. It is now a luxury to have time off the net and to just sit down and do plain nothing. I mean, the internet is good (thanks to it, we cannot survive without it in today’s world) but peace and distance away from it would be a nice thing from time to time. Just peace and quiet looking at the stars and the moon at night………..Nahhhhh!!!

VoIP - The next communications Standard

Avatar — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:02:24 +0000

Gone are the days of expensive international calls and in with VoIP which is cheaper and better in most cases. Most offices and homes have access to high-speed internet and that being the case, the move to shift to VoIP was only time before it caught on. First utilized by call centers who used them fro their calls and marketing, they used to be so expensive that it was affordable only to large scale businesses. Today, VoIP has evolved from software based to hardware based systems that have boxes loaded with all the necessary software and hardware that makes deployment easier.
Traditional calls used to cost an arm and a leg and is one of the most expensive costs multi-national businesses had to contend with. Being vital for business, they had to deploy expensive PBX systems that allowed more and more people to access telephone systems for their needs. Major hardware and software communications developers are now developing and beginning to deploy digital PBX systems that use VoIP as the communications platform. The days of traditional telephone systems might be numbered but many people don’t mind having both standards in the home for the reliability of the internet is still quite shaky at best. Small glitches in cables and other supporting hardware has the capability to cut off a whole continent and with forecasts by internet experts that the current internet’s design is to max-out at 2010 gives little consolation.
VoIP has made communications faster and cheaper but the underlying technology which is the internet may have to evolve as well to cope with increasing demand and needs.

The Smart Internet - Coming soon to a computer near you!

Avatar — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:57:28 +0000

The internet has invaded our lives and established itself as a daily necessity. Most people have access to the internet either through the home, work or even during play and it has allowed us to gather information like never before. One problem, the internet has grown so much that making sense of all the available information is truly mind-boggling. Do a simple search on a web browser and you get hundreds if not thousands of pages from which only a handful are truly useful for your particular application. The internet used to work with a program called a spider that goes through each and every web page indexing and storing all the information onto a database. That database has indeces as to what they are more likely to be relevant to a search that they are presented accordingly. Newer search engines have evolved into a sort of artificial intelligence that not only matches the words in your search but the manner and way the words co-relate to each other meaning it understands what you mean, or at least it tries to. The problem is that the total amount of information that is stored and added onto the millions of web servers are enormous and trying to handle all of them while dealing with information that is already there is quite next to impossible. Time may come when you get answers that you need as you mean them but for now, we still have to deal with a lot of garbage that finds it’s way though the search engine to your desktop leaving you to sort and determine their true value.