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According to as study of Zinnov Research, over 300,000 jobs will be available in India by 2015 in cloud services sector.

All fonts in this directory are available for use on any website under an open source license and served by Google servers. This service provides the easiest way to use fonts on the internet.

Favetop provides the quick access to your favourite websites, webapps, pictures, bookmarks, videos and music.

Gmail.com has integrated another security feature, which detects suspicious account activities and alerts users about this.

Godrej is going to launch a site similar to SecondLife.com. This site, GoJiyo.com, will be a virtual world focusing Indian users.

Reddit.com has migrated its persistent cache to Cassandra. Many other big sites like Digg, Facebook and Twitter have already adopted Cassandra because of its performance and extensibility.

G.ho.st, the popular cloud-based operating system, has announced to shout down its free services to individual users from March 15.

India’s leading SMS based social networking site, SMS Gupshup, has launched an app store for promotion and distribution of SMS based applications.

Twitter is going to replace MySQL database system with Cassandra, the Open Source distributed database management system started by Facebook. The top reasons to go with Cassandra include highly scalable writes and a healthy open source community behind the project.

After launching extension gallery for Google Chrome browser, Google is going to launch extension gallery for Wave. This gallery will feature useful robots and gadgets for Google Wave users.

Public waves have everyone as participant, and anyone can view or reply these threads. To see public waves, just search for with:public.

I have few #googlewave invites for readers.

Waiting for invitation of Microsoft Office Web Apps? Here is a trick to use it right now.

At the very first sight, Topsy would seem to you as another twitter search tool but it is a much more advanced search engine for conversations.

Voting is now open for prestigious Cnet Webware 100 Awards 2009.  Webware 100 awards are given to the best Web 2.0 applications every year by Cnet.

Hunch is a new startup from Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder. The service helps people in making decisions by using a series of questions. Although Hunch is in early beta now, it is creating buzz.

Vuzit, pronounced as “views-it”, is a web-based document viewer. You can use it for viewing 38+ document formats, like : Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Word (DOC), Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT), Microsoft Excel (XLS) etc. without having any other software! All you need is a Javascript enabled web browser.
So, you don’t need to install heavy Adobe Reader or such softwares, just for viewing supported formats. Just log in to Vuzit and upload it and view it. Moreover, you can view online documents directly using Vuzit.

This is a online tool …