Posts on: web 2.0

GoJiyo.com – Godrej To Launch SecondLife.com Competitor

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

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Reddit.com Migrated To Cassandra

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.

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G.ho.st Closing Down Free Service

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

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SMS Gupshup Launches AppShup

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

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Twitter To Replace MySQL By Cassandra

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.

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Google Wave Extension Gallery

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.

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Public Waves In Google Wave

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

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Need Google Wave Invite?

I have few #googlewave invites for readers.

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Don’t Wait For Invitation – Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Now

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

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Topsy – Search Engine For Conversations

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.

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Vote Now : Cnet Webware 100 Voting is ON

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.

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Hunch – Make Decisions By Answering A Series Of Questions

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.

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Vuzit : A web-based document viewer

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 [...]

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