Jolicloud, the Linux based operating system optimized for netbooks, has announced to adopt Google Chrome technology to power the rendering of web apps.

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

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.

BrainNook is basically a learning tool transformed as games, which helps children to learn critical skills such as reading, reasoning, analysis, memorization and computer literacy in a playful manner.

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.

Checkvist is a killer task manager app. It has a clean and powerful interface with many more features.

I have few #googlewave invites for readers.

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

MP Change is an online tool to add animation effects to your image. It adds funny animation to your face.

Some great add-ons for Firefox — which enhance offline browsing with Firefox. Browse websites, Access Gmail, Google Docs and other web based applications in offline mode.

Lazyfeed is a very unique webapp. It is a Real-time content discovery engine.

Futz.me is a very unique and useful tool.

Wordnik is an advanced reference and dictionary tool.

280 Slides is a cool webapp to create presentation slides online without any special software like MS PowerPoint or OpenOffice.org Impress. Its user interface is sleeker and rocks for me!