Works caught up with me!!! The forecast for the next few weeks looks bad too. But im hoping to keep the blog going.
Leave you guys with the Blook.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Skype for eBay's Customers
Overnight, Skype has transformed from being the global telephone company threatening major telco's to a communications tool for eBays customer's.
eBay will be acquiring Skype for a whopping $ 4.1 billion.
Why would an online auctions company want to do with a Internet based Telephone Company?
Even if it somehow made sense, they could have developed their own IP based application for communication or bought so many other applications available at a much lesser cost.
Besides if eBay users did get to interact with each other directly, would they need eBay. They could make deals outside eBay too. So whats the idea here??
Somehow, one cant help feeling eBay has made a lot more money in this deal that its paying out :).
That pretty much leaves this space open to the other players like Google Talk, Gizmo, MSN, Fwd Networks , IPTEL etc who will be vying for this space.
However it is highly unlikey that one of these will dominate the scene like Skype did. But whats also important is most of these players are SIP based and do not run on propietory standards like skype or voiceglo.
With many players coming into the picture now services such as xConnect may soon be extremely popular.
eBay will be acquiring Skype for a whopping $ 4.1 billion.
Why would an online auctions company want to do with a Internet based Telephone Company?
Even if it somehow made sense, they could have developed their own IP based application for communication or bought so many other applications available at a much lesser cost.
Besides if eBay users did get to interact with each other directly, would they need eBay. They could make deals outside eBay too. So whats the idea here??
Somehow, one cant help feeling eBay has made a lot more money in this deal that its paying out :).
That pretty much leaves this space open to the other players like Google Talk, Gizmo, MSN, Fwd Networks , IPTEL etc who will be vying for this space.
However it is highly unlikey that one of these will dominate the scene like Skype did. But whats also important is most of these players are SIP based and do not run on propietory standards like skype or voiceglo.
With many players coming into the picture now services such as xConnect may soon be extremely popular.
AJAX Office
An entire office suite will soon be available on your web browser.
AJAX Office suite will be to MS Office as gmail is to Outlook. Cool eh..
Yahoo!! Google!!! could probably hold all our files on their servers, making everything accessible from anywhere!!! It'll definitely give Microsoft something to think about. Just imagine, you wouldnt need the MS Office suite anymore!!!
AJAX Office suite will be to MS Office as gmail is to Outlook. Cool eh..
Yahoo!! Google!!! could probably hold all our files on their servers, making everything accessible from anywhere!!! It'll definitely give Microsoft something to think about. Just imagine, you wouldnt need the MS Office suite anymore!!!
Sunday, September 04, 2005
YubNub
TP just passed on this very interesting link.
Yubnub- Social Command line for the wed, as the site describes itself, is a very simple idea thats in line with our migration to the concept of the WebOS.
Developed by Jon using a new framework thats rapidly gaining popularity called the Ruby on Rails, it is a very simple concept. It lets you create your own commands for the various services being offered on the web.
You can create a command for any web service available on the net.
For eg: g Yubnub : would result in a google search for yubnub. gmap Melbourne would result in a google map search for Melbourne.
Most popular/useful web commands are called Yubnub Golden Eggs. Its pretty cool. Check it out and lay a few golden eggs if possible :).
Unblokt is yet another service that i came across on Jon's blog. It creates a "web" story, by giving you two sentences from a story and allowing you to enter the sentence in between. The end result should be an interesting read!!!
Yubnub- Social Command line for the wed, as the site describes itself, is a very simple idea thats in line with our migration to the concept of the WebOS.
Developed by Jon using a new framework thats rapidly gaining popularity called the Ruby on Rails, it is a very simple concept. It lets you create your own commands for the various services being offered on the web.
You can create a command for any web service available on the net.
For eg: g Yubnub : would result in a google search for yubnub. gmap Melbourne would result in a google map search for Melbourne.
Most popular/useful web commands are called Yubnub Golden Eggs. Its pretty cool. Check it out and lay a few golden eggs if possible :).
Unblokt is yet another service that i came across on Jon's blog. It creates a "web" story, by giving you two sentences from a story and allowing you to enter the sentence in between. The end result should be an interesting read!!!
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