While going through my feeds yesterday, I came across something really interesting on the ProgrammableWeb feed. Cleartrip, one of the best looking airline websites in India, is planning to start an API.
This seems to have been started in conjunction with Mashery.com. However, no details are available yet. You can register and tell them about your [...]
The iPaper is here.
Scribd, one of the hottest startups of last year, has just released the Scribd Platform. This would allow developers to integrate documents into their websites, with a simple and clean flash interface.
I have loved Scribd from the moment they came on the scene and have covered them a number of times. But [...]
Here is the latest touch screen from Microsoft. It’s not a screen, it’s water…
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Update: Here’s the parody on YouTube (thanks to Anmol for the link)
S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), the current COO of Infosys Technologies is all set to take over the hot spot of the company CEO from June 22. He follows in the footsteps of Nandan Nilenkani, who became the CEO in 2002. Nilenkani has been elevated to co-chairman.
On the announcement, Narayan Murthy said
Kris is gentle but firm, consultative [...]
I went to statsaholic to get my ‘daily alexa kick’ last night, and I found out that Alexa has suddenly started bullying Statsaholic, and the graphs are not visible on Statsaholic site anymore. Moreover, the graphs provided by the widgets which are provided by Alexa themselves have stopped working.
There is a link to Ron’s version [...]
Ryan Carson of dropsend has a post on TechCrunch today about how to make your web application successful.
Building a web app is no different than launching any other product - it needs to be backed by solid business principles. You’ll need funding, a real audience, a solid monetization model, a marketing plan, quality support, and [...]
Adobe today announced the first public alpha version of Apollo. Apollo is a cross-operating system application runtime, that allows developers to use HTML, Javascript, Ajax as well as Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet Applications on the desktop. It combines the internet with the desktop.
(Link)
Apollo provides people with direct access to Internet [...]
Minority Report would have been excellent movie, had it not had Tom Cruise in the leading role. Why? That is another story, which I would not bring in the way right now, because there is something else far more interesting.
Accenture, the company Tiger Woods models for, is working on an unusual project these days in [...]
The team of Netvibes has just released the Universal Widget API. As you might have guessed, this widget is called universal because it works with any kind of widget platform. For example, you could use it to create a widget from any plugin.
More on the magical widget at the mashup site (Link)
Satyam Computer Services and 7Hills Business Solutions announced a service and technology collarboration to offer complete supply chain solutions. Satyam is a global IT consulting and services provider and 7Hills is an international firm which assists clients in supply chain strategies and solutions.
The alliance is aiming for various industry including Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Automotive and [...]
