Decision Engine “Bing”, Microsoft’s bang
The layout is clean and uncluttered; the daily image is rotated to provide an attractive background and landing page. Bing is aesthetically successful, but is it anywhere near perfect semantic search engine?
The competition in this area is fierce especially after the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership has been approved. Regardless, Google is still the dominant player in the [...]
Facebook is now “memorializing” the dead
Facebook has announced a new service for the friends and family of dead people.
“When someone leaves us, they don’t leave our memories or our social network,” Facebook says. “To reflect that reality, we created the idea of ‘memorialized’ profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed.”
When [...]
Google Wave hits the Cloud
Google continues to deliver spectacular web services that dominate the web. Businesses are relying on Google in all aspects of online communication and productivity. Then Google comes up with Google Wave, a real-time communication platform that will probably redefine Email and Web Communication; it combines mail, web chat, IM, and project management software.
Google Wave features [...]
Facebook’s Friend Suggestions, a freaky phenomenon
Facebook is constantly evolving, adding features to its 300 million users worldwide on a regular basis. Wall, Status, Pokes and Photos were the main features of the site. Later a News Feed was announced just to be followed by the instant messaging application called Chat. Overtime Facebook significantly changed its user interface to create a [...]
You don’t need an expert to build your own website
Building your own personal website is not as daunting as it may sound. Advancements in Web standards and technology have resulted in web development evolution, causing new practices to emerge. For common users (non-technical/non-developers), this is good news due to the standardization of design and code used to build websites following W3C, XHTML/CSS and SEO [...]
Social networking sites have changed the rules
The heart and soul of social networking sites are user’s profiles. It’s like their own Internet sanctuary, a place where they can express their thoughts and feelings, post photographs and show off their network of friends. Such sites are becoming astonishingly popular, introducing new forms of addictions, creating all sorts of addicts such as Facebook [...]
Google is damaging the Cloud’s reputation
Cloud computing, the next big boom in the world of IT, where traditional locally-installed software will be a thing of the past. Online managed services and software-as-a-service (saas) will make desktop applications obsolete, as efforts are already being made by a handful of giant corporate players that are investing in moving customers to the cloud.
Microsoft [...]
Making real money in “Virtual Reality”
The concept of making money as commonly known relies entirely on having a job, a real job! Whether it consists of sitting behind a desk, selling goods or working the muscles out like a builder does, the job is real because it exists in the real world.
Then the Internet came along, and a whole new [...]
Microblogging, will it replace emails?
Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a perfect example of microblogging, has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006.
A user can updates her post by describing her status, [...]








