Storming the web!!!

Today most of the websites are Ajaxified.A pretty good example which i would like to showcase is, FlickrCash.

FlickrCash is a Multi-parameter Flickr search using jQuery.(jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery changes the way you write JavaScript.)FlickrCash searches for photos on Flickr in the most efficient way.You can see as many thumbniles as will fit in your browser.It loads upto 10 pages in the background,so it is very fast to browse through, to find the photos you need.When you move the mouse over any picture an “up arrow” and “close” button appears.When you click the thumbnile a preview of the image will popup,listing all the sizes that are available for the picture.

Can I save my search results? Yes,you can.Sign up and create an account for free(Activate your account) and save your search result by putting it together in a “lightbox” of photos with a secret URL.You can also share your lightbox.
Still you have doubt??Just click here.

Person behind it:  
Jesse Skinner-a freelancing web developer specializing in JavaScript, Ajax and CSS. More about him.

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and Wikia has announced that he is ready to take on search domain says a Reuters report.

He feels community powered search technology is less susceptible to spam. He said, the ranking algorithms should not be “hidden”, pointing to the counterparts which includes Google, Yahoo! and others.

At the conclusion, he also added that Wikia will be even bigger, better and popular than the flagship Wikipedia.

Read the complete story here….

Courtesy: TechTree.com http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Wikia_to_Take_on_Google_Yahoo/551-79691-643.html

In a remarkable series of events, Intel buys into Bangalore based Comat for $4 million.

Comat Technologies provides business solutions and services for Government, Healthcare and Legal streams.

Intel has taken up marginal stake in Comat which is a pure sign of Intel investing in e-governance service space.

Intel is believed to invest $4 million in the deal and which only boost up Comat to be a market leader in e-government service sector.

The company executives have confirmed the news of Intel investing in their venture.

Comat already have some of the key projects operating and has partnered some of the best providers and promoters as well.

Courtesy: SillionIndia.com
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/35203

Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page.The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search,weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.You can choose to share a certain page with invited visitors or the world.Any number of pages can be added.It offers a scrollable view.Also the layout of each page is customizable.

Adding Feeds/Flakes:

You can add feeds,flakes to your page.Feeds based on Several categories are available.Pageflakes is one of a few sites that put RSS feeds, YouTube videos, web search, a to-do list and other modules in one place.You can also add your own feed.

Is the Flakes editable?

Yes, ofcourse.If you are adding Pageflakes News in your page,you are free to mention how many number of posts should appear,whether tooltip and description about the post is required or not.In the case of Flickr flake,you can view,the photos by giving the tag name or the most recent or intersting one.Single picture or 9 pictures can be viewed at a time.

May i  know the upcoming events in my city?
Yes,you can also know the upcoming events in your city by giving your Zipcode(US only).Even here you can specify the number of events to be diplayed per page.

Email configuration:

 You can also configure your email account.It supports several account types.

Search Offered:

Google search.

People behind it:

Dan Cohen, CEO -Prior to Pageflakes he was the head of My Yahoo!, Yahoo’s personalized homepage, and before that led product management for personalized products at Google, including the Google Personalized Homepage.

Christoph Janz, CPO-Back in 1997, Christoph co-founded German Internet startup DealPilot.com, one of the first comparison shopping services which got funded by Bertelsmann and has later been acquired by Shopping.com.

Omar AL Zabir, CTO-He developed projects for companies like HP, Bank of America, Citibank and other companies in the US, Australia, Germany and Bangladesh

Ole Brandenburg, CMO-He held marketing positions for several other Internet companies including Jamba, which he co-founded, Dooyoo and myBet.

Uday Walia, CIO-He was co-founder and CTO of GetSmart, JobFlash and Done.com, three VC-funded Bay Area startups. Prior to that, Uday held executive and managerial positions with at Wells Fargo Bank and Nortel. 

Storm Analysis:

In the startpage market, the independent companies seems to be innovating much faster than the grown ups.So, could Google or Microsoft be interested in acquiring a startpage, despite having their own products ?

What a beautiful thinking…..why not we have an Indian Search Engine specific to enhance the Indian user experience? You still wondering whether we have one or not?

Guruji.com is the Indian Google. 

Guruji.com helps Indian searchers look for specific Indian content on web ranging from people to cities to hotels and of course, anything and everything of India in one go.

When you visit the site for the first time, you get the feel of Google.
But this “Search Hai Hindustani”

So whats sooo kool about Guruji?

 –Offering in Indian languages. Now, Grandpa and Grandma can use Guruji. Guruji is currently offering in Hindi, Kannada and Telugu.

–Since, Guruji is in beta stage; the good thing we liked is that they care for user. They want to keep improving by taking feedbacks from the user experience.

 –Its covering a number of Indian cities which includes Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Indore and many more.

– Its not only Search but searching almost everything an Indian user would need.

–Web 2.0 lovers destination as well

 Click to enlarge and visit the url!!!

People Behind it

Anurag Dod, CEO, Alumnus IIT-Delhi

Gaurav Mishra, COO, Alumnus IIT-Delhi

Suvir Sujan, Need we say more? Okay, co-founder of Bazee.com

Groups Behind the venture

Great ideas need more of mentoring than capital. But it would be great if one can get a combination of both.

Sequoia Capital India: Yes, these the people behind the success stories of Google, Apple, Cisco etc providing mentoring and capital.

Storm Analysis:

Search has always been a crowded market and we have seen enough changes in the way search is done. There are enough of global players like Google, Yahoo!, Ask etc.

Search has a new face in near future; currently the indexing is done using text. What about brining video or audio indexing?

But, Guruji seems good at beta stage. But needs to take constant user feedback to improve the results. Storm team liked the concept of Guruji’s Gyaan; A perfect piece, guess even Google is missing this. A good move from Guruji.

Long way to go for Guruji.

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