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Do you own a chi.mp?

August 29th, 2009 No comments

No, this is not chimp, i am talking about chi.mp. This new service provides you a free domain name and a website, and other whole bunch of identity management stuff like blog, twitter, facebook,  skype and flickr content. It even give you a RSS of your website. Have a look at yogeshmalik.mp, this is not complete. You can make it much better if you interface it with all online services and start using it as your website. Read more…

Seth Godin & Tom Peters on blogging

August 26th, 2009 No comments

Who does not know Seth Godin and Tom Peters.  Look at this video on what they have to say about blogging, in simple and profound words.

Stop Searching, Start Finding. GSA (Google Search Appliance)

August 23rd, 2009 No comments

Redefining ROI, that is exactly what Google did this time, before you get me wrong ROI here is Return On Information. You might have invested millions on IT infrastructure, databases, Content Systems, Business Intelligence, Battery of Web Servers. But, if your users are not able to find the right information at the right time, What is the use of all that? The Google Search Appliance 6.0 (GSA) helps organizations of all sizes increase Return on Information by delivering the instant, relevant search results your employees need to make the most of their time and budgets. Read more…

Clouds again, this one is private

August 22nd, 2009 No comments

IT managers are sure that there is a lot of cost saving and reduced efforts if they move to cloud, but IT business decision makers are still skeptic. So there is a trend that organization are moving to private cloud before they decide to move on to the public cloud. I have already talked about clouds at Enter the clouds and Why i like clouds?, Private clouds can do resource provisioning and de-provisioning very fast and you have the control over your virtual environment. Read more…

One Million Virtual Machines, to beat the BotNet

August 20th, 2009 No comments

BotNet is a collection of autonomously and automatically running software robots on infected computers, controlled by some remote command center, used for the purpose of internet frauds and other online crimes. Now even cellphones are potential target of BotNet. According to some authentic report, there are more than 9% of the computers on the internet which are part of BotNet now. According to CIA World Fact Book, there are about 1.3 billion user devices Read more…

Marketing the moon, Google and NASA

August 16th, 2009 No comments

There is a lot of interest Google is showing in the space research.

This is a perfect and open way to market a space project. If you can successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth. You win the Google Lunar X PRIZE which is $30 million (USD). Read more…

Test Windows 7 in the cloud

August 12th, 2009 No comments

We know that Windows 7 is still to come full-on, but cloud service providers are offering Windows 7 testing. So if you are a software developer company and plan to test your code on Windows 7, you can test it in the cloud. If your organization wants to run some compatibility tests before upgrading to Windows 7, test it in the cloud. Read more…

Enter the cloud, with a plan

August 10th, 2009 No comments

This is my third article on clouds, after Why i like clouds so much? and Is India ready for the clouds?. We know that we can’t resist this technology, so for the corporates it is good to have some plan.  Instead of fully migrating to cloud, which requires a lot of change in the mindsets of management and IT guys, one could chose the hybrid way, one can start migrating some applications to the clouds, which could be: Read more…

Are you Going Google?

August 8th, 2009 No comments

Want to switch from Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes to Goolge Apps, Google is open for you.

Google-hosted email, calendar applications provides 50 times more storage per user than the industry average storage per employee. It also reduces clutter with effective spam filtering and automatic message threading. Access it from any computer or mobile device, you also get Outlook and Blackberry interoperability. Read more…

Free Online Picture Editors, for fun

August 5th, 2009 No comments

Working on these online picture editors is much faster than what i thought and there are so many websites. Most of the online picture editors are very professional, but that was not something i was looking for. I was looking for something which can give me funny results, funny enough to impress my son, as i promised him to take his picture for illustration. Impressive enough results, Read more…

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