Yahoo! launched its own social networking app called Mash [http://mash.yahoo.com], which is in an invitation-only beta as of now. If anyone needs an invite to Mash then drop me a comment message (below). It’s too early to say whether Mash will claim a market share among…
The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service [http://www.trynt.com/trynt-contextual-term-extraction-api/] provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. Yahoo has a similar Content Analysis Web Service [http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html], which is also available in Yahoo Pipes [http://pipes.…
Some of the world’s hottest Web 2.0 startups are outside the United States. Find out where they are, and what they’re up to. Read more at CNN Money … [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0707/gallery.web_world.biz2/index.html]…
Microsoft will release Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700830.aspx] (codename Orcas) tomorrow (26th July). Keep an eye on the downloads [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx] page, which also includes the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1.…
Sometime back, Cait [http://scientaestubique.wordpress.com/] e-mailed me to participate in a survey centred around Australian Internet-startup’s. The survey results [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pq8tRfjYA9FcbFRttlWsyIw&pli=1] can be viewed online, although I think its still missing responses from a few other participants. There are…
The latest scoop from the social web is that, both Google and Yahoo are working on next generation social networks. Yahoo is working on a service called Mosh [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/mosh-yahoos-new-social-network-initiative/] (certainly to replace 360 [http://360.yahoo.com/]), while Google is working on Socialstream…
There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping) and…
One of the best solutions to spam is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period. Checkout the Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services [http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/05/27/top-20-temporary-and-disposable-email-services] . My personal choice is Jetable [http://www.jetable.org/…