Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the rejuvenation work to be implemented till year 2009 and that would be taken as biggest expansion in last 40 years in Internet, since its inception. ICANN has approved some recommendations that bring out the more of internet for people to express themselves. Below are some recommendation; New strings in domains TLDs (Top Level Domains) from presently .com, .org or .edu etc. to any user choice such as .YourCompanyName or .music for music industry or .brandName for any company brand or even your name like www.website.ramanarayan. New scripts/ languages support for domains, URI to be written in and that would extended to world's languages which will important for future of internet in Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. The Hint is that it can be written in these region's languages respectively, from presently 37 Roman characters only. Presently users have 21 Top Level Domains (TLDs) to chose from, soon after this expansion the users can have self chosen TLDs to name their domains, unless these TLDs are not offensive based on public morality and order. It is expected that ICANN will accept applications for new names in the second quarter of 2009. Importantly, ...

AppApeal.com has created web 2.0 Mosaic i.e. an art in form of world map filled with small pieces of images, which in this case are logos of leading web 2.0 websites. This World Web 2.0 Mosaic is created from 1001 web 2.0 company logos which when clicked take you to the related website. The logos will appear in full-size when you hover over the mosaic. This art of AppApeal has reminded me of Million Dollar Page that had created a lot of buzz, couple of years back but here in this case its free but no inclusion request or so. One things I found annoyed in AppApeal's Mosaic art is that not even a single website or blog from India has been included in the web 2.0 logos art, though there are worth full websites from India that are much popular than many of the websites present in mosaic art. Nevertheless, a great art work. Thanks, Jelle de Bruin.

A top notch video sharing and entertainment portal from France - DailyMotion is set to arrive in India for online video sharing activity in Indian web market. A DailyMotion website user can discover, upload and embed videos online through the site, that obviously include user generated content in form of videos, the france based website would share market with strong contender such as YouTube India, AOL India Videos, MSN India Videos and also Metacafe that too have strong user base in India. To compete with others in online video market DailyMotion has tied-up with Hungama entertainment firm which have strong base with over 250 deals with media and entertainment companies to let their content travel through various digital platforms. Hungama Mobile will act as a anchor partner cum Business associate in Indian operations as company has no plans to set up the physical presence in India, Hungama Mobile will deal with all content manipulation activities in India. Moreover Dailymotion.com has tied with Eros , Mid-Day and Bollywood Hungama which deals in entertainment, news and movie content repectively, wherein their content will be available on DailyMotion platform, the company is also close to deals with news channels such as NDTV, Aaj Tak ...

IBNKhabar.com Web 18 Software services a venture of India's leading media and internet venture Network18 has launched today a complete Hindi news portal IBNKhabar.com in parallel to another existing popular news site IBNLive.com and another hindi news site josh18.com. The company already have more than dozen of websites, portals under its umbrella most prominent are Yatra.com, Jobstreet, MoneyControl and recent one cricketnext.com. The Hindi news portal IBNKhabar have everything at par that a news portal should have, right from sports, entertainment, business to blogs, pictures, videos as well as Citizen Journalism column that encourage readers to actively participate their own local news. The company Network18 has provided a variety of products for internet users in India and its recent moves in Indian web arena are on top comparable to any other company in India. Vertical portals or Cricket based websites, Network18 has provided varieties in their websites. The recent ones are IndiWo.com, a India Women oriented vertical portal and another one Buzz18 is an entertainment portal. Although there are many Hindi news portals in India such as Jagran-Yahoo Hindi news, BBC Hindi News, Dainik Bhaskar and rest including Google News in Hindi are just aggregating the news from other sources.

Indian technology company Infosys technologies has revealed a plan to develop a special chipsets for Mobile devices that will transform it to able to capture and project 3D holographic images. The company will release the attached chipsets mobile devices by year 2010, moreover the company has even protected this latest technology via US patent 7209269. This patented onboard processor of Infosys would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called Fourier transformations to calculate that extra third dimension. This latest technology from Indian giant will provide ultimate support to few critical real world situation such as analyzing car crash, educational aids, medical case studies by transforming objects into 3D capured from camera, scanners. Apart from this information, the company hasn't revealed further news or sample prototype of device of how it would look like when launched.

Savitr, a wireless and mobile company in India has launched a custom mobile application for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps. The product Txtme is text messaging application and software that connect subscriber data to carrier networks to provide custom use of this product such as - Sending sms to customers for marketing use. Integrating sms alerts in applications & online stores. Corporate use to stay connected with employees & partners through web interface. Integration with HR management system with predefined message for specific events. Web applications use by integrating text message functionality in web, social apps in networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Orkut. Other custom use such as message wall in clubs, restaurants, launge etc. Customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Savitr through this product has provided solutions that rely on mobile device usage in perfect scenario when mobile usage is rising enormously in India being just second after US in mobile usage. At this time all type of businesses particularly startups are showing interest in exploiting mobile products of every sphere whether its is Twitter or short code mobile network services. Earlier Savitr had also launched one of its Txtme Facebook app to send free sms to USA, UK ...

Today, the most revolutionary device that we could say have changed our lives is - Mobile Phones, with more and more technical up gradations, innovations coming up, right from camera phones which has got too obvious for all to PDAs, iPhones or latest one iPhone 3G. Among all the camera phones have become nominal part of our daily life along with clothing accessories. The latest Mobile buzz today we could play with and thats to with much ease is Mobile Codes and QR Codes (Quick Response Code) and both of these technologies require just one thing - a camera phone along with a reader. Let me put it this way - to read PDF files or .rtf files you need Acrobat Reader and MS Word respectively, in same way you need to have QR/ Mobile code reader to encode information in QR codes, which can be installed very easily (if I could do this, anyone can and yes, I am in India :)). The mobile/ QR codes are 2 dimensional codes different from 1 dimensional Bar-codes that we could see on products we purchase from shops/ malls and billing counter person encode it with their Bar-code reader devices. Though Bar codes can ...

MSNBC one of most reputed digital news channel from Microsoft has lately launched a stunning visual RSS reader called Spectra News Reader, that picks news from MSNBC News channels and put in front of user to get a nice visual experience. The App has ability to make it customizable and adding some human interactivity as well. The App Spectra let users to add news channels which in turn carry topics and all this in color combinations and designs to let users distinguish the pallets flying orbitally with headlines on it. The app as apparent is to promote the news website and to compete with the other online news websites which are way ahead than MSNBC.com. If we talk about the channels/ topics that MSNBC have are good enough and vast quality content as well, even though sites like Digg.com, NYTimes, Del.icio.us and even reddit are way ahead than MSNBC. Digg too have similar fashioned Visual web tools or apps to lure its users such as Digg Spy, Arc or Big Spy but it would get its part of traffic anyway. MSNBC in a similar manner does have number of tools, apps and widgets to make its content go viral, one can see all ...

Microblogging is a new form of blogging that has ramped up quickly and created various offshoots uses of itself apart from a common use of updating/publishing thoughts in form of text (usually less than 200 characters),evenmore, microblogging is said to be used as tool in communication, productivity, e-commerce, brand exposure and in many cases a serious business tool because of its instant information retrieval nature, thus nearly a real time info exchange. While on global scale brands like Twitter (need no intro) and Jaiku are main players along with Pownce (from Digg), India is also deliberately paving way in Microblogging, though Twitter remain the key player in India too, a lot of Microblogging platforms were introduced in past 6 months in India. Below are major microblogging platforms in India; A web app from Indian mobile technology company Webaroo, SMSGupShup is major Indian microblogging platform. It provide users to send/free free text SMS to any mobile device. Unlike to Twitter, it provide its users to create and join groups to send and recieve SMSs to and from users in these groups respectively. As apparent, sending and receiving SMS via mobile and online site usage seems to have 1:5 ratio thus the site doesn't appeal ...

Corners.in that we have wrote about its launch in February this year, has now launched its social platform aka Engine to infuse apps in major social networking portal namely Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Hi5. The website Corners launched earlier in February with features to act like social networking website, customize content in users profile called 'corners'. The website has now built a social platform to provide content in form of applications to social networking portals having open social platforms. In anticipation of this social engine the website has launched a Facebook App called - Cinemas, where user can get movies related content in their Facebook profiles. Though, we have pointed out in our previous post about Corners.in, that the website is more about movies, photos of Indian Cinema rather than other traits of social networking sites, this has been maintained in App for Facebook too. Interestingly, the plans of company that I perceived through email received from Sanjeev, Founder of Melamesa, the makers of Corners.in, he wrote - Social networking now has two dimensions to it - The social infrastructure on one side, and the content on the other. The biggest social networks today - Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, hi5, have identified this dichotomy and have ...