Intel Corporation, today has released its beta version of Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) available for Microsoft Windows (C and C++) and Moblin (C langg.) operating systems developers. Ultimately, it will allow software companies and individuals to develop apps for for Intel-based Netbooks which will be available in market next year. Intel's Atom based devices including mobile phones, mobile internet devices and Netbooks are forecasted to reach more than 50 million users by the end of 2009. Intel is offering big prizes to developers to develop apps using Atom API and will also be offering revenue-generating program in 2010, after that developers can even sell their applications and components and receive upto 70% of the revenue from every sale from every store. However, to join the Intel's Atom Apps API program, developers need to pay $99 as annual fee towards site administration and the validation process of their developed apps they will submit.

Intel Corp. has launched a bookmarking site Cool Software and not to say very similar to Digg or better say Reddit.com where user can submit site and get vote for their submissions, share them and bury (save) already submitted site. Although user can bookmark submitted websites/ pages to other bookmarking sites as well. Intel Corp. seems to be showing interest in Web 2.0 meme and social networking than its supposed to be, being hardware driven corporation. Recently Intel launched Community and Blogging platform but for the reason that Intel is using this as to get feedback from end-users and other partners using its technologies. The bookmarking site is under umbrella of Intel Software Network that apparently working on online social media services. So far Intel's web 2.0 involvement are pretty much clear by sites launched by company in a short span of time, lets have a look of them; 1. Open Port (Intel's Online Community Network) 2. http://softwareblogs.intel.com 3. IntelPedia (Intel's Company-wide Wiki) 4. Intel Discussion Forum Among which Cool Software, is a bookmarking site where member users can post present or upcoming softwares, companies, websites and vote (analogous to Digg) them and bring them on front page of site to make coolest among all. The company makes ...

Intel Corporation, a major chip manufacturing company has also understood the core advantages of Web 2.0 arena by exploring and using social networking and business blogging so as to improvise and boost its contemporary technologies, products and their ongoing development. Actually Intel wants to further improvise, bring about more new features, new developments in one of its technology called Intel vPro Technology (TM), a product/ package of hardware and software to provide business oriented PCs. Thus what else could be better way to provide a community network so as to get suggestions from end-users, partners and others to share, exchange and transfer knowledge. These suggestion will be utilized by Intel developers to bring new features. Open Port, thats what Intel's online community is called as, this is to share ideas and discuss topics and its blogs - http://softwareblogs.intel.com, are blogs by Intel people along with audio blogs, Intel podcast as well. One can see popular tags, stumbleupon, del.icio.us bookmark tags and all those blogging lingos.