Google Movies Search Google movies search is accessible over web, mobiles, iPhones just go to google.com/movies, it will automatically trace your location and show latest/ upcoming movies listing in theaters new you and can even play trailers, show ratings and categories, movie posters, upcoming showtimes, and a concise list of the nearest theaters and their distances from you. Google Files Search Google search commands gives a very useful way to search specific files such as MS Word, PDFs, RTF or even ZIP files, all you have to do is add <space>filetype:<file extension> after the search, for ex. - 'filetype:.doc' for word documents and 'filetype:pdf' for acrobat PDF files (see pic above). Google Music Search Google music search is a good option for music lovers that allow you to search latest songs, albums or artist and play them at same time. However, due to legal constraints the Music search is restricted to users in US only. Google Dictionary Google Fast-Flip As in google's own words - "Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to ...

All along year 2009, this year has been the year of disruptive ideas, innovations and originality of concept that drove the startups in India when it comes to technology, web and internet. Similar to Best Startups list in 2008 we are compiling a list of some the very interesting and gutsy startups that made impression over the world wide web. The list is relatively small when it comes to numbers and the basic criteria of choosing the startups in India are - How disruptive is an Idea behind?, Orginality of startup concept, Are they really startup? and lastly how much impact did they made to their similar competitors/counterparts with their first presence. So, here we go; VoicePHP - A product by Tringme which is a Bangalore, India-based startup come up with disruptive simple idea of infusing VoIP into PHP by using the familiar PHP programming methodology which can be freely downloaded and is used by majority of web developers. TringMe introduces this simple technology as not an extension to PHP but the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text. iMO - iMO, a Gurgaon, India based 3-people early-age startup who was able make ...

The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen COP15 of all that big gathering of world leaders might not be as successful as it needed. However, the technology is backing up the Climate challenge education across the globe. The major internet brands such as Microsoft and Google are providing some excellent online resource and tools to educate, inform and empower people to address climate change. Microsoft - The Environmental Atlas of Europe - A digital platform for educating citizens about climate change, along with nine case studies illustrating the consequences of climate change in different environments, such as the shrinking ice cover in the Baltic. Bend the Trend - An online global program that helps people make pledges to reduce their carbon emissions. Eye on Earth - Windows Azure-powered portal that lets users track and give feedback about their environmental data such as air and water quality. The data is being provided by different individuals across the globe, through Bing maps, historical environment data and via environment monitoring stations. Project 2 Degrees - A Web-based Emissions Tracker software tool for cities around the world to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by calculating the carbon footprint and also to plan meaningful actions that ...

If you have been making and maintaining your profiles around social networking sites in India, than you can not deny that people are more interested these days in networking sites which have professional bent and career oriented rather than throwing just chatting words and scraps. In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com). Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making quite good impression over Indian audience. Brijj.com is online professional network from same company who is behind 99acres.com and Naukri.com, the networking site launched in August 2007 and still in beta, has now gradually emerging as choice of people's own pro-networking site. PeerPower.com is another big brand supported Pro-networking community portal and little different to other networking portals in its peer portal. The portal is flagship of Time Business Online Pvt. Ltd. and its too in beta mode earlier it was in closed beta users mode. SiliconIndia - It is one most rapidly growing professional networking although carry more of a news aggregating site's features and traits. The home page consist of ...

Community News - Its a nice plugin if you want to infuse some sense of community for your readers, visitors to take part in sharing, submitting their own content. Also If your blog update is not so frequent then adopting this plugin can atleast bring you some 'new content' for your blog. The plugin comes with with moderation panel, a settings page and its own RSS. Media Burner - Its a cool plugin that extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts automatically by filtering post content on the fly and creates a site-wide player. Although it still to release full fledged its great to have it even if you seldom put videos in your blog posts. (Example Screenshot below) GooseGrade (Citizen Editing) - You might heard of citizen Journalism where visitors involve in publishing their own articles apart from it, this service cum plugin does Citizen Editing i.e. let you visitors do copy-editing your blog just by selecting the word(s). In other words it crowd-source any blog's copy-editing to readers and as a blog owner you get a notification for each edit, and you can then go in and see what the suggested change is and have it fixed ...

Social networking which is integral part of web 2.0 wave, as users have much more participation level in this domain along with networking that lure them more than anything. When talking about this, names that appears in anyone's' mind are Facebook, Orkut or MySpace leaders in social networking and all of them have big names, brand and most importantly money to pay to their developers, visualizers etc. however today one can find plenty of scripts to make their own facebook clones or myspace kinda network. In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software. In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here. iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source ...

Large Scale Social Network BigAdda.com has one of a first Indian based social networking portal after Google's Orkut and has even manged to get large user base through excellent marketing strategies and brand i.e. Reliance. The portal is perpetually getting more user base even after months of its launch and one of a big reason being blog of Amitabh Bachachan on Bigadda.com. Social News Portal The ViewsPaper, a Gurgaon based web startup focussed at youth population of India and wants them to write for theviewspaper.net, in a concept of citizen journalism. with wide varieties of content to share with the paper in form of news, videos or anything that sounds a good opinion as youth voice. Mobile Applications Savitr TxtMe is successful custom mobile application in 2008 for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps along with customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Other worth to mention is RockeTalk.com. Mobile Search Zook.in is much hyped and growing search service in Indian mobile internet users. A Bangalore startup incubated at premier Indian management institute IIM, Bangalore has really impressed the users with its search capabilities over the mobile. Microblogging Service Kwippy is one mobile startup that has impressed me a lot in terms ...

Below is the list of new and few good Search engines or portals that serve search results in quite different way or in a different niche and that could be quite worthy to use in conjunction with major search engines. DeepDyve - This is latest search engine which don't want to call itself as just another search engine and claim to provide rich, relevant search results along with professional, high-caliber sources. Though require sign-in, I find it very useful when you want just relevant results in short time. Viewzi - This is kind of visual tool to search info, content, news, photos, videos, songs in number of enjoyable visually manipulated ways. Its a flash based search service and one would love to browse and drill down in its search especially its own Google Timeline news search. Kosmix - Its more like a Aggregator of search results fetched from different top sources most of them being user generated content such as Digg, Fark, Yahoo Buzz, etc. Kosmix has been started by an Indian entrepreneur and present content/ search results to users in much organized way. A search portal worth to use. TineEye Reverse Image Search - TinEye is not so new reverse image search engine ...

In IndianWeb2.com's previous post of Visualize Your Web, Bookmarks, Tags and Blogosphere, I have posted about two very good example of web 2.0/ mashups of del.icio.us tags and blogosphere by Sixpli and Twingly.com respectively. Now here are some more and bunch of resources, tools and websites dealing with mashing up with visual web 2.0, visual web semantics mashups sites, apps and tools etc. So here is the list - Walk2Web - Walk2Web is a visualization tool that shows graphical link structure of URL entered and sites linked to it and let you surf these sites as if you are walking along these linked sites and at the same you can see screenshot of these sites. Websites as Graph - It makes a Graph of Websites by providing URL of website which then convert the HTML code of any webpage into Tree/ Nodes like graph structure where colors represent various tags of webpage source code. Scriptaculous - script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your websites and web applications for e.g. - Drag and Drop AJAX box, Slide in/out, Autocompleting AJAX text fields, Sortable elements w/AJAX callback, Combination Effects Demo. One of my favorite and best for Web 2.0 ...