Google Wave is upcoming product from Google which could be next big thing for Google after Gmail and Google Maps, being one of the most successful products from google. Google Wave is a new web application carrying true traits of Web 2.0 and for communication and collaboration on the web doing equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is expected to launch later this year and this is how it works - one can create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content, allowing for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved. Interestingly, Google Wave is HTML 5 app, built on Google Web toolkit and one can even embed Waves ...

You might have seen and using widgets that helps you to make your websites go viral such as Addtoany.com, addthis.com, sharethis.com redirecting visitors of your site to spread your webpage across the web whether its on social networking, community websites or emails. However new widget of similar profile has questioned security of websites where such widgets are embedded and prone to breakage, however CrowdSend, a new widget service claim to be most secure, extensive and easiest to use than any other existing sharable widget in the market. Also unlike to any other sharable widget for promoting content of websites or blog the widgets are not placed in top or bottom of article/post but left-most, right-most or bottom-most of any webpage quite similar to the widget getsatisfaction.com feedback widget. CrowdSend has 44 boomkaring services and emails to promote content of websites, blogs or myspace pages and they are even more customizable to some extent than other ones in its own niche. Crowdsend also provide developer library yet not free, to customize it to even more extent and use as desired.

Opera, famous web browser company has got the video on Youtube showing some of its Futuristic technology and approach that Opera will soon be offering to people through mobile. It quite a similar to what Microsoft has released its Year 2019 Futuristic Look Video and showing some of the best sci-fi technology to public for real and now Opera is no different though it should be welcomed and must be anticipated.

How will the technology look like in the years ahead, say 2019? Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop’s presentation at the Wharton Business Technology Conference released a video as a part of their presentation. Microsoft is working towards glimpse of future technology that will transform the way we live and work in the years ahead in various fields. Microsoft is even working towards the Concept Test/ Prototype of some of them. <a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" mce_href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a> Via - Microsoft Office Labs Future Vision Montage

FamilyLink. com a Provo, Utah based family-centered social networking company has raised $2.85 million in Series B funding the company has previously raised its initial round of funding of $1.25 million in August 2007. Several Series A investors joined the Series B funding round, including vSpring Capital and TTP Capital Advisors of Japan the company employs 30 people in the US, and has development offices in India and the Philippines. The company has multi-projects in its bag centered around family-tree and finding ancestors' history. The interesting one is - 'How to use Google more effectively as a genealogy research tool' with a 352 page book written by genealogy and technology expert, Dan Lynch. It is said that Google's indexes more than 20 billion pages of the Web and it's likely that some of these pages contain clues about anyone's ancestors. Apart from FamilyLink.com the company has other such services as - Genseek, WorldVitalRecords.com, WebTree, Worldhistory.com and family-tree and genealogy based application at major social networking portal such as Facebook (We Are Related), MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Friendster. As per the December 2008 Quantcast statistics, the company ranked among the top 500 web companies world and giving a stiff comptetion to other portals in its ...

SMSResume.in is new web start-up from India in its very young phase eventhough worthy for many as it enables users makes it possible to send their resumes via SMS over their cellphones. The process is - users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload resume on the site for once and thereafter can send resumes through their cellphones only. The service comes handy especially for those job seekers who have to apply urgently for a job and when there is no internet connection available at any point of time. To availe the service for free, the users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload one's resume on the site and then, whenever the need be, shoot off the resume by sending an SMS to 9711532380 in pre-defined format i.e. Resume <hr emailid> (example: Resume career@xyzcompany.com). User would even receive Email notification from smsresume.in as the smsresume server send a BCC copy to users' email id and informs that the resume has been successfully delivered to the recipient.

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 ...

ReadSpeaker.com is a new service for website and blog owners, ReadSpeaker provides webReader as a service that one can add to web page or blogs posts and let the visitors listen to it. It is a kinda button that when clicked will read the entire page or a pre-defined part of the content chosen by website/ blogs owners. This new web reader online speech service by Voice Corp is available as widget/ plugin and Javascript code for website and blog owners. The service is available in English (US/UK), French and Swedish and more will be added in future. The ReadSpeaker plugins available are for  WordPress (v2.5+), Blogger, TypePad, Ning and Joomla (v1.5). A 'Listen' button would be visible on websites when publishers signup for the service and when visitors click the listen button and the latest text content of that page will be read, in both male and female voices. The service is truly a nice add-on for any web content and it could even fill the gap of dual activity of podcast and text-content from single source, at same URL and without letting user to go to some other page other than your own domain. Although, similar services are there such as BlogBard ...

Planzone is a (SaaS) based collaborative project management platform and team collaboration solution launched by Netherlands based software firm Augeo Software. Planzone provide many of innovative features and collaborative ways to manage project completion plan. With its Planzone community it provide more of the community feature using project templates and public and private database to opt and at the same time advertise, publicize and promote your company. Planzone has also been certified and been granted sponsorship by "OSEO-Innovation", a French public institution (under the authority of the French Ministry of Economy). Moreover, the business tool is available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Russian languages and will soon be available in more languages in future. The business tool is continuously making efforts and improvisation in application and receiving feedback and help/ support through Planzone Forum. The free trial option when chosen provide at most 2 projects to be managed in application along with 25MB of document and file storage space with maximum of 5 users.

IDNTITI is a community rating tool from a San Jose, CA based company providing Reputation & Identity related information about any entity in a clean and crisp quantitative manner. The tool allows you to rate any Person, Company, Product/Service (launching shortly), etc., that user have been associated with and have an opinion on. Entities currently rated on the site include Google, HP, Intel, Infosys and currenttly infamous Satyam Computers and other companies, schools and colleges from India along with US, Japan, Germany, UK etc.The site also allows users to sign-in through open-ID or Google/Yahoo/Facebook/ AOL login IDs Users can contribute the parameters being rated. The parameters are rated on a 0 to 10 scale. Semantic analytics can be easily done in a single click. No text based review is allowed, thus helping readers a quick understanding on the reputation of any entity. It's a way of looking at ratings in a social networking set-up. By becoming a member, user can invite his community to rate anything, look at their connected members ratings, filter data based on demographically similar people, re-compute score based on parameters that are important to each user. Therefore the rating is now customized and very relevant for every user.