Google has released Chart tools and APIs that will enable anyone to add live & interactive charts to any web page for free of-course. Google chart tools is an attempt from Google to consolidate all of Google's charting tools and put it in one location.However, there are no new code or new APIs its actually a consolidation of already available Google Chart API and the Google Visualization API. What is new for developers that will be much more comfortable and interesting to work with are documentation and new feature such as - Revised documentation and a new page that lists all parameters on one page and a new page for each new chart type. Added a new chart playground for developers that lets you modify a chart URL and view changes as you type. POST requests are now supported, enabling chart URLs up to 16K characters. There were many players that was offering tools & APIs (paid as well) for charts & data visuals however they necessary requirements restrict the use of same such as (Adobe flash, silverlight etc.) however Google Charts are free from such things run from client side using javascript. The Google has finally released the Charts & visuals API in an organized ...

Nubli is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 that provide solution for email overload by providing an intelligence pack for inbox and helping to improve email productivity almost by 30-40%. Nubli's Emailsmarts automatically finds the most important e-mails and helps users answer them efficiently. Nubli automatically prioritizes your emails into high, medium and low enabling you to focus on important emails and take quick actions on de-prioritized email. Automated Tagging and dashboard provide for effortless organization of Inbox, keeping you less stressful and in full control of your email. Nubli is a start-up based out of Bay Area, founded in May of 2008 by Indian based founders -  Kumar Saurabh and Mihir Mohanty and is planning to bring the app for iPhone. However the mobile/ PDA version of the app is missing (Outlook in Blackberry, HTC mobiles ?) that would have been more useful for users using such devices and thats too when they access their emails most of the time from their PDAs/ mobile devices.

As a virtue for browser performance competition, Microsoft IE 8 released a feature that come along with IE 8 Add-ons collectively called as Accelerators, Internet Explorer 8 is now offering a feature that claim to save time and clicks and lets you get things done more quickly. These Accelerators actually optimize the browser experience by removing repetitive, time consuming actions and giving easy access to the online services they use most. These accelerators are available just for Internet Explorer 8 version at the Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Gallery. Also, it has to be noted that this has nothing to do with speedier browser or so but making common tasks much faster that people actually do in four browsers: Safari 4.0, Chrome 2.0 beta, Firefox 3.5 beta 99 and Internet Explorer 8. So, Accelerators are making things fast so one can accomplish tasks on the sites that they use every day.

Google has Introduced Page Speed, an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Google Page speed is very much in analogy of Yahoo's YSlow a similar Firefox/Firebug plugin which analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages, although google come late with such thing nevertheless Google's Page Speed provide bit more in-depth analysis than YSlow. Page Speed performs several tests on a site's web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance. Page Speed add-on also displays a timeline of network, cache and Javascript timeline event and events are displayed along the timeline and one can also record activities and collect complete call graphs for any single web page.

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.

Photovisi is a new free online photo tool where you can create cool collage i.e. assembling number of photos into one to form a nice looking wallpaper photo. One can upload upto 30 photographs to from a nice looking collage wallpapers available in varieties of templates.

Naukri.com a pivotal Job portal from Info Edge (India) Limited has announced it integration with Google Chat aka GTalk which enables one to search Jobs within GTalk or GMail chat. Naukri.com has launched this app called NaukriOnChat that lets you search and apply to jobs using Gtalk. This kind of Application comes handy when such kind of Job boards are banned in offices or most of the companies keeping tab on their employees resulting such sites to be blocked at workplaces. With this app one can search or even apply for jobs without having to visit the Naukri.com website. Once logged in on your GTalk desktop app or within Gmail browser window one has to add jobs@chat.naukri.com to Gtalk friends list or chat friends of Gmail to get the NaukriOnChat get going.

According to comScore, a leading web analytic firm Social networking is growing strongly in India in year 2008 with 51% growth in social networking crowd with top players being - Orkut, facebook and only Indian networking portal among top 3 is BharatStudents.com. In year of 2008 a load of other social network has saw a incredible growth in traffic in terms of unique visitors top being - Facebook, Hi5 and MySpace sites. However, Orkut remained the favorite in India. The comScore report also predicted that Social Networking in India will continue to provide space for other players as well provided they have right blend of both a strong brand and cultural relevance. Noticeably, the Indian players in the list have to do some act of redemption or simply rework their portals as apparent in the report social networks made in India such as ibibo.com, BigAdda.com are showing negative change in visitors attention and to my belief creating hype more that what one possess will do nothing but annoy users. The difference in majority of Indian startups are very much visible, though I am reluctant discussing it as seen in comments of IndianWeb2.com a lot of people have been offended.

Invoicera is an automated web based invoicing application from Delhi start-up with features to eliminate any invoicing inconvenience. This online app generate professional looking billing software which is easy-to-use and offers a clutter free and systematized gateway to online billing. The user-interface of app is clean, crisp and user-friendly and offer features, services of invoicing over the web to a more than satisfactory level for users. A similar service of online invoicing is offered by an another Indian Startup called - WinkBill, which also offers some pretty good service for same. These are few good alternatives to much famous Zoho Invoicing and BlinkSale. Invoicera offers some very interesting features such as - while receiving payments from clients, users can offer them multiple payment gateways like Paypal, Authorize.Net, Google Checkout, etc. to pay from. Secondly, when sending e-invoices to clients through Invoicera, a business logo can also be imprinted on the invoices. Invoicera also offers printable version of billing reports in PDF and HTML. The online app also possess a good use of user management in a way that a main user of app can delegate duties to the other users and let them manage few billing transactions and can even set permissions ...