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

SlideShare a place to publish, share and explore other slides, presentations has released new plugin for PowerPoint 2007. The plugin named as SlidehShare Ribbon lets you search SlideShare, download powerpoint presentations and upload your own presentation without opening a web browser. One need to have PowerPoint 2007 for Windows and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Earlier versions of PowerPoint, and PowerPoint for Mac, are not supported yet. Supported versions of Windows are Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or greater and Windows Vista. With SlideShare ribbon one can access most of the feature from Powerpoint 2007 itself right from managing your existing slide on SlideShare.com to viewing presentation statistics, publishing new ones, viewing contacts all from Powerpoint itself and not your browser.

Wikipedia today has launched its Mobile version as - http://mobile.wikipedia.org in order to keep the pace up with mobile 2.0 era, Wikipedia.org has been named as most visited website across the globe. Needless to say Wikipedia has strive to keep its mobile version as simple and optimized for even most basic version of mobiles handsets and less cluttered with images and graphics. Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia written by a global community of volunteers and offer the content in different languages, starting from now onwards it will host content on mobile as well which believed to be more accessible device than a computer as far as masses are concerned. The Wikipedia mobile version also offers a feature called ‘Spoken Wikipedia’, which will give some practical use of the nearly 800 spoken articles on the site.

Qoof, a video commerce platform company has introduces a Video Widget solution for all those ecommerce websites, companies that perform buying, purchasing, shopping cart actions. The widget is flash-based embeddable video presentation that provide all product information, consumer communications, and purchase steps are also conducted using the widget only. Qoof Widget is the first customized video commerce widget that work towards a sales & revenue. Along with ecommerce websites it is also a video solution for the affiliate industry, which affiliates can use as embeddable videos which is more informative and thus increase their commissions instead of just text and banner ads. The company apparently claimed to reduced fraudulent click-throughs unlike to other popular ad systems with full integration with back-end systems. In addition to this, the widget have prominent features such as detailed historical and real time reporting, click to call via VOIP, Skype, land line, and chat, text reviews/ comments, post to publisher site, share and print. Moreover, for customized look of widget Qoof also provide features such as lead generation through online forms, surveys with check and text boxes, consumer feedback and customer relations. Qoof has been selected for the final round in the Embeddable Widgets Category of Mashable’s Open Web ...

LifeSnapz enables people to capture and explore life events with photos, videos, timelines and maps, and share these events with friends, family and other trusted groups. With interactive LifeSnapz users can organize, manipulate, find and share their own life events within user defined groups with customizable timelines, interactive maps and tags. Nominated for Open Web awards, LifeSnapz have used almost every media type any user can ever captured their life events in. Users can use LifeSnapz as a Individual user or as a group, company, organization or institution to enable them to organize/ share their histories, events and memorable moments in interactive ways. LifeSnapz users can even share their photos and videos from third party site apart from their own computers and for this the website has chosen intelligently ace performers in both of these, Flickr & Picassa for photos and YouTube & Vimeo.com for videos. The website has also appreciatively taken a good care of privacy while sharing ones online content with any users or groups such as 'read-only' members who can view events in the group and add comments to events, but cannot edit events, add new events or invite other members to the group.

Mozilla's Chief Executive John Lilly has revealed in an interview that much awaited mobile version of Firefox is set to launch within a time of coming few weeks though it will be launched in alpha release mode. The mobile version of Firefox will be full-featured mobile browser including support for add-ons that similar to what we already using as web version of it. Moreover it will also allow developers to develop, debug and deploy web applications for its mobile version along. This open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, can also be embedded by mobile manufacturers giving a tough competition to Opera mini, a mobile browser engine by Opera. Noticeably, Mozilla was working on mobile version of Firefox since one year. Mozilla has already released mobile browser 'Fennec' for Linux-based devices (Nokia N800 and N810) and Windows Mobile 6 based HTCS730 but it has been shipped in few places only, by Nokia with name of MicroB browser.

SnappyFingers, a web startup from Bangalore is a Question and Answer search engine. It crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Question/Answer format. While most visitors use the site for finding answers, few have also found it to be valuable in conducting research. The site is in beta, and has a database of 3 million questions, UI is pretty good and stand firm when it comes to usability, user friendliness and search results are just relevant and seems at this initial stage if more work is done on same it could perform well in vertical search category of question/ answers. Although people are used to look for answers on popular domains such as Answers.com, Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers which every web startup have to compete with, that have similar website model and concept. A web startup has to think about what it has to offer more and not less than what others are already offering on web. Noticeably, in this regard few good example are Mixx.com w.r.t Digg, Friendfeed w.r.t Twitter or what edge does Quantcast/ compete.com have over Alexa. The company behind vertical search engine is planning to increase the number of ...