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 ...

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 ...

LeadLogsys.com is new web based CRM and sales & lead management platform. And obviously web based, there is no software to install, you can work from anywhere. Apparently, called itself as Dashboard, the app has all CRM and Lead management capabilities such as automatic to-do creation, document management, agenda, notes, simple user management, keep track of appointments, phone calls & all of your other to-do's with a simple calendar and sales management traits such as sales process, to-do lists, lead sources, lead template etc. The app has fantastic UI and some of the pretty good user experience elements that compel the users to indulge more in the app and they use it, also wider functionalities that a web based CRM or Lead management system should have. At moment a free beta account has a 5 user per account limit.

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.

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 ...

A Bangalore based firm has introduced WOLF Frameworks, its a platform which allows business analyst, domain experts to design & deliver all sorts of business applications over the internet without writing a single line of technical code (no script). WOLF is a 100% browser based Web Application Designing & Development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which in turn will create mashable and interoperable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Applications on the internet without writing a single line of technical code or having programming knowledge. It provides a quick, easy, flexible and cost effective way of building customized web applications, targeted towards Business Users. This Business 2.0 tool/ framework offered over the web and can fundamentally revolutionizes the way companies can access Business software's on-demand, manage change, get lower cost, unlock their intellectual potential by rapidly transforming ideas as deployed applications & in turn increase Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption worldwide. The framework currently offers more than 25 ready-to-use WOLF Business Applications for SMB's & plans to bring many partner driven - customer centric SaaS applications to the market. View Demos of Wolf's 25 ready to use apps. Prerequisite for using this online framework over the web is an internet connection, a browser program and the knowledge of modeling ...