RoamAbout is a plugin that delivers information on the web contextually. Users would not need to leave the site they are browsing in order to search for videos, music, pictures or share the things they come across with. This Firefox & IE plugin bring all these to the user by just highlighting the text any user want without leaving the web page they are viewing. One can get related information by selecting text and clicking the RoamAbout Icon in status bar also users can post to their twitter account, the selected text of a web page and post it directly their, without even leaving the web page actually. Similarly users can browse flickr photos, Google news, info from Wikipedia, maps from MapQuest and videos from YouTube and by just selecting the text in web page you are viewing and hitting the plugin's icons bar. User can customize the the plugin bar so as to limit the no. of Icons for different Web services or websites such as stock quotes, weather or games. Moreover, the company behind RoamAround Vysr do have the open platform that provides developers with any easy way to add and integrate services and networks that users can tap into as ...

Finally, Google has launched its product for this category as well, where till now SecondLife has its major stake, google through its service Lively.com now offering people to build their virtual life by creating 'Avatars' as their very own clone, play with them and roam around in 3D virtual world, make friends and interact in real time with your friends' avatars. Be who you want on the web pages you visit, says Google official blog post, where user with google's Lively.com's service can create their own virtual world just like what SecondLife.com has done earlier. Through Lively users can create avatars, change its looks or wardrobe, be it your surroundings, environment such as furniture, nearby objects, rooms where your avatar put up and decorate your places etc. Lively is a outcome of Arizona State University social networking project where Google wanted to create SecondLife's rival. Eventhough in beta and asking for feedback, Lively.com is ready for all actions to download and give it a try against SecondLife

Posterous is a new service through which users can post just anything by sending email, its a kind of twitter like microblogging, but unlike microblog here one can put any content using smart auto embedding services of Posterous. The service lets post content from email and content could be audio, video, image, pdf, doc or mp3 and you would get 1GB of space for all this. One can use any email service such as GMail, Windows Live (Hotmail), Yahoo or any other to do blogging via email and for that you just have to send an email to post @ posterous.com unlike to other blogging services with WYSIWYG editors or so. The interesting and USP part in this is Posterous intelligently embed the files in different user interfaces like when you post a YouTube video link via email, it automatically embed the video player as such and when you post any audio files it will put a nice Posterous interface for that (see image below) and audio player when you post an mp3 file. Apart from this, when you send URLs, it will automatically create a link and when an image is send as an attachment it resize it to web friendly size, ...

AppApeal.com has created web 2.0 Mosaic i.e. an art in form of world map filled with small pieces of images, which in this case are logos of leading web 2.0 websites. This World Web 2.0 Mosaic is created from 1001 web 2.0 company logos which when clicked take you to the related website. The logos will appear in full-size when you hover over the mosaic. This art of AppApeal has reminded me of Million Dollar Page that had created a lot of buzz, couple of years back but here in this case its free but no inclusion request or so. One things I found annoyed in AppApeal's Mosaic art is that not even a single website or blog from India has been included in the web 2.0 logos art, though there are worth full websites from India that are much popular than many of the websites present in mosaic art. Nevertheless, a great art work. Thanks, Jelle de Bruin.

A top notch video sharing and entertainment portal from France - DailyMotion is set to arrive in India for online video sharing activity in Indian web market. A DailyMotion website user can discover, upload and embed videos online through the site, that obviously include user generated content in form of videos, the france based website would share market with strong contender such as YouTube India, AOL India Videos, MSN India Videos and also Metacafe that too have strong user base in India. To compete with others in online video market DailyMotion has tied-up with Hungama entertainment firm which have strong base with over 250 deals with media and entertainment companies to let their content travel through various digital platforms. Hungama Mobile will act as a anchor partner cum Business associate in Indian operations as company has no plans to set up the physical presence in India, Hungama Mobile will deal with all content manipulation activities in India. Moreover Dailymotion.com has tied with Eros , Mid-Day and Bollywood Hungama which deals in entertainment, news and movie content repectively, wherein their content will be available on DailyMotion platform, the company is also close to deals with news channels such as NDTV, Aaj Tak ...

MSNBC one of most reputed digital news channel from Microsoft has lately launched a stunning visual RSS reader called Spectra News Reader, that picks news from MSNBC News channels and put in front of user to get a nice visual experience. The App has ability to make it customizable and adding some human interactivity as well. The App Spectra let users to add news channels which in turn carry topics and all this in color combinations and designs to let users distinguish the pallets flying orbitally with headlines on it. The app as apparent is to promote the news website and to compete with the other online news websites which are way ahead than MSNBC.com. If we talk about the channels/ topics that MSNBC have are good enough and vast quality content as well, even though sites like Digg.com, NYTimes, Del.icio.us and even reddit are way ahead than MSNBC. Digg too have similar fashioned Visual web tools or apps to lure its users such as Digg Spy, Arc or Big Spy but it would get its part of traffic anyway. MSNBC in a similar manner does have number of tools, apps and widgets to make its content go viral, one can see all ...

Getmo, a startup launched in middle east conference MECOM 2008 will be offering digital content and entertainment services to Indian subcontinent region and Middle east countries including Africa as well. The startup which is yet to be launched at its full throttle will set to be providing music, movies or games for Mobile phones, personal computers or other digital device players accessible directly to consumers on internet. The website will set to provide such kind of entertainment content and services to Indian sub-continent region which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia along with Africa and middle east regions such as UAE and other Arabian countries. The content will be available to online and mobile users at considerably low rates, moreover one can also publish their own content of such media type in order to let the content travel in these areas covering almost 40% of world's population. Getmo, a part of Abu Dhabi media company will publish such pieces of entertainment content to be consumed directly by consumers either by their own or by partnerships, as one of the tied-ship announced is with Sony BMG, in which the record label will provide local and Arabic content for the ...

PicLens is a powerful application that turn your browser into full screen 3D experience to view images and videos. Piclens transform your browser into cinematic visual presentation with images and videos put on wall and make you assume like you are seeing them on wall of a dark room. The application indeed a rich experiencing tool with media player like controls where you can fast forward, rewind, view full screen or scroll thumbnails to view images and videos. Piclens has recently make the application compatible to view YouTube videos along previous compatibility to view Google image search results into 3D visualization as well as that of Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com and Live image searches, thats too with just one single click. Moreover, PicLens allow to view photos on Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and Smugmug into same 3D visualization along with social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Friendster. For other sites/ blogs to be compatible with PicLens application, one has to create a media RSS along with its auto-discovery link for same and other addition in HTML to match those tags in media RSS with images and videos under webpage. However, WordPress users can use the plugin to create a mini slide ...

Facebook, world's most popular social networking site has been under scanner as BBC has reported security flaws that could seriously harm the website users having profiles in it and the weak link through which it could be done is facebook's own asset which made it popular - "Facebook Apps" and number of third party applications residing in it. BBC has made a data mining application - 'Miner' and add it to facebook application to poke into facebook security fences and finally, steal the personal data, indentity of fictious profile (made by BBC team itself) on facebook and accomplish the task of exposing facebook flaw. The reason behind all this is - facebook allows application to run on third party servers which made facebook and apps opaque to each other when it comes to that, what these application are doing with these facebook profiles data. BBC team on other side reported that just launched MySpace Apps are dissimilar to facebook as they won't able create similar threat to MySpace system as that created for facebook. As Mysapce treats its applications differently by putting all apps on its own server, so it can see what they are upto with user data and manually ...

Analytics does matters a lot in business and investing perspective as well. A new approach in this way has brought by Bizak, its a business network tool which computes the profitability and valuation of internet startups by creating industry benchmarks for comparative analysis. The business tool has launched by TOKiBiz services Inc, who also provide an internet startup creation services.

Today along with World Labor Day we are also noticed RSS Awareness Day , a part of what is called web 2.0 era of web, RSS abbreviated as Really Simple Syndication, i.e to propagate the content through feeds(RSS file format) so as to let the content travel through out the vast wide web rather than to keep the content (information) stagnant on a site. RSS is revolutionary technology that bring us the way to keep up the flow of information in simple yet effective way which otherwise would have eaten the plenty of time of any internet users in search of information/ content and stranded in middle of vast internet realm. Ironically, RSS (abbr. as Really Simple Syndication) doesn't seem to be simple for itself otherwise, people would have used this technology in large, which is why stats show (according to PEW) only 5% users uses RSS aggregaters or XML readers to get the content/ information delivered to them, in 2005. The stats, at present doesn't get good, still its same. May it lacks the ergonomic feature that users are looking for to keep RSS in line with other web 2.0 features that are ramping up without celebrating a "web 2.0 day". ...

India is getting ready for one of its own Twitter version, as a Japanese version of twitter - http://twitter.jp has just launched, reason being Japan is place from where most tweets come from, as goes by a Report by UMBC ebiquity. According to report Japan's risen cellphones and SMS technology has made it to quickly adopt Twitter phenomena and the same reports has predicted that India along with China, two countries which already have huge amount of SMS/ mobile users might be able to do better with Twitter. Report has released a geographical chart of Global distribution of Twitter users where US, Europe and Japan has most twitter users, though the geo location resolved in chart are of just 11,000 users from 19k users and thats too of only who specify their location. India is one among those area where there is lesser twits, but on the contrary India is Second Largest Mobile market in the World just after US and has added record 10.16 million users in month of March only as by Reuters' report. Moreover, there were 261.1 million estimated wireless users in India at end-March comparing to US 257.9 million wireless users. All these stats convincingly spoke of how ...

An interactive website, AdvertisementIndia.com is providing an online solution for publishing advertisements in newspapers circulated across India or local level. The website has really made the time consuming task of placing the Ads in newspapers easy and online with your own ease from home or office. The website is an online venture of W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. Advertising Pvt. Ltd. People can place Ads (commercial, matrimonial, public notices, tenders etc.), choose format, write ad text and then publish in any chosen newspapers. Moreover nearly all leading national, local newspapers are available at website from english language newspaper to local languages. One can also write copy of ads and publish at any future release date or save copies of ad to release in future at one's own wish. The website has accomplished the task of bridging the gap of print media and online media, though newspapers are still the widely reached medium for news and information at this point of time when internet is at its full high. Nevertheless, products are being made to custom fit for print media, this is one of the example.

AT&T, a Communication, Internet and wireless major company entered into war of 'Browsers', AT&T has tied up with Vizible to create a new browser of other kind called Pogo Browser, the browser will be giving users the new internt browsing experience rather than the traditional browsers that over a decade managed to evolve just by inculcating handfull of features like plugins, extensions etc. The new Browser Pogo will be 3D environment & visualizaton browser along with rich graphics, content handling to engage user nicely with what he is browsing, the browser will be having tabbed browsing but far different from traditional tabbed browsing unlike to Firefox or IE7 as tabs will be small screenshots of pages to chose from, tag them and drag/ drop them around, to put in archives or bookmarks. At present the browser is in closed beta invites which will be released under open public beta soon within a month or two. The 3D rendering engine of browser with its more user engageable features to experience from Vizible's visual-based technology. the Pogo would prove, the next geaneration of browsers to compete hard with itself unless it is assumed that this browser doesn't demand to much computer memory (as goes ...

Gaming industry seems to grooming in a more positive way, so positive that it now want you too get rid of stress hormones and bring about changes in yourself by seeing things in more positive way. A new video game designed by McGill University researchers has been launched that help to train people to change their perception of social threats and boost their self-confidence, moreover it is said that it reduce the production of the stress-related hormone cortisol. Mindhabit is gaming website that help people to cut down their stress and pump their self confidence and the game MinHabit Trainer is game that inhibit principle of research conducted by Dr. Baldwin’s at McGill University. The game 'MindHabits Trainer' applies three principles of social intelligence, as used in Dr. Baldwin’s research: activation, inhibition and association. The game and website again is result of what is called social networking meme going more than a hype these days, this gaming website that titled as - "Great games from serious science" is just another mashup of social networking + Online Gaming + Psychometric tactics. As per the website - "Research shows people who feel better about themselves and are better connected to others are healthier. In fact, experiencing ...