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I have like two new interface changes in the recent past. One being the new Facebook interface and more recently (ie today) the del.icio.us page. Both these interfaces have one thing in common, putting the most essential information out where you would need them and more importantly break through the clutter.
 Lets take the example [...]

Quite recently there have been many apps that have added the ability for third party applications to plug into the main app. Some examples include Myspace, facebook, iGoogle, Okut and currently Yahoo Search ( thanks to SearchMonkey). The intent is to improve the usefulness of the main application in turn make these otherwise undiscovered third [...]

Most programmers know databases and its importance. Thanks to the new generation of software as a service and web services, traditional RDBMS’s are sparingly used and the number is bound to deteriorate further as enterprises adopt the Saas platform.
Data has far outgrown the domains of just text. Today we talk of mutlimedia data, urls, semantic [...]

There are a lot of schools of thought when it comes to the comet paradigm. There are some who think of comet as a technology in itself that can change the way the web works, while others think its nothing more than another buzzword alongside Ajax and Web2.0. I think, in essence , the latter [...]

Collaborative apps have been around for quite sometime now, but they have been lurking very close the corporate apps which can be used primarily in a business scenario. A simple example of the same could be the productivity 2.0 apps like Zoho or Google Docs. The only other breed of collaborative app has been games, [...]