Ritesh on May 31st, 2007Google Gears – first effort towards offline web
The craze for offline web has just started and we will see more and more momentum in this area. It was Brad Neuberg and the Dojo’s offline toolkit that started offering a swf based mechanism to access files offline, it was followed by some hacks and some other mechanisms. Now its the goog in action, [...]
Ritesh on May 28th, 2007Some updates
Yahoo rolls out unlimited storage for its mail users. Myspace is acquiring its leading photo sharing widget provider photobucket for just over 250 Million dollars. Yahoo photos will be shut down in a couple of months to promote flickr. One touch migration to flickr, photobucket, shutterfly etc will be provided. Microsoft gives a sneak peak [...]
Ritesh on May 10th, 2007Google Analytics relaunches with a new interface.
For my first surprise, I was greeted by a “we have changed” page on my Google Analytics account. The interface have been redone and the personalizations built into the account. You can now drag and drop items into your dashboard like the igoogle interface and make your custom dashboard. You can even schedule and get [...]
Ritesh on May 3rd, 2007Web based Yahoo Messenger is out
So I wake up to this blog on Yodel and I read that the new yahoo messenger web is out. I had eagerly awaited the Yahoo mail beta integration with yahoo messenger and also expected a really fancy app but it was a let down. I have seen YUI’s capabilities and rather than use YUI [...]
Ritesh on Apr 28th, 2007Flex vs Silverlight – Flex wins round one, goes open source
Update : I just checked out what Silverlight is capable of on their site http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ and its really great. The silverlight runtime is just over an MB in size, download and let the magic begin. Now don’t think Im being partial, but look at circumstances, Flash has been around for aeons and one doesn’t expect [...]
