Monthly Archives: December 2007

Forbes Web Celeb 25 list

Posted on December 19, 2007 by vrreddy

Forbes released this year’s 25 Web Celeb list, guess what the celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton is at the top followed by Michael Arrington. 3 out of 5 editors of boingboing.net also featured in the list. Things change fast on … Continue reading →

IE8 build passes the Acid2 test

Posted on December 19, 2007 by vrreddy

An internal build of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 passed the the Acid2 test. This is a great news for the developers, even if you are not a developer you will love this because IE8 will become standards complaint and you … Continue reading →

Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 Lite

Posted on December 17, 2007 by vrreddy

Xplorer2 lite is a good replacement for the default windows explorer. It is a dual-pane file manager with far more functionality than windows explorer. Once you install and open the xplorer2 you will notice lot of options in toolbars, its … Continue reading →

BBC goes web2.0ish with new beta homepage

Posted on December 17, 2007 by vrreddy

BBC is experimenting quietly with a new web2.0ish homepage, you can see the new homepage here. The new homepage a “lick of paint” has all the web 2.0 flavors like rounded corners, large font, draggable Ajax boxes and a web … Continue reading →

Google Profiles

Posted on December 16, 2007 by vrreddy

Google is rolling out profiles with information on Google products you use. Google Operating System reports that these profiles integrating in to all Google services so you have one identity across the Google services. A Google Profile is simply how … Continue reading →

Knol: Google’s User Generated Content (Encyclopedia)

Posted on December 14, 2007 by vrreddy

Google has posted an announcement on its official blog about an upcoming knowledge portal called “Knol”. Something similar to wikipedia, users generate content on the site on topics they are familiar. Google wants users write content who are authoritative on … Continue reading →

First Impressions: Microsoft Office Live Workspace (with Screenshots)

Posted on December 13, 2007 by vrreddy

[Click Image to enlarge] Microsoft launched Office Live Workspace on 10th December as an answer to Google Docs, Zoho and the recent Live Documents (coverage). Office Live Workspace is not a complete online office, it is just like a space … Continue reading →

Yahoo wants free advertising from wordpress blogs, sort of

Posted on December 13, 2007 by vrreddy

Yahoo today released a wordpress plugin for bloggers to show relevant content (read Yahoo content) in blog posts. This wordpress plugin finds Flickr photos, ticker symbols, products, yahoo maps etc which can be included in blog posts as links to … Continue reading →

Watch your favorite music videos with Muvibee

Posted on December 12, 2007 by vrreddy

Muvibee is a music video aggregation tool, works like a music video search engine. Search by artist, albums or with song names to find that music video. Ofcourse youtube is there to do this but youtube has lot of spoof … Continue reading →

Movable Type finally goes Open Source

Posted on December 12, 2007 by vrreddy

Six Apart announced few months back that Movable Type is going towards open-source when they released MT 4 Beta. Now the time has come and finally MT is going to open source from today. If you don’t know what is … Continue reading →