Technology Bites

We have had an invisible mode in Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger and Google Talk (the web edition) since long and seems like Facebook wants to join this bandwagon. Yesterday, Facebook pushed some updates to its chat system, commonly called FBChat. A highly demanded feature, people can now go stealth and hide their online status from [...]

According to a report, 94 percent of all email sent is spam. In plain english, it is unwanted email that automated bots and software send you for the sole purpose of advertising and in many cases, phishing and online scams. You’ve probably got a lot of them and so has everyone. Once a spammer gets [...]

Hunch is the next cool thing from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake. Hunch is about applying common knowledge to make decisions on various topics. If you are Indecisive about something you can hop over to Hunch to make decisions.

If you prefer to use desktop clients for getting updates from various social sites like twitter, facebook etc, then skimmer is what you need. This Adobe AIR app allows you to get updates from twitter, facebook, flickr, Youtube and blogger.

Google Chrome is a fast, elegant and nifty browser that lacks just one thing which keeps me out from using it. The Add-ons. Firefox on the other hand flaunts all its add-ons whole heartedly! But Chrome’s speed and responsiveness really pulls me towards it.

Want a nice professional Logo for your web 2.0 blog or web app, try Logo Instant, they are providing web 2.0 logo designs for free. These are not those firsst generation web 2.0 beta tag logos, all the logos currently featured look professional and free to use.

Open Web Awards 2 is officially ended today with the announcement of the People’s choice winners. Last week Blogger’s choice open web awards were announced. Check out the list below, there are some interesting services which you may not know before particularly in Blogger’s choice awards list.

Shout’Em is a microblogging platform that allows users to create their own twitter clones in a matter of minutes. Creating twitter clone to compete with twitter doesn’t work, but you can create microblogging communities for your company or community or for your close friends.

2nd Annual Open Web Awards nominations are closed and the voting for the first round is open now.
From Mashable: During the nominations round, we received over 43,000 verified nominations. We narrowed down this huge pool to the 10 most-nominated sites and services in each category (where 10th place was a draw, we allowed more than [...]

It is easier to maintain one username across all online profiles, so it is better to register your username early on web apps otherwise someone will grab your username. UsernameCheck.com helps you to check the availability of username at various popular web 2.0 sites. Most of these sites are user generated or popular messaging tools. [...]