3 Simple Reasons to Live Chat with a Doctor…
A simple graphical representation of my portal’s Live Chat with a Doctor feature…
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Guide to Blogging & Web 2.0 at Workspace
A good slide for many of those who don’t understand what is “Web 2.0″ & “Why Blogging Matters”… even at work space. Sacha Chua put a great slide detailing all the concept of Blogging & Web 2.0 for a n00b… Have a look at the slide above, it is simply simple!
In.com Launched
First off, A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Examples could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.
Few days ago LiveMint covered In.com, Web18 launched In.com today. I just explored it and it is really good. Asutosh reported on his blog that Web18 bought the domain for 2 crores! The domain name is pretty cool, and if it is not a rumor then In.com is good domain to have, even if it costs them 2 crores. It goes well with the desi-web these days!
You need to have an invite to access the site .I left my mail id there and the message says it will take me a couple of weeks to get an invite. I also left my mobile number there but got this message. Got invitation, and even got shekhar@in.com as my ID there, which was again another cool ID to have!
In.com comes very close to which was needed for the desi-web for long time, a good UI & UX and easy to use unlike other portals Rediif, Indiatimes, Yahoo! etc… Here are some screenshots…
For now, In.com appears to be a massive meta-search and aggregator in the making; seems to be an attempt to make it the de-facto destination for searching for news, music, travel, videos, games and all kinds of classifieds. Here are main sections…
Google Launches FriendConnect
Google introduced FriendConnect yesterday in its CampFire One. FriendConnect is a new data portability initiative for spreading social connections around the web.
TC got a great post on FriendConnect yesterday… FriendConnect is a great way to socialize your website or webapp, In short it can be called as “Social Widgest for Site Owners”. Right now FriendConnect is in a very limited beta with a few “white listed” sites. Those include “registration, invitations, member galleries, message posting, reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.” Google said that they’re starting with a core group of social gadgets but developers are expected to build out a wide array of gadgets over time. And with a few tweaks, any application currently built on or compatible with the OpenSocial platform can be modified to work with FriendConnect.
FriendConnect lowers two barriers to the spread of social features across the web. First, many website owners want to add features that enable their visitors to do things with their friends, but the technology and resource hurdles have been too high. Second, people are tiring of needing to create new logins and profiles and recreate their friends lists wherever they go on the web. Google Friend Connect offers a solution to both of these issues.
Checkout the FriendConnect Intro video here… It is really a simplest way to connect your web site to more people & make it more social…
