May 2006

Riya, the photo search and face recognition site is now almost 60 days old. Munjal Shah, Founder and CEO of Riya mentioned in one of his blogs that almost 7.23 million photos were uploaded in the last 7 weeks. (Flickr took 2 years to hit 10 million). Dan Farber has more on Riya at this link. Now Munjal is in the process of recounting the last 60 days at Riya. It�s a series of 8-9 blogs with each covering 1 week�s happenings at Riya. It�s a must read for to-be entrepreneurs. As of now Part 1 and Part 2 are out. Subscribe to his blog : http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/rss.xml

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One of the nice feature built into the new Word 2007 is the support for blogging. There are quite a few desktop based blogging tools, but the text editing capability provided by those is very limited. Here are the steps to setup your blog account in Word 2007. 1. First you need to setup the account to which you will post blogs. 2. The current Beta 2 version has support for MSN Spaces and Blogger. In Beta 2, Word has limited support for additional Atom or Metaweblog (Wordpress) compliant blog providers. To get started, you will need to need to check with your provider for a Post URL and API. ...

The Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 is available at this link. The load on the server might be too high (I tried for 1 hour yesterday), in which case you might need to try at a latter time. The download size of Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007 is about 450 MB. This package includes: The other packages such as Project, Groove,OneNote,Sharepoint etc can be downloaded separately. This beta is supposed to expire automatically in Feb 2007. The User Interface of all the applications looks great.One thing that catches your eye are the new fonts used in the user interface. Here are some of the screen shots of Outlook ...

There is a post at digg which is worth checking out. An online privacy service portal Cotse.net found that one of the main keyword in google search that bought users to their portal was "privacy service". In recent days they found that none of the search results for the keyword "privacy service" was pointing to cotse, except the ad for which cotse paid ! In recent days I have also felt that the google search service is not returning results relevant to the input keyword. Till few weeks back "Search" and "Google" were synonyms for me. However for some keywords, the results in Google were not satisfactory and I found better/faster results in windows ...

A lot of people know and love Eclipse as a great Java IDE. However, the real impact Eclipse has had on software development is providing the platform for ISVs to build and integrate software development tools. Developers, architects and testers benefit from an ecosystem of over 100 ISVs and hundreds of products which allow development teams choice in the tools best suited to their needs.

I have been a fan of this platform for quite some time and I have started a new section dedicated to Eclipse. The intent is to share what I have learnt and also keep track of the latest happenings around this amazing platform. Hope you find it interesting...

For people interested in knowing the

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As we all know the release of Windows vista is delayed till next year. However Windows Medial Player 11 which was supposed to be shipped out with Vista is not planning to wait till then.

The beta version of the player is available for download here

The new version has a file indexing feature which makes searching for media faster. As of now I haven't explored the other features but do checkout this link for more details on that front.

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Tags: Windows Media Player 11, Vista, MP3, Media Player

When I wanted to host my own web site, I did scout a lot of hosting providers like Directi , Jodohost , Yahoo, Net4Domain. Either the price was too high or the features provided were limited. The best offer I could get was from GoDaddy.The features I got on GoDaddy Economy hosting was:

5 GB Space 250 GB Transfer 500 Email Accounts FREE! Software 10 MySQL Databases 50 Email Forwards Forums, Blogging, Photo Galleries No ads

And as mentioned in my

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Yahoo has launched its new home page at yahoo.com/preview. Currently the page works only with IE 6 and Firefox 1.5. There are loads of cosmetic changes and usage of AJAX is very much noticeable.

Whatz New ?

Personal Assistant - This is a preview area displaying recent messages from Yahoo! Mail, an online friends list from Yahoo! Messenger, and local weather forecasts, traffic, and events.

Yahoo! Pulse - a place to discover the most popular and interesting Yahoo! searches, as well as pop culture trends, music, videos, photos, and all the stuff people are looking for, reading, viewing, listening to, rating or sharing online. It's a window into the attention stream of yahoo'sestimated half-billion

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Google Notebook (Online Bookmarking app) is now live at google.com/notebook . With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location and the important thing it that its accessible from any computer.The feature is very much similar to del.icio.us however the way its accomplished is typical googlish way.

First Google provides you with extensions for the 2 popular browsers IE and Firefox

Internet Explorer 6 (download: Windows) Firefox 1.5+ (download: Windows Linux)

After installing the extension, you can select any text in the browser and ask Google to "Note This" (Option available from the context menu)

The extension adds a small

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I was searching for the alpha release of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) and I landed in a link to Firefox 3(MineField). I guess the installable available at this link of Firefox 2 which I guess is used as base for the next version of Firefox i.e. Minefield. I went ahead and installed the same and the browser seems to be working fine. But I saw some features which were slated to be in Firefox 2, which is confirming my belief that the download available at this location is of Firefox 2. Some of the new features in this version 1. First thing you will notice is that now you have a close button for each tab (similar to the one ...