Web Cultivator

Mobile trends - 2011

2011-02-03T05:25:00.000-08:00

It’s been almost 3 years since my Boss came to me and told" Looks like mobile technologies is going to be huge. There is going to be a mass development efforts starting to happen on mobile. Let’s start having a look at it". That's when I started to read up and do some hands on mobile technologies, starting with J2ME and Windows Mobile. iPhone and Android were not the rage that they are now (at

HTML 5 video tag codec issues

2010-03-23T00:45:00.000-07:00

One of the most hyped features of HTML 5 is the video tag. A proper implementation of this would spell trouble for the third party browser plug-ins like Flash, Silverlight, Quicktime etc. But there’s a big war going on in the browser world regarding the implementation of this tag. The video codec that will be used for implementing the video tag is still under dispute. W3C has not yet concluded on

Beware of your data in social networking sites !!!!

2010-03-17T06:54:00.000-07:00

I recently read two different articles which say about the Data collected by social networking sites used out in the open. Facebook and MySpace are the sites which started off this whole social networking paradigm and popularized it. MySpace might be on a decline when compared to Facebook but they still see close to I billion user status updates every month. Moreover MySpace under the new

Google Apps MarketPlace

2010-03-10T04:35:00.000-08:00

After the success of AppStore from Apple every other Mobile vendor has rushed to put out a AppStore of their own. No one has attained the sort of success and buzz generated by Apple. Android is the only other market place where some sort of activity is happening, but even that is nowhere near the size of Apple AppStore. Now Google has made a new move. They have opened up a market place for Google

Google Ad Preferences

2010-03-09T05:26:00.000-08:00

This was an interesting piece of information that I got from one my RSS feeds from Digg. Google logs an astonishing amount of data, including the search logs from its flagship product. Europe's data protection supervisors have called for IP anonymization after six months and competing search engines like Bing do just that. Yahoo scrubs its data after 90 days. But Google does the "anonymization"

Is Google testing TV Search Service

2010-03-09T00:38:00.000-08:00

There is a recent report on WSJ which says that Google is trying to introduce Search into the TV services too. The report is available only to the Subscribed users, but still the idea is a very powerful one. The rumor around is that Google is testing a TV search service on Android OS set-top boxes. The service, being tested in conjunction with Dish Network satellite TV service, would allow users

Google PubSubHubbub (PuSH)

2010-03-08T03:38:00.001-08:00

Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan told us today that this could be "the next chapter" for Google.Google would some day use PuSH for indexing the web instead of the crawling of links that has been the way search

Sikuli - “God’s eye”

2010-03-03T20:44:00.000-08:00

Sikuli, which means “God’s eye” in the language of Mexico’s Huichol Indians, could aid in the construction of “scripts,” short programs that combine or extend the functionality of other programs. Using the system requires some familiarity with the common scripting language Python. But it requires no knowledge of the code underlying the programs whose functionality is being combined or extended.

Getting into Mobile App Development?? …Good luck to you

2008-08-05T03:46:00.000-07:00

I recently ventured into Mobile App development and found out one thing-Mobile App development is a real messy affair, unless of course if you are targeting a single deployment environment. There are too much of Platforms with varying length of influences across geographies. That creates a business problem. Think of a Mobile App that has to be catered for a wide range of consumers across

RIA Technology crown

2008-02-27T02:33:00.000-08:00

The race for the crown for the RIA Technology reader has been on for a long time now.And so far there is no clear winner. But clearly there are distinct players that have emerged out of all that dust and smoke. AJAX and Flex. (I'm sure there will be a lot of people who argues the presence of Microsoft products in here..but I feel its a completely different war...which was correctly

Look Who is here …Semantic Web !!!

2008-02-27T01:37:00.000-08:00

POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF SEMANTIC WEB FOR INTERNET COMMERCE