Yahoo! Mash Invites

Yahoo! launched its own social networking app called Mash, which is in an invitation-only beta as of now. If anyone needs an invite to Mash then drop me a comment message (below). It’s too early to say whether Mash will claim a market share among the more popular…

Contextual Term Extraction

The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. Yahoo has a similar Content Analysis Web Service, which is also available in Yahoo Pipes.…

Best Non-US Startups

Some of the world’s hottest Web 2.0 startups are outside the United States. Find out where they are, and what they’re up to. Read more at CNN Money ……

Orcas baby!

Microsoft will release Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas) tomorrow (26th July). Keep an eye on the downloads page, which also includes the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1.…

Aussie Startup's Survey

Sometime back, Cait e-mailed me to participate in a survey centred around Australian Internet-startup’s. The survey results can be viewed online, although I think its still missing responses from a few other participants. There are plenty of interesting Internet startup’s emerging from down-under, but the state…

What has an iPhone got to do with Social Networking?

The latest scoop from the social web is that, both Google and Yahoo are working on next generation social networks. Yahoo is working on a service called Mosh (certainly to replace 360), while Google is working on Socialstream (possibly to replace Orkut, which is pretty dormant outside India and Brazil)…

Google Mashup Editor vs Yahoo Pipes

There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping)…

Temporary and Disposable Email Services

One of the best solutions to spam is to get a temporary or disposable e-mail inbox which automatically expires after a certain time period. Checkout the Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services. My personal choice is Jetable – its simple to use and does what its meant to do.…