Web 2.0

How to Apply Microblog Tools To Achieve Results   In this age of technology and microbloging, how can one get maximum out of microblogging. Recently, a survey was conducted to explore the benefits of microblogging but it turned toward the usage of Twitter (the major and the pioneer microblogging tool). The findings of the survey [...]

Since the introduction of blogging in 1992 by internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, who created the first ‘What’s New page’ and then the other pioneer, Marc Andreesen, put up a ‘similar page’ with each had hotlinks to the new pages springing up on the Net, now the World is entering the era of Micro-blogging. Since these [...]

If you have used Google analytics and know the power of data, you would be delighted to know that Twitter is also going to launch its official and free analytics suite. With Twitter Analytics, users will be able to see a dig loads of data about their account; for example, information about which tweets are most successful, which tweets caused people to unfollow, and who the most influential users are that reply and retweet their messages.

The best, most productive & Free open source applications of 2010

by Muzzammil Waheed August 30, 2010

Enterprise ready open source applications are far too few and evaluating them is sometime very tough deal. To find out the best and most productive among the open source enterprise applications one has to invest a lot of effort and time and has to install them for evaluation. Well worry not, InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka Bossies), chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, recognize the best open source software for business users. This year’s top picks among applications include standouts in ERP and CRM software, BI and reporting, content and document management, search, and wiki collaboration. Well what else you need… read on to read about the winning projects.

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Ramadan Special:Online Quran Recitation and translation with QuranExplorer

by Muzzammil Waheed August 11, 2010

Ramadan 2010 is just starting and Muslims will be fasting, offering prayers and also will recite and learn Quran. One great resource for free online Quran recitations is QuranExplorer. We have covered QuranExplorer in our previous post Listen and recite Quran online with translation with Quran Explorer in detail. Greetings to all Muslims on start of Holy month of Ramadan and may this be month of blessings for all.

QuranExplorer

Since then Quran explorer has new features available like new audio recitations and translations, following is the list of new features and existing features.

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Know traffic statistics & social profile of a website using Quarkbase.com

by Muzzammil Waheed July 27, 2010

Are you a website or blog owner and want to know about popularity of your and competitors site/blog, Quarkbase.com is the right tool for you. Allowing you to know statistics, information about your website traffic, ranking, popularity etc. You can find out how good a site is, get comprehensive website details, discover competitors and analyze them.

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I Can Has History? The History of LOLcats memes illustrated

by Muzzammil Waheed July 27, 2010

I am a fan of LOLcats and regular visitor of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?. I came across this illustrated history of all memes of LOLCats and its really amusing. Checkout the illustrated history below in high Res.

This is the creation of Designer Ryan Oneill of Onlineschools.org and he describes history of internet lolcat memes like

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Real time web services development, objective of Friendfeed and Tornado by Facebook.

by Muzzammil Waheed September 26, 2009

If you are a real time, streaming content provider such as real time web services, then Facebook latest open source “Tornado” is right platform for you and FriendFeed is based on Tornado. Basically what it does it let you publish your content in real time to subscribers, since subscribers are connected to FriendFeed all the time.

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