Saturday, January 29, 2011

Understanding Facebook - A Web 2.0 Phenomenon

Started in only 2004, facebook.com is today, the world's largest social network, boasting more than 500 million (yes, that's half a billion!) users, who collectively spend more than 5 billion minutes per day.

The rise of facebook to it's present stature is awesome and incredible, by any yardstick, and its hardly surprising that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of facebook, was named 'TIME Magazine's Person of the Year, 2010'.

facebook has come a long way since it's early days, and has revolutionized the social dynamics of the human race today, be it in the personal or corporate or community sphere. It is thus, a first hand example of the awesomeness of the era of Web 2.0. Since the number of facebook user's is now crossing 550 million, it's likely that you too are already using it, or have at least seen it at some point. So, it's no point discussion 'Facebook 101'.

However, if one wants to get a sense of what this phenomenon is all about, check out this comprehensive presentation.


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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Social CRM - A Gartner Presentation

Gartner prez on social crm
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

SOA Book Store - I

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for enabling business agility in the age of rapid and constant change. Here are some good books on the subject, by one of the leading authors - Thomas Erl - in this space.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is seemingly the pioneer in the space of cloud-based services. Ever since the hype around Cloud Computing began, Amazon has been putting together a number of cloud-based services that leverage Amazon's proven and reliable infrastructure.

While each product and service needs to be understood in detail, here's a quick overview of the Amazon Web Services portfolio.
(Tip: The following is an interactive mindmap - use the options below to navigate or optimize your view).

Friday, September 17, 2010

HTML 5 - A Choice for Web 2.0+

HTML 5 is the latest revision of the HTML standard and has been structured to improve support for 'Web 2.0' capabilities of today's web. This includes support for the latest multimedia, apart from a number of new language constructs and improvements to continue enabling humans and computers to process.

Here's a comprehensive look into HTML v5.

Google html5 Tutorial

A summary of some major differences between HTML v4.x and HTML 5, can be found here.