… in other news – 4/2/10

February 4th, 2010

All that we aren’t taking about at OG, but there is a chatter in the tech town!

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Android: Just a beginning?

March 17th, 2009

Gizmag has an interesting list of Android devices coming this year; suggesting that the Android vs iPhone/others has just began.

We would see at least 3 samsung powered Android devices by year end, LG, HTC and others have some more aswell. Also the Android running on media tablets and netbooks brings the platform some more marketshare with Nvidia creating chips to power these devices.

So will Android work like a slow poison and really outpace iPhone by 2012? Though I would still wait to see if any particular Android handset can dominate the smartphones world like the iPhone.

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Yahoo! brings your city up close and personal

July 5th, 2007

Urban skylines are changing in India – in cyberspace too. Global Internet services company Yahoo! Inc – headquartered in Sunnyvale, California has launched a new series of networks covering urban Indian areas in cyberspace.

Called Our City, this three-month-old network is “a dynamic representation of content created by you and everyone else”.

Currently, this venture covers an A-to-V of Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Patna, Puducherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram and Visakhapatnam.

Our City can be used to explore photos, videos, events, news, weather, blogs and a lot more. It also allows one to share events, photos, videos, plan trips and blogs.

“This is the new generation of the web – city content of the users, by the users and for the users,” Sreekanth said.

What is the response so far?

“Very good,” said Sreekanth. “The product is continuously evolving. Over 50 detailed blog posts have written about it. User feedback has been very positive and we have got several requests for new cities to be added.”

Users are increasingly looking for content that is local to them, Yahoo! holds.

“We are trying to answer the following question ‘how local, interesting, engaging and useful can the internet become’ and this is an attempt to answer this question on a large scale,” according to Sreekanth.

Yahoo! says it is trying to aggregate useful content in many forms – text, photos, video – about the city from various sources and present it to users in an “interesting manner”.

This product ties in various services (maps, the photo-oriented flickr.com service, and the bookmarks-based del.icio.us), all of which were successful net-based services, and some that were bought up by Yahoo!

Users can participate in Our City in several ways. They can post photos, videos, posts on message boards and also write trip plans. “We will be beefing up features further,” Sreekanth said.

Rights of the contributors will be fully respected, assures Yahoo! “We show only excerpts of the content and fully acknowledge the source of the content. Further, we hyperlink the content to the original source,” said the organisation.

Yahoo! has released “close to 30 city versions” in less than three months. Sreekanth said: “We will continue to add more features and city editions. Bangalore and Delhi are the most successful cities in India. These cities have a sizeable Internet audience and this explains their popularity.

“The quality and quantity of online content available for a city varies widely across countries and is a bigger challenge for developing countries. The product was conceived in a company internal innovation contest (called Hackday) and was quickly ‘productised’ considering the potential of the idea.”

Recently We also saw a similar service CitiPals (http://www.citipals.com) check it out.

Read http://www.tech2.com/india/news/websites-internet/yahoo-brings-your-city-up-close-and-personal/8592/0

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=9f91f75c-7e3d-42f8-9e93-25980456611a&&Headline=Yahoo!+brings+your+city+up+close+and+personal

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