Zoho the next big thing....it's counting and keeps counting

Let me state the visible trends which I saw….

From single Desktop application to multiple users, then using the application over the intranet where n number of user can user it. Slowly we started using Server based applications where n x n users can used the application. With penetration of internet the reach became more where n x n x n and keeps counting.

Changes happen with the trend. soon we will be carrying our operation system in a pen drive and just connect it to a computer and use this as our primary operating system and use internet as the medium for all our desktop applications.

Zoho offer a whole bundle for us…some services are free as of now and soon they will be charged. Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of AdventNet, which owns Zoho, a new on-demand office suite we’ve been hearing about a lot lately

Interesting things you should know about Sridhar Vembu and earlier i shared about Jambav.com it is part of AdventNet




• He is not from Software background he is from electrical background did his under graduation in IIT and doctorate from Princeton in 1989

• He worked with Qualcomm for two years. He worked on CDMA, power control and some very detailed issues on wireless communications. That is how he got started in the tech industry.

• He partnering with Tony Thomas, who had some network management software and was experienced in the area. They partnered and created a development center in India

• As of now there was no investment money of any kind, only some family and friends. Their early software for networking business started selling well and sold a lot to companies in Silicon Valley and Japan. Latter on in 2002 it came down and the new idea born from OEM to on demand services that is how Zoho was born.

Zoho has big bundle to offer

Zoho Office Suite, which includes Writer, Projects, Sheet, CRM, Show, Creator, Wiki, Planner, Suite, Notebook, Chat, Meeting and Mail.

Zoho Office suite competing with Microsoft Office and Google docs & spreadsheets

Zoho CRM competing with Salesforce.com (Salesforce charges 65$ per month per use where Zoho CRM charges only 12$ per user per month)

Zoho Project Management competing with eProject, Webex, Citrix.

Zoho Meeting software competing with Webex and Citrix.

Their business model is simple Concentrate on Product engineering let users try the service for free based on word of mouth with out any advertisements and if comfortable they will migrate to Zoho

There is lot to share about ZOHO will update more soon….Let me take little more time in using Zoho first….

Zoho online office on Face book…..tried it



Tried Zoho Creator and created this
Now you turn to enter the details...

Few Indian Start ups

We are on fast sphere changes are so quick, there are lots of developments happening around us and we are noticing them late…


Now I got time to say about few Indian Startups. These website came with cool concept and they have to penetrate to the reach soon they will stand tall with other websites.

1. Criticat.com (where you can rate your company and share your work experiences)
2. Ilaaka.com (India's first locality portal)
3. Imom.in (For today’s informative mom’s)
4. Burrp.com (Share local and search local)
5. Jambav.com (Online games for children)


First let me start with Criticat



Criticat a new start up by Shweta Gupta

Where you can rate you company and share your workplace experiences and provide constructive feedback.

When I was going through Indian startups, I found Criticat and found it interesting with innovative concept where we can rate you employer and share your experiences.

Here is a review about Satyam I was dumb a moment and just understood it was a review right from the heart….so, no comments

Satyam is one of the big IT companies in India roughly at no. 3 or 4 position.
First the good things:

1. If you are an andhriite and work in Satyam, you are semi god. you need not join any company in your life.
2. Satyam has a huge social impact in Andhra and if you are satyamiite, you get a lot of respect in Andhra and lot of dowry too. So ppl will not leave satyam until they get married.
3. Offers onsite and that too long term, so if you are ok with a low or moderate salary hike, just wait there and have patience and trust me you will be in America. No other company will send you but one day, one day in satyam you will surely be on site and come back only if you want to.
4. Most of the people are average so if you are bright you have good growth prospects in the company.
The bad ones :
1. never open a big mouth for salary.
2. never ask for too many perks.
3. if you go on site your appraisal is screwed no matter what you do.
4. lot of family ppl join Satyam, making it more of a family company.
5. Managers are not answerable for everything, even if he doesnt know know how to speak english, he can become a consultant.
6. On site calls will be mainly in Telugu and you should know telugu if you want to excel if you have gone on site too, because US is full of Telugus and they dont speak english sometimes not even in front of clients.
7. Ppl stick to their positions and take no risk at all which is the worst part.
8. Some ppl really dress up horribly, i would say 10% of Satyam is shabbily dressed up in slippers.
10. PM level ppl are ok in commuting to office by sitting on staircase of the company bus.

I feel, sooner or later Satyam will be sold off to someone.
Raju deserves all the appreciation for creating such a huge enterprise out of nothing. Satyam is big reason for the large number of Andhra guys in US.

Check out the link here…

.http://www.criticat.com/working-satyam


Criticat is a great idea and it has to penetrate to the reach

1. It will be useful for employees when they are logging in to new companies they can check out the work place reviews of the company they are to be soon
2. Companies can check out the ratings by employees
3. Companies will get a snapshot of the gaps in the work place and can soon find time to fill them.

The navigation in the web site is quite easy and you can log in with Yahoo or Google ids

So, login and start share your review with others about the company you are working and know about other companies.

Here comes

Ilaaka.com




Here is what I am waiting to tell every Indian. We use orkut, face book to be in touch with friends and web 2.0 made great impacts on networking with friends and here is new idea to be in touch with friends and share the local events and updates with our friends
There are lots of gaps in international website, we cannot change it to our local reach and ilakka does it for us

We can meet local people and create local events invite our friends etc
There are lot many things you can do on ilakka




You can meet new local people
You can create coffee clubs similar to orkut communities
You can search and upload events and discounts in you local cities
You can recommend you local restaurant or panipuri center
Still lot more like blogs, classifieds, news etc
So ultimate web site for local use and local updates

Here comes

Imom.in




Good concept to serve the niche, with rapid changes in city life and increasing working women created space for imom.com. Where moms can share their experiences, how to bring up children they can ask, connect, read, and reviews




I remember my childhood days where moms used to get suggestion from grand mothers and other elders and follow them
But today if my mother asks my Grand mother
Which is the best school in Hyderabad?
Where we will have best summer camp?
Suggest a good school project for my 9 year old?
What will my Grand mother answer?
But imom can answer.
So moms create an account …..

Here Comes

Burrp.com




We can find and share our views on local stuff




Great place to share your reviews
You can add new restaurants in your place and give your reviews and read others reviews

Blah: (India's first lifestyle focused online magazine)

Here we can post about any topic under the sun and they call it on line magazine
I stated reading few movie review and other topics and I kept on reading …so don’t miss

Here read the posting by an author Black Bubblegum

http://blah.burrp.com/author/blackbubblegum/

Girls you are going to learn a lot

Time magazine came out with Special edition saying person or the year is “YOU” yes all these things are possible with internet where people are coming out and sharing their experiences making this world a small place to live.

Finally here comes

Jambav.com



Cool website for children

If I have to say about my childhood ….we are brought up in a join family and our siblings number counts 16 in same house, my number is 7 we all spent our time playing indoor games like caroms, snake and ladder and quarrel with each other if we are not declared as winners.
If it’s a Sunday our house in a home theatre and I still remember, its Jungle book time in DD followed by the Mahabharata

If I asked how my grand father enjoyed his childhood it a different story …

Coming to today’s generation of X-box and play stations…they will teach their parents what to buy and how to buy.

Surveys on children showed they are the decision makers in the family they select which car to buy and finalize what color is better.
They became gold rush for companies so now a day even the product is not related to children you find them in ads.

So this website is for today’s children for all abilities

Its best site parents can introduce to their children.

What is Plugoo ?

Thanks to Plugoo, visitors on your webpage, friends or family, can easily chat with you while visiting your website!

Plugoo enables you to chat directly from your Instant Messenger with any visitor of your blog, personal webpage or e-sales site.

When you’re logged into your Instant Messenger (Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Jabber or ICQ), you can receive in real time all the comments of your visitors or any question they might ask, and answer instantly

How does it work ?

On your blog, personal webpage or e-sales site, you set up a Plugoo (very easy to do, by the way!). Visitors on your site can see the Plugoo and type a message in it to send it to you!

This Plugoo is directly connected to your Instant Messenger and forward you in real time all the messages your visitors send you. You answer to the visitor directly from your Instant Messenger, LIVE!

DocuFarm

Searching specifically for pdf, ppt, and doc files Google can help but we will not have a separate option to search only for ppt’s here is the engine this search will search specifically for the desired file you are searching.

So log on to www.docufarm.com and start your search…..

LingoZ

User-powered dictionary and community dedicated to build the largest user-contributed dictionary on the web. Over 4.5 mil user-contributed definitions.

LingoZ is an online community dedicated to the building of the world's largest dictionary, and providing a community resource for language questions.

LingoZ is a service by Babylon.com, the world's leading provider of translation software. We bring to you Babylon's dictionaries with millions of definitions and translations as starting point, and we invite you to jump in and contribute your knowledge in variety of forms, as you deem right:

• Add new Terms
• Add Definitions and translations for existing terms
• Add Glossaries – lists of terms with a common ground that may be a useful aggregation for other users (for example: A Glossary for Football terms)
• Comment and Collaborate with others on any content item
• Vote for the quality of terms, definitions and Glossaries

So it time to visit LingoZ

Google Guide

Now a day’s Google became common for every search. Just we hit on Google search and type the word, name, place etc for which we are searching

Now it is time for us to refine the way we search

Here is a guide for us to use Google search

Here are few examples from the site Google guide
For what the words you search and what you will find in the search page

SEARCH Finds the pages containing
Biking Italy the words biking and Italy
recycle steel OR iron information on recycling steel or recycling iron
"I have a dream" the exact phrase I have a dream
salsa –dance the word salsa but NOT the word dance
Louis +I France information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France
castle ~glossary glossaries about castles, as well as dictionaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.
fortune-telling all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated
define:imbroglio definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web

If we use the tags highlighted in PINK we can get better information from Google
If you are looking for better gate way of information you can log on to Google guide
and update your self

Happy Googleing

Looking for good Presentations, Like to share your creative presentations

Slide share is waiting for you friends…………

What is SlideShare?

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations & slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF files, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others' presentations, and comment on individual slides. What's more, the transcripts of your presentation will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results. It's a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it's completely free.

It’s time for you to show the world what you know so upload presentation which you feel they are unique and share with the world, you can browse N number of presentation and search for the best presentations

You can download presentation which you feel part of your collections

Check out this funny presentation which I am sharing from SlideShare

Like to download you tube videos?

Convert the file in to the format you required with out any software download

Here is the solution

Just log in to zamzar.com and convert u file in to required format with out any software installation and receive the converted files in your inbox

It is just simple with 4 steps

Select the file for your system or any URL (We can select youtube video and convert it to the format you need and you will receive the file in your inbox)

So u have selected the file

Now select the format u like to convert

Enter your mail id

Click on convert by agreeing their TOS…

Finish happy file converting….

Zamzar is still Beta lets wait for the full and gain full access….

So, visit zamzar.com

Like to open Blocked sites in your Office. ie unblock orkut, unblock yahoomail, unblock myspace, unblock gmail.

How can we unblock orkut, gmail, myspace, face book, yahoomail which are blocked in office ?

>> Simple solution is by using Free Proxy or Anonymous proxy...

what is this free proxy 0r Anonymous proxy ?

A proxy server that removes identifying information from the client's requests for the purpose of anonymity is called an anonymizing proxy server or anonymizer.
anonymous proxy, is a tool that attempts to make activity on the internet untraceable. It accesses the Internet on the user's behalf, protecting personal information by hiding the source computer's identifying information.

Few website which provide anonymous surfing are

http://iamunblocked.com/
http://hrmovie.com
http://www.zend2.com/
http://www.youhide.com/

How can we use iamunblocked.com

you can enter in to orkut and u can browse orkut in the place it is blocked

you can use this http address generated by iamunblocked to log in to orkut next time..

so, njoy blocked sites in office..

Friends few time when we are in office, we suddenly like to open yahoomail to check out urgent mail or for some useful information then you can use this anonymous browsing feature and open..

Kindly use this feature only when you fell there is a need not for regular browsing.......ok

Like to have a moving desktop with u......

Web 2.0 has created many services for us and in future we will come to a stage where we will not see any client installations every service is provided on the web as requested by the customer.

Now i am going to show u a moving desktop it is not a physical desktop a virtual desktop, where u can save your files, songs etc.




This service is provided by SAPOTEK

Desktoptwo is a web-based desktop that mimics the look, feel and functionality of a local computer with 1gb of hard disk space... all contained within one browser window... and fully accessible from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection.

so get one desktop soon......

https://desktoptwo.com

Unlimited GMail E-mail Add Trick

Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is ravigadu@gmail.com and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it ravigadu+work@gmail.com and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to ravigadu+work@gmail.com. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
ravigadu+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
ravigadu+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give ravigadu+mailinglist1@gmail.com as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.