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Archive for the ‘Trend Spotting’

Digging For Future Gold in Present Web Apps

October 27, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

I’ve been doing something below the radar of my social graph of daily routine updates. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve testing many products from major web-tech companies. I know you must be asking why – For starting, let me tell you that it’s one the interesting things that you can do. But thinking [...]

Google’s Pubsubhubbub Is Exciting! Are We Looking At The Next Phase of Internet?

September 09, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Okay, before I start I want to share couple of things which is on top of my mind. As we all know that internet is evolving at a breakneck pace and everyday we are seeing some sort of technology which promises to revolutionize internet or the way we use internet per se. Though I’m not [...]

Video Advertising in Newspapers: Sneak Preview

August 24, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Trend Spotting

This is kinda weird as well as totally fresh and off the hooks. Yes, if you can see the video below, then surely it tells a different kind of a story. Yes, newspaper industry is not just sitting idle and bitching about Google splitting wide open their topline but some actually getting dirty and doing [...]

‘Social Search’ Is Evolving Fast – Who Should Be Worried?

August 13, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Industry News, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Before getting into the answer to the question above, I would like your full attention first. Something big is coming your way! Later don’t blame me that I didn’t warned about it. Something is going to change the way we perceive so-called “Web Search” till now or may be it very well change our habits [...]

Will Real-Time Search Like “Collecta” And “CrowdEye” Survive Against Big Players?

June 19, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Sometime back, two new entrants joined the race for real-time search derby competition – CrowdEye and Collecta including previous contenders like Topsy, OneRiot, Tweetmeme and Scoopler, not to mention Twitter Search and Friendfeed Search (though not so popular amongst the ordinary searchers). Then there’s Facebook testing an upgraded internal real-time search and Google too has [...]

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