pinecar: May 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Groups & Teams

Groups and Teams dynamics online (social networking) is slightly different.

Team: Short lived team members
Group: Longer life of the team members

Monday, May 25, 2009

Business Search / Evaluation / InfoTools

Indian:

http://www.palowireless.com/ - with focus on wireless (not as active recently)

open source bookmark Platforms

GetBoo -

GetBoo is both a social and private bookmarking GPL 2 open source & website which can be used to:

Keep links to your favorite news, blogs, music, games, and more on GetBoo and access them from any computer on the web.
Import/Export these links from your browser's bookmarks and view them with the same hierarchy.
Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues.
Find new things. Everything on GetBoo is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.

Scuttle

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SemanticScuttle is a open-source social bookmarking web application allowing advanced tagging features. SemanticScuttle is based on Scuttle.

gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-up with information about location. Java based.

Unalog : A web-based human event (links/books read, songs played, etc.) logging tool focused on rich bibliographic support and library (as in books-on-shelves) systems integration.

SiteBar : is a solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them or take them along. The bookmarks are stored on a server.

iBegin Share :

Ability to save pages to social sites like Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Google, Yahoo, and more
Ability to email your friends
Ability to save the page as a PDF or Word doc
Ability to print the page
Fully extensible with a plugin system. Add any social site you want. You can even add IM, SMS, and more!
Complete stat tracking - see what pages are being shared, how they are being shared, over any time period
Pre-configured as a Wordpress Plugin

ma.gnolia M2 emphasis on design, social features, and open standards

Friday, May 22, 2009

Social Softwares

Not in this list

Calendaring (National holidays, religious holidays, flight/train schedules)
Investment
Betting
Searching info (I am searching for a cheap ticket or a vacation or coupon for iPod)

In the Wikipedia List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software

Web Advertisement Server

Prominent Players:

AdSense (Publisher) for Feeds, search, mobile content & parked domains
Google Ad Manager (Advertiser)
DoubleClick - An ad management platform for publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
OpenX - An open-source ad-server released under the GPL license.
ADTECH - Part of the AOL Platform-A group of companies.
Hiro-media - Dedicated video ad server
Google Ad Manager - Google's Ad Server
Videoplaza - Dedicated video ad server
ZEDO provides internet ad serving to web publishers and direct marketers.
SmartPPC EVO - Ad serving software
AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising firm
Google Analytics, AdBrite, Google Adwords, Microsoft adCenter, Yahoo! Search Marketing and the Apple iPhone.
SmartPPC EVO (Evolution) is a commercial ad serving software
from various XML feeds ( Miva, Abcsearch, 7Search, Marchex, SearchFeed, ValueClick, etc.)
from ad networks (Google AdSense, AdBrite, Yahoo! Publisher Network, etc.).

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Membership Management

Membership management comprises of

Basic bio
renewal
types of membership

Membership types

fees
Dues
Periodicity of membership
privilaged status/info

Infrastructure components

Identity Management

User Profile

Work with other social networks
Interaction media
File / content management
Roles & Permission
User / Subscriber management
Search
Badges / Widgets

html
javascript

Provide APIs

REST
Soap
Json

Browser
Mail readers
stand alone client
RSS

Revenue Possibility:

Hosted solution
White label
Advertisement
Affiliates
Sponsors
Research
Transactions - Per 1000 blog/emails
Shopping - Group merchandise
Local / group supported ads
Subscriptions / membership fees

User Generated / Consumer generated

Focused Social Network products available in the market

Dating Services
Music
Books
Physical Activity
Online Games
Regional coverage (buz/technology reasons)
Mothers
Investment
Social Activism
Charity
Fund Raising
School / College
Work
Alumni (education / Work)
Match tourist / Locals
Gender Based
Art
Museum
Clubs
Scientist research
Age based (Baby Boomers)
TV Series
Genealogy
Gossip
Celebrities centered
Hospitality
Remix
Contests
Hobbies
Product based groups
Church / Temples
match questions with answers

Matrix:

ARPU
CPM
CPA

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

squid localhost

I installed Squid earlier this week to track all the http traffic.... effectively web scrapper. I stumbled on one issue that took more than 2 hours to debug...
http_access allow localhost

was needed so that my local machine traffic can be peroxided.

After the traffic started flowing, stumbled on issue that the 'dynamic' web content is not cached. While this can make sense as proxy, Squid is not usable for my use. I wish this feature was provided as charity at-least.

The data is binary - not plain text. This makes it difficult to parse easily...

I had to resort to Firefox extension slogger on firefox 2.0 (instead of the latest as of today 3.0.10). This combo did work and got my task done.

online Browser 'emulators'

http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Java vs C/C++

It is interesting to note the differences between the Java vs C/C++ schools of thought. I am sure there might be pundits who might have more knowledge and stronger affinity towards either of these languages - still this is my views (ready to be corrected as needed).

Commonality:

It is interesting to note the similarities and dissimilarities of portability of C & Java programs.
Both C & Java are implemented in multiple architectures.
Both languages have big industry support, total ecology support, Application Developer community, standards organizations, training, education, books, tutorials, conferences, seminars - and religious followers
Both are available free of cost (GNU - open soruce)
Both C/C++ code and Java code supports each others calling others and be called by the other language.

C++ :

Some of C++ application domains include systems software, application software, device drivers, embedded software, high-performance server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games.
Several groups provide both free and proprietary C++ compiler software, including the GNU Project, Microsoft, Intel, Borland and others.
C++ was developed starting in 1979 as an enhancement to the C programming language. C itself is a general purpose programing language developed in 1972. Meaning - this is available for longer time - to be mature as compared to Java.
C provides compilers for each architecture where the same source code can be recompiled as needed. java approach is to provide single compiler and have JRE for different platforms.
C some times provides cross compilers that come in handy for rare/new architectures.
This author believes there are more architectures that has C compilers than the availability of JRE.
C was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.
C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.
ISO & ANSI standard

Java:

Memory management (NO memory leak that C/C++ programs are notorious for)
Garbage collection
Language is not standardized - pretty much propitiatory spec

Monday, May 11, 2009

Local advertisers directory from Indian monthly magazine

Local advertiser Category:

Appliances
Beauty
Books
Classes Language
Classes Computers
Classes Dance
Classes Music
Counseling
Education
Entertainment
Events
Fabrics
For Sale
Grocery
Health
Insurance
Jewelery
Legal
Loans
Music
Organizations
Professional Services
Psychic
Radio/TV
Real Estate
Restaurants
Services
Spiritual Growth
Sports
Tax & Accounting
Travel
Video
Weddings

Free stuff adverticements

Wikipedia
Linux
Free Licenses (product, content, arrangement of facts)
LilyPond
open street
GNU
Open Source personalities

Cholan features

Features that might be interesting for customers

Gold price
Currency exchange value http://www.x-rates.com/
News (Bay Area, Tamilnadu; Politics/entertainment/sports)
Technology updates
Google Search bar
flight schedules and possibly current flight status
Weather info for Chennai and one bay area city
Tamil Day calender info including raghu kalam etc
Local Events
Map
Job from your company and your target/dream position
http://www.chennaiiq.com/astrology/english_date_to_tamil_date_conversion.asp
http://www.tamildailycalendar.com/ has physical daily calendar leafs as image
http://www.chennaiiq.com/astrology/tamil_panchangam.asp

Sunday, May 10, 2009

URL Shortenning Space

URL Shortening space:

http://www.longurlplease.com/ - has json api
http://snurl.com/& http://snipurl.com/ - drag to browser toolbar, API, multiple ; stats: users, clicks & links
http://snipurl.com/ - 2M in March 09
http://bit.ly/ search capability, bookmarklets, preview plugin, mobile, google spreadsheet/gadget integration, track amazon affiliates clicking
http://urlborg.com/a/ provides stats
http://buk.me/ firefox tool, reverse lookup
http://cli.gs/ - you can use 2 diff cligs to track the same info from different sources, geotagging (target different info for different geographical locations)
http://budurl.com/
http://burnurl.com/
http://href.in/
http://www.ponyurl.com/
http://1url.tw/
http://lnk.by/
http://ow.ly/
http://www.bit.ly/
http://u.mavrev.com/ - urlshort released as open source
http://post.ly/
http://tcrn.ch/
http://awe.sm/
http://unhub.com/

Web 2.0 revenue stream

Revenue Streams:

subscription
advertisement
transaction fees
volume and unit selling
syndication and franchise
sponsorship and co-marketing

Affiliate Networks:

Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com/ )
Link Share (http://www.linkshare.com/ )
Google Affiliate network (http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/ )
ShareASale (http://www.shareasale.com/ )
ClixGalore (http://www.clixgalore.com/ )

cool Web2.0 free technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype.js
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script.aculo.us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jquery
http://livepipe.net/
http://www.phpflickr.com/
http://www.fpdf.org/
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
http://keithdevens.com/software/phpxml
http://www.phpcaptcha.org
http://www.openx.org/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
http://openinviter.com/

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