The 20 most promising companies in the cloud storage

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The 20 most promising companies in the cloud storage

by ChannelWeb
23/02/2010
Check out the main suppliers of data storage on cloud computing, the segment of opportunities for the channel

Storage as a service is, for many channels, entering the world of cloud computing. The niche has all the benefits of cloud computing, including the use of shared infrastructure in other data centers to store data and integrate infrastructure into the cloud with the strategy of internal storage and backup. And like almost all customers are looking for better ways to store and backup data, there are many opportunities for suppliers in the industry. Check out the 20 most promising manufacturers of the segment and that can lead the partners to the cloud.

See also: The 20 companies most promising applications in the cloud

1) 3X Systems
The appliance for remote backup (RBA) of 3X Systems offers encrypted backup. The partners in implementing the RBA customers with technology that eliminates duplicate data whenever the information changes in computers and PCs are automatically RBA set to perform backups, which makes the device a sort of mini cloud of storage. It can also be brought to the office or customers in remote areas in case of data recovery after a disaster.

2) Asigra
The Asigra software provides WAN-optimized with the aim of helping customers to control their private or public clouds in a single interface. The tool allows better data protection and ease of filing. The software also manages the lifecycle of backup. The Asigra restructured recently, its policy of channels and now betting on more stable partnership - giving the same margins for small and large partners.

3) Axcient
The Axcient offers a hybrid model of cloud storage that includes a combination of storage and appliance-based storage service on the Internet. Thus, customers can back up data locally for fast recovery, or online, for added security. The SMB can buy the tools of Axcient capacity of 500GB to 10TB via partners. Are the channels that connect to the Internet and use the infrastructure in the cloud that is owned by Axcient.

4) Carbonite
The Carbonite is a pioneer in offering online backup and was the first to offer unlimited backup for the fixed price of $ 55 per year. The company also offers partnership and system manufacturers have a program that channels may be added Carbonite systems in your list of services. The software company backs up data automatically each time the information is modified with encryption.

5) Caring
The Caring Castor allows partners to build an infrastructure of cloud using only a USB memory plugged into one of several company servers. As work in the cluster, these servers automatically replicate each file stored in Castor. The company also offers a content router to distribute information within the cloud beaver, the ability to deliver files of the cloud and a filing function to desktop users who can not only store data and make them available without interrupting workflow .

6) Ctera
The Ctera provides an appliance that delivers all that is required for storage in the cloud in minutes. CloudPlug The device is based on Linux, plugged in, PC and router, allows backups are done automatically in the cloud, without additional software or hardware. The company also offers an appliance for storage on NAS that saves the data in the cloud.

7) Doyenz
The platform's virtualization Doyenz allows partners to build virtual appliances to low-cost disaster recovery, failures or data migration. The company allows it to be built and tested virtual appliances using VMware ESXi software, which can be deployed in minutes if used in conjunction with companies with Savvis and Rackspace. Customers pay the equivalent of one hour consulting rate of the partner, which gives the channel a continuous source of revenue.

8) Efolder
The Efolder helps SMB-focused channel to be offered in the cloud storage and archiving of e-mails. The company also has an offer hybrid cloud and local, which includes an appliance that uses local disk for fast recovery, but stores information in the cloud for remote backup. Last year, he acquired the eFolder the DoubleCheck, specializing in managing e-mail and security, hoping to combine storage, storage and security of e-mail in an indirect offer to the market.

9) EMC
The offer of EMC Mozy for online backup, which was bought in 2007, follows one of the most popular cloud. At the end of 2008, EMC Mozy combined with Pi, a specialist in personal information management, to create a new subsidiary, Decho. The Decho focuses on providing a platform on which to base the construction of storage in the cloud and other services, with special focus on storing and managing personal data.

10) i365
The i365, a subsidiary of Seagate, working with channel partners and managed service to help customers to have a storage infrastructure in the cloud. The company's offer consists of a myriad of partner services in the cloud storage, data protection, storage of e-mails, ediscovery and tools for restoration and data migration. The bet more i365 is new technology that allows software developers to install their applications directly into the cloud storage of i365.

11) IBM IBM service called Smart Business Storage Cloud is a private cloud that supports multiple petabytes of data and billions of files. It is based on IBM's blade servers and storage technology XIV. The service allows companies seams a local cloud storage managed by IBM or a backup data center at IBM. IBM also plans to build a public cloud storage.

12) IntronA
IntronA offers its online backup tool for partners interested in selling it with its own brand. With functionality that ensures that only data changes are stored, the tool also has functions ready for adherence to government regulations. In addition, it also supports backup, storage and file recovery Exchange. The channels can guarantee commission and revenue continued to win new customers for the company or can offer the services of IntronA as part of its own portfolio.

13) Mezeo Software
The Mezeo created software that enables IT organizations to create services cloud storage to their customers. Platform Mezeo Cloud Storage includes a web application, a native client for Windows desktop and native applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. With the platform, partners can offer sharing, collaboration, file labeling (tagging), and safety.

14) RELDATE
The technology RELDATE consolidating iSCSI, SAN, NAS and WAN on a single supply of storage, can be used by channels to help its customers build private cloud of storage. The appliance 9240i/RELvos allows customers to scale independently of the storage capacity of disk, replication, storage services and network performance without disrupting their applications. The appliance uses the operating system for virtualization of own RELDATE, Grass and has a controller for high performance SAS disk storage and integrated.

15) Robobak
The Robobak technology provides an automated backup for remote offices, which helps to deliver a supply channel of Storage-as-a-Service. Tool v9 Data Protection Robobak has the understanding of technologies such as backups and fighting duplicate data. In addition, it includes encryption and various tools for creating backup policies.

16) Symantec
Symantec has two offers to cloud up. For companies, the option is the Symantec Protection Network that can be resold by the channels to their customers. Part of the Symantec Hosted Services, the platform of cloud services the company can protect and manage the information stored on any device as and in formats such as e-mail or Messeges. For end users, Norton Online Backup allows up to five PCs in the same house have automatic backups of their data centers within the company, with the added ability to research and share these files.

17) Symform
The cloud storage Symform make a backup copy of the client and divided into blocks of 64MB, the mixing among them with AES-256 and breaking them back into 1MB chunks and adding a further 32 other pieces 1MB for redundancy. After that, the company sends these fragments to 96 storage centers scattered around the world. These cores are obtained in the internal structure of its customers, separating a small part of its storage capacity to be used as storage of data from other companies.

18) Vembu
The of Vembu StoreGrid, allowing channels to enter the market of the cloud with its own brand, now also offers storage services. These include services clustering and load balancing, and allows the data in the Amazon cloud to be replicated directly.

19) Zenith Infotech
The platform of the Zenith Infotech allows channels to offer managed services, help desk and virtual Disaster Recovery for SMB companies. The provision of backup and disaster recovery company was a pioneer in using a hybrid concept - local and cloud - including one for a local backup appliance and sends the data every 15 minutes for the cloud.

20) Zetta
Zetta's technology helps partners to build an infrastructure in the cloud that can replace the indoor storage of SMB companies. The supply of storage in the cloud of Zetta delivers high standard service as data snapshots, replication, and full redundancy without requiring additional hardware and acting like a traditional storage device. It also provides protection and data integrity, security and privacy at a price of 25 cents per gigabyte per month.

business model - 2 schools

1. Mr. E - R&D
Mr. G - M&A

2. Mr. E - Develop/sell products
Mr. G - Buy Products/technology

3. Mr. G - Buy good will
Mr. E - organically develop goodwill (downside - time to market)

4. Mr. E - pay salary in cash
Mr. G - Equity only compensation

5. Mr. G: News flash of relationship

6. Mr. G: Franchise model

7. Mr. G: lobby is one model by which grow - 60% of the business development

testlog - another test case management tool

http://www.testlog.com/

testlog - yet another test case management tool

Free 90 day evaluation, then US$99 to purchase.

Supported on: Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista and Windows 7.

Requirements:
32MB RAM, 10MB Disk space, Pentium CPU or higher, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher. IIS (5.1 or higher) or Apache for web access (CGI) module.

Web Access module (optional): (Bummer....)
This is an optional module which allows access to a TestLog database over a web server. Requires TestLog. US$50 per user license.

QCOW2 & QEMU

QCOW2 is from the makers of QEMU. Provides Copy on Write disk image format.

ntfs-3g & FUSE

wikipedia

NTFS-3G is an open source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read-write support. NTFS-3G uses the FUSE file system interface, so it can run unmodified on many different operating systems. It has been reported to work with Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, BeOS, QNX and Haiku. It is licensed under either the GNU General Public License or a Commercial license. It is a partial fork of ntfsprogs and is under active maintenance and development.

	www.ntfs-3g.com

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a loadable kernel module for Unix-like computer operating systems, that allows non-privileged users to create their own file systems without editing the kernel code. This is achieved by running the file system code in user space, while the FUSE module only provides a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License, FUSE is free software. The FUSE system was originally part of A Virtual Filesystem (AVFS), but has since split off into its own project on SourceForge.net.

FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD (as PUFFS), OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X. It was officially merged into the mainstream Linux kernel tree in kernel version 2.6.14.

Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) Shadow Copy

Wikipedia
Shadow Copy (also called Volume Snapshot Service or VSS), is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that allows taking manual or automatic backup copies or snapshots of data, even if it has a lock, on a specific volume at a specific point in time over regular intervals. It is implemented as a Windows service called the Volume Shadow Copy service. A software VSS provider service is also included as part of Windows to be used by Windows applications. Shadow Copy technology does not require the file system to be NTFS, although it needs one NTFS volume for the shadow copies to be stored.

commands:

  vssadmin list providers
 vssadmin create shadow /for=c:

kboot & kexec

http://kboot.sourceforge.net/

kboot is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. kboot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted.
kboot integrates the various components needed for a fully featured boot loader, and demonstrates their use. While the main focus is on basic technical functionality, kboot can serve as a starting point for customized boot environments offering additional features.

kboot is currently only tested on the ia32 (i386) platform. Some of its features include:

• supports most file systems and device drivers the Linux kernel supports
• transparent navigation in the file system of the booted system, including auto-mounting guided by /etc/fstab
• network configuration is either manual or with DHCP, including name resolution via /etc/hosts and DNS
• access to file systems via NFS
• access to files via HTTP, FTP, and TFTP
• inbound and outbound SSH (to and from the boot loader)

Besides that, it's easy to add more features. The most important missing features are:

• no pretty user interface yet
• no integration of RAID, LVM, etc.
• needs to support more platforms, in particular amd64
• file name completion only works for commands and kernels
• does not boot legacy operating systems yet

kexec from wikipedia

kexec (kernel execution) is a mechanism of the Linux kernel that allows "live" booting of a new kernel over the currently running one. kexec skips the bootloader stage (hardware initialization phase by the firmware or BIOS) and directly loads the new kernel into memory, which starts executing immediately. This avoids the long times associated with a full reboot, and is useful on systems with high availability requirements, where minimizing downtime is of essence.

While feasible, there are two major challenges in implementing a mechanism such as kexec: first, the new kernel will overwrite the memory of the currently running one, while it is still executing. Second, the new kernel will usually expect all physical devices to be in a well-defined state, as they are after system reboot, when the BIOS (or firmware) resets them to a "sane" state. Bypassing a real reboot means devices may be in an unknown state, and the new kernel will have to recover from that.

1. Reboot Linux faster using kexec

Apache Lucene

Wikipedia:

Apache Lucene, while suitable for any application which requires full text indexing and searching capability, Lucene has been widely recognized for its utility in the implementation of Internet search engines and local, single-site searching.

At the core of Lucene's logical architecture is the idea of a document containing fields of text. This flexibility allows Lucene's API to be independent of the file format. Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument documents, as well as many others can all be indexed so long as their textual information can be extracted.

COW : Copy on Write

From Wikipedia

Copy-on-write (sometimes referred to as "COW") is an optimization strategy used in computer programming. The fundamental idea is that if multiple callers ask for resources which are initially indistinguishable, they can all be given pointers to the same resource. This function can be maintained until a caller tries to modify its "copy" of the resource, at which point a true private copy is created to prevent the changes becoming visible to everyone else. All of this happens transparently to the callers. The primary advantage is that if a caller never makes any modifications, no private copy need ever be created.

.....

The COW concept is also used in maintenance of instant snapshot on database servers like Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Instant snapshots preserve a static view of a database by storing a pre-modification copy of data when underlaying data are updated. Instant snapshots are used for testing uses or moment-dependent reports and should not be used to replace backups.

COW may also be used as the underlying mechanism for snapshots provided by logical volume management and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service.

iPad use possibilities

Non 3G Version

1. eBooks
2. ePrint outs (Map direction)
   
3. Digital Photo Frame
4. Replace Portable DVD Player
5. Replace netbook
6. skype phone
7. Portable Internet Browser
8. Product presentation in exec room / coffee shop
9. Keynote speaker/teleprompter
10. larger screen for video camera/ on location editing
11. Music player
12. Instant ON can replace laptop - check email
13. Multi touch - for artist/painters/ white boarding
14. Travel kit - replacement for laptop
    

perl JSON API http

1. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON'
2. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON::XS'
3. sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Mechanize'

http://beerpla.net/2008/03/27/parsing-json-in-perl-by-example-southparkstudioscom-south-park-episodes/

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use JSON;
use LWP::Simple;

fetch_json_page("http://www.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/yousendit.js");

sub fetch_json_page
{
 my ($json_url) = @_;
 eval{
   my $content = get($json_url);
   my $json = new JSON;
 
   # these are some nice json options to relax restrictions a bit:
   my $json_text = $json->decode($content);
   print $json_text->{phone_number} . "\n";
 };
 # catch crashes:
 if($@){
   print "[[JSON ERROR]] JSON parser crashed! $@\n";
 }
}

mysql backup

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/backup-methods.html

MySql data file copy is a valid process for MyISAM engine!!

1. Making Backups by Copying Table Files
2. Making Delimited-Text File Backups
3. Making Backups with mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy
4. Making Incremental Backups by Enabling the Binary Log
5. Making Backups Using Replication Slaves
6. Recovering Corrupt Tables
7. Making Backups Using a File System Snapshot

perl <> mysql

#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

#use strict;
$user="user";
$password="password";
$database="database";
$dsn="dbi:mysql:$database:localhost:3306";
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password,
                      { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 0 });
  $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT ID,Score1 FROM STUDENT_RECORD1");

  $sth->execute();

  while ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
    print "@row\n";
  }

web password free tool

https://lastpass.com/

MySql useful tips

mysql -u -p -e
"select
TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, COLUMN_DEFAULT,
IS_NULLABLE, DATA_TYPE,
CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH,
NUMERIC_PRECISION, NUMERIC_SCALE,
COLUMN_TYPE, COLUMN_KEY, EXTRA,
PRIVILEGES, COLUMN_COMMENT
from information_schema.columns
where
TABLE_SCHEMA = ''
order by TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME "
> tbl


select TABLE_NAME, TABLE_ROWS from information_schema.TABLES where TABLE_SCHEMA = '' order by TABLE_ROWS ;

Address validation service

http://www.melissadata.com

1. Address Validation (Makes sure the suite number is input - else throws error)
2. ZIP, Geo code, phone,
   
3. List of streets in zip
4. real estate data
5. house numbers on street
6. Zip codes in radius
7. 
   

interesting lists / templates that can be converted to content

List of waerfalls in Tamilnadu
List of Forts in India
Pin Codes of Indian cities - map with GPS co-ordinates(?)
STD codes in India - With GPS
Railway Stations in India with GPS
Highways of Tamilnadu & India
Choleswara temples with gps location

List of spices (?) used in Tamil friends home(s) and what dish it is used, where to purchase, how much (tricky)
Tamilnadu transportation routes: example http://www.tn.gov.in/transport//routes/routes_salemghat.htm

bluetooth info

Here is the list of Bluetooth Chipset Vendors (2002 list)

1. Agere Systems
2. Alcatel
3. Atmel
4. CSR
5. Conexant
6. Ericsson ROK 101 007/8
7. GCT Semi
8. Infineon
9. Microtune / Transilica
10. Motorola
11. NewLogic
12. Oki
13. Parthus
14. Philips
15. Silicon Wave
16. Spirea
17. TI
18. Vaishali
19. XEMICS
20. Zarlink

Here are the Bluetooth stacks

1. Widcomm (Windows)
   
2. Microsoft Windows stack (Windows)
   
3. EtherMind stack (Windows)
   
4. Toshiba stack (Windows)
   
5. BlueSoleil (Windows)
   
6. BlueZ (Linux)

How about putting bluetooth 2.0 in a chip > dongle for security.

small cap voice

http://smallcapvoice.com/
100K per year for participant!! Good money infact.

IT PIO

http://www.it-pio.org/ an organization for

~ 100 people assembled in Cupertino for Aug 15th, 2009 celebrations.
Information Technology - People of Indian Origin

java download location

http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/jdk-6u16-windows-i586.exe?BundledLineItemUUID=Z1RIBe.p_ooAAAEj2BJSexxh&OrderID=rxdIBe.pQlAAAAEjzhJSexxh&ProductID=bhJIBe.ptbMAAAEishcTvuC_&FileName=/jdk-6u16-windows-i586.exe

os / browser testing

Couple of aspects / challenges to solve

1. There are tones of possible OS/Browser/plugin configurations. Maintaining each of them can be costly and resource intensive
   
2. Supporting closed source stuff like Windows, Apple can be costly just for the price of OS alone
3. Open Source (Linux) has the challenge of variety -
   
4. Blackberry, iPhone OS, Symbian OS - nooo don't open that Pandora Box
5. How do we make Windows XP multiple concurrent users
6. How to remotely access the desktop with lowest network bandwidth cost
7. How to have no/minimal client side setup
8. How deal with variety in clients (Windows, Mac, Linux, IE, FireFox, Safari....) accessing our solution
   
9. How to ensure (and verifiable?!) privacy of customer installation
   
10. How to get the first 1-100 customers. The next 10,000 can be easy (as each of them want to do it on their own - wouldn't they)
11. How to price for casual one time user (read as freelance web site designers)
12. How to prevent folks using us as launch pad for attacks
    

What are the comparable technologies out there we can adopt

1. Virtual machines
2. VPN
3. WebEx (any solution from Citrix? I believe yes)
4. litmusapp.com
5. cloud computing
6. http://www.soti.net/
7. http://browsershots.org/
8. http://www.browsercam.com/
9. http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/07/is-your-html-good-enough-7-browser-testing-services/
10. http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
11. http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/
12. xWindows - http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
13. http://saucelabs.com/
    

How about I operate on one os/browser - but the same http response is rendered on different os on multiple screens in front of me...

older technologies

http://www.htlchennai.com/ci.htm
http://www.htlchennai.com/uci.htm
http://www.htlchennai.com/ntu.htm
http://www.htlchennai.com/se.htm
http://www.htlchennai.com/maxxl.htm
http://www.ptc.com/products/cadds5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computervision

old computing devices

1. Early calculator - http://www.voidware.com/calcs/fx39.htm quickly switched to the LCD version (due to un-affordability to buy batteries) http://www.voidware.com/calcs/fx82.htm
2. Early computer which processed Fortran 77 code : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620 actual input using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_punch device.
3. My first geeky computer (Microprocessor Kit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprofessor_I

1. Storage was primarily RAM (Cassette recorder - expensive to own) - input the machine code every time powered up
2. 8 KB ROM (EPROM) that we would erase using UV light and reuse
1. Early desktop computer ran on Zilog's Z80 (64KB RAM) and 8 inch floppy drive with OS being CP/M (MS DOS first version had many resemblance to CP/M)
   

Social networking random info & links

1. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software
2. Wikipedia on Magic Quadrant

1. altuslearning.com
2. amazee
3. bigtent.com
4. Center'd (fatdoor)
5. Collectivex
6. Crusher (website)
7. Daily strength
8. dopplr
9. Epinions.com
10. Evite
11. Facebook
12. fatwire.com
13. Findsmith
14. geocommons
15. groovr
16. grou.ps
17. Groupee
18. grouply
19. Gurgle
20. hi5
21. justbetweenfriends.com
22. last.fm
23. linkedin.com
24. MEETin
25. Meet-up
26. minglebox
27. Netlog
28. Ning
29. passitto
30. PatientsLikeMe
31. Peuplade
32. pingg
33. Quechup
34. selectminds.com
35. SoberCircle
36. Soceeco
37. socialcast.com
38. socialtext.com
39. Sonico.com
40. SparkPeople
41. Spongecell
42. swivel
43. the groupery
44. thepoint.com
45. Upcoming
46. upnext
47. visiblepath.com
48. vooeasy
49. Webjam
50. weogeo
51. wiggio.com

123Signup Event Management
Evite Event Management
Famundo Event Management
Jooners Event Management
Cingo Family Organization
Cozi Family Organization
Thefamily.com Family Organization
Club Spaces Group Management
ClubExpress Group Management
Clubmatic Group Management
ClubPoint Group Management
ClubRunner Group Management
Collective X Group Management
Findsmith Groups Group Management
Grou.ps Group Management
Grouply Group Management
Meet-up Group Management
Memberize (goClub) Group Management
Orgsites.com Group Management
Schoolpulse Group Management
The Groupery Group Management
Wild Apricot Group Management
Yahoo! Groups, Group Management
Emember NA
Minti Parent Social Networking
Mom Junction Parent Social Networking
MommyBuzz/MoxieMoms Parent Social Networking
MothersClick Parent Social Networking
Raising Them Parent Social Networking
CircleUp Polling
Café Mom/Club Mom Social Networking
Center'd Social Networking
DadDaily Social Networking
eons.com Social Networking
Facebook Social Networking
Got Kids Network Social Networking
Linked In Social Networking
Mamasource Social Networking
Maya’s mom Social Networking
MySpace Social Networking
Ning Social Networking
Webjam Social Networking
myelife.com
Soceeo Social Networking

www.123signup.com
http://preview.evite.com/party/invitations
www.famundo.com
www.jooners.com
www.cingo.com
www.cozi.com
http://www.myfamily.com
www.clubspaces.com
http://www.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=0&module_id=379
http://www.clubmatic.com/

www.clubrunner.ca
www.collectivex.com
http://www.mob.findsmithgroups.com/
http://grou.ps/introduction.php
http://www.grouply.com
www.meetup.com
* Home Page Link: http://www.memberize.com/clubportal/ClubStatic.cfm?clubID=2037&pubmenuoptID=21199
http://www.orgsites.com/wa/anna/
www.schoolpulse.com
https://web.thegroupery.com/
http://annatrial.onefireplace.org/
www.yahoo.com
www.emember.com.au
www.minti.com
www.momjunction.com
http://www.moxie-moms.com/index.php
http://www.mothersclick.com/user/Anna/homepage
http://www.raisingthem.com/index.php?page=my_home
http://www.circleup.com/my/cu/home/
http://www.cafemom.com/
www.center'd.com
Uses Ning
www.eons.com
www.facebook.com
http://www.gotkidsnetwork.com
email me if you need this info.
www.mamasource.com
http://www.mayasmom.com/
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user
www.ning.com
http://www.webjam.com/webjam/home

http://annasplaygroup.soceeo.com/networks/

http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/company-index.html
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/02/12/list-of-white-label-social-networking-platforms/

http://www.ygroupsblog.com/
http://www.tabup.com/Signin.aspx
http://www.weebly.com/aboutus.html
http://www.rjenda.com/jsp/login.jsp
http://www.alumnisoftware.com/
http://blueleo.com/index.bl
http://www.bluekiwi-software.com/

Technology possibility on Tours

• Electronic Museum Guide Wiki article that has more info..
  
• Audio Tour
• City Audio Guide - possibility of $1.5B industry (Why not a Open Source Wiki for this industry?)
• Location awareness can help (GPS)
• How about fm receiver with user. The ultra low power transmitter transmits location based info over the fm channel (Would that save total cost of ownership of such system?)
• How about integrating with Google Street View as part of the multimedia tour guide
• We can get sms or tweaks for the tour info (short and sweet)!!
  

1. have seen this at Manalay Bay Shark Reef, Las Vegas
2. Empire State Building

(in both situations, there is a number at the location and a matching audio in the portable device).

• Cell Phone Tour
• 
  

Available products:

• http://www.tourmate.com/products.htm
• http://www.acoustiguide.com/tours/index.html
• http://www.vistagroupinternational.com/AuTour.html
• http://www.guideport.com/
• http://www.clockaudio.com/tabid/404/Default.aspx
• http://www.antennaaudio.com/content/category/1/7/20/lang,en_GB/
• http://www.audioconexus.com/venues/technology/
  

1. www.audioguide2go.com
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_based_media
3. How to use the existing Tour guides (persons) to coexist and also enhance their delivery? Or should we look at the replacement model instead? What is the impact to tour bus operators (hop on hop off type).
4. What is the over lap with Maps, tour guide (book) and travel books industry?
5. How can this enhance/replace campus tour experience?
6. How does this impact Packaged Tours

HP Laptop Config

HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.0GHz 2.0GHz
4.00 GB
64bit
HPQOEM - 6040000 Ver 1.00PARTTBL
TOSHIBA MK3252GSX
Screen 1280x800

new york tours

http://www.citysightsny.com/page.php?id=50 - $74
http://www.nyctrip.com/Pages/index.aspx?PageID=55
https://www.statueoflibertytickets.com/

$184.00 Flight 174 Flight 102 SJC > JFK > BUF

10:25 PM
6:50 AM
8:09 AM
9:35 AM

$214.00 Flight 174 Flight 4 SJC > JFK > BUF

10:25 PM
6:50 AM
9:38 AM
11:03 AM

$49.00 Flight 1 BUF > JFK

8:35 AM
9:55 AM

know your location on phone - no gps/no carrier payment

http://pols.sourceforge.net/

Intel POLS is a Privacy-Observant Location System that provides an easy to use, on-device localization solution for mobile application developers. The goal of POLS is to lower the barrier of entry for location-based applications on mobile devices.

caltrin technologies

Updates through Tweets: http://cow.org/c/
HAM radio like setup: http://www.railroadradio.net/content/view/24/143/
icaltrain link http://m.icaltrain.com/m_search.php?from=San+Francisco&to=Sunnyvale&day=Weekday
Caltrain Bike Car: http://twitter.com/bikecar

shoutcast http://railaudio1.railroadradio.net:7112/

Joomla drawbacks

Joomla Drawbacks (as compared to Drupal)

1. Flexible User Roles and Permissions
2. Content Managements limited to section, category, article
3. Multiple site management
4. Easier URL out of the box missing (it sounds like it should have been fixed in 1.5 for apache - couldn't get it to work though)
   
5. Size 16MB (as compared to 3MB)
6. SSL Compatibility
7. Standards compliance
8. Internationalization
9. Slower Speed

Joomla high level items

Joomla 1.5.11

1. Extension
   

• Component
• Module
• Plugin
• Template
• Library
• Language
  

reasons for layoff

1. canceled project
2. general layoffs
3. performance-based cuts

http://www.telonu.com/layoffs/tracker

Few Google Ads

1. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/index.html
2. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/new.html
3. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/research.html
4. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/yousendit.html

East Coast Trip - possibilities

New York:

1. Statue of Liberty
2. Empire State building
3. Central Park
4. Washington Square park
5. Time Square
6. Wall Street
7. Madison Avenue
8. Brooklyn Bridge
9. Metropolitan Museum of Art
10. Museum of natural History
    

Pittsburgh Temple (Washington to Buffalo)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Liberty Bell) (New York <> Washington DC)

Washington DC:

1. White House
2. Lincoln Memorial
3. The Capitol
4. Washington Monument
5. Jefferson Memorial
6. Great Falls of Potomac River
7. Smithsonian Museum
   

Niagara:

1. Maid of The Mist Boat Ride ($13.50)
2. Journey Behind the Falls
3. Skylon/Minolta tower (Observation Deck)
4. Whirlpool Aero Car (Cable Car)
5. American Falls
6. Bridal Vile falls
7. Horse shoe falls
8. Goat Island
9. Cave of the winds (Bridel Vile - US)
10. Butterfly Conservatory - Niagara Parks, Niagara Falls, Ontario
    

Couple of vendors to php SaaS

http://www.responsys.com/ Ondemand Marketing for email campaigns and tracking
http://solutions.liveperson.com/live-chat/ - Chat function for sales & Support
http://www.globallogic.com/ - provide Tech Support
http://www.globallogic.com/ - Out Sources Engineering & QA Team
http://complitech.net/ PHP skills (Sugar CRM)
http://augmentum.com/ China

Groups & Teams

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

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

Social Bookmarking sites

1. Gnolia Systems
2. del.icio.us
3. AddThis
4. Searchles
5. Iminta
6. Diigo
7. Mister Wong
8. metroproper
9. Buru
10. Global Grind
11. kawink
12. Socialbrowse
13. Zigtag
14. Add to Any
15. Antstorm
16. weheartplaces
17. yuppmarks
18. Wakoopa Portal
19. JigJak
20. Link Spank
21. YoolinkPro

• InfoAxe
• start.io

TinyURL
Bitly
Owly
Isgd
Digg
StumbleUpon
Bitly
Trim

Business Search / Evaluation / InfoTools

1. Crunch Base
2. Trade Vibes
3. investing Business Week
4. LinkSV
5. Hoovers
6. Dun & Bradstreet
7. implu
8. InsideView
9. JigSaw
10. LexisNexis
11. InfoUSA
12. BoardEx
13. SnapData
14. DataMonitor
15. Moody's
16. ICON Group International
    

Indian:

1. Manta
2. Sulekha B2B

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

Social Softwares

Not in this list

1. Calendaring (National holidays, religious holidays, flight/train schedules)
2. Investment
3. Betting
4. 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

• 1 Blogs
• 2 Clipping
• 3 Instant messaging
• 4 Internet forums
• 5 Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• 6 eLearning
• 7 Massively multiplayer online games
• 8 Media sharing
• 9 Media cataloging
• 10 Personals
• 11 Social bookmarking
• 12 Social cataloging
• 13 Social citations
• 14 Social evolutionary computation
• 15 Social networks
• 16 Social search
• 17 Virtual worlds
• 18 Wikis

Web Advertisement Server

Prominent Players:

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

Membership Management

Membership management comprises of

1. Basic bio
2. renewal
3. types of membership

Membership types

1. fees
2. Dues
   
3. Periodicity of membership
4. privilaged status/info
5. 
   

Social Network Service features

1. email
2. Instant Messenger (Text/Audio/Video)
   
3. Discussion Board / Forum
4. News / Blog
   
5. Wiki
6. Organizing
7. play list with no song
8. Trip planning
   
9. Customer / Consumer Review Site
10. Bookmark
11. URL (directory?)
    
12. Calendaring
13. Address Book
14. Polls
15. Ratings / Reviews
    

Infrastructure components

1. Identity Management
1. User Profile
   
2. Work with other social networks
3. Interaction media
4. File / content management
5. Roles & Permission
6. User / Subscriber management
   
7. Search
8. Badges / Widgets
   
1. html
2. javascript
   
9. Provide APIs
1. REST
2. Soap
3. Json

1. Browser
2. Mail readers
3. stand alone client
4. RSS
   

Revenue Possibility:

1. Hosted solution
2. White label
3. Advertisement
   
4. Affiliates
5. Sponsors
6. Research
7. Transactions - Per 1000 blog/emails
   
8. Shopping - Group merchandise
9. Local / group supported ads
10. Subscriptions / membership fees
    

User Generated / Consumer generated

Focused Social Network products available in the market

1. Dating Services
2. Music
3. Books
4. Physical Activity
5. Online Games
6. Regional coverage (buz/technology reasons)
7. Mothers
8. Investment
9. Social Activism
10. Charity
11. Fund Raising
12. School / College
13. Work
14. Alumni (education / Work)
15. Match tourist / Locals
16. Gender Based
17. Art
18. Museum
19. Clubs
20. Scientist research
21. Age based (Baby Boomers)
22. TV Series
23. Genealogy
    
24. Gossip
25. Celebrities centered
26. Hospitality
27. Remix
28. Contests
29. Hobbies
30. Product based groups
31. Church / Temples
32. match questions with answers
33. 
    

Matrix:

1. ARPU
2. CPM
3. CPA
   

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/

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:

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

C++ :

1. 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.
2. Several groups provide both free and proprietary C++ compiler software, including the GNU Project, Microsoft, Intel, Borland and others.
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
5. C some times provides cross compilers that come in handy for rare/new architectures.
   
6. This author believes there are more architectures that has C compilers than the availability of JRE.
7. 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.
   
8. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.
9. ISO & ANSI standard
   

Java:

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

Local advertisers directory from Indian monthly magazine

Local advertiser Category:

1. Appliances
2. Beauty
3. Books
4. Classes Language
5. Classes Computers
6. Classes Dance
7. Classes Music
8. Counseling
   
9. Education
10. Entertainment
11. Events
12. Fabrics
13. For Sale
14. Grocery
15. Health
16. Insurance
17. Jewelery
18. Legal
19. Loans
20. Music
21. Organizations
22. Professional Services
23. Psychic
24. Radio/TV
25. Real Estate
26. Restaurants
27. Services
28. Spiritual Growth
29. Sports
30. Tax & Accounting
31. Travel
32. Video
33. Weddings
    

Free stuff adverticements

1. Wikipedia
2. Linux
3. Free Licenses (product, content, arrangement of facts)
   
4. LilyPond
5. open street
6. GNU
7. Open Source personalities

Cholan features

Features that might be interesting for customers

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

URL Shortenning Space

URL Shortening space:

1. http://www.longurlplease.com/ - has json api
2. http://snurl.com/& http://snipurl.com/ - drag to browser toolbar, API, multiple ; stats: users, clicks & links
3. http://snipurl.com/ - 2M in March 09
4. http://bit.ly/ search capability, bookmarklets, preview plugin, mobile, google spreadsheet/gadget integration, track amazon affiliates clicking
5. http://urlborg.com/a/ provides stats
6. http://buk.me/ firefox tool, reverse lookup
7. 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)
8. http://budurl.com/
9. http://burnurl.com/
10. http://href.in/
11. http://www.ponyurl.com/
12. http://1url.tw/
13. http://lnk.by/
14. http://ow.ly/
15. http://www.bit.ly/
16. http://u.mavrev.com/ - urlshort released as open source
17. http://post.ly/
18. http://tcrn.ch/
19. http://awe.sm/
20. http://unhub.com/

Web 2.0 revenue stream

Revenue Streams:

1. subscription
2. advertisement
3. transaction fees
4. volume and unit selling
5. syndication and franchise
6. sponsorship and co-marketing

Affiliate Networks:

1. Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com/ )
2. Link Share (http://www.linkshare.com/ )
3. Google Affiliate network (http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/ )
4. ShareASale (http://www.shareasale.com/ )
5. 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/

Browser Home Page Hosting Companies

_service	Start	Location	Funds	Features
allyve	Septi 07	Hamburg, Deu		auto login email, social networks
DevHD	Novi 6	Atherton, CA		profiles, bookmarks, and accounts from sites like Twitter, Yahoo, GMail and Friendfeed,
igoogle	Mayi 2005	Mountain View, CA	100M	Framed Photo, GoogleGram, Daily Me, Free Form, YouTube Channel, Personal List, Countdown, 1Club.FM Free Internet Radio Player, chat
Netvibes	septi 5	Paris, Fra	16M	RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, calendar, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, searches, POP3, IMAP4 (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail), Box.net, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast
Pageflakes	Jani 6	SFO	4.1M	RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email
Pageonce	Mayi 7	Palo Alto	1.5M	consumers manage their online lives and marketers
start.io	Aprii 8	LA, CA		Really what I am looking for here
Skyspine
Sthrt	Mayi 8	Orlando, FL		email, games, news, weather, RSS
Webwag
Yahoo.com

Homepage managers

Company allyve	Sept 07	Hamburg, Deu		auto login email, social networks
DevHD	Nov 06	Atherton, CA		profiles, bookmarks, and accounts from sites like Twitter, Yahoo, GMail and Friendfeed,
igoogle	May 05	Mountain View, CA	100M	Framed Photo, GoogleGram, Daily Me, Free Form, YouTube Channel, Personal List, Countdown, 1Club.FM Free Internet Radio Player, chat
Netvibes	sept 05	Paris, Fra	16M	RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, calendar, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, searches, POP3, IMAP4 (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail), Box.net, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast
Pageflakes	Jan 06	SFO	4.1M	RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email
Pageonce	May 07	Palo Alto	1.5M	consumers manage their online lives and marketers
start.io	Apr 08	LA, CA		Really what I am looking for here
Skyspine
Sthrt	May 08	Orlando, FL		email, games, news, weather, RSS

test credit card numbers

http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/

Mastercard

5319102646488048
5554045695790927
5420785565098057
535062919819 1489
5364910660550103
5266885983175565
5127777973679285
5134390185169342
53 52939626094017
5246447622892145

VISA 16 digit

4716199183296349
4532403205442598
4532250279599237
4916155288242768
4 916812073252853
4556856972591320
4916157249446876
4556682778375621
4716855 350718544
4024007113770027

VISA 13 digit

4024007138692
4556993857876
4539171318010
4716131052059
4916288396420

American Express

373916861716856
371906407786184
346109491188258
348456375430415
377 920540490509

Discover

6011433427081739
6011141225017066
6011000161904358

Di ners Club

30154328942171
36825836097004
30035751184078

enRoute

214995752390545
21 4900870983569
214977085904481

JCB 15 digit

180018863853838
210092038614494
180044389176363

JCB 16 digit

3096945339422458
3088174569704085
3158536520063915

Voyager

8699260277 62364
869941024295722
869935132433050

some websites

http://younoodle.com/
http://www.tradevibes.com/
http://www.ycombinator.com/
http://www.heyzap.com/
http://www.lunch20.com/
http://www.clickpass.com/
http://www.synthasite.com/
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en

Proximity info sharing

If I tell the train/bus conductor that I need to get down at a specific stop, can the conductor wake me and ensure that I get down at the right place.

Can we replace the 'conductor' in the above example by a smart device using bluetooth technology that can talk to my cell phone with bluetooth.

Update: Feb 21, 2011
Using Android aGPS, we currently have this available. yourehere

C printf debug

printf("__LINE__=%d __FILE__=%s\n", __LINE__, __FILE__);

Standard Predefined Macros

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.3/cpp/Standard-Predefined-Macros.html

__FILE__

This macro expands to the name of the current input file, in the form of a C string constant. This is the path by which the preprocessor opened the file, not the short name specified in #include or as the input file name argument. For example, "/usr/local/include/myheader.h" is a possible expansion of this macro.

__LINE__

This macro expands to the current input line number, in the form of a decimal integer constant. While we call it a predefined macro, it's a pretty strange macro, since its "definition" changes with each new line of source code.

__FILE__ and __LINE__ are useful in generating an error message to report an inconsistency detected by the program; the message can state the source line at which the inconsistency was detected. For example,

     fprintf (stderr, "Internal error: "
                    "negative string length "
                    "%d at %s, line %d.",
            length, __FILE__, __LINE__);
   

wubi

wubi - Windows-based Ubuntu Installer creates a 'loop device' -

In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loopback file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a file accessible as a block device.

unetbootin

unetbootin is Universal Netboot Installer
UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.

QEMU

qemu.exe -L . linux.img
http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~kazuw/qemu-win/qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip -the package is ~6MB and is small. This emulated version can live side by side with Windows like vmware fusion for Mac

selenium core : Technologies used

cssQuery - http://dean.edwards.name/
cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors.

scriptaculous - http://script.aculo.us/
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls
DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to the fantastic Prototype framework.

xpath - http://code.google.com/p/ajaxslt/

xpath is part of ajaxslt: Pure javascript implementation of XSLT and XPath

AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSLT in JavaScript. Because XSLT uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSLT. This implementation has the advantange that it makes XSLT uniformly available on more browsers than natively provide it, and that it can be extended to yet more browsers if necessary.

AJAXSLT is interesting for developers who strive aggressively for cross browser compatibility of their advanced web applications.

This implementation of XSLT operates at the DOM level on its input documents. It internally uses a DOM implementation to create the output document, but usually returns the output document as text stream. The DOM to construct the output document can be supplied by the application, or else an internal minimal DOM implementation is used. This DOM comes with a minimal XML parser that can be used to generate a suitable DOM representation of the input documents if they are present as text.

jsunit - http://www.jsunit.net/

JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and multiple machines running different OSs.

strands - http://www.xucia.com/strands-doc/overview.html

Strands adds coroutine and cooperative threading support to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous event callbacks. This makes asynchronous code refreshingly readable and comprehensible.

Dojo toolkit - http://dojotoolkit.org/

The Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites.

Prototype: http://www.prototypejs.org/

http://prototype.conio.net/ ??

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

dropbox list

3lotusmedia
AccuLink
ADS
alg
AlphaPhiFoundation
amazinggrace
artisticphotocanvas
BarnesMcInerneyDropbox
BiggyPix
bizmonitoring
blazefiletransfer
Breuckmann459571
burningdervish
cabe
caledlaw
canvasone
chadgreenlee1113963
cleanrun
Clitho
digitalsilverimaging
Documents
Donman
dpd
dtSearch
ebscomedia
ECB
epc
ESNMFTP
everydaylivesdeliveries
FinePrintImaging
freqmastering
globallt
halvorbodin
HawkArtDropBox
hotdishadvertising
HotelTravelCheck
ICDLGraduateSchool
ImperialPrinting
ImprintDigital
IndependentWomensVoice
inition
inquirerbox
JaysonNoftle569037
Jive
joshKelleytoremember
kubu
LazyMask
mainehomedesign
MajorProductionFund
MGIPERTH
morganjames
Mumbian
ndkdenver
nerepro
newvision
OLP2008
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GPS stuff

1. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
2. .osm is in contrast .gpx format
3. Indian company selling gps tracking http://gps-tracking.gpsintegrated.com/
4. Uses Rover9 from Stars Navigation Tech Ltd
5. uses chipset SiRFstarIII from SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc in San Jose
   

crawler built along with webtest tool

WebTest tool combined with a WebCrawler can be very powerful like "static code analysis" tool.

SaaS & multi-tenant

SaaS and Multi-Tenant are under utilized powerful words in people's resume.

Library privilage in San Jose, CA

The city of San Jose, CA library system has the possibility of Inter Library Loan free of charge to it's members. Some of the libraries participating in the system are some of the international libraries including from Germany.