Microsoft on ‘Web Innovation’ in December this year.

Lately, Microsoft is really trying hard to make an impact in web 2.0 era. After developing a multimedia suite that is expression suite it is now applying thoughts on how web 2.0 will be from Microsoft’s prospective.

After the International web 2.0 conference in November this year, Web Innovation 2007 conference will be the stage for the designer, developers, Managers, Specialists, Entrepreneurs to know about web 2.0 and business around it. It will be on 18-19 December 2007 at Bangalore, India.

There are two tracks for the conference, Business Track and Technology Track. Get the details from their site link http://www.webinnovation.in. Off course Microsoft not included Google in the Web 2.0 conference, however Yahoo!, AOL and Adobe having a place in it!(?) You can go to the site and register yourself for the event.

For the promotion of the event Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007 is there. Contest is open to all types of Professionals as well as Students and with no participation fees being charged. But they want their participants to use their Expression suite and Silverlite as applications to make UI and animations in the contest.

Social Bookmarking, a new trend in links sharing.

Have you heard about tagging? And wonder why people are using ‘tagging’ more and more. Do you know about del.icio.us? Are you using your browser for saving bookmarks? Then, you are still behind in web 2.0 world. More than two-million users are using del.icio.us. And many more are using Digg, StumbleUpon, Furl, Google bookmarks, Yahoo MyWeb.

These sites let you share your Internet bookmarks on their websites. You can access those and also can view others by searching on the site. Generally, for adding bookmark you need to add link, title and description.

del.icio.us uses collaborative filtering including searching. Where digg.com combines bookmarking, blogging and syndication. In Google, you can add & manage links using your 'Web History' service.


Look at this report from Addthis.com.

See the image link below this article with the text ‘Bookmark’, using which you can bookmark this blog. Once you click on it, you will see the list of social bookmark sites available.

Baidu, New challenge in search!

"We've got a lot of work to do to differentiate ourselves in search and advertising. We're number three, working to be number two, and working to be number one."

Does Steve Ballmer know that while he is dreaming for it, Microsoft placed fourth behind Google, Yahoo and Chinese Web portal Baidu in search.

Baidu, which is analogous to Google, provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. It started service from Japan. Now, Baidu provide several searches like mapping, finance, video, books, wap, blog including Image and mp3 seach.

From the current survey from web analysts comScore today Google is powering half of the world's web searches. For the month of August’07, total internet searches were 61 billion, out of that
1. Google searches: 37 billion
2. Yahoo! searches: 8.5 billion
3. Baidu searches: 3.2 billion
4. MSN searches: 2.1 billion

View this ‘the first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity’ report from comScore.

There is a big fight ahead

Improvement in Communication between people, Improvement in Communication between separate software applications & Improvement in Web interfaces are major hit in web 2.0.

Many social networking sites Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube etc are connecting people worldwide. Web standards like XML, RSS etc for describing and accessing data, using which online applications are exchanging data within themselves. High use of single sign-in with wide range of online application, services as Google, Yahoo! providing. Real-time responsive applications using Ajax, Flex technologies are popping-up only in one browser window.

Now, when Google, Yahoo & Microsoft are having really tough competition these days among them, Adobe jumped into with acquiring Buzzword, a web-based word processor, a Flex-based RIA that represents the future of online collaboration. Before, adobe also announced Adobe AIR, Its Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a cross-OS runtime environment for building Rich Internet Applications, using Flash, Flex, HTML and Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

There is a big fight ahead.