Abhishek Tiwari

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Google launched their white-label app service mid to late last year, for small businesses, schools and personal use. From that point onwards this has been quite a hit as many start-ups and families have started utilizing their services. I too use their services for my personal domain.

This is quite a nascent space where folks like Google are gaining some ground. Most of these services have been offered for free, however the small business editions are being offered for a premium.

Zoho on the other hand broke onto the scene early last year as one of the strong players in the web office space. Zoho has been a very aggressive company, frequently releasing new features to bring a 360 degree offering. Until now this has been seen as a play to offer cheap alternative to Microsoft Office. This offering however was labeled as a personal edition. Anyone could have registered and used their services for free.

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From my mac dashboard to my Netvibes RSS start page, from my blackberry to my desktop on the office PC, it seems like these widgets are everywhere. Email, Stocks, Calculators, Chat, Cartoons, Sport scores, you name it and there is a widget for it. Now web widgets as a concept have been around for quite some time in rudimentary fashion. Konfabulator was one of the early pioneers in this space.

Over past few years with the Web 2.0 phenomenon, widgets have taken a prominent role in how we consume information on the web today. In the beginning, widgets were very unwieldy desktop applications, which had to be downloaded, configured and required lot of bandwidth. Now with increased broadband penetration and the web 2.0 model most of the early barriers have been lowered. With the success of RSS and other syndication technologies it has become easier for developers to create quick web widgets. Read more »

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In its mission to organize the the world’s information and make it universally accessible / useful, Google has certainly pushed the envelope further than anyone else. In its overall strategy the Health sector has clearly remained at the forefront. Late last year Google (on their blog) clearly announced its focus in this area. Speaking from personal experiences Adam Bosworth (VP Product Management, Google) said:

People need the medical information that is out there and available to be organized and made accessible to all. Which happens to be our mission. Health information should be easier to access and organize, especially in ways that make it as simple as possible to find the information that is most relevant to a specific patient’s needs.

Google initiated an internal project codenamed “Weaver” as a planned health information storage and management program. Currently in prototype stage, its being shown to health professionals and advisers to gather their opinion and feedback.

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First it was the Mechanical Turk and the Elastic Computing Cloud. People didn’t pay much attention. Then Mr.Bezos introduced the S3 (Simple Storage Service). It was one of the best services to come around in quite some time for the startup community. It was (and still is) the cheapest storage solution available with absolutely zero upfront costs. Check out this conversation between Arrington and Bezos. Om Malik also reported that how the startups were adopting this service.

Amazon also launched Alexa, which has become the defacto service for measuring web ranking and traffic analysis. I dont think I have to mention the popularity Alexa has gained since its launch. Now on August 2nd, Amazon added a new service to its quiver, the Amazon FPS (Flexible Payment Service).

Continuing its commitment to Web Services, Amazon has launched this service primarily for developers. This is a very flexible offering, which will allow developers of any eCommerce web entities to creatively offer various payment options. Frankly PayPal is getting old and slow. With PayPal there are many hard set rules, which do not offer developers much control. In addition using this service allows developers to leverage the 69+ Million Amazon users who have immediate payment access by simply using their credentials. Read more »

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