Thursday, October 30, 2008

Google offers support OpenID

There are so many websites, portals and other web application which ask for you username and password in order to access their products/services. It is really difficult for any person (getting more diffcult) to remember so many login information. I have personally lost few login credentials for some websites quite a few times. If you also face such challenge to remember and recall the correct login id for your favourite websites then OpenId is for your rescue.

OpenID is simple notion for opend source id using which you can register once and use the same user id at a number of websites. Currently some of most populat brands in the www support OpenId.

Google has just announced that it will also support OpenId 2.0 based credentials to access most of it's webistes and webapplications. With Microsoft, Yahoo and many other key players already nodding and giving clearance to users with OpenId to access their websites is great move towards user freidnliess and provide a better managability to the user records and saving of enough user database and maintenenace related activites for that without compromising on the crucial data related to each user based on which the specific features to users are provided.

You can also register your id for free with OpenID and be the part of the current trend of create once use for a lifetime user logins.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Google RSS news - A reality coming soon!!

Google now promises to add RSS links to it's search results. This is a great news for the people who find it difficult searching relevent information everyday on related topics. Now, you have the power of RSS with the Google Search to get your track on the latest news on products, compaines, persons, places and many more...

Google has recently confirmed this news to organizations who authorize in search engine news. 'Search Engine Watch' is one such organization who claimed to have got this news directly from Google. They have also informed that Google is the only major search engine who is bringing this new feature. I hope after Google all the major search engines will also include the same if they don't lag befind in providing latest info.

Google decision to bring the RSS links for search brings confirmation to us that the Google's promise to make it's products and services more user freindly is very true. As you are aware that RSS technology brings the most updated information about any given topic from the authority sites, now the the search results in Google will be more updated and lastest in the content also.

So all the best for future Googling and enjoy your Sunday !!

Thursday, October 09, 2008

SaaS - Do you know?

There are so many researches going on the labs for developing a model which will bring business and technology together like never before. That would close the limitations related to technology, cost and operations within the orhnizations. Out of the various software models that have come up one such model is SaaS.

SaaS - Software as a Service.

SaaS is all about developing a software (probably web based) and using it's certain features to provide it's services to others. It is using software as a service. For example Amazon is known for it's strong software model and business success. It is proven by the success and of Amazon itself. Now any other guy with an idea of creating a similar shopping site he may have to create a software and a suitable model from the scratch. Alternatively, he can also use the proven and successful Amazon's model as a core to develop his shopping site. Amazon has provied it's API for developers and business organizations who want to build a similar thing. They can use Amzon's API and build there own site leveragining on the Amazon's stantard core.

SaaS is basically using a software which is provided by it's host to clients to use this, without having to install this software in their machines. So now, the clients pay the software provider for the service that they receive for using the software. It can be in the form of a licensce for using the software for a given period of time. One simple example is the Mail service provided by Google. For organizations, ranging from startups to big size they can use the mail service provided by Gmail for their office use. They will be using the Gmail mail servers for all the emailing needs within the organizations. For this, these organisations save the cost of hardware and software setup, power, security and human resource required to maintain the same. Instead, now they can recevie all these services directly from Gmail. Plus they enjoy the world class performance, usability, popularity, security and hassle free business solution.

SaaS holds a great promise for the way business is going to change or evolve in the coming days with technology playing the forerunner as the key to success of the organization and their business together.

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Google Book Search Intergration Feature - API

Hey Guys!!
I am back after a small stint. To let you know as the first hand info quite few interesting things happened in my life both personally and professionally. I have changed place, my job, my company and there's change in my work profile too. Apart from these good chnages it's also sad that I am away from my very near and dear friends of Hyderbad but now the good thing is that I won't give you any chance to complain about my posts in this blog. This is because I have bought a new laptop today and I am writing this post from my new laptop.

Enough of scribbling and let's get into what I have say in my current post!!

This is about the new Google API for books.
As you might have guessed that this API lets you display books on topic of your preference. This is exactly what you can do using Google Book Search API. Now, I think this would be very useful for people who want to buy new books or review a book before actually buying it. I think this is great tool provided by people at Google. As far as portals or education based websites are concerned people are really going to benifit from it.

Google Book search can be integrated to a webiste using an API which offers higher customization. As an option for those who are not coding guys can take the copy-paste kind of javascript free to use code offered by Google to integrate in your web page where you want to put this book search and preview display feature.

The URI for the same is: code.google.com/apis/books/

Check it out, generate your code .. put it in your webiste ...and get going!!