Yahoo Acquires Zimbra

Zimbra, one of the trade mark applications of web 2.0 paradigm is taken .. According to zimbra.com yahoo has bought zimbra for $350m .. neat eh ?

We are excited to announce today that Yahoo! is acquiring Zimbra to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets.. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed to the community and to our customers and partners while leveraging opportunities to enhance their current experience.

Well it maybe a great step to regain ground in mail section, which it is loosing to gmail, Also I think its a measure to counter gmail for enterprises market, Google is doing good with Google apps and yahoo needed to counter that and zimbra might actually pull that off. Zimbra is an open source framework which allows developers and enterprises to integrate their services with zimbra services, Organizations have integrated zimbra with ERP and Inventory systems.. Ask me "How open source ppl earn money" And I might have an answer for you this time :)..

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FireBug -- The Wonder Tool

For the ajaxkarma devotees [:P]:
" Firebug has been around for quite some time now and just because it is mentioned for the first time here, doesn't make it a new in the market beta tool "
For quite sometime I have been planning to write a short tutorial on how to debug javascript and basically "how to be a javascript developer and still be non suicidal", Javascript can really get to your nerves and haunt you at nights with malformed pop ups .. But then its like friction "A necessary evil" you cant make any ajax request or display creamy web widgets without javascript .. For the optimism I have in me ,I am gonna cut short the gloomy airs around JS. Joe Hewitt like a mesiah came to our rescue and made this wonder tool firebug .. Firebug is a javascript, CSS, HTML analyzer which reports almost everything you can imagine about a web page.
This 250kb extension to firefox is better than any debugger, profiler tool you would have worked on your IDE's. It allows you to change DOM in real time allowing you to see changes live, and so CSS and other property you can think of, It contains a script engine to test javascript before incorporating into your page. As I ramble on, I am realizing that nothing I say would aptly describe this tool, So you need to hear it from the man himself, Watch this excellent video which explains the ins and outs of FireBug.

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And We Are Back

Ok, I have used backspace some 20 times trying to figure out something funny to write after my trip to caves in guatemala [:)] (have been reading a lot about xibalba and stuff), So yeh I am back again with some changes, I plan to keep this blog as a journal of web 2.0 related activities which i find interesting and worth mentioning. I am planning to have a separate web site for the tutorials and the knowledge base of web 2.0 for which i pledge to work [:P] I do I do .. No kidding !!!

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An Interesting study of Digital Text

We Sure have advanced a lot !! Application is faster than the speed of thought and really its hard to predict the face of web and the way we communicate.

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Dojo 0.9 Beta scheduled for today

Love Dojo ? Well you have a reason to jump off the roof (in ur swimming pool of course) and get back to ur work stations to adapt your skills to a very different but lightning fast version of dojo. Yes today is the beta launch day of dojo 0.9 and dojo guys have worked very hard on saving your Kb's and CPU cycles. Well those of you who thought that dojo is hard to learn, will be buying food for ever hungry dojo hackers!! 0.9 book is not finished and is a work in progress but those of you who need a porting guide, can smile a little as porting guide is presentable and if you are a quick learner then sufficient.
So get ready with your local test site !!

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Remember The Milk -- The Bob Story

Google loves to surprise both its user and developer community, gd7 delivered more than expectation when it came to powering the developer with ammunition. With gd7 came Google gears, Mapplets and Mashup editor (very much in Beta). One of the early adapters of Google gears is Remember the Milk (Bob the monkey) website. They have a impressive UI and their integration with google services look very sturdy, remember the milk is an impressive example of web 2.0 which brings a fanktacular UI and reliable functionality.
Remember The milk is a web application which helps you manage your TODO list in a fun way,It notify of your events and tasks via IM, e mail etc ... Do check it out !! Maybe it acts as a panacea to your procrastination problem ...
Great Work BoB !!!

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Google Gears and Dojo Offline

Google launched Google gears which helps a developer to make its web application work offline, Google Gears is a set of API which works in tandem with a Local Server, Database and a Worker Pool to enable a web application to work offline. Dojo launched a simillar kind of toolkit called Dojo Offline about a month ago, Its time to watch out performance of both the developer toolkits, though Google has the Big G factor to it .. I am particularly impressed by dojo toolkit which AJAXify your web app in a click of a thumb and also gives you a very rich web 2.0 UI with really sweet widgets to cutify your website. Dojo Offline has this edge of being open source and hassle free IP issues which makes it a better contender to provide a complete solution to the offline paradigm. Its two of my favorites competing and I am gonna be hurt anyway. If I get time to work on google gears (which I have to manage with my placements coming), I will publish some tutorials and examples on ajaxkarma, so keep looking !!

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