First YouTube Video

The first YouTube video was uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 and was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. As Youtube celebrates it fifth birthday today, see what the first video uploaded to Youtube looked like. Nothing special..but its embedded in history!

April 24, 2010

Microsoft launches Docs.com

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new beta Facebook app from FUSE Labs called “Docs”, also available at docs.com Built on Microsoft Office 2010, the Docs app enables Facebook users for the first time to create and share Microsoft Office documents directly with their Facebook friends, using the Office tools they already know. Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook provides the best possible document service for the Facebook environment. Seamless integration with Facebook means that the service is all about sharing your documents. Finally docs can be friendly too! ...

April 22, 2010

Leaked Images of the New 4th Generation iPhone HD

Folks over at MacRumors have been tipped with images of what appears to be the the 4th Generation iPhone HD. Interestingly! the images reveal that there is no LED Flash on the back which puts us in a little doubt since our sources believe that it is bound to make an appearance on the new iPhone. There has been quite some amount of speculation as to whether Apple might have plans to bring the aluminum unibody enclosure, as seen on the Macbook and iPad, to the iPhone but there has been no official confirmation on the matter. ...

April 16, 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Available Now

From Microsoft News Center: Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused events, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. The company also announced that Silverlight 4 will release to Web (RTW) later in the week. Together, these technologies simplify the entire development process, enabling developers to target new platforms and build high-quality applications. Developers will be able to download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 in conjunction with the Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo launch event in Las Vegas. ...

April 13, 2010

MS Silverlight Beta Client for Facebook

This Silverlight client app for Facebook is awesome! You can download it from the following location: http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/sfcquickinstall.aspx

April 13, 2010

How to Remove Farmville like App Notifications on Facebook Wall

Many people want to stop, delete and remove Farmville, Zoo world, Mafia wars like App Notifications, emails, updates, posts on their Facebook wall and news feed. I have so many friends playing these kind of Apps that my FB news feed is full of unwanted crappy updates! Your friends are addicted Zoo world, Farmville fans and will not stop playing just because you don’t want their FB updates from messaging your wall. ...

April 4, 2010

IE9 Screenshots Leaked

A Chinese website has posted IE 9 preview screenshots and said it will use the Metro UI, the same which is used in Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 series interface.

April 2, 2010

Main Bhi “BABA”

Avinash’s note: This guest post is written by Pooja Bhardwaj. She is a typical Piscean who loves to enjoy each and every min of her life. Standing near the door, managing myself in half square feet of area, amongst hyperactive women cribbing about mother-in-laws, bitching about “to-be daughter in laws”, at 7 in the morning makes me wonder if a special “Viagara powered women horlicks” is available at the local chemist. You guessed it right, m dragging myself to my office in the mumbai local train. ...

March 31, 2010

Apple to Launch to iPhone 4G on Verizon this Summer

The “iPhone on Verizon” topic is hardly new at all. Earlier this year analysts predicted that AT&T may lose exclusive deal for the iPhone with Apple and that Apple may plan to bring the iPhone to another carrier. The model that has CDMA capability, used by Verizon Wireless, is being manufactured by Pegatron Technology Corp. One person familiar with the situation said Pegatron is scheduled to start mass producing the CDMA iPhones in September, but it was unclear when Apple might make the model available. ...

March 30, 2010

We are moving from Cloud1 to Cloud2

The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks like a sheet of paper, and it’s called the iPad. It’s not about typing or clicking; it’s about touching. It’s not about text, or even animation, it’s about video. It’s not about a local disk, or even a desktop, it’s about the cloud. It’s not about pulling information; it’s about push. We are moving from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2, and the iPad is the accelerator. Many of them haven’t even made it to Cloud 1—some are still on mainframes. The iPad that shows us what now is really possible—and that we all need to go faster. Cloud 1 ————————————->Cloud 2 Type/Click———————————->Touch Yahoo/Amazon—————————–>Facebook Tabs——————————————>Feeds Chat——————————————>Video Pull——————————————->Push Create—————————————->Consume Location Unknown————————->Location Known Desktop/notebook————————->Smart phone/Tablet Windows/Mac——————————>Cocoa/HTML 5 ...

March 30, 2010