IT Masala

I always dream of getting into Google ! ..Maybe after my M.S i shall put all my efforts to get in ! Someday i know my dream will come true >…Because "Only those who dream can achieve the impossible"…..

Anyway here are the openings @ Google India as given in their job site !

Software Engineering
Engineering
Operations and IT
Partner Solutions Organization
QA Engineering
More Bangalore Job Opportunities
More Hyderabad Job Opportunities
More Delhi Job Opportunities
 

We believe you don’t have to work in Silicon Valley to create great software. In fact, a number of our most innovative products have been developed at our engineering centers right here in India. That’s why we’re looking for world-class engineers for our software development teams in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi.

[ Google India Jobs ] 

All the Best !

First to those who donna what is Hitwise . Hitwise is a company which collects Internet usage data directly from ISPs to measure the traffic to more than 800,000 Internet sites.

It has predicted the next six Web 2.0 companies most likely to reach the soaring success of YouTube, Wikipedia or Flickr.  The list includes Yelp, StumbleUpon, Veoh, WeeWorld, Imeem and Piczo. Hitwise announced its projections in San Francisco at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo.

Here is in short on what these six Web 2.0 companies do:

• Yelp offers an online guide that allows users to rate various goods and services.
• StumbleUpon allows users to recommend Web sites to others with common interests.
• Veoh provides software to allow users to collect, publish and watch high definition videos.
• WeeWorld allows users to create a graphic alter ego to be used for online or mobile communications.
• Imeem is an online community to allow users to promote their content, blogs, music, photos and videos.
• Piczo is a site that allows users — it targets teenagers — to create their own customizable Web sites.

Wikipedia, the wiki-based encyclopaedia, is the one exception cited in the Hitwise study: 4.6 per cent of all visits to Wikipedia pages are to edit entries on the site.

Besides Wikipedia, other well-known Web 2.0 destinations are social network sites like MySpace and Facebook and photo-sharing site Photobucket.

Visits by web users to the category of participatory Web 2.0 sites account for 12 per cent of US web activity, up from only two per cent two years ago, the study showed.

[ Hitwise ]

Google renamed the name of its shopping search engine from "Froogle" to the more corporately inclined Google Product Search. The name caused confusion for some because it doesn't clearly describe what the product does- said officials of Google .

The name was originally intended as a play on the word "frugal", Marissa Mayer, vice president of search and user experience, and Jeff Bartelma, product manager for "the product formally known as Froogle", wrote in a blog post to the Google Web site.

From their blog post on Google:

We're taking the opportunity to refocus the user experience on providing the most comprehensive, relevant results in a clean, simple, easy-to-use UI. We're also excited about how Google Checkout can help searchers have a fast and secure purchase experience, so the new interface makes it easier to buy with Checkout.

Froogle was sacrificed to the re-branding gods and has emerged as Google Product Search.

[ Google Product Search ] 

The company will offer a complete software package built around Windows and Office for $3.

The software bundle, called “Microsoft Student Innovation Suite,” (MSIS) includes Windows XP Starter Edition, Office Home and Student 2007, Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, and Windows Live Mail desktop. According to Microsoft, the software is part of a “new commitment to help close the digital divide” and an effort to “bring social and economic opportunity to the estimated 5 billion people who are not yet realizing the benefits of technology.”

“All human beings deserve a chance to achieve their full potential,” commented Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, in a prepared statement. “Bringing the benefits of technology to the next 5 billion people will require new products that meet the needs of underserved communities; creative, new business approaches that make technology more relevant, accessible and affordable; and close collaboration between local governments, educational institutions and community organizations.”

Microsoft will also offer the $3 package for high income countries, if those governments agree to sign up for the firm’s Partner in Learning program and limit the (MSIS) software to “underserved communities.”

Visit [ Microsoft Student Innovation Suite ] 

This is a nice way to hook up everybody onto Windows.. We should see how far they will be successful in this new venture !! All the Best Micro$oft !

Note : We can use Gnu/Linux (which is FREE,open source and highly secure) rather than accepting some weird offers from Micro$oft. 

MySpace News has now gone live.Built on technology developed by Newroo (which News Corp. acquired last year), MySpace news combines the aggregation functionality of Google News, with user voting similar to Digg.

From London's Times newspaper (owned by News Corp.):

MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.

This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape, which rely on readers to submit stories and determine their prominence.

They have said MySpace News won't favor News Corp-owned content, and, according to the site's FAQs page .

Also from the Times:

It also marks the site’s ambitions to become a web portal like Yahoo!, providing its users with a front door to the internet.

Soon MySpace will be one among the complete portals like Google, Yahoo providing everything under one roof…this is real competition starting up !!… Anyway the users are at a high gain , more the competition , more the benefit to the user !! …Yep !

[ MySpace News ]