Online Observations

I reviewed Zemanta quite a while back as a very decent idea but with still a ways to go on proper implementation. Today I happened to read a review on one of my favorite sites, The Web Worker Daily. And their verdict is the same as mine. the images just don’t cut it yet.

To remind everyone, Zemanta installs as a browser plugin and adds a nifty little feature which suggests to you images and links for the post that you are typing based on what you are typing. An excellent idea, if it works.

It has been all over the Internet: the complete integration of SalesForce and Google Apps. But here’s a little bit which is not so well known. SalesForce actually first wanted to integrate with Zoho and were well into development doing so. However, they played a dirty card and offered to acquire Zoho instead, which Zoho of course refused.

This entry on the Zoho Blogs by Sridhar gives out the details about this engagement. It also gives details on how helpful Google was to allow integration with Google Gears.

Google announced yesterday that the Google spiders will now fill out forms to access dynamically generated pages which till now were inaccessible to search engines. This gives Google the ability to start indexing the Deep Web.

Google promises to follow “good Internet citizenry practices”, but then again not a lot of people trust Google:

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A large number of Flickr users are protesting the release of video support on Flickr. There are petitions on the site asking for Flickr to roll back the service. I do understand the reasoning behind these protests as will anyone who has seen the mess youtube is.

As mentioned earlier, Flickr has put a limit of 90 seconds on the uploaded videos, but that is still enough to produce a lot of trash. I doubt that Flickr will roll back the feature.

Here are some protests from around the web by people who don’t like the idea of Flickr video:

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Phenomenally popular photo sharing site Flickr, today announced that they are going to allow video sharing for their pro users - normal users can view and comment of course, but only pro can upload. What’s the twist? Well read on:

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