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Chrome

Web Apps in Google Chrome Web Store

Web Apps or web-based applications in Chrome are programs that are designed to be used entirely within the browser. You can do things like create documents, and edit photos, without installing complicated software. Your apps are synced, always available and always up-to-date. […]

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Internet

Web Apps – What is it? What are the Advantages?

App is shorthand for an application. Applications are also called programs or software. Traditionally, they’ve been designed to do broad, intensive tasks like accounting or word processing. In the online world of web browsers and smart phones, apps are usually nimbler programs focused on a single task. Web apps, in particular, run these tasks inside the web browser and often provide a rich, interactive experience. […]

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Internet

20 Web 2.0 Innovations in the Past 10 Years (TOI Article)

Vinay Pandey of TOI has picked 20 online innovations happened in the past 10 years, that changed the way we Indians lived. The innovations are blackberry, blog, bluetooth, camera phones, facebook, peer-to-peer file sharing, firefox and chrome, gmail, google, instant messaging, ipod & iphone, kindle, memory sticks and blu-ray, rss, sms, twitter, videogames, wi-fi, wikipedia and youtube. […]

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Web Apps

Facebook Acquired FriendFeed

Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. […]