My Dream App is a contest for new ideas of best shareware product(A Killer Application) for Macintosh (Don’t worry you don’t need to be Mac user for this).
They are giving away 18 iPods and 6 Macintosh computers as prizes. Also they will help in shareware development of 3 best ideas with lifetime royalty.
I strongly suggest that you should enter in this even if you don’t have any big/cracking/fundoo ideas.
Social Meter is an excellent AJAX based site to find the popularity of any website in different social networking site. Currently it supports scanning from Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Jots, Linkroll, Netscape, Reddit, Shadows, Spurl, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web.
I am sure it will be enormously helpful for web developers like me to get the current web stats and to change and enhance strategy for web marketing.
Google Desktop 4 is now out of beta status. It gives you easy access to information on your
PC and from the web by providing full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and much more.
It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.It also has numerous widgets created by google and other developers for various perposes like stock ticker, weather etc.It supports 26 languages at present.
Yahoo! also has similar stuff for desktop called Yahoo! Widget Engine.
Writely is an AJAX based online word processor acquired by Google in March.
Writely is collaboration friendly, can import Word documents, save to PDF, OpenOffice, Rich Text Format and zip.The system offers online storage and autosaves your documents every 10 seconds.
It allows bookmarks for long documents, spell check, tags, image insert and also post to blogging site like blogger.
Other online word processing services provider are zohowriter, thinkfree, glidewrite, rallypoint and writeboard.
You can check a comparison of some of this services by CNet
Registration for Google’s annual online coding competition i.e. Google Code Jam 2006 is started from 14th Aug 2006.
The top 100 contestants win an all expenses paid trip to New York City to compete in the finals at Google’s New York Engineering Office.
Grand Prize for this event is : $10,000.
Registration for Google Code Jam closes September 5, and the qualifying round begins on the same day
You can get more information here : http://www.google.com/codejam2006
So be ready to show some programming skills and creativity to solve.
All the Best.
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