Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Happy New Year!

Yes. It is almost 2010!

Happy and Successful New Year for all of you!

I am sorry about not writing posts in 2009. But i must say i will make my blog as active as possible in incoming 2010 year. Don't leave me along here ;)

Wish you healthy, successful, happy new year!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Vote for Webware 100 - 2009

There are 10 categories you can vote in you are encouraged to vote in each. The top 100 Web 2.0 apps are selected by Webware readers and by the users of the products we cover. Vote for your favorite products to give them a chance to win Webware 100 awards. There are 10 categories you can vote in you are encouraged to vote in each. Note: There will be a special 11th category where Webware editors select the best products in unique categories, such as Rookie of the Year. These will be announced, with the rest of the winners, on May 19.

My Votes are as below. Most of my choices are based on my daily uses.

Audio - Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/ 
Social music discovery and listening tool. Listen to full tracks, and create stations around artists you like

Commerce - Elance
http://www.elance.com 
Elance is an online workplace where businesses connect with qualified professionals to get work done, facilitating the entire process from hiring to collaboration to payment. At a time when small businesses are looking for more flexibility in hiring and resource management and many professionals are looking to contract work and freelancing as a career, Elance provides the complete solution--all in a secure, easy-to-use web application.


Communication - Gmail
http://www.gmail.com/ 
Google's Web based e-mail, which currently offers users in excess of 7 GB of free storage.

Instrastructure & Storage - Amazon Web Services
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ 
Comprised of five different services that help power many of today's biggest Web services, including S3 storage and EC2 elastic cloud computing.

Location-based Services- Google Maps
http://maps.google.com
Google's free online maps service. It provides driving directions, traffic, and search results for local businesses.

Photo & Video - Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
Yahoo's photo and video sharing community. Users can upload and organize their photos, then share them with others.

Productivity - Google Docs
http://www.google.com/docs
A collection of online office programs including a word processor, spreadsheet tool, and a presentation maker.

Search & References - Technorati
http://www.technorati.com
Tracks stories around the Web and organizes them on a news page. It also gives each post authority based on how many other blogs are linking to it.

Social networking & Publishing - LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
An online directory of people used both for business and social networking

Saturday, March 7, 2009

PHP - How to import contacts from all major email providers and social networks

What is OpenInviter ?

Open source OpenInviter (Open Inviter) is an free import contacts (addressbook) script from email providers like Yandex, Apropo, Walla, Lycos, Mail.ru, FastMail, IndiaTimes, Azet, Uk2, Evite, Care2, Mynet.com, Mail.com, Gawab, Doramail, Rediff, Live/Hotmail, Bigstring, Terra, Wp.pt, 5Fm, Nz11, Netaddress, Zapakmail, Interia, Yahoo!, Hushmail, Web.de, KataMail, Rambler, Popstarmail, Libero, Abv, Inbox.com, AOL, OperaMail, GMail, Sapo.pt, Clevergo, GMX.net, Mail.in or social portals like Eons, Famiva, Tagged, Plaxo, Flickr, Fdcareer, Meinvz, Cyworld, Twitter, Faces, Skyrock, Flingr, Plurk, Hi5, Mydogspace, Xanga, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Xing, Kincafe, Plazes, Livejournal, Xuqa, Bebo, Perfspot, Facebook, Lovento, Multiply, Motortopia, Konnects, Hyves, Brazencareerist, Mycatspace, Mevio, Orkut, Vimeo, Friendfeed, Friendster, Badoo, MySpace, Flixster. This contacts importer script is integrating with content management systems (aka CMS) like JamRoom, Boonex Dolphin, phpizabi, PhpBB, Joomla1.0, PHPMELODY, Social Engine, vBulletin, Wordpress, phpFoX, myBB, PunBB, Joomla, Drupal, SimpleMachines Forum (SMF). Open Inviter is written in PHP 5 (no database required but cURL or wget required) and running on any webserver (tested on Apache) offering advanced tell a friend features. OpenInviter is a free self hosted solution that does not use a third party gateway (or API) to import contacts.
Sounds cool! How much?

OpenInviter is totally free and open-source solution. You can download it, change it, write plugins for it. Everything for free. What are you waiting for? Grab your OpenInviter today! Go to the Download section now!
Features at a glance
  • Easy access to your visitors address book in all major email providers and social networks around the world.

  • Completely painless and easy way of integrating in your website. It takes virtually not more than 5 minutes to have your own OpenInviter up and running on your site.

  • Constant updates so that you can sit back and relax and always have access to the latest ways to get your visitor's address book.

  • WGET-ready! Yes, you read right! OpenInviter is the only contacts importer supporting both WGET and cURL as methods of handling