Careful Development: Good Optimization

Posted on: April 25th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: SEO, Web 2.0

The innovations in Web 2.0 aim to enhance user experience, but from marketing perspective there are some issues. Since we develop the applications for users and one of the major medium for content to travel to user is web search, so of course it cannot be ignored. Talking specifically about AJAX, it’s helping to improve the user experience. But AJAX is also criticized for being SEO non friendly. It’s true that AJAX and SEO on . [More]

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Startup School 2008

Posted on: April 20th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


Today I had the great pleasure of attending Startup School 2008. It’s a brain child of Y Combinator which invests into young startups by students/hackers to come up with really cool ideas. Its like summer camp for startups. It was a day long event and following are few key highlights:

First of all I loved the way everyone got connected with each other via Chat room on [More]

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ad:Tech SF - Day # 2

Posted on: April 17th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Internet Marketing, Web 2.0

The first round table discussion was on “State of Industry”. I didn’t get to learn anything new except US market is now waking up to the fact that SMS does hold alot of promise and it should be properly utilized. They need to travel to Asia more often!
The second discussion was “Teens Know it Better”. For this they had brought in few young teens and they were asked different questions.Following are few facts which were . [More]

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ad:Tech SF

Posted on: April 16th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Internet Marketing, Web 2.0, ad:Tech

Today was the much awaited ad:Tech San Francisco . First off was a keynote presentation by Kodak CMO, Jeff Hayzlett. I will say it was the best session of the day. It was interesting to see that how big firms like Kodak are embracing the niche area marketing strategy rather then to conquer the entire world strategy. Kodak canceled its Olympic sponsorship that they use to sponsor for so many years. This will . [More]

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SF New Tech Meetup and pluggd + Wherever.Tv combo?

Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, WhereverTv, Zigron Inc

Yesterday I attended a technology meetup “The SF New Tech Meetup” in San Francisco. It had some great presentations including a very cool robo dinosaur Pleo. This toy has a self learning behavioral engine which develops over time based on how one treats it. Users can also code new behaviors for it.
pluggd was the startup which got my attention. They have a patented technology which helps user search . [More]

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Zigron on Green & White

Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

Recently Green & White wrote a blog post on Zigron Inc. To some extent their description of Zigron Inc was quite accurate. You can read the post here.

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Google App Engine Leaving Challenges For Amazon & Microsoft

Posted on: April 8th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: Development

Google announced App Engine at its CampFire One developer event on April 7 which will work not only as hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform as reported by ZDNet. It’s free to start with 500MB of storage and 5 million monthly page views, this offer is, however, limited for first 10,000 developers that’s all been taken up till now.
Google has always been making things simple and so will App . [More]

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Blog At Zigron Inc

Posted on: April 8th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: Zigron Inc

Zigron Inc. proudly announces the Company’s blog. This blog will share the top stories, new technologies, innovations and emerging ideas from online and offline corners of the software world. The areas of focus here will include software development, product innovation, and IT consulting and outsourcing. Moving to a concise description, we specialize in Custom Software Development meeting the Web 2.0 standards, Enterprise Architecture Software Integration and User Experience, and so, these fields will be . [More]

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