Google has released Google reader for Wii which is accessible in the Opera Browser for Wii. I’m sure that Wii users will certainly love it. For those who are wondering what is Wii then please go through the official post by the Google Reader team and I’m sure that you’ll have a better idea about the things :)
Joost the Internet TV startup is slowly and surely getting closer to general public. Right now, it is in beta and is available for beta testers only. However, recently Joost gave thousands of invitations to its current beta testers (your truly is one of those, that means you can simply post a comment and ask for an invitation).
Joost was able to score $ 45 million in funding from a group of five investors and which includes Viacom & CBS. Viacom and CBS have already signed up deals with Joost for providing the content for the service and this means that YouTube will certainly have difficult days in future. What do you think about that ?
Recently, I got the invitation of reinvigorate which is a web analytics service and provides the real time information. I’ve installed Reinvigorate on ReviewSaurus and I was really impressed with the results and service offered by Reinvigorate.
It has got in depth visitor information and shows you all the required information in a clean and neat interface. In simple words, it is one service, which I was looking for and the best of all, its free. Although, one needs an invitation to sign up for the service but it is worth waiting for this service.
Here are some of the important features of Reinvigorate :
1. Shows Real time statistics.
2. Shows graphs on Hourly, Daily Month and Yearly basis.
3. In depth Visitor Detail with their location, IP address, Timezone, Browser and Operating System information.
4. Plugin for wordpress & Drupal makes it easier to install Reinvigorate.
5. In depth information about the sessions i.e. it has got detailed information about the length of the visit lot many things.
Reinvigorate seems really impressive and because of it’s ease of use, I’m sure that each and every blogger will love to use this service. In short a great competition to Google Analytics!
Zoho Sheet the leading online spreadsheet service in it’s latest update has gone multi-lingual. Zoho Sheet is now present in four other languages (French, Spanish, German and Japanese) apart from English.
This will not only ensure that they will have a wider audience but will keep them ahead of the competitors as well. Other useful features in this update are :
Customizing invitation email
Email notifications on shared spreadsheet updates
Easy recalculation of formulas by hitting F9
Use your mouse to select cell ranges while typing formulas
Data label option in charts
I’ve not seen any other beta service to get so frequent updates, have you?
Content management system has got a very big definition and I guess I’ll leave this daunting task on Answers.com only, as they’ve found the best of the definition for Content Management System. Drupal is an open source Content Management System and once again Mahesh Bhat has done an excellent job by writing a great review about this power packed CMS.
This time Mahesh made sure that he highlighted both the PROS and CONS of Drupal and that way allows you as a user to decide that whether they’ll with this particular CMS or not. Personally I’ve not used Drupal but Mahesh has been dealing with it from some time and as far as I know Mahesh generally get things right :).
Here are few things which made it look interesting to me and I’m sure even you’ll find it interesting too :
Flexible – It has, in my opinion, the most flexible architecture one can get when compared to the other open source CMS available. Everything, in Drupal is a node (a content unit), except for comments and profiles. There are plans to shift that to node architecture – but making all other content types a node is flexible enough.
Learning curve/specialized knowledge – With great power comes great responsibility. (I could not help it, with the release of Spider Man 3). As I mentioned in the earlier post, open source software does not necessarily mean cost free software. The Drupal architecture – being so different (almost in a zen way), makes it difficult for people from other CMS to migrate to. Hence, if you are not ready to learn Drupal (say, to heavily customize it), you will have to hire someone who knows.
Links : Drupal homepage | Review of Drupal Image Credit : Mahesh Bhat
