The most substantial improvement to Yahoo! Yahoo photos was a revamp of Yahoo. This photo property of Yahoo launched in the year 2000 was rolled back in few months back .

Yahoo users had a number of advantages of the new version. For starters, the information assigned to each photo included tags (comma separated tags no less - my favorite) for easy locating later, ratings to help the better photos rise to the top, sharing at the photo level.

Yahoo Photos’ breakout feature was its browser-based photo editor that handled cropping, resizing, and image adjustments (such as contrast and brightness), and also add borders and perform special effects, such as pixelate. The editing feature in Yahoo Photos was so easy to use that one might forget what a neat trick it was to have this inside a browser. Read more…

What is AJAX?

If there is anything about the current interaction design that we can state as ‘fascinating’, it has to be an Ajax application. Ajax is a dramatic departure from the traditional page-based model, which requires an entire Web page to be reloaded for the information to be communicated between the client and the server.

While seemingly simplistic, AJAX opens doors for Web-application developers that had previously been shut. It relies on nothing but the built-in browser internals. No extra software needs to be distributed to users, making AJAX an attractive option for companies that are concerned about the security and logistical implications of distributing installed software to users. Read more…

Ready or not, Web 2.0, a new generation of web-based services, is changing the way people work and the way records and documents are created, used, and shared. One of the most interesting tools of Web 2.0 are the Mashups.

What are Mashups?

Mashup is web application that combines data from different sources to create one entirely new and innovative service. They are a trademark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0.

This new kind of Web based data integration is soaring all over the Internet these days. The main reason for the popularity of Mashups is the emphasis they lay on interactive user participation and the manner they aggregate the data in. A Mashup website is characterized by the way in which they draw content from outside of its organizational boundaries. Read more…