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Sabeer Bhatia, Co-Founder of Hotmail, which later he sold to Microsoft has launched a office productivity online and offline software suite that rivals other big players in the business like Microsoft with its Microsoft Office Live and Google with Google Docs. Live document prides itself as a “suite of online office productivity applications offering functionality equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint”. It also contains a “optional desktop client application that wraps around Microsoft Office and embeds collaborative capabilities into these hitherto standalone software applications - Live Documents converts Microsoft Office applications from static standalone software to smart clients that are connected to the Internet and facilitate in-context document sharing (multiple people can edit a document at the same time) and management (security, access control and revision control) without requiring users to give up their familiar user interfaces. The Live Documents desktop client also ensures offline access to documents - a key failing of current online Office applications.”

Thus, with the advent of live documents the overall online documents niche is getting hotter and lets hope that live documents reach up to its expectations. Currently live documents is available only to a limited people and I have applied to it and lets see if I get a login. You can also apply to live documents here.

You can visit the live documents website to know more about it!

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I am thrilled and excited, all at the same time to know that Satyam Computers(SAY) is the sponsor for the FIFA world cup to be held in South Africa in 2010 as well as for the FIFA world cup to be held in Brasil in 2014 along with two FIFA confederations  cup to be held between  2007  and  2014.

Satyam will also be a major provider for Information Technology Management as well as for IT infrastructure for these events. So, all I can say is all the best and make us proud as you have always!!

Cheers!

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Orkut introduces new Privacy Features

Finally orkut has introduced a new set of privacy features that were much needed by the community especially in the wake of the latest crimes that we hear coming out of orkut! So, finally orkut has taken the initiative and has introduced privacy for scrapbook access, album(i.e Images) access as well as Video access. You can do this by going to the settings link in the left corner of your screen and then going to the “Privacy Tab”.

Another good thing that orkut has introduced is the Ask questions feature where in your friends can answer to questions that you have asked. Another thing that is noteworthy is the updates feature, where in you know the latest updates about your friends! This is very effective especially when your friends list goes into hundreds;)

I personally feel that orkut is standing up to the stiff competition from MySpace and Facebook as well as linkedIn when it comes to professional networking and the only thing that orkut should actively work upon is the  OpenSocial API which is still in Beta and takes limited developers. I hope they open it for public as soon as possible.

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