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OpenID - Your masterkey to the net

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OpenID is a secure, customizable, user-controllable, and open mechanism to share personal information (username/password, credit card numbers, address) on the web. It will eliminate the need to enter the same information over and over again in different websites, or to remember different username/password combinations. It will be a major improvement over the current [...]

Upcoming Event: Seminar on OpenSocial presented by Google

(This information was sent in by PuneTech reader Shardul Mohite)

CSI Pune presents
What: Seminar on Google’s OpenSocial platform
When: 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday 20th June, 2008
Where: Persistent Systems, “Bhageerath”, SB Road
Who can attend: Free for CSI members, Rs. 100 for others. Registration will be at the venue
Details:
Writing Apps for Orkut and Other OpenSocial Containers
The [...]

PubMatic Launches Default Optimization Service to Recapture $1 Billion in Lost Advertising Revenue

A large number of websites rely on advertising as their primary source of income. Typically the ads are served by third party ad networks (for example Google’s adsense). When an ad network is unable to find an appropriate ad for a specific page being served to a specific reader, they put in default or public [...]

Monkiri adds Blogger/Wordpress support - becomes more useful

When Pune-based social web-clipping service Monkiri had launched a couple of weeks ago, I had complained that it’s utility is very limited because it does not allow posting the clips to the user’s personal blog. They have moved quickly, and fixed the problem. They now support Blogger and Wordpress blogs. That should certainly increase its [...]

Company Profile: Monkiri - Webpage clipping service

Pune-based Monkiri is a browser plugin (IE & FF) that enables a web user clip portions of a webpage, comment on it, and post it to a blog hosted on Monkiri.
Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website. At this [...]

PubMatic releases AdPrice Index: Sensex for Online Ads

Pune based online advertising optimization startup PubMatic has announced the availability of the PubMatic AdPrice Index - essentially a sort of an Sensex (or S&P 500 Index) for the online advertising world.
The AdPrice Index essentially reports on the average online advertising revenues earned by 3000 web publishers worldwide who are PubMatic’s customers. And it only [...]

Pubmatic and Komli to power all eBay.in ads

eBay India), today announced an exclusive advertising relationship with Indian ad network Komli Media. Komli is now the exclusive seller of all of eBay India’s banner advertising inventory up to end March 2009.
In addition, eBay India will also use Komli’s Pubmatic ad optimization service to improve ad revenues. Pubmatic can estimate the revenues that a [...]