Orkut a clear looser in front of Facebook

Facebook leads the pack in Social Networking, since its user count crossed Myspace couple of months back. More i use, more i am loving it. Facebook is still private and its valuation ranges from $6 billion -  $15 billion. Companies in queue to invest in them. I think Microsoft is the only big company that has invisted $250 Million in facebook. Seems like complete buyout of facebook could be unlikely.

Cool features in facebook – I love the suggestions that the facebook gives on friends you might know. Hundreds of third party apps integrated to facebook platform.
Not so cool – Search feature.

Orkut , owned by google, seems like a clear looser in front of facebook and myspace. except for India and Brazil it hardly has any users across the world. It sucks even more after its recent release of theme, making pages even more horrible.

Cool Feature -  tagging photos(facebook has it too).
Not so cool – user interface.

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Back to blogging…

hey friends,

Its been more than a year since i stopped blogging. Now i’ve decided to start blogging again. I’ll be writing on latest tech news. For people who dont know who i am, this is karthik i worked for zoho for couple of years then joined zimbra january 2007, which was later acquired by yahoo!.

Internet Explorer vs Firefox

Microsoft has released first public release candidate, IE7 RC1, for Windows XP, last month.On other hand Firefox has also released firefox2.0 beta 2 developer preview for testing purpose heating up the Competition in browser space.
Being a big fan of Firefox, release of IE7 RC1 wasn’t an exciting news for me, but still i had to download it to test my product.It was simply good.IE performance has increased considerably as they claim.Sites with heavy javascript has always been a problem for me in IE6.With the release candidate RC1 of their new browser version IE7, it seems that they have finally fixed this issue. You can test it yourself in this test case, which has been available in qooxdoo for several months to analyze and measure the IE performance problems. Please look at status bar of your browser. It will display the execution time of each loop while a large number of objects exists.

Everything was working fine for me until i decided to uninstal IE7, now it behaved in its usual way leaving few bugs in my IE6.That’s really frustrating.

The latest figure release by onestat shows that Firefox browser continue to gain market share over leader IE. Firefox now has a total global usage share of 12.93 percent, while Internet Explorer commands a lion share of 83.05 percent. I am a big supporter of Firefox, and except for thier memory leakage problem, I would say Firefox is a better browser compare to IE in term of usability, security and most of all stability.

Not to forget, Opera and Safari are too reacting with new releases which are worth considering.Kindly let me know whats your stand on this next generation browser war.