Developed by Avinash Garg, Rajesh Bhatia and Piyush Gupta, RouteGuru gives a detailed description of the route one must take to reach a destination in the shortest possible time.
“When I was in the US and the Middle-East, I noticed people printing maps before heading for any destination on road and that’s how this idea came […]
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This has definitely got to be one of the more useful applications of the web - no doubt seconded by thousands of Athenian drivers. Driver Yannis Pitsakis decided to channelise his frustrations in not being able to find a parking spot, and started a website which plays matchmaker with a difference - his Greek website […]
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A new service, Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo, presents publishers with an alternative to conventional subscriptions, which, if widely adopted, could open up a new model based on free, ad-supported publishing.
The Adobe service allows publishers to generate revenue by including text-based ads linked to the content of an Adobe PDF (portable document format) […]
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Here’s yet another instance of an ad driven model:
Corbis and its digital rights partner, PicScout, propose to allow bloggers to access photos via a Web link from the site PicApp.com, which is currently in test mode. These photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up […]
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