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Burrp has released a widget which allows to embed the burrp search functionality in blog making one to boast of some cool features in there blog. What that means ? Visitors to your site can search for Pizza in Bangalore from your blog and see the results in your blog .

Burrp has rich database for restaurants reviews which can be leveraged in blog by using search widget . Following functionality are there is the widget which I think is useful :

• Auto completion for the areas in the city so for Bangalore Widget (which is running here) if people type in K then they get suggestion for the locality starting with K in the type box.
• Showing the search result in the widget which has phone number of the place , rating and cost of the meal.
• Ability to send the address of the restaurant from the search result as SMS without leaving the blog.

For me down side of the widget is that it is not a wordpress widget in the true sense and require some plumbing but considering this is first version we can expect improvements in future versions.

Try it out here , remember you can search only in Bangalore :
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Well everyone must have seen  PC vs MAC ad .  Here is another ad which targets Vista directly .

Needless to say it is quite funny but these ads should stop as they are getting repetitive.

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Anyone who is a regular visitor on moneycontrol will be pleased to know that moneycontrol is available on mobile or to say there is a mobile version of moneycontrol available on mobile . I found it really intuitive . I was earlier using same type of application from reliance money but the version from moneycontrol is leaps and bound ahead of rmoney version in terma of technology . On content side I think moneycontrol is already ahead of rmoney .

One can download the application by going to wap.moneycontrol.com

For someone like me who swears by firefox there is a good news , firefox 3 Beta has arrived . It has lot of security improvements , memory leak fixes, better download manager and faster AJAX loading means that your gmail will load faster . Note that you might loose some add-ons if you download the beta so if you are impatient like me give it a try here.

Surprisingly it is available in Gujrati but not in Hindi (as hindi is more spoken then Gujrati ) & more surprisingly Gujrati version is not available on Windows , it is only for Mac and Linux.

Finally Reliance Communications and MS has agreed on a deal by which RCom will become exclusive partner for MS IPTV platform in India . Commercially it will be launched by next year starting from Mumbai and New Delhi. As per moneycontrol monthly cost will be somewhere between 700-800 Rs/- , but considering the scale I would expect monthly cost to be low. RCom may bundle IPTV services with mobile , fixed telephony , boradband to bring down the cost.

As an update looks like MTNL is offering IPTV as can be seen here. Tariff are still not given.

Reliance Communications is in alliance with Microsoft to bring IPTV to India . Put simply it will broadcast TV to our homes using same protocol as computer data is transferred .

What are the advantages of IPTV ?

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Here are my top blackberry (8700g) applications . These applications helps in improving productivity and keeping me up to date .

1. Gtalk , this is absolutely fantastic, it should be part of default blackberry applications.

2. Yahoo Go, absolute delight to play with and it comes bundled with flickr so one can view all photo’s on the go.

3. Viigo RSS reader , this doubles as my newspaper as it automatically sync’s all the news so when I am on the train to office in morning all my subscribed feeds are updated and available , also I can bookmark the favorite news to del.icio.us .