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[20 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Box.net

Box.net is an online file system that allows users to store, access and share files remotely. Its services include online storage, file hosting, and file sharing.
Box.net was founded in 2005 as a college business project by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO). It was incorporated in April of that year. Originally based in Washington, Box.net moved to Palo Alto, California, United States in late 2006.

Search Engines »

[17 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Yahoo! Search BOSS

Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform.
The main goal and idea of BOSS is to give users, in this case developer’s free access to the Yahoo! Search index. The results can be supplied into the developer’s website or program so that they can manipulate the resources according to their product’s requirements. BOSS allows the results to be returned back in XML, HTML, text and also allows the comprehensive search feature allowed in Yahoo like …