Attention Bibliophiles - Personal Cataloging has arrived!

I am a bibliophile. I love collecting books but over the last few years I stopped collecting books because I couldn't manage them. I was loosing as many books as I was buying, so my library never grew beyond a certain number. I lost them because I would lend them to friends and forget to take them back or carelessly leave them at places from where not even God could retrieve them.

For the latter problem there was nothing much I could do. But thankfully for the former one I found this cool tool that I have started using.

Personal Book Cataloging, using Dekoh Books. You probably already know that I talking about a product that my company has built and it is fair on your part to assume that I am writing this article to sell an application that was built by my company. I won't deny that, but that is not the only reason. Dekoh Books has indeed helped me catalogue my books and figure out which books are with my friends, which are with my family and which ones have I simply misplaced.

The best part about Dekoh books is that now I can even add books to my Wishlist so that whenever I get a chance to visit a good book store, I can simply go through my wishlist and find out which books are pending on my list.

There is another cool feature of this application. You can search for books through Amazon.com Web Service and add them to your Wishlist, which will enable you to fetch the ISBN number and a thumbnail image of the book's cover so that when you go to buy that book, you don't pick some other similar sounding book by mistake.

Some books that I found through Dekoh Books Search by Keyword are visible in the snapshot above which has three recommended books that I have been trying to find for years now.

Click to see my shared books. **

And you will get the idea.

To start using this application, all you gotta do is visit www.dekoh.com

** If it asks you user name and password, type the following "neoriz" & "dekoh123".

Dekoh This!

Pramati launched Dekoh at Web2.0 Expo and we have been growing in our user base ever since. Here are some points you should know...

• It is not a browser plug-in.
• Yes! you have to install it on your computer but it takes less than 5 minutes for the framework installation on a high-speed network connection.
• It is not the same thing as Google Gears or Adobe's Apollo, it is very different and is more focused on bringing lay users the facility to host applications and content on their home computer, only for small scale web application hosting, social networking and collaboration.
• Works out of a web browser, so no pain of learning how to operate on some new proprietary user interface.

Evaluate Dekoh, if you want all these things:

1. Personal Hosting: A platform that enables you to build custom web applications to be used within your community and host them from your desktop.
2. No-Upload Sharing: Want to share content with your friends, family and/or peer group without uploading any stuff anywhere.
3. Personal Audio/Video Streaming Stations: You want to play music or videos stored at your home desktop anywhere in the world.
4. Work Off line: You want to maintain to build an application that connects to Web Service, synchronize your local data store and then allows you to work on that data even when you are off line. (like in a basement, in flight, or while you are out camping.)

Benefits of working on Dekoh Platform:

1. Open Source: You don't have to pay anything but attention (to your idea)!
2. Free Support: Our engineers will help you customize the platform (if you really need it), application support (for configuration and maintenance related issues).
3. Creative Freedom: You can build almost any sort of application that needs a web server to run it. You imagination is your limit.
4. Web 2.0 Toolkit: You can use our widgets and request for other components that are related to Web 2.0 to add flavor and flexibility to your and your community's experience.
5. Dev Kit: The best part about Dekoh is that a Dev Kit for building basic applications and deploying them takes under 30 seconds.
6. Powerful Application Server: You will be leveraging the power of our enterprise application server, which has been condensed and made available to you for free with almost the same robustness, scalability and extensibility.
7. API for extension: If you have some experience with extending API's, you will know what we are talking about here. The potential to enhance the whole platform to your personal advantage with no cost involved.
8. Be Trendy: It's a cool app, which will make your desktop look cooler than before. The industry is moving towards offline web applications, and giants like Google and Adobe are the best benchmarks for understanding the trend.