Ok. Yet another post which digresses from core style of Pluggd.in. But then that’s the fun part of it! For over decades now we are a part of a society which breathes on technology and even survives by it. Be it over the internet or mobile network or just about anything else. Awesome online...
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We have just started playing with InfiBeam’s PI Ebook Reader and here are a few pictures
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Google has launched location aware search that lets you refine your search by location (with the “Nearby” tool). One of the really helpful things about this tool is that it works geographically — not just with keywords — so you don’t have to worry about adding “Minneapolis” to your query and missing webpages that only...
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Just noticed that Gmail search box has an awesome auto-fill that fetches email ids (+names) as you type. As you start typing the name/email id, you will notice the Google auto-fill. It also fetches the matching labels, if any. Quite a neat implementation, especially for those who have been using Gmail for so many years. Is this...
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It is totally beyond doubt that social media can help resolve our long pending social issues. But we are yet to see how that’s gonna happen to Asia. Here is a another frontier for the local Tibetans to rejoice & reveal their solidarity: Tibetans can simply follow their Holy leader Dalai Lama online on Twitter. It...
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Today I had a long discussion with an old friend on economics of content in the Long Tail. Sharing some of the interesting points. What is long tail? According to Wikipedia – The Long Tail or long tail is a retailing concept describing the niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively...
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Google has decided to sunset Google Gears, as the company has shifted attention to HTML5. ‘If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We’re not there yet, but...
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Google has made open sourced the LivingStories experiment it conducted for two months. For the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format for covering news on the web. Using this technology platform, we can capture hundreds...
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Twenty years ago, Adobe predicted that it would sell 500 copies of Photoshop per month,” said Thomas Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop at Adobe.
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Today, there are 36 hours in a "network day." There will be approximately 48 hours in a network day by 2013.
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Search is becoming social and the recent Aardvark acquisition by Google is a reinforcement of the trend. A recent study by Compete finds that Facebook is driving more traffic (than Google) to content websites like Yahoo and MSN. Even though Google is search leader, people are more relying on their social networks, the connections for useful...
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A survey by Accenture reveals interesting findings about the Indian youth (as well as millennials* worldwide) Youths in India and the Netherlands constitute the most active downloaders of open source technologies, at 61 percent and 77 percent, respectively. Social profiling is most common in China and India, where more than three in four Millennials use social...
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This isn’t the first time, Bangalore based TweetKnot (read our review) has been in Tweet controversy. Earlier, they faced issue with Twitter running after them for using a similar background and now, Twitter has been after them to stop using ‘Tweet’ in their name. This is the email they got from Facebook team, regarding their Facebook...
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Now that Google Buzz’s buzz is over, here is a quick step-by-step guide of Google Wave Phishing attack Create a phished Google Login page. You could check out tackle. Search for public waves Reply to one of the messages, insert a gadget in your reply The gadget sets the top.location to the phished page. The victim now visits the...
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Remember the Turing Test? A proposal to evaluate a machine’s ability to demonstrate intelligence. Siri (now through private invitation only) plans to raise your mobile’s smartness to interactive intelligence. Born out of SRI’s CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) Project, the largest Artificial Intelligence project in the U.S., Siri brings conversational interface, brokering...
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BSNL, in partnership with Novatium has launched slew of interesting products targeted towards Rural India (currently only for Uttar Pradesh). Novatium has launched three new products, Nova Navigator+, Nova Neon and Nova cNergy to increase the broadband adoption in rural area. Nova Navigator+ Built with a 160GB internal hard disk, Nova Navigator is the desktop version ...
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Fresh news from technology world - Monster has announced acquisition of Y! HotJobs for $225 mn. The two companies have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement, to take effect upon the closing of the acquisition, in which Monster will become Yahoo!'s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage...
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Every content network has walked this rope at least once – ad inventory optimization. Direct sales team can only sell 40-50% of your ad inventory at any given time. The rest is filled with different ad networks, big and small. The math is very simple; push those ad networks which pay you higher CPM...
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Google will drop the support for IE6, Chrome 3 and Safari 2 by this year. Also, Google is planning to launch an App store for Google Apps suite, to take on rival Microsoft. Also, take a look at the brand new Google Tablet.
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Firefox has launched the mobile version of the browser (right now, available only for Nokia N900) and few features of the mobile browser include: Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of...
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