Recently, we visited Bangkok, Thailand in a mood to relax and massage ourselves down to sweetness. And guess what caught our eyes at the parlour: Twitter!. The startup (is it really a startup anymore?), it seems has truly penetrated all over the landscape. And with Michael Jackson’s twits raking up the internet, we could
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We started the concept of weekly themes, 2 weeks back and realized that a week is too short a span to get into the depth of any topic. Infact, couple of you mailed us suggesting that we make it 15 days –
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Rajeev Motwani, an IIT K alumni (1983 batch) and known for his investment in Google passed away today in a home accident. He was well known for his research in Theoretical Computer Science and was a winner of the Godel Prize. This is a big loss to Silicon Valley and in general, world of technology as...
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ValleyWag has done an interesting representation of world map of social nets,using data from Alexa. Here are a few excerpts: Orkut leads in the Indian subcontinent, as well as Brazil; Facebook is stronger, internationally, than Myspace, with surprising strongholds in the Middle East; hi5.com is the most international of all the social networks, leading in...
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Another day and another riot. This time, Flickr users from Germany, Singapore, Korea and Hing Kong have started a riot and have even created a anti-censorship group called “Against Censorship“. What’s the story? Flickr added “Safe search” filters few months back, and as expected it was an optional checkbox (i.e. if you want to mark your...
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porn, celebrities, games and of course, sex! Mobile search company, JumpTap has released an interesting stats about what people are searching on their mobile and here is the list: eminem 50 cent sean paul shakira sex metallica family guy porn t.i. madonna playboy tetris reggae rihanna country tv theme theme game theme nhl Disney If you remember Y!’s 2006 data of www searches, the results were pretty much the same. Infact, I did a similar analysis of...
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While Gmail may not have a stand alone monetization model of it’s own, looks like lawyers are having a great time minting the product. Ever since the product was launched, expansion across geographies has been an issue for Google. The GMail trademark was challenged in UK and Google finally lost to a UK-based financial research...
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So what does it take to copy Digg? Ability to submit story?Voting Buttons? Yellow, curved-corner? Pastel voting icons? Ask folks at Yahoo and Dell – they will scream YES! It’s not that these companies are the first ones to copy Digg, there are tons of Digg clones. But it’s stunning to see tech giants doing the same...
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Looks like 2007 is an unlucky year for Google. First there were lots of anti-Goog posts (over not supporting comments in it’s blogs) all over the Blogosphere and then Google ate user’s Gmail. And then Blogger suffered few hiccups. And then Goog News broke down. And the latest attack is by IBM and Y!. IBM-Y! teamed up to...
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