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If Social News Sites were Democracies

arjunm — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:04:55 +0000

Pirate bay in equation

arjunm — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:32:35 +0000

How their Twitter pages would look

prashantthakur — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:01:29 +0000

On April 1, I came across an article on PCWorld, titled Facebook pages We’d like to See. Although it didn’t had the pages I wanted to see, but sure I found it funny; which made me think how my favorite social networking site, twitter, can have some interesting pages.
So here’s my attempt being creative.

Steve Ballmer

Pope

Rupert Murdoch

Robert Mugabe

Friedrich Nietzsche

Difference between unsuccessful and successful Digger

arjunm — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:36:31 +0000

Face-off: Google vs Facebook update

saibose — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:10:22 +0000

Facebook recently announced that it would be unveiling its new advertising strategy on November 6th. This come son the heels of a rumor that Google’s social network, Orkut will be unleashing a set of new features to give the social network leverage into untapped markets such as US. The description or the details of the new features of Orkut are not yet known, but the date of announcement by Facebook seems to be a more strategic one since Orkut was rumored to launch its additional features on 5th November.

But, Google has allegedly announced the delay of its features for Orkut by about a week or so. News sources claim that Google needed more time to integrate and test the features before they are launched officially.
Maybe Google doesn’t want to make its launch superseded by Facebook’s launch of the ad system which is almost similar to Google’s Adsense. Google may have seen its launch of its open platform being superseded by the 240Million $ deal and announcement by Facebook (and Microsoft). The announcement of the 240 million $ deal came on the same day as Google announced its Gphone. Facebook took away the limelight from Gphone despite some hi-fi talk from Google officials.
The Adsense version of Facebook has been nicknamed SocialAds by many followers of the Facebook strategy.

Yahoo! releases Vista version of messenger after 12 months

apabritabasu — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:58:16 +0000

The Yahoo Messenger is back in the news headlines again! The Yahoo messenger for the Vista windows has been finally launched. After almost 12 months of last version update, we are getting this new vista Yahoo messenger.

The unfortunate news is that the latest Vista Yahoo messenger doesn’t have any video or sharing abilities which the users are a big fan of. As of now, the Yahoo messenger is only a bare bones version of a fancy text messaging system.

Hopefully Yahoo is going to do something about it and we do hope that they don’t take 12 months to come up with the next update. If you compare the latest Vista Yahoo messenger version with the last messenger version, a few neat changes have been made.

You can basically chat in one corner of the messenger window while the other part plays a live concert. I think this is a great development although, the lack of video sharing capability is kind of disappointing.

Image Credit: Frogdesign

Google launches Wiki rival : Knol

apabritabasu — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:57:52 +0000

Most of us consider Wikipedia to be the ultimate online knowledge base or encyclopedia. I always use Wikipedia for Celebrity information, games and other technical stuff that I don’t know. The next best thing after Wikipedia is obviously Google. But, with Google about to launch it’s own online encyclopedia the scenario is about to change.

The search engine company Google is going to design an encyclopedic dictionary for internet users. According to Google, this will compete directly with Wikipedia. This ‘dictionary’ has been christened as Knol. I guess that’s probably a short for Knowledge.

The Google version of online encyclopedia is going to be an organization of ‘user generated information’ covering all the fields of knowledge.Although, the Google knowledge platform is somewhat similar to Wikipedia there are some subtle differences.

For example Wikipedia is a collaborative system of authors. There are no ‘authors’ listed on the Wiki pages because there can be multiple authors for one page. Google’s knol will be authored. This is not the first time Google is coming up with such a platform.

The Google base is a similar knowledge base to that of Wikipedia. So if you are thinking that Google is launching knol just for advertising money you are wrong. Also, I would compare knol to blogger(another Google product). However, there is no information regarding the release of Knol. I think it’s kind of cool that Google is coming up with a Wiki like encyclopedia.

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 finally out

subhankar — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:49:44 +0000

The much anticipated launch of Firefox 3 Beta 1 has finally been accomplished. People had to wait months to get the taste of the new technology from Mozilla but now the wait is over.

Firefox Beta 1 is now available in over 20 languages and is available in stores right around the world. The new version is an improved one on its predecessor and is a novel one too.

The best part of the new version is that it provides a better presentation of a website’s identity. Besides providing better malware protection, Firefox 3 Beta 1 also enhances better downloading management and virus-protection.

Firefox 3 Beat 1 is also blessed with better and new graphics and font enhancement and is endowed with more support for offline web applications.

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is indeed expected to rock the software world. The new technology should take it one step ahead of its competitors.

Image Source: Seyirdefteri

Source: Blog Wired

Yahoo's browser-based MP3 player to make website music-listening easier

arpita — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:13:42 +0000

At times, we feel disgusted when we arrive at a web page with some nice music listed, but to listen to them you first have to download some irritating software. This downloading of MP3 software will no longer act as an impediment, for Yahoo has arrived with a rather amazing music service that requires no software downloads!

You only need your browser to embed some simple JavaScript-based code to activate the MP3 player on any website. This means, you will no more require installing plug-in and flash players. The player in your browser will find the MP3 on a website and create a playlist. Definitely, other popular software will now get a run for their money.

I only hope that Yahoo does not add any money tag to this exciting musical gift.

Source: techcrunch

Skype to provide high quality video in Windows 3.6

Bhagaban — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:04:08 +0000

Skype has teamed up with Logitech to offer high quality video services in its upcoming windows 3.6 version. The partnership with Logitech will provide Skype a strong platform to cater needs of the common customers for whom, accessing high quality video calls are expensive.

The high quality video includes VGA-quality video calls, image description and clarity. The customers don’t require to purchase or install any video-conferencing equipment other than a 2.0-GHz dual-core processor, a gigabyte of RAM, 384 Kbits/s Internet bandwidth and Logitech webcams such as the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, QuickCam Pro for Notebooks, and the QuickCam Orbit AF.

The above three webcams feature a 2.0 Mpixel sensor, an integrated mic, Logitech LightRight 2 technology and an integrated autofocus.

The Logitech QuickCam software version 11.5 is a free downloadable application, while the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 and Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks webcams are available for $99.99. The price of Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF is $129.99.

Skype will launch its Skype 3.6 for windows this month. It is a free downloadable software supporting 28 languages.

Interestingly, Skype’s video package is comparatively economical than Microsoft’s Unified Communications offer. The latter demands numerous servers and thousands of dollars to get started. Therefore, Skype may get an edge in the field of unified communication.

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