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In Run up to MTV Awards, Yahoo launches "Behind The Lens"
As the date for 2010 MTV Video Music Awards(Sept. 12, 2010) approaches, Yahoo! is partnering with MTV to launch “Behind the Lens” a video hub where you can see this year’s nominated videos with pop-up Flash overlays that help you discover information about the music artist and music video. As you watch the music videos,you will notice a pop-up search boxes on the...
Comments 03 Sep 2010
Read moreThe New Digg introducing new features while bringing back the Old ones
Digg will bring back some of the popular features Old Digg had and which were skipped in the New Digg. The latest move comes as Digg faced a huge backlash from power users of Old Digg. Some had gone to an extent of voting up only Reddit's stories and putting them on frontpage of Digg. The New Digg had mixed reviews and the bringing back...
Comments 02 Sep 2010
Read moreGoogle rolling out Priority Inbox in Gmail
Google will soon introduce a Priority inbox in Gmail which will help users prioritize and manage important mails. Its not uncommon to find yourself inundated with hundreds of mails if you fail to login for couple of days and sorting through each one of them and determining which is important is not an easy task. This is where Priority inbox comes into play, As you get...
Comments 31 Aug 2010
Read moreWhat an embarassment, Top 8 links on Digg belong to Reddit!
Kevin Rose(Founder of Digg) might not have expected his weekend would turn this ugly. Digg's competitor Reddit is currently holding the Top 8 links in Top News section. Though the order of the links in Top News keeps changing, Reddit has been able to maintain atleast 5 links in top 10 which effectively means Reddit is getting a large part of Digg's traffic. The reason behind...
Comments 30 Aug 2010
Read moreFacebook sued for encouraging teenagers to Like
It seems everyone wants take a dig at Facebook. After Ceglia's case which is currently under trial, A new class action lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Facebook is misappropriating the names and pictures of minors for profit. The suit alleges that Facebook encourages the participation of teenagers on its social network. The suit says, Without any attempt to obtain parental...
Comments 28 Aug 2010
Read moreGoogle Beat- A Video version of Google Trends launched
Google has launched Google Beat- a regular video series that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the U.S. Using data from Google Trends, Google Insights for Search and some additional tools, the Google Beat will give you a snapshot of some of the topics that prompted people to turn to the web over the past week.The Videos will help not so geeky...
Comments 28 Aug 2010
Read moreNew Digg reports early problems, Digg's office Pics during the launch and More..
Digg has launched its new version and it has shared behind the scene pictures of engineers working on the New Digg to ensure it has a smooth release. The New Digg and its features were covered on this site earlier during its alpha testing phase. The pics show what its like being on the other side of Digg The pics were posted on Twitter by Kevin Rose(Founder...
Comments 26 Aug 2010
Read moreTwitter Promoted tweets bring early success! says an advertiser
Zecco, an online brokerage firm today announced early success from its involvement in Twitter's Promoted Tweets program. Over the past two months, Zecco sampled 50 Promoted Tweets and measured their effectiveness. In comparison to regular Tweets that come out of its official account, It saw an average 50% increase in engagement with Promoted Tweets and 200 to 300% increases in...
Comments 25 Aug 2010
Read moreYoutube climbs to third spot pushing Yahoo to four
According to Alexa, Youtube is now the third most visited website worldwide pushing Yahoo to number four. In my previous article, it had been reported that online video consumption is on the rise and being the leader among videos sites, no doubt Youtube has garnered the largest share of the pie. So where does this leave Yahoo. To understand exactly why Yahoo lost to Youtube,...
Comments 24 Aug 2010
Read moreMy Attempt at Blocking Mark Zuckerberg
You may ask me Why I am trying to block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook? Well the answer lies in the news reports doing rounds today. A new website called blockzuck.com explains you everything. According to the website, you can block any user on Facebook except Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. So, to test what the website claimed, I tried my hands on Facebook and followed the steps...
Comments 23 Aug 2010
Read moreGoogle experiments a new way to display search results
Google is experimenting with a new feature where in the Search results are updated as you type in the search box. You need not hit the Enter button everytime you type, instead, the results keep changing as you add or delete words in the type box. The feature was first reported by SEO consultant Rob Ousbey. Google usually selects few people to test its products and...
Comments 22 Aug 2010
Read moreGoogle buys Like.com, Will we see better Google Shopping?
Google has acquired Like.com for an undisclosed amount and the deal was announced on the Homepage of Like.com. Like brings the visual search element in shopping which hopefully will complement Google Images or Google Shopping. “We were the first to bring visual search to shopping, the first to build an automated cross-matching system for clothing, and more, We didn’t stop there, and we don’t have plans...
Comments 21 Aug 2010
Read moreSwingly's spoof on The Social Network
Swingly, a Question and Answer based Search engine has its own version of the trailer of upcoming film "The Social Network" minus the drama. Swingly's version has Swingly in it and not Facebook or its founders. Swingly will soon be rolling out Q and A based search engine and it has already aggregated 100 billion question and answer pair. Swingly's trailer is very similar to the...
Comments 20 Aug 2010
Read moreSo you think you can be the next Bill Gates..
Some of world's most profitable and famous business ventures were initiated by students. Information Technology giant Microsoft started in Bill Gates's dorm room in Harvard, Google acquired its starting on Stanford premises as computer science ventures of students Larry Page and Sergey Brin and hundreds of other student firms flourish in almost every sector. Even if you are not aspiring to be another ‘Bill Gates’,...
Comments 08 Jun 2010
Read moreSo What Kind of Business Should You Start?
Deciding what kind of business to start is an incredibly personal thing. So rather than throw a lot of possible ideas at you, let's talk instead about how you can make the decision for yourself. In deciding to start your own business, you must first think of what you'll be able to do for the rest of your life without burning ...
Comments 29 May 2010
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