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On Saturday evening I had gone for my music rehearsals (yes, we’re recording – hopefully I can use the Internet to leverage my music), when a personal experience manifested itself in the form of a beautiful insight.
 
I own a MacBook and whenever I use it in Public – in India it generates some [...]

 
Entire last week people have been talking about Twitter being down and the reason behind it. Then we heard some strange news from the Twitter developer blog stating that Twitter was not designed as a messaging system. That had really put me into an enigma.
 
I also noticed that a post by Michael Arrington on Techcrunch [...]

A few months back I wrote a post on how my friend uses Orkut to get in touch with women. That post was supposed to be taken in a lighter vein. Same concept applies.
 
So it turns out that the same friend of mine is now looking for someone for his sister – a prospective groom. Like [...]

Another one bites the dust? – that’s the first question that came to my mind when I visited Flightsportal.com.
 
There is nothing to write home about with respect to this website. There is a real time search engine, which is a standard feature on most Travel Sites. The site claims that Booking of Hotels is another [...]

We are giving away 3 Passes for the Next Edition of Proto.in that is to be held in Delhi on the 18th and 19th of July. To get your hands on the Passes - You Need to Tell us 3 Simple Things. Go Ahead. Compete.

A Fan Club Based on the IPL has Just Launched. The Timing is not necessarily perfect but a contest is up and running. It’s not clear if this fan club is ‘official’. A look at other Fan Clubs based on the Indian Premier League.

We have been raving about Twitter’s ability to annoy users again and again. Brian Alvey in the meantime has come up with a brilliant interpretation of Twitter’s Business Model. Some folks are Touting it as Advertising 3.0.

Bollywood is fast turning into Bloggywood with every big actor looking to blog whether it is to take a dig at other actors or supposedly connect with fans or whether it is to promote one’s upcoming movies or TV shows. So following the footsteps of Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan is Salman Khan who is soon to be seen hosting Sony’s new game show Dus Ka Dum which is adapted from the western version known as “power of 10″.

We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is in markets that are likely to grow (admittedly not as fast as the Indian Market).
 
The 2 firms had discussed merger [...]

They say ‘Out of Sight is Out of Mind’ - Well Twitter is always ‘in’ sight to most of its users. The good part is, when its down - it gets all this free publicity. So maybe thats a ploy to attract more users :p - unfortunately they aren’t in the Media Business where any publicity is good publicity.

IM updates from Twitter are currently down. On the site they say that say that it’s due to an overflow of IM Traffic. This probably, as Rajiv says, is a result of Twitter’s recent funding.
 
Twitter has caused quite a rage and it has taken microblogging to a level where it is chic. The model obviously [...]

Facebook is now allowing more options for ’social surfing’ - its looking at allowing you to import feeds from Multiple partner sites - this probably indicates what lies ahead. This is a rip off from the FriendFeed Model

Live.com – Microsoft’s search engine will shut down Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. The news came via Satya Nadella, a Senior VP of Search. He wrote on in a blog post that “Based on our experience, we foresee that the best way for a search engine to make book content available will be by crawling [...]

orkut apps directory now lists more than 100 applications after a month of its launch in India & Estonia.

Over 25,000 Facebook applications’ installation crosses 1 billion mark on the eve of 1st anniversary of Facebook platform.

Offlate I have been noticing a trend where book authors are using social media like blogs, social networks and communities to promote their books. Just a few days back I got an email and then a call from Yogesh Chabbria who is the author of the book Happionaire which he claims is being primarily promoted through his website/blog and bloggers whom he has contacted.