A Small Dream Takes Wings: Women Aloud a Women Centric Video Blog Network Wins $107,000 at MacArthur DML Competition

by | posted: September 22, 2009
A short talk about me before we begin. I am not the best when it comes to envisaging the future, nothing visionary about this blogger. However, there are two things amongst a few others that I think will...
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The Double Click Exchange is Live: Google Takes on Yahoo’s Domain

by | posted: September 18, 2009
..And today we’re excited to announce the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a step towards creating a more open display advertising ecosystem for everyone. The Ad Exchange is a real-time marketplace that...
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6 WordPress Plugins to Engage Your Visitors Better

by | posted: September 17, 2009
WordPress’s developer community is the most innovative that I have come across on the web. And they make some fascinating plugins that power a WordPress blog beyond belief, so much so that WordPress...
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Google Acquires reCaptcha – And It’s Not Just to Fight Spam

by | posted: September 16, 2009
Talk about acquisitions that don’t make much sense in the beginning but eventually pan out just fine, they usually end up sounding like a modern day fairy tale to me. Thankfully I snap out in time...
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Adobe Gets Into Web Analytics: Buys Omniture for $1.8 Billion

by | posted: September 16, 2009
“This is a game changer for Adobe and its customers,” said Shantanu Narayen, chief executive of Adobe, in a statement. “We will enable advertisers, media companies and e-tailers to realize the full...
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Voice Comes Calling On Facebook: Vivox Announces Voice Chat System

by | posted: September 15, 2009
I frankly don’t know how to react to a piece of news such as this. In a few weeks time Facebook users can have voice chat and app developers can include voice enabled functions within them. The feature...
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Google Introduces Fast Flip And Shares Revenue With Publishers For The First Time

by | posted: September 15, 2009
Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 summed it up the best, Google understands web publishing and the web better than publishers. So while the men in the business of news (and the women for that matter) are all...
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Real Time Search On Google And We Didn’t Even Know That (Nearly)

by | posted: September 14, 2009
Ran Geva, CEO of Omigli has found an interesting hack to make Google come up with real time search results. He should know it well, for Omigli is a specialized search engine that crawls UGC on many ‘real...
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Some BIG News: BIG Maps Goes Live On Mobile And Releases API

by | posted: September 11, 2009
The first reports on Reliance’s BIG Maps came out around late 2007, while the official word went out sometime in May 2008. At that time we had reported on bits regarding the team and their plans...
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Google Likes It Bi(n)g: Increases Search Box Size, Creates More News and Blog Posts To Crawl

by | posted: September 10, 2009
Last night I changed a the height of a content box in one of our websites and even added a new page but nobody noticed. Google’s Marissa Mayer who is the VP for Search Products & User Experience...
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Tiny Bit Me: The Long and Short of URL Shorteners

by | posted: September 9, 2009
A long long time ago, a friend of mine asked me how Twitter plans to make money, he was pursuing a similar idea and even then it wasn’t completely difficult to make your own Twitter clone. Many months...
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Cricket.com Sold Again for $1.75 Million

by | posted: August 28, 2009
Live Current Media, who earlier shot into media limelight in India because of a $50 million contract with the BCCI has sold Cricket.com to GCV Mauritius for $1.75 million. The move is seen as an exit to...
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5 Features I Want E-Book Readers to Bring to the Table

by | posted: August 27, 2009
I got my first walkman just a decade back, and perhaps because of Mobile phones and the Ipod, a generation of Indians might never see the walkman in their lives. The point though is that while the Walkman...
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Is Facebook Testing Features That Would Make it the De Facto Online Hub?

by | posted: August 26, 2009
While Twitter having plans to become the ‘Pulse of the Internet’ in the next few years to come is common knowledge now, someone who is actually taking big steps in the direction is Facebook....
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Nokia Announces Nokia Money: Enters Mobile Money and Payment Market

by | posted: August 26, 2009
While covering a couple of mobile payments stories earlier, I used to wonder why aren’t mobile handset manufacturers entering this segment. Anyway, finally one of them has seen the light –...
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We Need Strong Blog Networks for Reasons Beyond Money

by | posted: August 25, 2009
The intellectual value that blogs and bloggers bring as info-media is immense in India. They present thought leadership not only with regards to their own niches but of blogging as a powerful medium as...
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