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According to a Wikipedia entry following RSS Awareness Day, It is the 30th birthday of annoying SPAM. As spam turns 30 on May 2nd I would like to share with you how it all started. Way back in May 1978, Kurt Kleiner of NewScientistTech reminds us that it was Gary Thuerk, a marketer at [...]

Tech, sex and romance has a great bonding. In near future I won’t be surprised if tech companies send their executives to a sex or a romance conferences/gatherings rather than a boring client meeting. Sex conventions are always considered to be medicinal/clinical and pornographic in nature. Now, social-media has given it a new dimension. It has helped people to create smaller, targeted gatherings that treat sexuality and technology as inseparable. In near future such sex conferences would gain more popularity and will drive more and more people.

The Indian Internet space is seeing a proliferation of regional language content websites. This was then followed by Business Standard launching bshindi.com and NDTV launching NDTVKhabar.com - a news portal that is launched in Hindi. We also heard about BigAdda.com following Orkut by adding regional language messaging. But a step ahead Webdunia- a website that offers content in vernacular language. Webdunia relaunched itself in November 2007 with a T.V commercial.

OK, this news seems exclusive kinds. I couldn’t find any links anywhere else about this. Rushabh even suggested we term it as “Breakeing News”. When I opened up my Orkut account in the morning today, what shouted at me was a message informing me about the new possibility of adding new applications to Orkut. What was shown was an icon for one of the application called Hangman. Strangely, when I clicked on the application, it took me to a page called AppDirectory. I expected the Hangman application to be opened first.

Long time back, I had blogged on my personal blog- how to access orkut on mobile phone. After months of waiting, finally Google folks have developed & launched (quietly, no announcement on official blog yet) an official mobile version of orkut i.e. http://m.orkut.com
 
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The use of social networking sites (SNS) is most common among the youths for networking, dating and friendship. There has been a growth of 47% in the use of the SNS. According to JuxtConsult, 44% of the online traffic just uses Internet for SNS. As the users are increasing there is a need for making [...]

Social Networking Sites have caused a communication revolution. But we should also remember the famous quote from the film Spider Man “With Great Powers, Come Great Responsibilities.” What I mean is the potential of social networking sites are growing and so are the threats.
 
 
And Canada Defence Department seems to be taking the issue [...]

Orkut has announced its opening of platform to developers way back in November. Since then there has been no news as to when would these applications finally be seen on the orkut platform. But now the orkut blog updates all on the issue with a statement that soon some of the orkutters would be able [...]

Human is a social animal but, now a days it is reflected only through social networking sites. It’s a common to see people not knowing or interacting with their neighbors unless and until there is an utter need.
 
Recently Bangalore based startup, maxHeap has launched CommonFloor.com which provides a platform for people living in residential apartments [...]

Are you a gadget buff and do online research before buying a consumer electronic? Yes, a research has proved that Indians are moving online to make a comparison of price and features, shortlisting models based on the combination of price and value for money.
 
Indians, by nature, prefer recommendations and word-of-mouth rather than just going for [...]

Now investing money in the stock market will be no big deal. Global TradeCracker, a Mumbai based firm has launched an online financial trading website http://tradecracker.com  which enables a layman to learn the basics of stock market. This will help the management as well as non-management students to understand the financial market of India.
 
 
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Today almost everyone is aware about the power and potential lying in the social networking sites. When talking about them I can never miss out the name “Orkut “being one of my favorite. Since the time it was introduced in late January, 2004 there has been a significant rise in the number of people [...]

The year 2008 is here and we have seen an enormous growth in the Social Networking scenario in India over the past one year. This ever growing market has changed the face of the Internet and its content today. Lets go through some of the highlights in India’s Social Network developments over the past year.
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1) The Amazon Kindle: 200 Books, the size of a paperback.
 
The Good:
 
Small Size
A Model that looks to earn revenues from the service rather than the product.
Battery Life.
Does not tire the eyes while reading.
 
 
The Bad:
Design
Does not read PDF’s
The ‘service’ can be cracked, giving users free alternatives.
 
 
2) The RFID Revolution: By tagging items and containers with [...]

We come to the end of 2007, well almost, having covered almost all the International stories of the dot com World. For many in the dot com World, the year was dominated by mostly one story – the huge amount that Microsoft paid for a miniscule stake in Facebook. At WATBlog, we covered it extensively [...]