Updated: Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky Speaks About Windows 7

by | posted: May 28, 2008
As Windows XP deadline approaches Vista sales is expected to go up. But people all over the world seem to be more interested in the upcoming version of Windows 7 rather than Vista. In an exclusive interview...
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WATBlog Spots: Harman Baweja and Love Story 2050 ATTACKED on Wikipedia

by | posted: May 16, 2008
Love Story 2050, Harman Baweja’s new movie is out for release. I just happened to be looking for details of the movie and landed on its Wikipedia Page.   What I saw was quite shocking. Wikipedia...
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Google Launches Hindi Translation Tool

by | posted: May 6, 2008
On Saturday morning I read WATBlog in Hindi. Funny part is all of us forgot to Blog it! Well, better late than never.   Previously Google enabled search and scraps in Hindi. They also have a tool on...
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Spam Gets Older. Turns 30 On May 2nd!

by | posted: April 28, 2008
  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...
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Wikipedia To Go Off-Line In September, Publish A Book In Germany

by | posted: April 26, 2008
  These days kids, youngsters and aged people love learning and reading e-books. Keeping in mind the increasing use of Internet, universities like IIT have started their lectures on Youtube. A similar...
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NGO NanhiKali’s New Website Uses Social Media – In The Most Beautiful Way

by | posted: April 25, 2008
Ya, so one fine day, when I entered the office, I saw Rupesh and Rajiv, staring at Rajiv’s laptop screen. There was a wonderful website that they were admiring. Had it been just Rajiv, to I could...
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A Tribute To RSS Day!

by | posted: April 17, 2008
  As more and more content is added to web every second it becomes almost impossible for us to keep track of our favorite sites every now and then.  Thanks to RSS our life has become much easier....
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Wikipedia To Receive $ 3 Million Donation From Sloan Foundation

by | posted: March 29, 2008
Wikimedia Foundation has said it has received a $ 3 Million the New York based The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The funds will be utilized to enhance the quality of the content and support the expansion...
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WATShow Episode 12 – Exclusive Interview with Jimmy Wales Wikipedia Founder

by | posted: February 1, 2008
WATShow is back! Though we took a little time this time around but we are back with an Exclusive show and with none other than Jimmy Wales the Founder of the “Not for Profit” Wikipedia.org...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales visits the IIT Tech Fest

by | posted: January 29, 2008
The Internet is changing culture – we are moving from a culture of competition to a culture of collaboration.      WATBlog visited IIT’s Techfest this weekend – we attended Jimmy Wales’ lecture...
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Event Updates – TIECon Chennai ’08 & TechFest IIT

by | posted: January 17, 2008
TIECon Chennai – 18th January  Its raining events in january so on one end there is Proto.in being organised in the City of Chennai on 18th and 19th of January and on the other end in the same city...
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Do we need law 2.0?

by | posted: February 19, 2007
        India has been taken by the web 2.0 bug with the number of bloggers rising and everyone scrapping away to glory on orkut. Also the top 100 sites visited by indians in India...
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Are wiki’s the future?

by | posted: February 10, 2007
Just came across an interesting article in Adage which talks about wiki’s and their significance to marketers. For all those who dont know Wiki popularised by Wikipedia (which is powered by an open...
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Wikipedia co-founder launching a spinoff

by | posted: October 18, 2006
Larry Sanger,co-founder of Wikipedia is launching a rival website citizendium.org Larry sanger came out of wikipedia in 2002 and became an avid critic of wikipedia for lacking accuracy. A test version...
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