Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Were you aware a site with white background (which I love) consumes more energy than a site with black background? An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Marc Andreessen is one of the internet legends. He fueled the growth of internet by creating one of the first internet browsers, namely Mosaic while at the University of Illinois. After graduation, Marc co-founded Netscape Communications, and played a critical role in the company’s hypergrowth. Andreessen later became CTO of ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Check out UnitedDogs.com, a social networking site for dogs and their owners! The site says,
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Assocham's latest report on broadband numbers might dampen the excitement of internet growth in India. But I wouldn't be too worried. At times the media takes things to extreme. I have heard people asking "Is internet a myth in India?". With confidence I say "No, it is not ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
What is an Unconference?
An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance.[Wiki]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Wang Xiujie, a blogger who made a business out of selling stock tips that would be delivered to subscribers via instant message, has been detained by Chinese authorities. Stock tip gurus have thrived in China's two quickly growing stock markets; however, the nation's government has recently criminalized the act of ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
I bumped into http://www.fabcity.in/jobs/fab-jobs.html today. I was very surprised and pleased to see Corporate India has an opening for a blogger. I think it is the way to go (no, I am not looking for a job).
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Most newspapers in India today are carrying articles about blogs. I read an article about Hindi blogs in the Times of India (Bangalore edition). Was happy to learn that there are about 500 active Hindi blogs, for the early years of broadband in India this is a sizable number. Few ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
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