It’s official: Google is no God but just human ;-)

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Last week we had some panic time at work. Trust me, it wasn't fun. Few of our oneindia.in channels started being shown as "infected". If you are a Firefox user you would be shown an warning which said the site was infected with Malware and the reasons too were shown.

Webmaster Tools: Feature Request for Bulk Deletion of URLs

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Most webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) to submit their URLs to Google. Yahoo has a similar product - Site Explorer and Microsoft too has one. GWT by far is the best and is far ahead of the so called competitors.

How to determine if Indian languages are wanted on the internet?

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Ajit Balakrishnan's comment "Let us not assume users want Indian languages" got me to think why people think Indian languages are not "wanted" on the internet.  I wasn't at that conference, so I don't know what was exactly said.  My thoughts and reactions are completely based on Medianama's post.

Social Networking Sites being used by Citizen Journalists in US Presidential Election

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Check out Twitter Vote Report, a site for sharing your experience in voting during the Nov 4 US Presidential elections. Their help page has the details about how to participate in reporting your experience.

Offline or Online, it is Local stupid!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Mumbai has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. I am talking about Raj Thackeray. This all started with the Railway exams being held in Mumbai and his party MNS cadres attacking Biharis. I am sure TV channels were thrilled as they had one more issue to ...