It’s already been more than a year since Microsoft’s deal to outright acquire Yahoo…. Now, the focus is on Microsoft’s new search engine – Bing – becoming the search provider on Yahoo.com, which would combine to give the companies a more formidable rival to Google (Google), at least in terms of market share and ad [...]
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China now targets online games – No more mafia type games
Sometime ago Google and wordpress were being blocked by the great firewall of china and now its the online games that is on the hit list. The new york times reports that china is now targeting online games. Online games are hugely profitable in China. In 2008, the industry brought in revenues of 18 billion [...]
Top 10 reasons: why I want to be a GEEK and nothing else
Geek – What does that mean? The word geek is a slang term, noting individual as “a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics etc…. I had to write this …. It’s really fascinating to just read about [...]
When people got crazy, they tried to print the Wikipedia – Seriously!!
I’m not joking here, the English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Not sure if anyone is willing to go [...]
What is Facebook Vanity URLs? do I need one? what's the use?
A vanity URL is created to point to something to which it is related and indicated in the name of the URL. In many cases this is done by a company to point to a specific product or advertising campaign microsite. In theory, vanity URLs are creatively linked to something making them easier to remember [...]
New technique used by Scammers \ Fraudsters to trap the bait!! – BEWARE, SMS scam is here.
DO NOT reply to those messages which reads like “You won 850000$, to claim the prize send an email to xxxxx@gmail.com.” – This basically is the international lottery scam witnessing a new spin: Mobile phones are now being used as baits by fraudsters to net victims. Earlier, they used to send e-mails telling people to [...]
Too busy to date online? Virtual Digital Assistant will help you – at a price!!
Gone are those days when people needed to sit in front of the computer and signup for online dating sites to catch a hot chick and go on a date… There is a new site called Virtual Dating Assistant, which takes care of all your dating online needs … yes it’s true! This site virtualdatingassistants.com [...]
IPL-2 is here! And its all about competition,victory, Glamour and Glitz
Indian Premier League (IPL) is here! YAY…. IPL begins today in South Africa! Wanna checkout the schedule for the IPL matches?? Click here… Good thing about IPL is you can watch all the beautiful people from India, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, Lalit Modi and, of course, Katrina kaif are all here and [...]
facebook leads myspace in top us social network site
Facebook overtakes Myspace in unique visitors (again)…. MySpace which is running out of surveys that still place it as the #1 social network in the US. Gave up the position to Facebook earlier this month in the stats released by Compete.com, today, the social network slips to second place in the latest numbers from Nielsen [...]
Facebook shows profile photos apps that you have added in Yahoo search engine results
Shows profile photos, facebook apps info in Yahoo search results ….Whola I found your information so easily on Yahoo search! Yahoo Search has launched a new feature that automatically shows Facebook profile photos in its search results. Now, when someone searches for your name on Yahoo, they can see your Facebook profile photo in the [...]
