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The Holy Grail of comic books Superman auctioned

The auction of "Action Comics #1" begins on Friday and concludes on March 13. Currently the bid is valued at about $230,200. Its a rare copy of the first Superman comic. The unidentified seller bought the comic in 1950 when he was 9 years old after begging his father for 35 cents. "It's the Holy Grail of comic books," said comic expert Stephen Fishler. Fishler, founder of New York's Metropolis Collectibles, will manage the auction of the comic -- created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. You can check what the current bid looks like at Comic Connect Source: Reuters

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News |

Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility

Yes if you are into building web applications and websites then testing cross browser compatibility is something you cannot afford to ignore. Testing in multiple browsers is not only necessary but is also annoying. Freelance Folder has written an article : "7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility" These tools actually make testing pretty easy. Check the article at Freelance

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

ToysRUs bids for Toys.com at Auction – even in this economy?

ToysRUs bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million. The 2 companies that participated in the Bidding war were National A-1 (owner of domains such as free.com, boys.com, girls.com, and divorce.com) and ToyRUs To check the Bidding war transcript you could visit

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

A new breed of web application that aims to replace desktop applications

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.Cappuccino is designed for applications, not web pages. Cappuccino applications do as much as possible in the client instead of on the server. 280 Slides is the first Cappuccino application and it. With Cappuccino, you don't need to know HTML. Cappuccino runs in all modern browsers. Want to learn more about it then visit

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Have you made a Living will for your Virtual Life?

I had never thought about this but today while browsing the internet and coming across the article written by The Consumerist about the facebook incident it got me thinking. Well the article about facebook incident was that Stephanie Bemister lost her brother. She contacted facebook requesting to delete his profile as he was no longer living. Facebook did not agree to this and responded that it was their policy to keep dead members profile's in a "memorialized" state. Consumerist put up a post regarding this and very shortly Facebook responded to Stephanie confirming that they have removed his profile. To

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

The Cost of Building a Website From Scratch

Recently over a cup of tea i was discussing the scenario of building a web portal inhouse versus buying an off the shelf and tweaking this. I am sure there have been numerous articles published on this topic but either way i thought i should share the conversation: Pros of a customized developed solution: If you have a clear idea of what you want, you should get a website that does exactly what you need. When i say this i mean you have the right blend of tech guys onboard who look at the app from all angles, database computing, performance,

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[ More ] February 28th, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

The blatant truth about a few social networking websites – Unscientific (Yet Accurate)

Some of us actually just go with the hype and join multiple social networks there by boosting numbers for these networks. But in actually fact do we use all the social networks we join. We like to talk about them more than actually use them.

There has been a report published by Brainz which gives an excellent overview of how social networks operate

The figures aren’t actually based on any kind of real data, its really interesting a few of the commons ones are show below. For the rest please do visit Brainz

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[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Wikis Go Printable

Yes yes i know this could be termed as out dated news. PediaPress established a long term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation to print your favourite wiki articles as a book.You select the content from your favorite wiki and PediaPress takes care of the rest to ship the book to you. From last week onwards the functionality was activated for six more languages besides German. As of 26th Feb the functionality has now been extended on the regular English Wikipedia (restricted to logged-on users only for now). The roll-out for English Wikipedia users will be gradual out of fear for

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[ More ] February 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News |

Google works on monetising Orkut in 2009

Google’s social networking platform, Orkut is in discussions with the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket to create brand positioning campaigns and even an IPL profile page for Orkut users. Mahesh Narayanan, senior industry manager, Google says around 10 entities, including FMCG, telecom and movie producers, will be the big-ticket advertisers for Orkut in 2009. The Indian advertising industry in 2008 drove an estimated 45 million internet subscribers advertising market to Rs 240 crore which is around US 55,713,382. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry feels that by 2011 Indian would have touched Rs 2,500 crore which is

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Tim O’Reilly – Work on stuff that matter – Part 1

A conversation with Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The subject of the discussion is his recent talk on Working on "Stuff that Matters" Check out this video

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

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