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 [...]
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 [...]
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 DirectNavigation
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
