The Truth Behind A Hotmail Founder’s Claims
Jessica Livingston a partner at Y Combinator had released a book called Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. This book speaks in detail with thirty startups of Silicon Valleys most notable successes. In this was an interview with Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, who speaks about the experiences he had raising money for the webmail startup and its acquisition to Microsoft for $400 million. Since leaving Hotmail, Bhatia has begun a number of other ventures, including Live Documents, an online Microsoft Office clone that doesn’t seem to be picking up, social networking portal apnacircle in India. Livingston
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So Is Microsoft Live Search and Ask the next Oscar Winners?
Danny Sullivan posted on his blog an interesting comparison of how Microsoft Live and Ask.com showed better results when one searched for Oscar Winners as compared to Google. Many would say that they would never have thought that Google could be outdone.Providing instant answers isn’t something new for search engines and searches with answers can break habits, specially if search engines give you instant results. Check for yourself by going to Ask.com of Microsoft Live and searching for Oscar Winners and then search on Google and compare this. You could view the complete article post on Danny Sullivan's
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India to make “online viral video” a crime
A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girlfriend refused to marry him. The Guardian Newspaper reports that it has become India's most searched item on Google. How does the law deal with morals and technology in India. This case comes just as India is about to make "online viral video voyeurism" a crime, this law was with both the uploading and transmitting of such clips
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Facebook’s ad vetting systems questioned
Facebook says that it has removed ads for a get rich quick scam that appeared on the site for weeks before being noticed by staff. Users still report that some of the ads remain on the site and are being re-published at a rate faster than the site can review. The ads appear as signed up to post links under a "Google advertising" programme. The scam invites users to a page, run by a company dubbed "EMillionaire". Users are invited to submit their details to see if they are eligible to take part in the programme.The scheme requests
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The Gazelle Web Browser by Microsoft
Microsoft research has released a paper about a Web browser it calls Gazelle. This web browser is constructed in such a way so as to to act like an operating system with the browser protecting resources and sharing across Web sites. According to Microsoft no existing browsers is like Gazelle, this includes browsers based on new architectures, Gazelle has a multi-principal operating system constructed in such a way that provides the browser-based OS exclusive control to manage the protection of all system resources. Read the PDF Paper Source
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YouTube allows publishers to invite others to annotate their videos
YouTube has introduced a new feature for publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. People can now send a special link to their friends so that friends can easily add their own comments to videos. YouTube's editor now has a link that you can share with your friends - or the to the world. You need to be logged in to YouTube to add annotations. You could read the Full Story on
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NZ government officials delay the Controversial Copyright Law
With the widespread protests against New Zealand's copyright law that was suppose to come into existence this month, government officials recognize that something is wrong. The government is hoping that ISPs can come up with a "code of practice" to help deal with copyright infringement online. The delay is for another month to allow ISP to hae some time.A large number of websites and blogs blacked out their sites to raise awareness about the issue. Source Stuff.co.nz
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Twitter replaced Facebook as the hottest and coolest company in Silicon Valley
Feb 2009 was a month for twitter. Recently Twitter closed a $35m (NZ$68.1m) round of venture capital investment at a valuation of about $250m during the economic crisis. Secondly a research from Pew internet and American Life Project revealed that 11 per cent of Americans have used a service such as Twitter, Third, in a survey of 200 top digital marketing of which social media service is the most effective financial investment for businesses - Twitter getting 40 per cent and Facebook only 15 per cent of the vote. Continue Reading
Trade Me profits up for Fairfax NZ
The New Zealand publishing business Fairfax reported a 29 per cent decline in profit in the six months to December 31 in Australian dollar terms, but online auction business Trade Me posted a 17 per cent increase in profit in New Zealand dollar terms. Source NZ
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