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
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
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
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
Apple’s new Safari 4 beta is the first to challenge Google Chrome
Apple has announced the public beta of of Safari 4 and claims it to be the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The new JavaScript engine, Nitro, runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3, and up to 30 times faster than IE 7. Also Stephen Shankland from CNET News stated in his article that Apple's new Safari 4 is the first browser to challenge it on Google's own performance benchmark. Safari 4 is a public beta for both Mac OS X and Windows and is available immediately as a free download To check out
Music search engine SeeqPod sued by Music Record Companies
EMI and Capitol Records are filing suit against music search engine SeeqPod. EMI and Capitol are, targeting individual employees and investors, in addition to the company itself, for monetary damages. The suit lists its chief executive, Kasian Franks, and backers Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha as individuals. The record companies are seeking billions of dollars in damages and hope to send a strong message to profiting companies from music sharing services that they consider to be illegal. The major difference between SeeqPod and search giants Google, Ask and Yahoo is that the results it yields are more relevant,
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Google to Join EU case against Microsoft with context to Web Browsers
This is not the first time Google and Microsoft have battled with each other on antitrust issues. The Web search engine Google, which recently released its Chrome Web browser, announced that it is applying to be a "third party" in the European proceedings. The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about tying Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which "harms competition between web browsers". Sundar Pichai, Vice President Product Management of Google said in his blog "First, browsers are critical to the Internet -- they enable us to surf the web, search, chat, email, watch
Google Analytics now allows tracking iPhone traffic
Using the Advanced Segmentation beta feature offered by Google Analytics, now websites have the option to filter their data to view “Visits from iPhones.” This feature also works in conjunction with AdWords, so advertisers can better target ads to audiences using the iPhone. Source: Google Analytics
The Microsoft-Yahoo dance begins yet again
CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts that that he still wants to pursue some sort of search deal with Yahoo. He is determined to find a way for the two companies to “pool their resources” to take on Google. So lets wait and see what comes out of this Source
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