Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Continuing with the elitism in cyberspace, comes EliteIndian. The site claims that it has been started by alumni from the IITs and the IIMs, and positions itself as an exclusive online club for alumni of the top Institutions in India.
Once in, it allows professional networking, as well as collaborative buying towards better deals. No doubt […]
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Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Here comes yet another model for social networks. Montreal-based Capazoo, has recently launched a micro-currency feature called Zoops, which allows members to “tip” each other for posts, videos, photos, profiles, etc. Members also get Zoops by inviting other friends.
The objective is that Capazoo would allow the members to cash out the Zoops via branded ATM […]
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Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dhirender
This is eerie - according to a recent research by World Science, Google page Rank is very similar to the way our own brain functions.
Page Rank for instance is based on popularity - taking into account the number of other pages linking to the page, as well the importance of the pages linking to that […]
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Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dhirender
With its signing of the deal to access the catalog of Universal Music Group, Imeem becomes the first social networking website to offer free unlimited songs and music videos from all the four major record labels i.e. Warner Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI.
Imeem allows members to stream, but not download an unlimited number of […]
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Posted on December 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Chandamama, with over 60 years of storytelling under its belt has relaunched its website chandamama.com. The plans are to make popular Chandamama comics, and stories such as Vikram-Vetal, Akbar-Birbal, Panchatantra, and Jataka Tales available on the revamped site, along with folk tales and snippets from different states of India. The objective is to make it […]
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