A recent article in the Red Herring asked the rather pertinent question, Social Networking, So What? pointing out that while “Social network providers build highly engaging Web sites that have managed to rope in the majority of U.S. Internet users, but they still haven’t managed to find a way to turn those millions of users [...]
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A new solution vTap from Veveo, launching this September 10 promises to make searching for videos on your mobile easier. They have indexed a large collection of videos on the web and plan to solve the input constraints that are an inherent part of the mobile phone by providing increasingly specific search results as users [...]
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A brilliant essay by Paul Graham on the mistakes that a number of startups tend to overlook and which could lead to their failure. Though this was written in 2006, its just as relevant today. Paul Graham is one of the partners in Y Combinator.
In a sense there’s just one mistake that kills startups: not [...]
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While surfing in Beijing, don’t be surprised if a “Beijing Internet Police” pops in to check on you starting September 1, 2007.
Virtual police officers will soon begin visible patrols on Chinese Internet sites on the look out for websites and Internet activities that incite secession, promote superstition, gambling, fraud and pornography.
“It is our duty to [...]
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A McKinsey research conducted in Germany found that motives such as a desire for fame and a feeling of identification with a community encourage collaboration and participation. Other reasons stated include the urge to have fun. While this is not very different from the motivations that were presented by Peter Kollock in The Economics of [...]
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According to Reuters, IATA has placed its last order for paper tickets, clearing the way for air travel to be based entirely on electronic ticketing from June 1 next year. Started 3 years ago, currently 84% of the travellers on IATA carriers fly on electronic tickets.
“In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become [...]
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With a view to provide specialized health services to patients in rural areas, a two way telemedicine link between Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here and Community Health Centres at Haryana and Rajasthan was established today.
Launching the pilot project ‘Village Resource Centre´ (VRC), a link between the hospital and CHCs in Gohana, Haryana and Kaithun, Rajasthan, [...]
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Starting today, Yahoo! is finally bringing its public beta test to an end and taking the wraps off the final version of the new version of it’s email service for its more than 254 million Yahoo! Mail users. This overhaul is driven by the need to transform e-mail into more of a social activity that [...]
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In a move that is bound to raise the hackles of the privacy advocates, a breed of search engines are scouring through social networking sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace, etc. in their effort to index the world population.
Wink.com and Zoominfo.com already have 215 million and 36 million profiles, respectively, while Spock.com claims to have [...]
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According to a recent article on Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, users rarely look at display advertisements on websites. Using heatmaps, he goes to show that users don’t fixate within design elements that resemble ads, even if they aren’t ads, something he calls Banner Blindness.
Given the various formats of banners and innovations now possible and available (shoskele, [...]
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