Posted on July 7th, 2010 by dhirender
Twitter seems to have finally gotten serious about making some money from the humungous members it seems to go on adding. First advertising, and now e-commerce (the deals variety that seem to be the rage these days – with Amazon buying Woot, Snapdeal buying Grabbon, others raising funding, etc.) Through it’s company managed @earlybird account, [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2010 by dhirender
Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you. We’re also trying to better highlight interesting stories you didn’t know existed and to make it easier for you to share stories through social networks. That was the Google Blog post on the [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2010 by dhirender
The Google Docs viewer that allows you to view .pdf, .ppt, and .tiff files in your browser now has support for .doc and .docx formats too. This is definitely a rather nifty feature to have. So far, the only way to view a Microsoft Word attachment was either to download it, or view it as [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2009 by dhirender
Thanks to it’s bylanes, and the cultural tendency to navigate by directions, lack of proper signposts, etc. India is the first country to get landmarks in driving directions on Google Maps.
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Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by dhirender
It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online. so starts the open letter from mark Zuckerberg. And with that is also the news that Facebook plans to tighten its [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by dhirender
With the LinkedIn Developer Network, LinkedIn is opening out to let developers integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and websites according to the LinkedIn blog. So far, LinkedIn has gone down more the collaboration/ partnership route for integration – think Microsoft’s integration of LinkedIn into its 2010 version of Outlook e-mail, LinkedIn for BlackBerry, Amazon.com, [...]
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