If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Google and Microsoft were purportedly involved in an open bidding war for Digg. Numbers like $200-225 million are being flung around. Digg CEO Jay Adelson however is terming those rumors as “completely inaccurate”. Or is Kevin [...]
Posts in World Wide Web Category
March 7th, 2008
Google Microsoft bidding for Digg?
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February 28th, 2008
Google Penalty Reversed
I guess Google loves me once again. The referrals aren’t back yet to their original levels but they are getting there. As you see, February was a bad month, traffic-wise [see the above image for fall and rise of Google referrals] I had whined earlier on the harsh penalty it imposed on my blog for [...]
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February 28th, 2008
GTalk gets the Mr.India farmoola
Now that it can be invisible, I can finally use it more often. And people, if it says I’m busy chances are I probably am. If you are across the world and are getting bored at night, then I’m probably at work and don’t have time to be bored (and vice versa) so don’t [...]
Patrix | Asides, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
February 28th, 2008
Ask the world for help
Now counseling and doling out advice goes the crowdsourcing way. Really Worried is a site that connects people with personal problems with people who offer advice. Kinda like Yahoo Answers but probably tinged with more compassion?
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February 19th, 2008
Download Music Online - The Barely Legal Way
Don’t you miss the days of Napster and Kazaa when any music soundtrack was just a click away? But thanks to the bullyish ways of RIAA who haven’t recognized the changing trends in music sales, we were penalized heavily for even trying to download single tracks for our personal use (until iTunes knocked some sense [...]
Patrix | Music, Technology, World Wide Web | 7 Comments »
February 18th, 2008
Google Cricket
Why would someone search for “google live cricket” on Yahoo? Unless they are using ‘google’ as a verb and are looking for search tips. But still, why on Yahoo?
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February 15th, 2008
Spanked by Google
As any webmaster will attest, referrals from Google’s organic search can be a source of immense traffic to your site. Like any other site on the web, this blog also attracted droves of Google searchers in pursuit of knowledge of varying interests; ranging from Sanjaya Malakar to streaming online movies. But sometime early this month, [...]
Patrix | Weblogs, World Wide Web | 9 Comments »
January 30th, 2008
The Clear All option in Facebook
Finally Facebook offers a ‘Clear All’ option for all those pesky requests. But why do you need to have a minimum of 25 requests? After all, GMail offers ‘Delete All Spam Messages’ even if you have two of them.
Patrix | Web 2.0, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
January 30th, 2008
Amazon wants us to procreate now
It has hardly been a month since we got married so imagine our surprise when we get this email from Amazon:
It is more surprising because we haven’t registered (or plan to anytime soon) for a baby shower. And what’s more, someone had actually bought something from our imaginary registry. I checked the links and they [...]
Patrix | Fun Weird, World Wide Web | 9 Comments »
November 28th, 2007
Selling Tumbleweed Online
This is awesome. Woman gets rich selling tumbleweed that she gathers from around her home in Kansas. NASA and Hollywood bought them too.
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November 28th, 2007
The 12 Most Influential Videos
The Webby Awards has listed the 12 most influential videos of all-time. For sake of your Net cred, I hope you’ve seen most of them. Macaca is one of them.
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November 27th, 2007
Fishy Returns on Amazon
I recently sold my old camera, Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom via Amazon Marketplace where I have had a sellers’ account for more than a year. I was damn pleased to have sold it within a week of putting it up for sale. The camera worked great and had produced great photos for me over the [...]
Patrix | Personal, World Wide Web | 12 Comments »
November 27th, 2007
Facebook owes a Christmas gift
Facebook owes Mike’s son a surprise Christmas gift. Beware of this relatively unknown privacy breach on Facebook and make sure to opt-out.
Patrix | Asides, Business, World Wide Web | 2 Comments »
November 19th, 2007
Twittering CSI
Twitter helps solve a case in CSI. Don’t bother registering those nicknames; they were already taken minutes after the show aired. BTW, are you following me on Twitter?
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November 2nd, 2007
WordPress Themes Marketplace
WordPress is launching a Themes Marketplace. Mind you, contrary to widely-held misconception the marketplace is only for WordPress.com and not the freely available WP Core which powers this site among million others. All the premium themes would be available for self-hosted blogs for free.
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November 1st, 2007
Managing your Google Reputation
If you are worried about your online reputation, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of managing ‘your-name’ Google results with these simple methods.
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October 30th, 2007
MediaSnackers - The Wherever Whatever Whenever Generation
When I had almost given up Gaurav for dead (in the blogospheric sense, of course), he comes back sharing interesting media and marketing-related tidbits that I otherwise wouldn’t have noticed. He writes on the new meme streaking through the marketing blogosphere (reminds me that I must read Seth Godin more regularly), MediaSnackers. Never mind the [...]
Patrix | Media, World Wide Web | 1 Comment »
October 24th, 2007
Paramount Vintage Movies Screenplays Online
In a strange move, Paramount Vintage has put the screenplays of five unreleased movies online under the tagline, For Your Consideration. Movies include Into the Wild and The Kite Runner.
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October 24th, 2007
Google PageRank Drops
The Google PageRank for this blog dropped from 5 to 3 and it seems that Google is cracking down hard even on top blogs that sell text link ads.
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October 22nd, 2007
New Video site for the Daily Show
Comedy Central finally revamps the video site for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It is now easier to submit videos on social networking sites like Digg and Reddit. I guess, they finally understand that if you can’t beat them then join them.
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Movies I've Watched...
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2008-09-20 16:55
Delightful comedy laced with dry Brit humor. A bit sappy though.
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2008-09-02 21:00
Explores the brother-sister relationship brought together during their father's last days.
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2008-09-01 21:00
Poignant but slow narrative of an orphaned girl living with her aunt in rural Maharashtra.
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2008-08-09 23:00
Stunning and engaging narration. Raw violence and personal struggles of ordinary guys in a tough neighborhood.
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