Security company Barracuda Labs has recently figured out the reason behind the surge of attacks on the social media and micro blogging site Twitter in 2009. The main reason is believed to be the joining of some major A-list celebrities in Twitter at around the same time.
According to the report, as many as 48 of [...]
The crowd at the Oprah taping in Chicago did a special flash mob dance to the Black Eyed Peas live performance of the song, “I Gotta Feeling.” The group dance on the Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago was really cool to see from the Tribune Tower’s 14th floor. This is for Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff [...]
Following is the excerpt from NyTimes recent interview with Andrey Ternovisky, the creater of Chatroulette. We are posting some of the interesting excerpts from the interview. Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student, scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he [...]
Remember how seven years ago people were almost scrambling for Gmail invites? It was then the most eagerly awaited product over the internet helped by the towering reputation of the firm which had achieved everything it set out to. Something similar happened with Google Wave.
It had been discussed passionately and diligently by people eons before [...]
Some people, many among my colleagues have a misconception related to interdependency of tweeting and social networking. How social is a Netizen if he just owns a Twitter account and rarely tweets? There have been many speculations related to Twitter, Some call it as a Super Glue that will Gel up the Internet of Things. [...]
Associated Press reported, ‘A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a “.xxx” domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers’.
The .xxx domain is back on the table again during a meeting of The Internet Corporation for [...]
While writing my last blog, I realized that uploading documents on WordPress is not as obvious as uploading images is. Its not everyday that you’d want to upload a document in your blog but when you do it shouldn’t take hours of research. For uploading a document such as word, excel, ppt, pdf etc, you need to [...]
These days companies are branding themselves by changing their interface and themes of their websites or products. While hardware products are going green, softwares are going social.
Here is the latest interface change from YouTube, Google owned product. This time youtube has gone a major face lifts with new buttons and new interaction.
Here is the quick [...]
The charity group WeQuit has launched a new program with the social networking giant Facebook to help people quit their smoking habit. The application is directed at compulsive smokers, where people and their friends can challenge each other to give up smoking as well as to create rewards for success and forfeits for failure. This [...]
Once the world leader in social networking, MySpace has taken a hit this year with lower site visits, layoffs and two important management changes this year. In fact the problem has gone so far as to some employees themselves expressing serious doubts regarding its revival. The News Corp Unit has encouraged those workers to leave [...]
