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Renunciating Facebook – temporarily.

Facebook or may be other networking sites have been eating in to the available time of young school kids. The usage is so addictive that once you open an account, the Facebook features spread a web around you and make your mind dance to its tunes. Like children of US and EU countries, Indian School [...]

Why Corporates Block Social Networking Sites?

If you are employed with any of the big corporates and have been notified by your systems department about the excessive time you are spending on Twitter and Facebook, then this post if for you and your employer.

Will Google Buzz Challenge Facebook ?

Google Buzz is having all Gmail users very excited about the new offerings. It may be only early days but stats reveal that Buzz usage is sky rocketing. Gmail users were initially surprised to see Buzz page after login in to their account few days back. Some even tweeted to know the ways to shut [...]

Are You a Student and An Internet Addict, Then Read On.

We all live in a world which is so connected that we hardly have time to lead our offline lives.No doubt Internet has loads of information and one can find virtually anything and everything on Internet, but it has also brought along with it some sort of addiction. Surfing aimlessly without any specific purpose is [...]

Is Facebook being unnessarily critisized for low grades.

A survey conducted at Ohio State University on 219 students has thrown up very interesting results. It was observed that students who are heavily in to Facebook devote lesser time on their textbooks compared to ones who are not at all using Facebook. And obviously these students who devote lesser time on textbooks were found [...]

YouTube acknowledges Twitter’s might

YouTube has embraced Twitter and provided place of pride on its videos. Now along with MySpace and Facebook, Twitter functionality will also be available for shared posting. This is in a acknowledgement of how big Twitter has become. This is a pretty cool functionality and by using this, YouTube videos can now be shared with followers of [...]

Are we jumping prematurely on clouds bandwagon?

As I write, TechCrunch has just posted updates on Cloud Computing roundtable. There have been presentations by industry bigwigs over future of the Cloud. Everybody out there has gone ballistic over the future of Clouds.  Some  were announcing paradigm shift in the way computing shall be done in future.

Orkut is the leader amongst social networking portals in India

Orkut is the most popular social networking portal in India. The report published by comScore, Inc a leading organization which measure and monitors the digital trend indicated this in their press release. Report shows, over a one year period, Dec 2007 to Dec 2008 a healthy 51% increase in popularities of all social networking websites [...]