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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 [...]

Twitter Hashtags guide.

A hashtag is basically the Twitter equivalent of metadata on a message. If you want your website or blog to be easily found in the search engines, you would add metadata in the website headers which will then be picked up by the Google spiders when they visit. Well, a hashtag is basically the Twitter [...]

User Created Public Follow Lists on Twitter Soon.

For new Twitter users, it has always been a challenge to find and build up  follow lists. There are many niches and interest groups which a new user would like to subscribe to in jiffy. But a new user always faces a problem in finding out the authoritative voice on any particular subject. But it [...]

Using Google Reader – make use of shortcuts

Google Reader is a very popular feed reading tool. Earlier there used to be stiff competition between Google Reader and FriendFeed but now there appears to be a perceptible shift towards Google Reader of late.

Google Chrome OS will hit MS OFFICE hard

Google Chrome logo has looked very attractive right from the moment it was launched. A spiral mix of vibrant colours, Red, Green, Yellow and Blue looks quite appealing. Google has been heading northwards on the popularity charts and over last one year it has been able to grab substantial market share amongst the web browsers. [...]

Facebook buys FriendFeed

Facebook in its effort to catch up with Twitter has acquired FriendFeed. It’s win-win deal for both of them but more so for Facebook. Twitter has over a year or so outsmarted all social networking sites. The rapid rise of Twitter has been helped to the great extent by failures of Facebook and MySpace to [...]

Wolfram Alpha is for a select group

Wolfram Alpha has gone live. There have been rumours around that it may not live up to the expectations. But over the weekend, the users have found the computational search engine pretty useful.