Browsers wars are yet from over. All are fighting to get a larger market share. The big G (If your not a Geek/Nerd, then Big G means Google) is also trying it’s luck in the fight with Chrome.
Chrome for Mac was a nice way of capturing a larger market share. Anyway, after the break check out a Creative ad, which surely took a hell lot of time to be made (assumption made on the basis of the beauty of the ad).
[Via Reddit]
Twitter unveils a new Mobile Client which resembles the Web interface and has all features but Lists. So finally the time has come when you can dump your twitter iPhone client and move on with the web interface.
This was a much needed step. One of the reasons could be, if twitter want’s to monetize it’s web interface it would be useless to have millions using it through third party clients and not the actual web interface.
Apart from that, the current mobile version just sucks, because you can’t see your dm’s (Direct Messages), You cannot Retweet messages directly and forget that when you cannot even reply to tweets!
The new version can be accessed at mobile.twitter.com from your mobile browser.
Also, Twitter has mobile version of it’s #fail whale too!
The new interface is kind of Smart 
Have a look!
Just to make stuff clear, this post isn’t about wives dominating their husbands, and its related to tech. Seriously, believe me.
Who Rules the web? You? Me? Its obviously Google.
Why? It does not serve content, it just helps you to find it. How funny is it? A Car Retailer makes more than the manufacturer!
Forget Internet, get back to operating systems. To be Frank, people like it or not Microsoft rules the market, even if abused to the core by the users. It’s a Fact.
Facebook, what makes it so special? I mean sites like facebook did exist when it wasn’t that popular but all failed and today it dominates the Social Media Sphere with over 350 Million Active Members.
All these things make me think a lot, and i don’t think my brain is capable of taking over so much load so thats why i write it down here.
Ask yourself questions. Why does it dominate and no other damn company can challenge it easily? What is so addictive about it?
The answers are as simple as the way to Parish Church (I don’t remember but i am quoting these lines from some poem).
First, you need to understand why services work.
It’s so damn simple, so why didn’t that damn computer engineer across the street end up as some founder of a multi-billion dollar company? To be the best, you’ve got to be competitive in terms of all the factors affecting the result.
Lets take the case of Facebook. Facebook is the largest social network which if had a physical existence too would be in the top 5 most populated countries. Give me one reason why it has more users than MySpace? Ease of use, Simplicity and Reach. I think Facebook topped all three and so it took over the drivers seat throwing the others back. If we see it other way round, the concept is same, “Networking” but just the approach is different.
When Google Started it was not the only search engine at that time had tough competitors like Yahoo! but they did have difficult time defeating them as Yahoo! was not much focused on Search. Today they dominate the web. If you’ve got to get traffic, you have to go the Google way. I mean SEO is one kind of Google optimizing than Search Optimizing.
Twitter also dominates a large part of our social web. No. 1 reason is that it’s idea was unique. Probably 140 Characters to tell whatever you want was something pretty new at the time they started but today it’s common because it succeeded.
This part is dedicated to bloggers out here. Mashable, Techcrunch, Engadget and so on.. these blogs are ruling the Blogosphere (I can say that from my experience) and the only reason why they rule is because they have already climbed those few starting steps and now they don’t ever need to look behind. These days i see tech bloggers growing in numbers just like Sea Horses giving eggs. Its no big surprise that not even one stand a chance to win against the top blogs if they aim to blog with the intention of getting more popular than those blogs. It’s about the content quality that matters. If you search around on my blog you’ll find a lot of posts on how to improve blogging skills.
But, remember you can surely challenge the authority of top blogs, but first establish yourself and then work around it.
Ending this post with a final note, Remember the David and Goliath Story? Yea, the one where David kills Goliath who was six times his size with a slingshot. Don’t loose hope, if you aim at competing with giants you don’t need to be one to start. You just need the right type of weapon to challenge the authority. Go Ahead, try out new ideas and you never know that may be the weapon!
What a day it is for Facebook! If you did log on to Facebook today, you would have observed a small box on top of your page and if you did take the pains of going to see what it was about you know what i am talking about. If not, then read on.
350 Million users is no joke. A month back they had about 325 Million users and now its a 25 Million user jump and let me mention, Facebook had 200 Million members during April 2009 but in 7 months and 150 Million members more? Amazing! Seems quite a surprise to us but not to them.
They have also crossed over the 1000 employees mark and are hiring more people. More Dataservers [Currently 30,000 and growing!] and stuff like that is being worked on. But apart from that a lot of development is being done on the front end.
The user interface is being worked upon and if that’s not enough, Facebook is also soon going to roll out their new Privacy Policy. You know what that means? Last time their one change created a hell lot of Ruckus over the web, people fighting to get the old policies back.
Here’s a quote from their blog post,
The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model forprivacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.
They policies coming up would give you better control over the content you upload online and share, who will be able to access what kind of information, etc. I think this is what was needed, after all Facebook gets 400+ million unique visits every month.
If the predictions are to be believed Facebook will cross the 375 Million users before the end of this year.
Credits : AlltheFB
Every 98 minutes, a new english word is created. With that you know, how many words out there are created throughout the year.
Twitter is perhaps the fastest growing social network, and even more talked about service. This makes twitter the No.1 on the list of most popular terms of 2009 for English Language.
The name itself is addictive (I like to say, “Tw-i-tt-er”), and thus it was declared the top word of 2009 by Global Language monitor which tracks English Language.
So, Twitter does Defeat Barack Obama and H1N1 in the phrase too, and it was quite obvious. Obama, H1N1 etc. had been trending topics on twitter i.e most tweeted about, they said it through twitter so it was going to win.
Massive growth in Social Media has benefited twitter a lot, and twitter has broken so many records!
PayPal Wishlist is a Facebook Application that lets you earn free money on the most popular social networking website, Facebook. All you have to do is add this networking App to your profile and start inviting your friends.Everytime your friends join by clicking your referrel link,you earn free bucks.
Still don’t believe us? Shown below is a screenshot from the official App site , explaining HOW IT WORKS.
Steps required to setup the Facebook Wishlist :
1. Login to your Facebook Account
2. Add the Paypal Wishlist app here.
3. Type your paypal email address on Enter Email Address box
4. Create your Wishlist by adding gadgets,books etc and share your paypal wishlist to friends.
NOTE : PayPal account holders registered in India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore or Vietnam will eligible to earn cash back. This promotion is valid until December 31st, 2009 or until funds last.
The Evolution of Humans has been drastically affected by the growing technology. And all this has just happened in the past decade.
Growth of Information Technology has given birth to this. The Hunger for Information is driving innovators crazy such that they are going to any extent to feed themselves of their hunger.
Pranav Mistry, from MIT is one of them. His ideas are unique and probably represent the future. The Indian, has many ideas which he has put into practice and has made Future Possible Today.
Oh his creations, the most popular one is Sixth Sense. The term Sixth Sense itself is fascinating. Apart from the five sense of Touch, Sound, Sight, Taste and Feel what else could be generated now? Pranav has the answer and it is gesture.
He Started with the mouse, not one but two eight years back where he took of the Sensors which surrounded the Ball of the Optical Mouse and used them to bring together the Physical World and the Digital World and with his creations today, we can surely say that he has succeeded in his Mission.
Ever thought of with few finger actions, you could take a picture without even removing any other device form your Pocket? Forget that, Ever wondere you just look at your boarding pass and get the latest updates about you Flight like Delay Time, etc?
How would it be if you could pinch some data from Paper and drag it and convert it into Digital Data and actually edit it and get it printed all in Minutes? You are at a book store and you just open up a Book and you get reviews Related to the book and lot more just on the cover of the Book?
Watch Live Videos on Your Newspaper related to the article your reading, and yes this does not involve any OLED display or anything but just a projector!
Forget Cell Phones, when you can just call from your palm? Tick, Tick, Tring! If you could make a piece of paper your laptop and surf web on it with your fingers? Motion Gaming on Paper? All this is Possible with Sixth Sense.
I surely want to get my hands on it!
Recently AT&T files a lawsuit against Verizon and it failed. So then they are left with no other option than to battle it out their style. But surely those ads from Verizon, There is a map for that, were funny.
Here’s the answer from AT&T with Luke Wilson and he says, “Who offers the best 3G experience? Let’s compare.” The Last part of the ad is funny. Also, they are giving 50% discounts on some Samsung Phones too.
Apple has always provided it’s customers with amazing products, from Macbooks to iPods. They have revolutionized the way we share music, surf the internet and how we use our cell phones.
Well, here’s how Apple Evolved from 1976 to 2007 – All in One Picture! (Click the Image Below to Enlarge!)
[Via WeTalk]
If you have used stuff like Facebook connect and Twitter Sign in, you know how easy it is to just click enter username and password and then just hop in. Well, not everything in the world is as easy, but soon the whole password username thing is going to be history, as there might be a universal account for most of your online presence.
Quite True, because webmasters and developers also see less conversions and members because of the hefty pain a user has to go through to register all over again. But now, with Google this is soon going to be history with Google’s Hybrid OnBoarding.
What users can soon expect from Google when invited from Facebook or Plaxo or other supported services,
Hybrid OnBoarding
Now it’s So easy to join up so quickly. Earlier it involved tons of steps, where you even had to confirm emails in one step and so on. But with this, it’s all click and done.
Facebook and Plaxo are the supported websites till now, and we are waiting for the complete list to come up in future! Check out the Companies Official Blog post.