Google did quite a cool thing today, as part of its birthday celebrations. It brought back the oldest working version of the search index available. While you could see the old Google at the internet archive (the two oldest archived pages of google are these), this actually shows you the results that would have appeared […]
To confess, the thought originated more from a textual perspective than a conceptual one. But it made me think, and so I shared it on twitter a couple of days back – “do many startups fail because they start up? would it be better if they start down and work their way up?” While I’ll […]
What self respecting social media blog could let the Facebook redesign slip by without a post dedicated to it. Now is a good time considering that Mark Zuck has deemed that we shut down our silly protests and just accept his virtual reality. Inspite of short term solutions offered, well meaning advice, and groups consisting of […]
Sometime back, I saw a press release of an entity called AdBhai. It is positioned as a no-frills classifieds portal and according to the release, has implemented Google’s Friend Connect. It means that you can use your Orkut/GTalk id to post comments on the site, giving the entire thing a social twist. I have come […]
Sometime back I’d written about the potential of the net, and especially the latest community version to do good to humanity. One of the startups that was presented at TC50 (had written about TC 50 in the last post) was CauseCast. Its aim is to bring ten non profit companies into the spotlight every month. […]