Yahoo! Glue search - visual, appealing search results
Need to know about a topic quickly without sifting through pages and pages of results a search engine throws? Try out Yahoo’s Glue search. Glue search is a beta project from Yahoo! India search division and attempts to combine several related search results into a single compact page, in a visually clear format.
Google Android AppMarket
Google recently announced its new Android mobile platform, an Open Handset Alliance Project. What’s even more exciting for invidual developers is, it will also have an open application market on the lines of Apple’s AppStore (probably, minus the apple’s strict application inclusion policies). All applications on the Android platform are equal and any app can [...]
Deletionpedia - An archive of deleted Wikipedia articles
Can’t find that article you saw sometime back on Wikipedia? Move over to Deletionpedia - an archive of deleted Wikipedia articles. Deletionpedia is not a wiki, but mere a repository of articles deleted by the Wikipedia mods because it was irrelevent or not up to the standards. An automated bot uploads pages to deletionpedia as [...]
Facebook pirate translation for Talk like a Pirate day
Today is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and Facebook is ready with its English(Pirate) translations for whole application.
The pirate terms do take you back to Pirates of the Caribbeans era. After logging in, you are welcomed with “Ahoy! This be the pirate’s Facebook“, and the status text box reads “What arrr ye doin’ [...]
Yahoo SpotM - Social network for the teens and youth
Yahoo India has launched a social network especially targetted at Indian teens and college going youth. Named as SpotM, it tries to make itself visible in the social networking space already dominated by Orkut and to some extent Facebook. SpotM’s target audience would be college goers and young teens planning to enter college.
Free AI and Computer Science courses from Stanford University
The Stanford Engineering Everywhere initiative by Stanford University is all set to offer internet based distance education courses in computer science, artificial intelligence and optimization. The entire course consists of three subjects in introduction to computer science which is popular among a lot of undergraduate students and seven more advanced subjects in Artificial Intelligence and [...]
Google Chrome’s About pages and Easter eggs
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have carried a few easter eggs hidden in their about: pages for long. Like Mozilla’s about:config, The Mozilla Book and Robots pages, Google Chrome too comes with a dozen about: pages covering everything from plugins, stats and cache to histograms and dns.
Google Gears for Safari on Mac OS X released
Google announced the release of its OpenSource Gears browser platform for Safari on the Mac platform. Gears for Safari will now allow more powerful web applications by enabling web apps to store data in searchable database locally and run javascript more efficiently.
Big Huge Labs - Doing fun stuff with your Flickr photos
I’m a big fan of Bug Huge Labs and the entire collection of flickr toys available at their website. From their awsomely true looking Flickr Badges to Jigsaw puzzle pictures, i love almost all the flickr/picture toys. Big Huge Labs was started by John Watson and the website engages people to create millions of interesting [...]
CrossOver team announces Google Chrome for Mac and Linux
Its been just 11 days since Google’s new web browser Chrome launched exclusively for Windows - but the wonderful guys at CodeWeavers (the people behind famous CrossOver office suite) have already announced their Mac and Linux ports called CrossOver Chromium. Incidently, Chromium is the name of an OpenSource browser project based on Apple’s HTML rendering [...]
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