Firefox 7 is out, already!
The fine folks at Mozilla are out with Mozilla Firefox 7. After adopting a rapid release cycle inspired by Google Chrome, Mozilla has been releasing Firefox almost every month. Firefox 5 was released on June 21, 2011 and Firefox 6 was released about a month back, on Aug 16, 2011.
Mozilla team has been largely focusing [...]
Starting your own TLD
Have $185,000 lying around? If ICANN’s latest plans come through, you may just be able to start a new Generic TLD registry. After about an year of discussions between ICANN, U.S. Government and the community, US government has called the new gTLD plans a real stinker.
Microsoft SearchPerks! Win prizes just for searching the web
Okay, let me ask a simple question. What was the last time you used Microsoft Live Search to search the intarweb? Now would you use it as a daily use search engine if Microsoft gave you “perks” just for searching the internet. As simple as that?
Announcing Microsoft SearchPerks. Sign up before December 31, install a [...]
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.
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 [...]
In.com - India’s new portal
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Google to anonymize IPs after 9 months
Google announced a new web server log retention policy yesterday on its official blog. As per the new policy, the current web search logs retention period will come down from current 18 months - to only 9 months. Google blog post explains how the web server logs are important for analyzing their user’s search behavior [...]
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