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Entries from April 2008

MySpace joins the 2008 Election fever, finally

We knew it was just a matter of time before MySpace joins the Election fever. And so finally it has launched its own portal devoted specifically for anything and everything about the ongoing U.S. election. And to make its election portal, called Decision ‘08, even more interesting and (authoritative), MySpace has partnered with mother [...]

Dilbert goes web 2.0

We all remember the comic strip, Dilbert right? Well, apparently our dear old trusty friend Dilbert has been reading too much of Rotorblog and our coverage of social networks and web 2.0 stuff. So, he decided to go along with the wave, and reinvent his Dilbert comic strips site Dilber.com into something more web 2.0ish. [...]

Free Virtual Makeover on Taaz

The Biggest Loser, the weight-loss reality sensation, has just wrapped up in the States. That means there will now be a two-week stretch where the show’s stars before and after photos will be inescapable. After all, doesn’t everybody love to see a life-changing journey summed up in two images?
How would you like your [...]

10 Twitter applications to make your Tweetering fun and exciting

Couldn’t get enough of Twitter? Want to get the most out of your Tweetering experience? Here are ten Twitter applications to make your Tweetering more fun, useful and exciting.

Track your blog/site’s Twitter fans by Intwition

Twitter has definitely made it. Usage wise, almost all bloggers are into Twitter. A blogger even found his lost phone through Twitter. It will just be a matter of time before the search engines decide to index Twitter, and give credits to the Twitter accounts which link to blogs/sites. But before that happens, it would [...]

Previewing 5 Orkut applications

Don’t look now but mySpace and Facebook are just not the social network which are benefitting from the “OpenSocial” phenomenon. Google’s very own social network, Orkut has been getting some pretty good applications from third party developers as well. Here’s a little sneak preview on some of these Orkut applications.

aideRSS tames the RSS beast and help you manage what you read

Given that the RSS is such a great tool for staying up to date and informed of various topics that interest you, it can also be such an annoying tool if not managed properly. There are thousands of great blogs and sites out there but it’s not every day that you get to read great [...]

Google Traffic Prediction Engine Added to Maps

As someone who openly has some serious traffic anxiety (of the road variety), I was quite pleased this morning to see that Google has added a traffic prediction engine to their suite of map services.

PYZam lets you find out how famous you are in MySpace

Everyone’s dream of becoming famous may finally come true with the help of pYZam, a MySpace application that lets you find out exactly how famous you are on MySpace. When you install pYZam on your MySpace account, it will immediately calculate your fame rankings as well as compares you to your friends, people in [...]

Even Segways have a Social Network for Users, Segway Social

You know those stand-up scooters with gyroscopic sensors which were once touted as the future of transportation, called Segway? They must be gaining too much popularity that some Segway users decided to create a Segway Social, which obviously is a social network for Segway users.

Build your cloud, share it with friends, earn rewards = CloudTrade

I’ll go straight to the point and skip with the usual introductory stuff as CloudTrade is a pretty straightforward mobile service with a pretty straightforward objective. CloudTrade is an easy way to share digital contents, such as music, pictures, videos with your network (ok, social networking networks), using your mobile phone. In addition, the [...]

Alexa Changes the Way They Rank Websites

If you noticed a change in your Alexa ranking overnight, it probably has absolutely nothing to do with anything you’ve done on your Website.  Whether you’ve gone down or up, you can thank Alexa for changing the way they do business. Loathed by some and used as a yardstick to determine advertising rates by others, [...]