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  • Facebook’s new photo viewer supports high-res pics!

    Did you get it yet? I just noticed it. If you are still seeing the old photo viewer, you probably will get it in a few days. New Facebook features roll out slowly. What’s awesome about this latest update, is that it supports larger resolution pics. As you can see in the in the screenshot above, the image takes almost all…

  • What is the difference between SOPA/PIPA and Kapil Sibal?

    To be brief, not much. SOPA/PIPA is the American name of the same disease, that is known as Kapil Sibal in India. The disease has been rumored to be viral, but does not affect the majority of the masses. We talked to a doctor researching the Indian strain of the virus, and he said that it…

  • Here’s a list of lists of what you did in 2011 /meta

    These are the lists everyone should certainly look at. A compilation of Internet’s  Top Tens of 2011 Twitter’s – 2011 Year in review What did you tweet about? Facebook’s Memology 2011 App What did you post about? Google Zeitgeist 2011 What did you search for? Know You Meme’s Best Memes of 2011 You can also watch the video below – YouTube’s 2011 The…

  • Download Facebook’s native chat client for Windows 7 [Leaked]

    Download it here. Initial review – + Makes FB chatting a lot less obnoxious. Being able to chat in a separate window, bring it closer to GChat. + You can snap the client to one side of the desktop. – If you do snap it, and then browse Facebook in your browser, you now have…

  • Insert All The Emoticons! /Updated

      For the theory part, check below. To start copy pasting this in your chat, here you go – The Merry Christmas – [[247141448686607]] [[289038261142619]] [[158039784302618]] [[158039784302618]] [[274250912624691]] [[288997744484847]] [[266231403431058]] [[158039784302618]] [[135810689866157]] [[330264450335703]] [[214416781973079]] [[247141448686607]] [[222654211143888]] [[330264450335703]] [[megustameme]] And, here’s a list of the troll emoticons – Y U NO – [[106043532814443]] Troll Face –…

  • Is cloud computing the Mother Of God?

    What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is basically outsourcing processing/data storage to somewhere else, that you don,t need to know. Lets call that place the cloud. [ Although most of the outsourced stuff is in to India, but sadly, the cloud is not in India. ] For this, one important thing is cheap + fast…

  • Google Zeitgeist – Top search trends of 2011 displayed in HTML5 awesomeness

    Google just released a list of fastest rising searches on Google in 2011, and guess what, Rebecca Black tops the list. The iPad, the non existent iPhone5 are also in the top 10. In other words, 20% of what trended at the top in 2011 was Apple! But, what’s more interesting than the content of the research is…

  • EU delays Google’s $12.4 Billion Buy-Out of Motorola Mobility

    Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility faces a delay after EU regulators suspended their review of the deal. The European Commission has revealed that it halted the approval process last week, and requested more information.The European Union antitrust authority used a rare “time-out” legal procedure and put on hold the current first-phase inquiry into Google’s $12.4…

  • Timeline is here.

    Today, Facebook announced that timeline has been launched for everybody. Here’s what you need to know. What is timeline? It’s a new design for your Facebook profile. Um, what’s new? It’s something like a digital collection of your life, that you curate. Facebook automatically organizes all your status updates and other life events chronologically, so browsing it would be…

  • Google is evil, and wants to take over the world!

    Anybody who knows Bill Gates, also knows why he is rich? Because he owns the largest platform, on which other applications are built. It has been quite clear for a very long time now, that you can’t just make a product and get super rich. For that, you need a platform. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of…

  • Whatever happened to differentiation?

    Remember when Facebook was just that, Facebook. And twitter was twitter. And Google+ was, um, Orkut? Then Google+ came along, took everything that Facebook had, and added a bit of twitter [ one way subscriptions ], and a bit of google [ circles/hangouts ] to it. Then it was Facebook’s turn, so they added a…