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What makes a video go viral? The science of memes.
Understanding the spread of internet memes. A brief look. How does a video go viral. Is it random? No. Well, not completely. There is some explanation of it all. What is a ‘meme’? A word derived from ‘gene’, it is an idea/behavior that spreads within a culture. A gene usually spreads vertically [ from parent…
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Get the new YouTube design now!
2011 has been a year of make overs for Google products. Google search, Gmail, Google reader, and finally, YouTube gets its due. As with all the other redesigns, YouTube redesign make YouTube more Google+esque. The new design, apart from making YouTube more pleasant, also adds functionality. Although the new design is being rolled out, but if you want it now, here’s…
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5 Facebook Essentials You Can’t Live Without!
If you are a daily surfer of Facebook, you would be already familiar with regular stuff like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but in the land of facebook, there’s always scope for more……….. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you…
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Tech-giant Google releases Ice Cream Sandwich source code, The Next Gen Android!
Are you ready for this? Because this is one hell of a release! After months of life-hurting wait, Google has finally released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This means you will soon be able to get the latest update running on your Android devices, assuming you have the programming skills. Or…
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BookTrolley, a New Delhi based startup plans to disrupt the books market!
BookTrolley lets you buy and sell books within your campus. Seniors make money, juniors get books for cheap. Seems like a win-win situation! To find out more, I asked Anant Chowdhary, the founder of BookTrolley, a few questions. Me: Explain your start-up in at most two lines. Your elevator pitch. Anant: An online portal to Buy/Sell books within your college campus.…
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We are not very far from flexible phones!
Video of the week is a new section, where we will be bringing you cool videos from around the internet. ? This is what Sony was upto, back in 2007, a flexible display, functioning, but with minor glitches. ? This is what Samsung show cased at CES 2011, a fully functional flexible display, getting video input from…
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iPhone envy? Forget about it. You can have Android.
Since the rise of Apple as a major smartphone manufacturer, people worldwide have been suffering from a great plague. iPhone envy. They have spent nights praying for an iPhone, or for it to be available at cheap prices in their respective countries. India, not being as developed in the telecom sector, not yet into the…
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Flash is finally dying!
Steve Jobs had said last year that the world needed to get over Flash, and move onto newer technologies like HTML5 – ‘New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and…
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5 Awesome online image editing tools for having fun with profile pictures
We all love our profile pics. Now you can make them better. Here’s a list of the best websites that let you tweak your profile pics with different types of effects. 1. BeFunky – Cartoonise your self, or your friends along with you! 2. Photofunia – Good for putting your pictures on billboards all across the city,…
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Invite All Your Facebook Friends In One Go!
Do you own a Facebook page? I surely own a number of them, including our official TheTechIris Facebook Page. You must’ve seen the “Invite Friends” option on your Facebook pages which lets you select your friends and send them invitations to like your page. Well, it’s not much of a problem if you have a…
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Is Aakash the real deal?
If you are one of those eyeing to grab Aakash, the so- called India’s answer to iPad? Then hold on! Come February 2012, a better and more efficient Aakash-2, the world’s cheapest tablet computer, will be available at the price of version 1 – Rs 2,276 or $49. IIT-Rajasthan has finalised improvements in the Aakash-1…
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