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  • A map of the internet!

    A map of the internet!

    Some random dude named Ruslan Enikeev, took 350,000 websites on the internet, and arranged them in a vast map, organised by visits and location. One websites proximity to another also depends on where people normally go from a site. If more people go to Facebook, than Wikipedia, from Google, than, Facebook will be closer. The exact algorithm used…

  • Has Google crossed the line in promoting Google+?

    Has Google crossed the line in promoting Google+?

    Have you been seeing a lot of Google+ lately? I see it everywhere on the Internet, including places like GMail, Google Search and YouTube. And I think that Google has crossed the neutrality line. Google+ in Gmail You can also load hidden comments to the post – Meaning that there is AJAX involved. The comments also get…

  • US and Japan lead the ‘Twitter Take Down’ Charts. India more passive.

    Taking a cue from Google, Twitter published their first transparency report today, which includes reports of government requests to release user information, gov. requests to withhold content, and DMCA takedown notices by copyright holders, segregated by country. Leading the pack is USA with 679 requests out of the total 849, in the first half of 2012. This is…

  • Why India will not get Google’s amazing Nexus 7 Tablet

    Why India will not get Google’s amazing Nexus 7 Tablet

    Google’s Nexus 7 tablet is the definition of insanity. The good type. Have a look at the features to get started. CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 (Quad-core) RAM 1 GB Screen 7″ (216ppi Back-lit IPS display) OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean It’s long been clear that Apple rules the high-end in a market they created. Many (…

  • Loading Android 4.1, codename Jelly Bean. Access granted!

    Loading Android 4.1, codename Jelly Bean. Access granted!

    The next major release of Android OS entitled Jelly Bean(v4.1) is here to treat our geeky taste buds, with its exciting new improvements and features. Google took the curtains off the promising OS yesterday at The Google Developers I/O Keynote, taking us from its crooks to crannies in a matter of a few minutes. The…

  • Live sky-diving at the Google I/O conference, and other insane stuff!

    The Google I/O conference is going on right now ( it’s a 3 day event ), and Google just outdid themselves, and everybody else, including Facebook and Apple, in terms of pure awesomeness. The first part of the demo was pretty normal, where they introduced stuff like Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a very fluid interface,…

  • Facebook finally lets you edit comments

    You can now finally edits comments in Facebook, so that you can remove typos. Before this update, you had a few seconds to edit your comments, now you can do so whenever you feel like, by clicking on the pencil icon. Now would be a good time for grammar nazis to go back to all…

  • Upload any file in Facebook groups! #NewFeature

      I just noticed this, Facebook now lets you upload any file type in posts you make in a group. Which is pretty awesome. There are a number of times when you need to share a file with everybody, and have to upload it to other sites like MediaFire and then share the link. This kills…

  • The Facebook phone doesn’t have to suck

    This is a response to reports that Facebook is certainly working on a phone and that it will, with certainty, suck. The project is allegedly code-named ‘Buffy’. If Facebook is indeed making a phone, I am pretty sure it will not be a ‘Facebook’ phone in the sense that they will just slap a boat load of the…

  • Here’s why Facebook is not overvalued

    There is a lot of talk of why Facebook’s 100 Billion $ valuation is insane, with a lot of technology and business ‘gurus’ ( old people with grey hair ) screaming how Facebook is going down. If I had to be worried about a tech company, that would be Google or Apple, as these are…

  • Facebook, Google and Apple are in a mobile platform war

    Facebook recently expressed their feelings about Apple and Google‘s HTML5 efforts, blaming them for not making their mobile browsers better at rendering HTML5 websites. Facebook says that the mobile Facebook site has twice as many users as on native Facebook apps on iOS and Android, combined. While this may seem like an inefficiency on Apple…

  • Is an open web all that Sergey Brin wants?

    Sergey Brin recently blamed Facebook and Apple, among others ( including China / Hollywood ) for restricting the internet, and make their own empires within it. Regarding Apple app store, he said – For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it. He also showed concern over…