Looks like Apple is all set to launch its all new social networking site this month – Game Center. Although this is nothing like facebook, it will be focused on a good chunk of users, especially gamers and iPod Touch users. Its however on a completely different league, and nothing to be worried about for facebook or other social networking sites. The basic features of Apple social network might include… Continue reading

The biggest SEO conference in India, Search Summit, is happening at Tidel park, Chennai tomorrow (August 28th – 29th). Organized by the Knowledge Foundation, the event boasts of sessions from thought leaders from the search industry including Mahesh Murthy (Pinstorm.com) and Rajiv Dingra (Watblog.com). Here is the full Sessions list Search Summit is “the” conference for SEOs in India, and a must join for anyone looking to join the industry… Continue reading

In the latest in India – Pakistan cyber wars, a group claiming to be “Urdu Hackers” have hacked into the BSNL, Punjab official website, which is India Governments official Telecom services agency.

Its a state-owned telecommunication enterprise in India. BSNL is the third largest cellular service provider, with over 66.88 million customers as of June 2010 and the largest land line telephone provider in India.

The… Continue reading

In the last five-ten years, there has been a splurge of Torrent sites on the internet. Many promising ones came and left at the same pace, while some struggled with anti-piracy law suites. Some managed to fight along while getting popular with the masses, and those are the ones who’ve actually managed to thrive. Torrent Freak has come out with a list of the most popular torrent sites of the… Continue reading

Twitter announced today that they’re launching Twitter Tales, and effort to highlight stories from users about how Twitter influenced them in their lives. A great effort to clean up Twitters shadowy image of “spam” that has grown in mentions recently, Twitter tales will be a series of stories where regular Twitter individuals would tell their story to the whole world. In the first episode, there are three stories. Life: @natashabadhwar… Continue reading

Google Calendar syncs with almost anything calendar, and that’s why we all use it. But Outlook 2010 was the odd one out there and Google today fixed it by releasing the sync version of Google Calendar with Outlook 2010. Now, just download Google Outlook Sync 2010, install it and set your sync frequency with credentials, that’s all. Google help is available here for setting up Google sync with MS Outlook… Continue reading

This is the latest example of the India-Pakistan cyber war, that’s been going on lately. Dr. Vijay Mallya’s (Businessman, MP and owner of KingFisher Airlines) website had been hacked yesterday by someone claiming to be “The Pakistani Cyber Army”, who posted Pakistan’s flags and threatening messages on the website’s homepage . "This is payback from Pak Cyber Army in return to the defacements of Pakistan sites!" said one of the… Continue reading

Another innovative app from Google is out for Android phones – Gesture Search ! It lets you search by writing out characters on the touchscreen of your Android device by doing a “double flip”, or flipping your phone away and then back. This eliminates the need to activate Gesture Search from a home screen shortcut. You can also turn the feature on or adjust its sensitivity from the Settings menu… Continue reading

The internet Gods are angry ! Or so it seems. While most of us were busy at work, authorities in Russia have decided to ban parts of the internet including YouTube. Most parts of Russia now are without access to YouTube and other sites that lets users upload videos / content. The reason: because one odd user had uploaded a video deemed problematic on grounds of ultra-nationalism. So, that’s probably… Continue reading

Picasa marries Picnik. Though most of us are on Flickr, Picasa still remains the preferred image sharing tool for most of the Google lovers. And now, Picasa lets you edit pictures right from your web albums via Picnik – the popular online image editing tool. There are no feature improvements, its more like an integration between Picasa and Picnik. There is a small Edit button on right top, that appears… Continue reading

This time the content is gone a bit too compelling, and obviously – gone clever! The new Facebook virus that is going on is a simple status message from one of your friends to another friend tagging him in a video, and with a very casual message. [Friends Name], this is hilarious And beneath it is a girls a**, which appears to be a thumbnail of a… Continue reading

Just when everything was going monotonous !

Yandex, The “Google of Russia” has gone global today, giving us one more option apart from the three big boys Google, Yahoo and Live !
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Now, if you don’t know about Yandex, Its the most popular search engine in Russia and is world’s eighth largest search engine. There are no regional search engines like Yandex, that has gained such popularity… Continue reading

Quick round up of all the important and not-so important things that happened on the web, this week. Google Analytics turned five on April 22nd It was 5 years ago that Google acquired Urchin – the Google Analytics tool you see today. Img credit – More Visibility Google AdSense payments on Western Union for more countries Google added more countries to its list that can withdraw AdSense payments via Western… Continue reading

Google just released a new addition to its Sitemaps protocol today. Addition of images in sitemaps. Now you can add images from your site, that you want Google to crawl, to your sitemaps. And we have a new syntax for it.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″
xmlns:image=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1″>
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>

Two interesting things here.

1 – This is in a way admitting that… Continue reading

Its happening as we speak, actually started off yesterday night (April 3rd) and is probably underway. DailyBloggr is at PR 4 as we expected (and many of you guessed). What’s interesting is that last few days (Around April 1-2) many websites have noticed that there were a sudden dip / fluctuation in organic traffic and there are strong speculations of Google Caffeine being rolled out. There have been no mentions… Continue reading