I was overwhelmed when The New Indian Express (an Indian Daily), introduced excerpts from blogs in their print edition, daily. They grab excerpts usually from blogs hosted at free services, which posts about current events and world events.
But, nothing proves to be filling the need for insightful content in newspapers or print media, in general. It still shouts about what happened yesterday, rather than help you live today [...] Continue Reading…
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Make A Difference (M.A.D) is a youth volunteer network that currently functions in the three Indian cities of Cochin, Pune and Chennai. 312 volunteers teach more than 1200 underprivileged kids English and computer skills in these three cities to enable them to have better career prospects and a worthy life.
These children live in street shelters and orphanages. Without proper guidance, their lives will go astray. MAD makes sure [...] Continue Reading…
You might’ve noticed that my post-frequency has gone down for the past month. It’s nothing like I quit blogging (probability zero), but, it’s just that there’s something else that caused it.
I have the habit of relating web to the so-called real world and while thinking of the complimentary action on web, for what we do in real world by helping out others by donating them money or a [...] Continue Reading…
This thought came up when, one morning this week, I unsubscribed from some really nice ‘blog tips’ blogs. I subscribed to them when I started off blogging 6 months back without even knowing what actually it was. And now, without any offense, I silently unsubscribe from them and takes the liberty to state that:
“Blog-Tips niche is nearing it’s end”
That’s not an opinion that formed because of the saturation [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve encouraged all to visit the labs once in a while and very recently, Google launched SMS Channels at their India Lab. This one seems seriously useful and amazing. Though there are established sites like SMSGupShup, which provide similar service, i.e. Alert your friends and patrons in real time on information that they care about through SMS, because of the very fact that this has got a Google [...] Continue Reading…
SayTweet is a new Twitter Mashup, but bigger than just a mashup. It’s much more.
It’s an ultra-cool and entertaining way of displaying tweets, which, the creators say, was inspired by the guys at Textopoly.
It essentially, displays the tweets in speech bubbles near the Twitter users who are tagged in a particular image. It’s dynamic, i.e. the image gets updated with the your (and your friends’) latest tweets. It’s [...] Continue Reading…
Almost all the web-serives or apps run in a BETA stage for sometime before their actual launch. But there is an even pre stage for all projects; the LABS. Every project/service live in the labs all thorugh their developement session. It’s only after rigorous testing and bug-fixing, they come out of the labs. So, it is recommended to visit the labs once in a while, so that you [...] Continue Reading…
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