Archive for the ‘tech news’
Written on September 1st, 2009 by Guna
Yahoo’s “Me Too” Micro-Blogging Platform Launched in English
Today, TechCrunch reported that Yahoo is playing around with micro-blogging in different languages – Portuguese, Spanish and now in English. This seems to have duplicated some features of Twitter and Tumblr.
Written on August 15th, 2009 by Guna
Twitter is Struggling Again – Unexpected Downtime
Twitter has been having really hard time recovering it seems from the DDoS attack. I am having contantly hard time accessing Twitter today. It is not working and I tried it through proxy and still no luck.
Written on August 11th, 2009 by Guna
Twitter is Down Again – No Idea Why
Twitter Status page just updated that Twitter is facing problems and their service is down. I can’t access it myself for the past 5 to 10 minutes. Twitter: “We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more.” As you all know, few days ago Twitter was among one of the sites [...]
Written on August 10th, 2009 by Guna
One Reason Why Facebook Bought FriendFeed
There has to be only one reason that convinced Facebook to buy the real time aggregator Friendfeed. The one reason is that they understood the need for success in today's information age - that is to provide people with realtime information.
Written on August 6th, 2009 by Guna
5 Things You Can Do While Twitter Is Down
Twitter, a micro-blogging platform has been down for more than 45 minutes this morning. Their status blog post suggests that they don't even know the cause of it. To quote them, "Site is down - We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly."
Written on July 28th, 2009 by Guna
New Twitter Homepage with Search On Main Page
Today Twitter rolled out its new design with their search feature being the center of attention. The new version looks very impressive with trending topics by the minute, hour and day listed right in the front.
Written on July 24th, 2009 by Guna
Twitter Slash Spammers with a Hammer
Twitter announced last night that they are doing some in-house cleaning of spam accounts. Kudos to Twitter for doing this. If you are focused on building a community for your own business, you want to make sure the followers are as real as possible. It has to be “Quality” vs “Quantity” followers.
Written on July 13th, 2009 by Guna
Goverment to Regulate Search Engines
I came across a blog posting on TechCrunch, written by an anonymous executive of a prominent website. The article is very interesting and it tells you why search engines continue to dominates the market and majority of the time is the gateway to many websites. Obviously there is a lot to do on this front but [...]
Written on July 2nd, 2009 by Guna
Microsoft to Launch Bing to combat Google and Yahoo
Today we’re unveiling an initial foray into integrating more real time data into our search results, starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres. This includes Tweets from folks from our own search technology and business sphere like Danny Sullivan or Kara Swisher as well as those from spheres of more general consumer appeal like Al Gore or Ryan Seacrest.
Written on January 2nd, 2009 by Guna
One Reason to Love and One Reason to Hate Google Chrome
I have been testing out Google’s latest addition, the Google Chrome Browser. Everything is good as the hype so far. It hasn’t crashed on me yet and it hasn’t slowed down on me. So I agree it is fast and reliable.
