Technology

If you are a serious blogger, I strongly recommend you to use Windows Live Writer – it’s the best blogging tool available in the market (free, works only on Windows). As WordPress has a strong focus on usage of tags (and there are tons of cool tag-based plugins available), it’s really important for you to [...]

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Personalized page is an important strategy for all the portals, as they command the highest degree of stickiness and serve as the default page/starting page for a regular visitor (especially the non-geekies). Google, after seeing the Aug 2007 spurt is more or less following an organic growth, while Netvibes has registered a decent increase in [...]

Mobifusion has launched mEngine 2.0, a multimedia platform that features an icon-based graphic user interface, support for multi-protocol/multi-platform/O.S, instant photos and graphics, a page flip feature, audio plug-ins and improved browsing speed that the company proclaims to deliver an enhanced multimedia experience for mobile users across the world. Earlier this week, Mobifusion announced content partnership [...]

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Very fishy, but just found out that Google is redirecting traffic to iGoogle (for logged in users) [typed Google.com in the URL and Google redirects me to iGoogle page] Not sure whether this is happening for all the users, but I guess these tactics are part of bucket testing (a testing typically carried out during [...]

[First user submitted post (within 4 hours of announcement), by Paras Chopra. Paras presents few interesting observation/statistics on Indian Startups] Recently, a Business Today article featured India’s Hottest Startups. The article lists startups from many different industries, from organic food to technology. Below are the following points I observed/calculated from the article: Average age of [...]

Bangalore-based AeNwis e-Systems, a multi-channel Target Marketing and Promotions Management service (started by ex-iSeva founders) has announced the launch of ‘open2save’, an aggregator of all deals and discounts available in the retail market. The service has been launched in Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune and open2save already has a good number of deals available on the [...]

Quite lately, I am witnessing whole lot of great comments (which enriches post by 100X!) from pluGGd.in readers and thought why not enable You to share your insights/posts in the easiest manner? So ladies and gentlemen, you can now submit your posts using this form. For now, the posts will be moderated and once approved, [...]

Netprice is a SP Jain incubated startup that recently launched a set of interactive tools that can assist large brands in checking the performance of their advertising spend. The Tools also have ability to generate leads directly to the trade network on their mobile phones and track the conversions. Netprice offers 3 services: OfferInfo: measures [...]

Opera today announced that it will support Google gears in the upcoming version of desktop as well as mobile browser. This is surely a win for Google Gears (since Opera leads the mobile browser world) and reinforces Google’s strategy of browser being the next OS. Does Microsoft believes in browser story? Well, they seem to [...]