Recap of top articles published week ending May 31 2009 Startups Related askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk Create Twitter Groups (Public/Private) using TweetKnot
Recap of top articles published week ending May 31 2009 Startups Related askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk Create Twitter Groups (Public/Private) using TweetKnot
Google has won back the Googblog.com domain name from an Indian national, Herit Shah. Google filed a case few months back and WIPO has instructed Herit Shah (who registered the domain, googblog from GoDaddy in Sep 2008) to return back the domain to Google. More Details Google’s claim: The Complainant has used the name “GOOG” [...]
There is always a need for a structured community (public as well as private) around Twitter, be it for geekies, movie lovers, your office colleagues, your college friends or what’er you would like to discuss within a group. TweetKnot, Bangalore based startup has launched their service that allows tweples to create knots (i.e. a community) [...]
Bookmarking service, Ma.gnolia was one of the upcoming competition for Del.icio.us and even pluGGd.in used to receive a decent and consistent traffic from the service. Sad that the service didn’t care too much about the data recovery plans and once it crashed (Jan 2009), all attempts to bring it back has failed (almost!). The team [...]
MySpace India is on a roll – they announced secret shows (which is scheduled for today) and has announced the launch of Music Central, a social music portal in India for independent music genre (details). The music portal has been designed to be a one-stop shop for discovery of all kinds of Indian
Canaan Partners Appoints Former Yahoo! and Symantec Executive, Sharad Sharma, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence Canaan Partners today announced it has appointed Sharad Sharma as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Sharad. Sharma previously led Yahoo! India R&D where he was responsible for product engineering for all emerging markets and for several global products including image search, search monetization and HotJobs Hyderabad [...]
News is out that Microsoft’s new search engine will be called Bing and as Steve Ballmer admits: “I am not what you would call the creative side of life. Short matters. Being able to verb up can be helpful.” – TC But why Bing? Lets go back in history. Back in the early days of [...]
Google India labs has released transliteration bookmarklets that enables one to type in your language in any text box on any web site. Supported languages are Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil and Telugu. For instance, you can add the Hindi bookmarklet to your browser bookmark and use the t13n on any website [...]
Transliteration has mostly been one way – i.e. only for publishing, but there is an obvious need to bring the same concept to search paradigm.
mahaQ and Linguos are search engines that allows searching for Indian language content without any transliteration.
Recession has hit the PC industry severely and the shipment has dropped by 19% during Jan-March quarter (as compared to same quarter last year). As per IDC, the total PC shipment during the first quarter of 2009 was 1,679 compared to 2,072 units in the same period last year. In general, demand from enterprises as [...]
