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Is Apple becoming the new Microsoft? Is Google the Good Guy

Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins Jr. has accused Apple Inc of having a strategy of little more than “zero-sum maneuvering versus hated rivals.” Critics had claimed on the very day of iPad’s launch that it is a DRM haven. He argues that Apple’s decision to ship it’s latest product iPad without Flash is an attempt [...]

Trim and IsGd blocking Clickbank urls

URL shortening services tr.im and is.gd are blocking clickbank hop urls. Clickbank urls are long and dirty, so are not fit for use in twitter. That is where URL shorteners come handy. However, bit.ly is shortening clickbank hop urls. Which is your favourite URL shortening service for affiliate marketing, especially clickbank? Please comment.

Breaking: Techcrunch has been hacked.

The most popular technology site Techcrunch has been hacked (12.05 IST). You can only find the word  ’hi’ on the top left corner of the page. It is the most popular site in Tech niche and the most popular source on Techmeme. Edit: It is back up after 10 mins (12.15 IST) What might have [...]

After China, Search Engines are bowing to the Indian Government and censoring content

After China, it is India’s turn to censor the internet. Bing and Yahoo have started censoring sexually explicit content on the internet. You cannot search for anything that is related to vulgarity. You can’t search for “sex discrimination” because it has the keyword “sex”in it. Yahoo only censors images while Bing censors even the web results. [...]

How important is traffic for a blog or a website?

You might have received emails from many affiliate “gurus” saying that you can earn hell lot of money and you need not generate any traffic. Most of them are scam while a very few are based on MLM scheme where your downward chain is filled by them. But most of the renowned Affiliate Marketers agree [...]

Browser Size: Google’s new tool to see how others view your website

Google has launched a new tool to help you visualize how your visitors view your site. From Google blog “In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it’s a really important piece, then it’s placed “above the fold,” which means you can find it on the top half of [...]

How Much Personalised can Google Be?

In the  open piece of Wall Street Journal titled ” How Google can help newspapers” , Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made a very interesting point. No, it is not regarding the ongoing Google – Newspapers revenue battle. It is about his fantasy of reading a “news gadget” that “knows who I am, what I [...]

The need for semi login for websites

My gmail Id was hacked. Most probably it was at the cyber cafe where I had gone for surfing the internet. Some prankster might have installed keylogger or something. Thankfully, the email id I used at the cafe  was not important. But the issue of security made me ponder for a solution for such situations [...]

Coming soon: Web addresses in non-english languages

ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers- the non-profit group that oversees domain names have hinted that they might allow web addresses in languages other than English. This could potentially open up the web to many people around the world who do not understand English as addresses could be in characters as diverse [...]

Number of people clicking on ads have reduced. What Next?

The most hyped result of tracking internet users clicking behaviour has been released by ComScore. The number of people who click on ads have reduced drastically and what’s more 8% of those account for 85% of the click.  So,  if you are using PPC advertisement on your blog then you might have noticed a drop [...]

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