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Google on April Fools Day 2008

Google Virgle
So google does it again! And this time its not only Google but also Richard Branson! An April Fools Joke crafted in great detail goes to the extent of even co branding with Virgin! Virgle.
SO what is it this time? 
Colonizing Mars, and actually inviting applications to join the mission as a Pioneer!
Heck, they even went to the extent of creating an online application, you can take the test here. Google totally takes to a all new level this [...]

Selling on orkut: Create a business online

This is something I am doing right now (trying to speak to a guy making a sale). And I realized how effective this is to sell stuff online. So what was I doing? I got a scrap from this guy/girl (DVD Maniac) on orkut. The scrap was pretty simple. DVD titles and the price. [...]

OpenID: One world, one login

Well, this is one the landmarks of Web 2.0 and open source. Open ID is an amazing concept and it is catching on fast. OpenID has arisen from the open source community to solve the problems that could not be easily solved by other existing technologies. OpenID is a lightweight method of identifying individuals [...]

Orkut hoaxes

This took me some time to compile. Over the past couple of months i have been flooded by mails which claim to do a lot of things including infecting your computer with a virus, closing the account and what not. Here are some that have come to me. If you see something coming your way, [...]

April Fool Day: The Google Way

Google can be fun! Never lose the opportunity. The links for the hoaxes are mentioned. Feel free to view them. But a gentle advice, don’t fall for them again!

In 2000: Google MentalPlex

The Google mentalPlex
Google announced a new “MentalPlex” search technology that supposedly read the user’s mind to determine what the user wanted to search [...]

More about orkut…

Well its a nice idea to write on orkut, and it has changed the way we human beings interact, but I think that there is more to orkutting which we often tend to neglect in the awe of the sheer magnanimity of the number of people u can meet…But there are a lot of things [...]

Life after orkut…..

life’s changed a lot after orkut. i dont think anyone would ever disagree with me on that. But have you realised how it has also changed the way we use the internet.
I remember when the internet had just started in India. I was hooked to Yahoo! CHAT. Yes, that cumbersome JAVA applet that took [...]

SUPERHERO – The Developer’s Song

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Bill Gates, launches the next generation of integrated computing platform – Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 in India on December 9, 2005. Joining in the celebration is the Indian Rock band – Parikrama with a rock song just for our Indian developers.
Called `Superhero’ the [...]


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