February 2012
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Angelina Jolie's leg is the new meme!
Sunday night’s Academy Awards will be remembered as the night Angelina Jolie’s leg became a star of its own. Less than 24 hours after the ceremony, Angie’s right gam is all the rage. Palwinder Lakhowal read this For those who missed the Billy Crystal-hosted event, Jolie caused a ruckus by wearing a black dress with a thigh-high slit. Her right leg was on display whenever she...
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oDesk freelancers frustrated with abandoned jobs
This idea works well, if the employer has hired a person and hasn’t turned for weeks about the project (when he has mentioned urgent job in his job description). But, what about the hundreds of contractors who bid for the same job and they don’t see any hire and they just have to wait to see any communication from the employer. I know all the 100s are not the genuine applicants....
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Freeware scam - the Utorrent toolbar in Chrome
To uninstall uTorrent browser bar, please look at the top right side just near your address browser, you’ll find a small “u” (uTorrent) icon. Right click it and choose “uninstall” from the list. via ca.answers.yahoo.com I installed Utorrent client for Windows. As part of the installation, Utorrent installed the utorrent toolbar in the Google Chrome browser. I...
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What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? by Mike...
Activate audience by giving them compelling social experiences, encouraging advocacy via whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com It would be nice to hear the thoughts of the readers.
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Best Calendar tools from the web
via mashable.com Mashable has a post on various online calendar tools. At times I do ignore the value of the online calendars and it was a post on Lifehacker about how to beat procrastination which made research on various online calendar tools as I wanted to track my tasks using an online calendar versus using a printed calendar as suggested by the posts. Which online Calendars do you use?...
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New Coke Soda Fountain - YouTube
via youtube.com When do we get this in India?
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Search the Internet without being tracked.
via mashable.com Stealth is a search engine that allows you to search the internet without being tracked. Stealth allows you to search the Internet without being trailed by cookies and other tracking devices.
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Chris Brown gets criticized on Twitter and makes...
HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY via timesofindia.indiatimes.com Another lesson that on Social Media you have to behave responsibly. Chris Brown (former boyfriend of Rihanna who beat her up just before the Grammy’s 2009 ceremony) was criticized severely on Twitter where he posted his inappropriate response which was immediately deleted but can be viewed at the publicly accessible...
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Is this for the good? - Facebook to Verify...
via pcworld.com Techcrunch and others have reported that Facebook would be verifying usernames soon. It is really interesting because it would help users identify the “true users”
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Personal Inspiration
Mastering the best of what other people have figured out. Read what you’ve been missing — subscribe via email, RSS, or Twitter.via farnamstreetblog.com Nancy Duarte gave an excellent talk at Ted Talks and as is the case with most of the talks this is one hell of an inspiration to keep doing what you believe in and chase a dream or idea. Truly inspiring specially if you feel you are knocked...
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An inspiring tech entrepreneur interview
via pcworld.com An interview with Mikeal Hed the CEO of game studio Rovio (the makers of Angry Birds) about how Rovio grew from a work-for-hire game development company to a company that produced its own games. It is an interesting read for anyone who wants to have their own development company (gaming and non gaming) about how to scale a company from a services provider to product making...
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Gaming phenomena - Angry Birds lands on Facebook
via zdnet.com How popular can a game make you? I have realized that this question has popped up consistently for the last 2 years in my mind. Angry Birds has had phenomenal success in the last two years. Now it is ready to give companies like Zynga a run for their money. Story of Angry Birds Angry Birds celebrated its second anniversary on December 11, 2011. Some of the highlights of its...
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Dawn of social media in Indian politics
via blogs.wsj.com The wall street journal blog which has a section devoted to India has an interesting analysis of how social media is being used by the political parties across India in the buildup to the regional state elections. It is very interesting to note that websites, email, social media including youtube has become a tool to propagate agendas by political parties and interact with...
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Using Twitter can get you fired!
Let me explain. Big media companies love when their employees hit Twitter. After all, the short-form social media platform gives consumers direct access to media personalities, and along with it, an intimate connection that large media organizations, and the public, revel in. Until something goes wrong. Roland Martin, who is paid to spout opinions on CNN, posted a...
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Evils of Social Media
via heraldsun.com.au Social media has its fair share of disadvantages. One of the examples came to the fore when Oprah was reported dead on the famous Facebook site by Facebook users. Poor Oprah - I feel sorry for her as it has been just one year since she made her last appearance on her show and people seem to have forgotten her. For social media observers it brings out the bad side of...
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Tips on Shooting a video with a mobile phone
via vimeo.com Vimeo has a tutorial on how to shoot a professional video using your mobile phone’s video camera. There are some great tips. Some of the tips I found helpful were Using one minute video shots using 5 second clips Using swish effect Shoot on the spur and compile the video together also referred to as memory bank trick
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TNA in India - Ring Ka King
via en.wikipedia.org Professional Wrestling Entertainment has finally hit India with TNA launching “Ring Ka King” Wrestling has a huge fan base in India with WWE and TNA being available to the Indian viewers through the cable sports channel Ten Sports and ESPN Star Sports. Will the Indian audience lap up “Ring Ka King” ? The answer is not easy but what I can...
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Fat Naked and Dangerous - come and get me baby...
via meish.org Like many others I believe that Valentine’s day is a sham. Therefore when I came across the Anti Valentine site I was amused. I decided to share the card with my friends and readers
Play the email game
Check out this website I found at emailga.me If you are like me where it is a challenge to go through the email you receive in a day then play the email game. If you are a gmail user then I would recommend playing the game as it makes going through email fun, easier and less time consuming. I’m playing the game and you should do so as well. The whole process is safe, non...
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I should be paid by Facebook!
via bits.blogs.nytimes.com Nick Bolton one the bloggers for New York Times suggests that maybe Facebook should pay the content generators (which means us the people of this world who have signed up for Facebook) in the future because it is the users who are helping Facebook get through the Facebook IPO which is the largest IPO in the Internet Industry ever! I’m ready to push Facebook to...
Madonna you are still the best!
8:07 p.m.: Now Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and a herd of ladies in fringe skirts are doing what appears to be a pom routine my high school squad did in 1988. Also, did M.I.A. give us the finger? (Uh, yes. Yes she did.) 8:10 p.m.: A marching band is now onstage, drumming while Madonna sings “Open Your Heart.” This is sweet relief after “Give Me All Your Luvin.” 8:10 p.m.: In case you...
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Super Bowl XLVI by the (Twitter) numbers — Cloud...
via gigaom.com A follow up on the post about Twitter usage last year during the Super Bowl . Super Bowl has again broken the record of number of tweets per second. Read the post on the Twitter blog which shares the details of the tweets per minute during the Super Bowl 2012.
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Social media more addictive than tobacco › News in...
via abc.net.au I agree with the statement do you?
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Tynt Publisher Tools - Improve your seo by...
via tynt.com Tynt publishing tool is an interesting tool that allows you to leverage the copy paste functionality of a web page by giving you statistics of the number of people who have copied text from a web page on your website and other analytics (like the keyword copied most, how many users copied and left the site, etc). Append URL to copied text The killer feature of tynt tools is...
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Favorable social trends to continue with the big...
via nfl.com Super Bowl 46 is tomorrow February 5th 2012 and it is the day when social media marketing experts will be tracking the traffic for Super Bowl across the social media marketing sites like Facebook and Twitter. Record of number of tweets per second Last year, for Super Bowl 45, a record of 4,064 tweets per second during the fourth quarter of the game was set and this time the...
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Yahoo! App Search for Android and Apple devices
via uk.apps.search.yahoo.com Yahoo Apps search has been launched by Yahoo UK has launched the service and proves that Yahoo sees a big potential in the “search for apps” market.
How to update Chrome extensions
just click on the wrench icon at the top right of the browser. Hover over [tools] and select [extensions]. Then make sure you are in developer mode by clicking on the link found in the top right of that page that appears. Now you will see a button that says [Update extensions now]. via google.com I just installed the update for Last Pass for Mozilla Firefox, I wondered why Chrome had never...
Freedcamp - Free Project Management tool for...
via freedcamp.com Freedcamp is a free web based project management solution for businesses and working groups.