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Will Email Be a Thing of Past in Near Future?

2011-12-02T23:20:00.001+05:30

Right from rise of social networking, there have been predictions that Email will soon be thing of past Recently Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has declared that email is dead. Email has come long way from first message sent by programmer Ray in 1971. 40 years later we are talking aboult email being obsolete but its far from over. Social networks definitely have made people feel that

Easy Steps For Amazon SES Integration into PHP Applications

2011-12-01T14:52:00.001+05:30

Amazon Simple Email Service is highly scalable, cost effective bulk email sending service. In this article I will be explaining how to integrate Amazon SES into your existing applications built in PHP quickly. Sign up for Amazon SES Add a verified sender email id - Login to AWS Management Console, Add an emailid to the verified senders list. Email would be sent to the specified address

Will Google Migrate Orkut Users to Google Plus?

2011-06-30T14:42:00.006+05:30

Google launched its social network Google+ yesterday and its already hot topic among the tech blogs. Once again Google goes via invite route for the launch. I didn't get chance to play with Google+ yet but seems to be like one of the best UX/UI from Google.What happens to Orkut (another social network from Google!) now? Most probably it would be shut down. Its known fact that Orkut is fast

RoopIt : SMS based Classifieds

2011-01-07T18:17:00.000+05:30

RoopIt is Bangalore based startup in an innovative SMS based classifieds space. How It Works: Buyer can search for any item and click on want it button and sellers mobile number will be SMSed to buyer. Buyer can contact seller offline. Seller can post an ad by selecting the category of item, location and then description about the item he is planning to sell This service does not need any

Bye Bye Bangalore!!

2010-05-28T11:07:00.003+05:30

Today is my last day in Bangalore. I am moving back to Hyderabad. I have been in Bangalore for 2.5 years. Two and half memorable and enjoyable years at Infospace. I definitely have gained a lot of knowledge in these 2.5 years and in process have found many friends. 2.5 years of stay at Infospace was a perfect combo of challenging work and great fun. On personal front, I came to Bangalore

WikiReader: Wikipedia On Portable Device, Original Webaroo's Idea!!

2009-10-13T21:09:00.003+05:30

WikiReader is $99 portable device which stores all the Wikipedia articles for the offline browsing and searching. WikiReader uses two AAA batteries, a low-power CPU and monochrome touch screen, and standard microSD cards to house all the articles. WikiReader is not a connected device and hence not very useful in keeping updated with real-time news. WikiReader can be just used as a

Hoonur: Talent Platform From Balaji Telefilms

2009-10-07T19:50:00.005+05:30

Balaji Telefilms Ltd a well known name among Indian household for their TV serials and films has launched Hoonur. Hoonur means talent in hindi. As the name suggest, hoonur is platform which helps people with talent in acting, dancing, singing and modelling in getting a break.Any upcoming actors, models, singers, dancers can create their portfolio on hoonur.com for free. Hoonur is also integrated

Twitter breaks its tinyurl expansion functionality

2009-09-25T12:16:00.005+05:30

Update: This issue is fixed now. Issue seems to be with bit.ly urls alone, though doesn't look like an issue on bit.ly's side as their API for expand is working fine.Twitter has functionality on its search results page where users can click on expand for tinyurls to see the actual destination url. But that functionality is broken and its not functioning any longer.Clicking on expand link will

TechI: LifeMojo Co-founder Unplugged

2009-09-24T10:16:00.004+05:30

Today we have Namit Nangia, Co-Founder of LifeMojo in our TechI@Malliks. LifeMojo, a Bangalore based startup is basically a weight and lifestyle management tracking tool. The B2C version allows you to track you body weight online. In B2B model lifemojo sells their Pro version to the nutritionists as SaaS.About Namit Nangia:Namit Nangia is the CEO and co-founder of LifeMojo, a healthy lifestyle

Indian Startup iMo at TechCrunch50

2009-09-16T23:35:00.003+05:30

iMo is an innovative Indian startup which got launched at Techcrunch50. iMo is an iphone app which aims to convert your iphone/android into a joystick. My first impression was its an amazingly crazy idea.About iMo:iMo is Gurgoan based startup with two employees (Himanshu Baweja & Pankaj Meena)How it Works:iMo is an iphone app which reads the keystrokes and other actions from iphone and transfers

Indians Increasingly Using Web 2.0 Sites (Next to Only US ?)

2009-09-16T19:01:00.012+05:30

Indians seems to be using popular web 2.0 sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube etc., heavily. Are they now second only to US in terms of traffic they are sending to these sites? If you go by Alexa stats then the answer is yes to some extent. India ranks distant second in terms of traffic on LinkedIn, with 15.5%, US tops the list with 45%. Similarly, India ranks second even on Blogger with 10%

Rediff's Minimalistic Design: Traffic Impact

2009-09-15T21:10:00.006+05:30

In mid July, Rediff made a complete revamp of its homepage. They had removed the ads completely on Homepage and made it simple looks wise.This was considered a major gamble by Rediff. Below are the details on what was its impact on rediff's traffic after this change.Alexa's Graph(Page Views):Comscore Graph(Visits):The minimalistic design definitely didn't have any positive impact on traffic, It

Free Live Cricket Streaming on TenSports, Will Others Follow?

2009-09-15T19:37:00.005+05:30

Tensports.com has revamped their website and also have streamed the Live Matches of Compaq Tri-nation Series (India, Srilanka & NewZealand). Cricket is religion in India and many people would love to watch it live without missing even a single ball. With Live Streaming now tensports is an alternative to TV provided you have good broadband connection.How much will this impact the traditional way

TechI: GreenMango Co-Founder Unplugged

2009-09-10T17:56:00.007+05:30

Today we have Nandini Narula, Co-Founder of GreenMango in our TechI@Malliks. GreenMango is Hyderabad based startup which provides an easy way to find and review local businesses that provide the daily services you need. You can search there to find the best carpenters, tailors, mechanics, repairmen and other service providers in your neighborhood.Nandini is the co-founder of GreenMango and leads

Bit.ly Reduces By 2 Characters, Can Now Support 3 Trillion URLs With Current 19 Chars

2009-09-09T20:05:00.006+05:30

In this 140 character twitter world every single character counts. In order to solve this problem many URL shortening services have come up and today its a very crowded space. Bit.ly is one of such popular service and Twitter's default shortening service. Bit.ly(chars:6) has now launched j.mp(chars:4) which means a reduction of 2 characters. These 2 character can allow bit.ly to support 3

Yahoo Mail Gets Enhanced

2009-09-09T09:50:00.002+05:30

Yahoo mail has just got enhanced with more social features like better photo sharing, third party app integration and status update integration. They also have reduced the clutter to some extent by moving the Ads to the extreme right. Now you can update your status from your Yahoo mail and also read your friends status updates.Do give it a try and let us know the feedback.

FeaturedUsers.Com: Adsense For Twitter

2009-09-07T18:38:00.003+05:30

Google Adsense is way to monetize for many websites and blogs. But the revenues out of google adsense many times are too low as they are mostly CPC (cost per click) based. Dusty Reagan, a twitter application developer who built friendorfollow, soon realised that google adsense is not bringing enough revenues to even pay for the server, so he came up with featuredusers.com, which he first used for

Who said friends can't be bought: Buy Facebook friends using Usocial

2009-09-06T18:46:00.003+05:30

Its always said that friends can't be bought with money Which is still true in real life but no longer in virtual world. Now you can buy friends on facebook.With growth of social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and recently Twitter, many organizations are trying to use this media for marketing and make money out of it. Its a thin line difference between this kind of marketing and

TechQ: Find Maximum Value Contiguous Subsequence in Given Array

2009-09-06T14:41:00.006+05:30

Welcome back to TechQ. Today's Question is one of the common question in dynamic programming.TechQ: Given an input array A[1,n], Find the maximum value contiguous subsequence.Algorithm: The solution would be trivial if all the numbers in array are greater than zero, in which case the subsequence is entire array. Below is the solution when the array also contains negative numbers.First we will

iDiya : Social Entrepreneurship Challenge by ISB

2009-09-05T21:38:00.005+05:30

Grameen Bank, Amul are some of examples of companies that brought great social revolution. In a country like India, Social Entrepreneurship is an opportunity because of huge rural population. It is very essential for Indian Youth to think of ideas which bring social revolution along with commercial value for organization.iDiya is an event organized by ISB with an objective "to encourage the

TechI: MobiKwik CEO Unplugged

2009-09-04T08:41:00.004+05:30

TechI is new initiative of Malliks where we will be interviewing the celebrities from technology world. Today we have Bipin Singh, CEO of MobiKwik (Review here). Bipin is IIT Delhi Alumni with around 7 years of work experience in semiconductors space before starting with his own venture.Good Morning Bipin, Its pleasure to have you on TechI@Malliks.Mallik: Bipin, you are from semiconductors

Financial Planning before Starting Your Venture

2009-09-02T21:50:00.005+05:30

Starting your own venture is an easy job but making it success is tough. It good to see young India is striving to achieve their dreams. Many people come up with an exciting idea and plan to start their own venture. One thing you need to ponder is how long can you sustain with your current bank balance. Many people start their venture and somewhere in middle of execution they run out of money and

PHP Caching Unplugged

2009-09-01T18:40:00.005+05:30

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP) stack is used by many of the web applications globally and more so by the startups. Most popular social network Facebook is also built using PHP. This article explains how caching can be implemented at various levels in PHP application. Caching is practice of trading space (memory or Disk) for extra speed. Basically caching is mechanism of storing processed

Mobikwik: Easy Mobile Recharge Online

2009-08-31T22:16:00.005+05:30

Prepaid mobile recharge is still an unorganized market in India. Most of Indian mobile users use prepaid service. Mobikwik is Delhi based startup founded by IIT/NID alumini and is in alpha-stage testing. mobikwik helps you manage the mobile budget in better way. Most of the people use prepaid service to control their mobile billls. But its painful when you run out of balance in middle of some

Feed the Blog to all your Social Networks using Twitterfeed and Ping.fm

2009-08-31T07:36:00.004+05:30

Every time you write any article on your blog you would love to share it with your friends or followers on various social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc., but posting it manually on each of social network needs some effort. This posting explains how this process can be automated using two services: twitterfeed and ping.fm.Twitterfeed:Twitterfeed started as service that feeds you

TechQ: Transfer Binary Tree From Machine A to Machine B

2009-08-30T15:54:00.004+05:30

TechQ is new initiative of Malliks where we address algorithms, datastructure or for that matter any technical questions. If you are looking for some technical question to be addressed in TechQ section, please let us know.TechQ: Transfer a binary tree from Machine A to Machine B. Binary tree can be any binary tree without any constraints.Algorithm: The standard algorithm is sending the inorder

Malliks Review: TweetMeNews Tweets Personalized News

2009-08-29T21:15:00.006+05:30

TweetMeNews is a product created by privately funded nobosh labs which is into building news personalization engine. Nobosh is founded by Brett in 2007.TweetMeNews is a Twitter application build using Twitter API's. The app asks you questions about what genre of news you are interested in (business, technology, advertising, venture capital and health) and what types of publications you’d like

Captcha: Choice between UX and Spam Protection

2009-08-29T14:56:00.003+05:30

Captcha is commonly used on websites for features like user registration and to prevent the spam. While a captcha is good way to prevent spam, its very irritating experience for the users and further when the captcha images are not very clear. This article discusses way to remove captcha images wherever possible and also preventing the spam from generic bots. The solutions mentioned here can

Twitter's User Name Change: Creation or Confusion!!

2009-08-29T07:58:00.004+05:30

Any user using a web service which needs signing in is identified by the username. For example, my identity on yahoo mail is mallik_y2k2 and I cant change it. Generally these kind of systems doesn't allow you to change user names, only option is to discard the old user name and create the new one. But Twitter on other hand allows users to change their username.Technically twitter uses an id for

Malliks Review: diMdiM, poor man's WebEx

2009-08-28T22:30:00.004+05:30

DIMDIM is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and conduct a session via webcam. DimDim is open source web meeting company. Dimdim is backed by the original investors in Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL. Dimdim is based in Boston,Massachusetts with offices in New Hampshire, Canada and India. Most of the engineering work is done in

Create Public/Private Communities (Knots) using TweetKnot

2009-08-28T18:35:00.003+05:30

I couldn't blog for sometime as I was extremely busy with TweetKnot. Being one of creator of tweetknot its not fair to review it myself. Already many startup blogs have given positive reviews for tweetknot. I would just like to take this oppurtunity to give brief introduction to features of tweetknot.TweetKnot is Community of Twitter users who share common interest and use this as platform to

Tech Talk: Web Security

2009-03-20T10:46:00.001+05:30

Check out this presentation on web security:Security Tech TalkView more presentations from mallik_y2k2.

Elections 2009: BJP's IT Vision

2009-03-15T19:59:00.002+05:30

BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) is counting a lot on youth in this election and in process is wooing the youth with its IT vision.Highlights of BJP's IT Vision1.2 crore IT enabled jobs in rural areas1 crore students to get laptops at Rs:10KPromotion of IT in Indian languagesBroadband (2 Mbps) at cost of 200rs/monthMNIC(multipurpose national identification card for all citizens in 3 years)Corruption

How to post invisible scraps in orkut?

2009-02-26T11:07:00.007+05:30

Recently I found this interesting feature (or bug) in orkut.I could send a scrap to my friend which is invisible to my friend and me.You could ask me then what's the use of that?The receiver gets a popup saying that vivek had scrapped you "nothing", and when the user checks his scrapbook he finds nothing there (no scrap from vivek).What I had done was I had posted a scrap with html content with

Google Promotes Youtube Video Downloads!!

2009-02-10T07:49:00.005+05:30

Piracy has always been associated with Youtube. Media majors have filed lawsuits against Google for their copyrighted content being hosted on Youtube. Some of recent judgments have been in favor of video sites where the video hosting sites pleaded its defense under the “safe harbor” provisions of DMCA copyright law, which meant it could be safe as long as it removed the infringing video when

Google's Explaination on Flagging all the Sites as Malware sites

2009-02-01T10:02:00.002+05:30

Google gave official explanation about yesterday's bug where Google flagged all the search results as malware. It wasn't a code push that actually caused the issue, but its a data push. Google maintains all the URL which are considered malware in a file. The URLs in this file are updated both manually and in automated way.Yesterday the new version of this file was pushed to servers and the file

Stop Writing in Toilets and Start Testing

2009-01-31T21:06:00.004+05:30

After few recent incidents, I feel that all the Google testers are busy writing on the toilets (Read about Testing on the Toilet) and forgot testing the software. I would request them to please concentrate on testing software and not to just claim themselves as best testing/QA team of the world. Google definitely have some of best testers who helped build world class web applications, but quality

SMS Apps From Mazic Using SMSGupShup Platform

2009-01-21T11:47:00.005+05:30

SMS GupShup (Webaroo company) has released its platform for developers to build their SMS applications. The platform is very easy to use. SMS Application is an application that can be used to provide services by communicating through SMS. It can be built using any programming language like Java, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python etc. You need to register, a Keyword and Appurl with Sms GupShup. When any

BJP's Online Campaign For Elections

2009-01-14T10:10:00.006+05:30

Politicians keen to build their online presence during the election year. After Lalu, Advani started his blog, not just the blog but a complete website highlighting LKAdvani and BJP. Today when I opened my blog I saw Advani's pics and it was actually an ad for lkadvani.in. So BJP's IT team has not just build the site but they are marketing it as well on Google Adsense. Congress too has its

Carol Bartz is New Yahoo CEO!! Whats in Store?

2009-01-14T09:55:00.002+05:30

Carol Bartz is named as new Yahoo CEO. Carol is ex-CEO of Autodesk. She was with autodesk for 14 years. AutoDesk is a traditional software company building CAD related software and selling it to customers. Yahoo is free online web business with ads as revenue model. So, both the businesses are not similar. It interesting to see how Carol handles this.Micrsoft is a great software product

Save Satyam!!

2009-01-10T19:48:00.003+05:30

Employees are the biggest asset for any IT services company, and at this point for Satyam to continue its business, it needs the support of its employees. We already have a job market crisis and freshers are seriously affected, we don't want 50K experienced employees to enter the job market now. Only way this can be avoided is by rebuilding Satyam. Nasscom has already asked other companies not

Values More Important than Valuations

2009-01-07T22:10:00.005+05:30

Ramalinga Raju today resigned as CEO of Satyam and revealed the biggest Indian corporate fraud. 94% of assets shown in Satyam's balance sheet are non existent. All this raises a large number of questions:What were independent directors doing all the while?What were auditors doing?What is SEBI and Government doing?None of the people above actually gets impacted by this episode, people who

Vdopia strikes deal with Network 18

2009-01-02T16:30:00.004+05:30

Vdopia, a video ad company has struck deal with Web 18. This is one of biggest deals in India in video ads segment. As part of deal vdopia will display the ads on various Web18 destination sites like ibnlive.com, josh18.com, cricketnext.com, buzz18.com, tech2.com etc.,. Some of the sites like ibnlive.com has large amount of video content.

Malliks: 2009 Predictions

2009-01-01T18:02:00.003+05:30

2009 is year of HOPE. 2008 started on crest and ended in trough. In 2009, we are already are at low we can just hope for things to improve by end of 2009. Malliks is very optimistic about 2009 and here are Malliks 2009 predictions.Indian Cricket team to be N0.1 Test cricketing nation by end of 2009.Indian IT industry will see layoffs and cost cutting till mid of year, reversal may just start

Malliks: 2008 Recap [Business & Startups]

2008-12-31T13:58:00.009+05:30

In continuation to earlier post, now we will give 2008 recap for Business & Technology sectors.2008 has been worst year in financial terms with fall of big US investment firms like Bear Sterns, Lehman brothers and other. Later part of 2008 has seen large number of layoffs in US and hiring freeze in India. The worst business decisions for 2008 as per malliks are:Worst Business Decisions for 2008:

Malliks: 2008 Recap [Blasts, Sports & Bollywood]

2008-12-30T14:59:00.004+05:30

2008 has been an eventful year. While we have seen unfortunate events like terror attacks, global economic turmoil at same time we also had good things like individual Olympic gold for India, Chandrayaan projects happening. This posting compiles all the major events that happened in 2008 and also Malliks best and worst.Bomb Blasts in 2008: [Malliks Worst: Mumbai Blasts]November 26: Terror

QA teams are not meant to delay the product release but its otherway

2008-12-26T15:30:00.003+05:30

I am in software testing/QA industry for over 3.5 years and have seen different kind of people in this industry. Many times I have seen that QA feels happy when they delay the product release by finding a high-priority bug just before the release. But is the product release delay not bad? Well it may not be as bad as a low quality product but it is. If QA finds a critical bug (which exists in

Guruji Launches Finance Search

2008-12-15T17:07:00.000+05:30

Guruji, launched finance search engine, similar to Google Finance for Indian companies. Using Guruji Finance, you can search for quotes and get the stock trend, related news, competitors trend etc, Guruji earlier launched music and movie timings search. Guruji is a sequoia backed startup, same VC which also backed Google. Moneycontrol currently rules this space in India, Will Guruji be able to

Startup Saturday: Honeywell and Logica's Startup Initiatives

2008-12-14T19:12:00.000+05:30

Honeywell and Logica have announced their startup initiatives in co-ordination with HeadStart at Startup Saturday Bangalore. Honeywell has announced that it is ready to partner with exciting startups and it has already done that with couple of startups in rural healthare and microfinancing space. While Honeywell is clear that it will not invest in any startup but would be ready to make a

Firefox doesn't allow accessing the parent frame url whereas Chrome allows in case of cross domain

2008-12-13T19:12:00.000+05:30

As you know that codeinspections is now malliks and also as you can see any user opening codeinspection gets automatically redirected to malliks.mazic.in, I am making this posting to explain the technical details about how we did that.Basically in malliks we have created an index page which has an header and iframe which has the source as the codeinspections.blogspot.com and this works as

Startup Saturday: LifeMojoPro Demo

2008-12-13T18:21:00.000+05:30

LifeMojo gave the demo of their B2B product at Startup Saturday in Bangalore, LifeMojo has a B2C product as well which you can try out here. LifeMojo is basically a weight and lifestyle management and tracking tool. The B2C version allows you to track you body weight online. In B2B model lifemojo sells their Pro version to the nutritionists as SaaS. Using the pro version, nutritionists can keep

Google More Confident: Strips off Beta Tag Within 100 Days of Release

2008-12-12T12:25:00.002+05:30

Google has kept Beta tag for its products like Gmail, Blog Search for years, but it has removed the beta tag for Chrome browser with in 100 days of its first release. This is change is Google's strategy. People may like to use browser which is more secure (may not prefer beta products as browser). Google has made some 14 silent updates to the chrome over last 100 days. Google claims over 10

Codeinspections Will Now Be Malliks

2008-12-12T11:35:00.000+05:30

It has been over 3 years since I started blogging, got good feedback from readers which kept me going. The blog was known as CodeInspections till now, but have renamed it as Malliks and you can now access it as http://malliks.mazic.in, We will strive to maintain the quality of content being posted on the blog and at same time we will be having postings, apart from sections like jobs, companies

Yahoo India cuts 3% Workforce

2008-12-11T12:49:00.000+05:30

Yahoo India has cut 3% (around 50 employees) from Indian office as a part of 1500 global layoffs on Wednesday according to sources. Yahoo India has 1500 employees in its R&D center at Bangalore. There was no official confirmation from Yahoo. As per sources, Yahoo India has cited non performance being reason for job cuts. Yahoo India has been hiring till recently and also as per some sources, it

What India Googles For Most?

2008-12-10T20:48:00.000+05:30

Katrina Kaif is the bollywood personality searched for most on Google in 2008. Google today released the top searches for year 2008 which it calls Zeitgeist. Orkut was the fastest rising term in 2007 and it kept its pace to win race in 2008. As with the Ask top searches, even Google top searches are web related terms like orkut, gmail, youtube etc., Katrina Kaif replaces Aishwarya Rai as top

Zapak.com in Association With Pringoo ....

2008-12-09T18:15:00.002+05:30

Pringoo, custom T-shirts and gifts portal struck partnership reliance's gaming portal zapak.com. As a part of this partnership pringoo allows you to create the gaming related custom merchandise. The partnership is similar to asklaila-msn partnership.Zapak shopping has the custom pringoo page as an iframe. Basically pringoo is counting to get more traction from zapak's partnership and zapak may

Are Indian Bloggers Hit by Recession?

2008-12-09T09:01:00.000+05:30

Recently, I was interviewed by a reporter from Economic Times about the impact of recession on Indian bloggers. You can read the full article here. My opinion is that most of Indian bloggers are not hooked to blogging only for moolah. Bloggers would be happy to make extra income from blogging but money is not sole aim, its more of hobby and knowledge sharing. Indian bloggers are mostly

SBI Is Best Bank of the Year 2008

2008-12-09T08:27:00.000+05:30

State Bank of India (SBI) has been adjudged the best bank of year 2008 by the London based "The Banker" magazine of financial times group. The award is given based on the financial condition and performance of the various banks. SBI, indeed is the best bank and financial crisis is helping SBI in further consolidating the position with NRIs saving money in Indian government banks especially

List of IITs in India

2008-12-08T21:02:00.000+05:30

An year back, if you have asked any IITian about the list of IITs in India, everyone would have listed the 7 IITs with ease. But with the new IITs many people are not aware of the where all IITs exist in India. So just wanted to put this image from wikipedia which depicts the IITs in India pictorally.Image Courtesy: WikipediaAlso Read: God Save Brand IIT

Hiraj : Track Your Child's Growth Online

2008-12-08T20:26:00.000+05:30

Hiraj, is an online way to track the child's growth and in process record the wonderful moments and share them with friends and families. Hiraj allows parents to track child's growth day by day. Site has regular features like photos, videos, blogging. Hiraj also has features like tracking the medical diary and growth plans. The child's profile on this website can be a good gift to child once he

Indians Work Hard Also Keeps Good Health

2008-12-08T10:57:00.000+05:30

Asians, in general are hard workers and so are Indians. Most Indians are hard workers and they work late hours in the office. Recently there have been a few incidents of Indians committing suicide due to work related stress, but one of the survey (source) says that India is among the countries where employees said that their health is least affected due to work.Globally, one in Five employees

Google Adsense: How to Block the Competitors Ads?

2008-12-08T10:25:00.000+05:30

Recently, we have seen the incidents wherein competitors ads are appearing on some of the web portals. For example, an Ibibo ad appearing on Yaari's website and Mypopkorn ads appearing on BigAdda, All these Ads were displayed using Google adsense. I just wanted to make this posting to let people know that there is way to block the competitor's ads on their webpages and how to use it on google

Earn While You Search: Microsoft's Continuing Effort to Win Search Battle

2008-12-06T16:02:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has launched winwithsearch competition where-in you have chance to win the free talk time. All you need to do is search for a term and along with the results two dice gets rolled, you will be winning free talk time if both the dice show 6's, So the probability of winning in each search is 1/36. Each session lasts for 10 minutes, so if any user wins in 10 minutes the competiton would

Ibibo Marketing: Matured With Time

2008-12-06T12:29:00.000+05:30

Ibibo, an Indian startup which first launched a blogging platform, later moved into different services like opinions, chat, Q & A, email, photos, polls, games, jobs and many more. Initially Ibibo was criticized for the way they were doining marketing. It all started with Ibibo's great blogger hunt, where they donated 1 crore rupees as gifts, most of them went not to bloggers but to techies who

mybanglore.com: Very Well Designed Portal

2008-12-04T22:24:00.000+05:30

mybangalore.com a newly launched portal for bangloreans. I am impressed with the simple and cool design of their website. mybanglore.com is covering various areas like events, education, lifestyle, Q&A, Photos and Gallery. The content of mybanglore.com is editor driven which will ensure the quality and authenticity. Any registered can submit a story to the portal.But in this search-age where

Branding Your Business a Success

2008-12-02T19:49:00.000+05:30

This is guest post by Kelly KilpatrickWhy is a T-Shirt that’s tagged with the name Nike (I’m assuming it’s original and not a rip-off) so much more expensive than one that’s not? The answer is simple – the brand raises the value of a product by an amount that’s proportional to the popularity and widespread acceptance of the brand. It’s simple mathematics, but one that boggles the mind. It’s

After Social Networking, Is it time for Social Inter-networking ??

2008-12-01T21:37:00.000+05:30

I am active user of Orkut and Linkedin and passive member of many other social networking. People generally are active members of more than a single social network which can be understood by the volume of users each social network has. Have you ever thought that a single sign-on for all popular social networks will be useful ? Power.com a Brazilian startup has created a social inter-network (as

My News: Social Way of Reading News

2008-10-15T16:38:00.002+05:30

MyNews, Orkut App is now Live!! You can try the application here. MyNews: News of Your choice orkut App allows you to:Read the news on the topics of your choice right from your orkut applicationRecommend the interesting news with friends and at same time archive them for your future referenceRead the news recommended by your friendsWelcome to new social way of reading the News. Try now!!Not an

Cleartrip ties up with Indian Railways: What is IRCTC's gain out of this?

2008-10-12T10:37:00.002+05:30

Cleartrip has recently launched the train reservations in association with IRCTC. Cleartrip claims its faster and easier way to book train tickets, definitely the site seems faster than the IRCTC website. Cleartrip charges 10 Rupees extra per ticket for booking (apart from 10Rs already being charged by irctc for online booking). So who is gaining in all this, Cleartrip is the winner, while irctc

IT Employee Pyramid

2008-10-04T12:15:00.000+05:30

This is a Guest Post from Mandar DeodharCourtesy: Mandar's blogLast week I had a discussion a professional who leads the strategy division at one of the leading infotech company. We discussed lot of topics but main was IT industry boom in last 2 years.Freshers getting job offers one to two years before finishing their education, experienced getting 20 to 50% hike with new offers, several 'agents'

How Hijakers hack into your WiFi Network and Stop you from accessing your wireless network

2008-09-17T09:29:00.003+05:30

Yesterday evening, after my office I went to my friends room with my sarkaari laptop. I wanted to check mails but couldn't do that because I forgot to pay my data card bill this month and temporarily got disconnected from internet. The idea of checking mails made me more crazy. Left with no choice I just sat in a corner and suffered in silence :(.After some time my friend got a call from his

Location Based Jobs Widget Powered By CodeInspections

2008-09-14T20:10:00.006+05:30

Codeinspections has developed an embeddable Location based job widget. Anyone who wants to show the topic based jobs on their website can just paste the code below into their HTML/Blogger pages: This is a location based widget, that is for a

Reading the Javascript Variables in PHP: A Common Mistake by Developers

2008-09-13T14:04:00.000+05:30

Javascript gets executed on client side and PHP on the server side. Most of web developers will be aware of this fact. But when asked a question how would you be reading a javascript variable value into PHP, the reply from many would be to do it this way:$total = "";which looks valid and infact a code like the would definitely work<

AskLaila is Co-branding MSN Cities : Will it gain Asklaila or MSN

2008-09-12T10:49:00.000+05:30

Asklaila one of popular Local search engines for Metros in India has partnered with MSN India to power MSN cities. This is a good deal for asklaila. The cities page is infact hosted by asklaila and the entire page layout looks mre of asklaila than MSN except for the header and footer. So lets analyze what are the gains for each of them:For AskLaila:Would have taken less than a day's development

Google fixes Security Issues in Chrome and Updates Silently

2008-09-12T09:57:00.000+05:30

Here, I had mentioned the Security Issues in Chrome browser and today one of the comments on my blog said that user could not see the cross-domain httprequests issue on chrome browser. I just went back to see how that got resolved? Google has actually upgraded the chrome browser and did a silent upgrade on all the user machines. In this upgrade chrome has fixed few security issues and also few

Is India ready for cloud computing ?

2008-09-08T21:19:00.000+05:30

It all started with Google Docs and Windows Live allowing access to office applications, now applications like Nivio and Desktoptwo allow you to access a complete desktop online. Basically you just need a browser with internet connection to access the set of application. Nivio claims that once you are in you get a feel of using real Windows XP desktop. These companies make revenues from

Security Issues in Chrome Browser

2008-09-07T14:47:00.003+05:30

Google recently launched its own browser called chrome. Browser looks good assuming that its a first beta release. But they have missed out on some of critical security vulnerabilities. The two security vulnerabilities which I found in chrome with examples are given below:Cross Domain XMLHTTP Request CallsCarpet-Bomb attackCross Domain XMLHTTP Request Calls:The XMLHttp Request object is at the

God Save Brand IIT :(

2008-09-06T22:38:00.000+05:30

IITians have great brand value not only in India but all over the world. It took nearly 60 years to build this brand name. This brand name is built based on achievements of the alumni over last 60 years. But indian politicians doesn't seem to be happy with this brand name and are constantly trying to bring down the quality of these premier institutes. Earlier it was Arjun Singh who brought up

Storrz: Social Shopping in India

2008-09-06T13:40:00.002+05:30

Everything seems to be going social now a days. You come to know a friend on your network got commited/married (personal life) from social networks like orkut. You come to know a friend on your network making a job change (professional life) using social networks like linkedin. Soon it may happen that you come to know that a friend on your network bought a brand new TV or laptop using Storrz, a

MyNews: Cutomized News Page for Users

2008-08-10T21:25:00.001+05:30

MyNews is a web application from MAZIC India which earlier created an entertainment portal called MovieMAZIC. I am a member of MAZIC India. MyNews was developed end to end in less than 8 hours. MyNews allows users to read the news of their choice. Users can further share the news with friends. We plan to further allow people to add feeds and also content from other sources like orkut in future.

Is Google Trying to Combine its Blogsearch Results with Normal Websearch? Cache links not working for those results

2008-08-07T10:45:00.001+05:30

Google seems to be trying to add the blog search results to its normal web search results. Google blog search works in little different way where in it crawls and indexes the pages very frequently and shows the page in results immediately, while same results used to take few days before appearing on the normal web search.Let me explain, how I came to know of this. As you guys know I posted an

Starting Your Career with Startups

2008-08-06T20:39:00.001+05:30

It’s good to see the freshers from premier institutes in India preferring startups over big companies. Well to some extent all this started 3 years back itself. Six (20%) of our classmates including me joined a startup. From my personal experience I feel working in startup is a great experience. Many people feel startups as a risky business, but in worst case only thing that can happen is you

After Burrp!Local and Burp!TV Now its Burrp!Blah

2008-08-05T21:45:00.000+05:30

Burrp! started as restaurant review site, later launched Burrp!TV (TV listing portal) and now its Burrp!Blah. Well looking at blah its more a sort of blog with proper classification of content by category and by city and they even call it blahging (blogging). Well the success of this will depend more on quality of content they place, While its not open for the users to add content (way to

How to Schedule a Job in Windows Similar to Cron job in Linux ?

2008-08-05T20:39:00.000+05:30

Going forward codeinspections will also be covering topics which we be useful for techies in their day to day jobs and this is first post in this series. Today we will learn how to schedule a job in windows. Linux guys will be aware of scheduling the jobs using cron there is similar way to schedule job in windows as well. Scheduling job is very important task especially for testers, testers need

Freshers and Experienced : Who are the better suitable?

2008-08-04T20:25:00.000+05:30

Many companies mention the experience as a criteria in the job description. When a company mentions 2-4 years as experience does that mean they will hire only people with experience >2 years, does that in turn mean people with <2>2 years experience ? Well, I completely accept experience does matter to some extent but it does not mean everything. A guy with 10 years experience in same domain may

Info Edge planning to acquire/ Invest in Startups

2008-08-04T11:08:00.000+05:30

Info edge India which owns leading portals like naukri.com and jeevansaathi.com is planning to invest in startups. Info edge Co-Founder and CEO Sanjeev Bikhchandani said,"There are not many acquisition targets currently in India, but we may look at the potential opportunities in the internet space that are aligned to our business model if valuations correct". Info edge is planning to focus on

Is Recession Good for Indian Startups?

2008-08-04T10:07:00.000+05:30

Recession seems to be here if not in major way but to some extent. Many employees are reporting a single digit performance hikes which used to be generally 20-30% otherwise. Also many services companies in India which have offered jobs for campus guys have delayed their joining dates by around 6 months. So who is gaining from all this ? Indian startups!!. Indian startups have always been

Cross Browser Test Automation Framework Using Selenium and C#

2008-08-03T10:21:00.000+05:30

Selenium is one of the popular functional test automation tools. Many people use selenium as just record and play back tool but few are aware that selenium can use used along with any of popular programming language. Selenium can be used along with anyone of .Net, Java, Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby. Being a .Net guy, I would give a introduction of how to create a cross browser test automation

Tagg.in : Yet another SMS based Application

2008-08-02T15:51:00.001+05:30

SMS seems to be hot among Indian startups, why not Indian SMS based company smsgupshup has outgrown twitter (pioneer in SMS blogging) in terms of user count. Tagg is another startup in same space. According to Vishal of Tagg, Tagg is trying to package the applications in three ways, as a tool for:1. Micro-blogging2. Sharing stuff on interests, passions, likings, hobbies, etc3. Staying updated

Vakow, Now Supports multiple languages

2008-08-02T10:14:00.000+05:30

Vakow, SMS blogging and sharing site now supports different indian languages. Basically on there end Vakow started supporting unicode, so users who want to type the message in any Indian language needs to use Google Indic transliterate tool to create a message and then post it on Vakow. Currently these unicode SMSes cannot be shared on phone, but can be shared via email, orkut and facebook.

httpfuse : Social Bookmarking Website

2008-08-01T12:10:00.001+05:30

httpfuse is new hyderabad based social bookmarking service. httpfuse is list of bookmarks grouped by topics. Users need to register to create a fuse. For any topic(they call it a fuse), users can add the links along with title and some description. httpfuse already claims to have more than 2.6 million fuses. How many of 2.6 million fuses are user generated will be interesting to see. httpfuse

Will Shine brighten the careers of better people ?

2008-07-08T10:29:00.000+05:30

Shine.com is a new job search portal from Firefly e-Ventures Ltd. But how different is it from existing jobs portals like Monster, Naukri, Shine has some new features like shine salary tool. But these kind of tools depends on formula and inputs being used to measure these. Salary tool compares the salary based on industry, specialty, designation, experience,degree. But how can you miss things

Take Arfie Home

2008-07-04T13:14:00.001+05:30

Do you like pets ? If yes, then why not have one on your desktop. Bring Arfie to your desktop. Remember Arfie? Dogpile's Pet. Arfie, your desktop pal, loves to play fetch with his ball but he can also fetch you the best information the web has to offer using Dogpile.com. You can pet Arfie, watch him romp around your desktop, play fetch, and share him with your friends. The Search Spy feature

SMSGupshup raises $10 Million

2008-07-04T12:45:00.000+05:30

As per reliable sources SMSGupshup raised $10 Million funding. Earlier parent company Webaroo raised funding for its Desktop product. This is first VC funding after Webaroo moved almost all of its resources to SMS Gupshup. This shows VC's faith in the Indian SMS market. Its good to see Indian mobile startups raising huge funding. Earlier mkhoj raised $7.1 million funding.

Ink Fruit: Yet another Tee's Company

2008-06-25T20:58:00.002+05:30

Too many Indian startups coming in same space with little difference. After Myntra, Pringoo, Dilsebolo, now Inkfruit. As the site says Inkfruit is simple 4 step process.Think an awesome ideaGet your idea Ready & Submit itPeople Vote on your workIf many people like the work, Inkfruit prints the tees with author name on label and authors will get 500 reward points + Rs:1500 cashAll these

New way to drive the traffic to your site

2008-06-04T21:29:00.001+05:30

Once you create a website/web application, you need to drive traffic to your site if you want to monetize from it in someway. So what is new way to drive traffic? Catch hold of any of Indian popular figure and ask him to start blogging using your platform. BigAdda did that with Amitabh Bachchan and recently mypopkorn got Lalu to blog on their site. This strategy helps the website in multiple ways

Being Adhoc better than being organized!!

2008-04-26T12:22:00.000+05:30

Thousands of test cases well documented and being executed with each build manually, if thats called being organized then I prefer being adhoc. Whenever a module specs/code arrives to tester he/she creates hundreds of test cases and executes them manually for the first time and finds lots of bugs (if either tester is good or developer is bad or both :)). All these test cases are well documented

"Apne Videos Bane Paraye": How to control other sites from using our videos

2008-03-14T16:03:00.002+05:30

With the massive success of Youtube, many clones of youtube have comeup in India like apnavideos. Not just youtube clones but videos have become part of all social networks like Bigadda, Ibibo etc and portals like bollywoodhungama. Embedding of videos on blogs and website has also become popular. Embedding of videos on webpages is simple and its just copy pasting couple of lines of code. Using

Burrp TV Coming soon!!

2008-02-06T10:40:00.000+05:30

In an interview with Deap Ubhi, 8 months back he talked about a some TV related product and its a T.V listing service which is coming soon, Check out here. Earlier Burrp was having acquisition talks with MIH (remember Ibibo) according to some of the sources. But the acquisition never happened. Ibibo earlier set its foot in India by acquiring couple of Indian startups, Bixee and Pixrat (both are