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Translation tool

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:10:53 +0000

The translation tool http://www.worldlingo.com/ has a feature which enables it to autodetect the language being used for translation. This is useful while translating text from 2 similar languages or text in a font which you are not familiar with.

Living in big cities

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:19:54 +0000

http://www.goimonitor.com/story/working-staying-out

While big cities offer job opportunities for some professions and better infrastructure, a lot of time is often spent commuting.

Change in blog urls

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:51:58 +0000

Free blogging platforms like WordPress and Blogger are widely used for driving traffic to bigger websites . However, in recent weeks, there seems to be a major change in the urls of blogspot blogs, with the url getting redirected to a country specific TLD. So visitors to the same blog in different countries will see a different url.

With this change, bloggers with networks of free blogger/blogspot blogs could see a change in their valuation and usage. Many smaller blogs are monetized by selling text link advertising, and country specific TLDs would make it difficult to set a uniform price. Search engines / search engine bots also handle redirects differently.

The joy of living in isolation

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:50 +0000

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/op-ed/joy-quiet-659

Most people cannot imagine life without family,friends and gadgets, but living alone in isolation, away from the internet and mobile, allows you to think in peace, reflect on human nature, greed, motivation and more.

PIPA, SOPA and the internet firewall

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:34:04 +0000

Protect IP Act, Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) could affect the growth of the internet.
Relevant links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16195344

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=Op171211proscons.asp

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/12/internet-engineers-dont-like-pipa-and-sopa/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa

Selling / Buying an internet company

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:28:05 +0000

http://allthingsd.com/20110914/yahoo-for-sale-big-bidders-circling-including-marc-andreessen-as-board-pressure-mounts/

An internet company may be very profitable, but when there is a change in the ownership/ management , the profits can plummet as the sale of Myspace and numerous other websites has shown.

Webhosting server types

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:13:50 +0000

Of the more popular Indian websites,the web hosting server type is as follows
Indiatimes.com : Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Rediff.com : Apache
In.com : Apache
Snapdeal.com : Apache-Coyote/1.1
Naukri.com : NWS/1.0
Way2SMS.com : Apache-Coyote/1.1

Big Companies offering work at home / telecommuting jobs in India

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:56:10 +0000

Some news stories on big companies offering work at home / telecommuting jobs in India

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20080324/technologylife01.shtml

http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/ew/2008/04/21/stories/2008042150020100.htm

http://www.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?articleid=2041&typ=Features

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051011/asp/atleisure/story_5342890.asp

http://www.omamconsultants.com/milestones_detail5.htm

Content creation on a mass scale

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:24:41 +0000

Interesting information on Demand media and content creation on a large scale

http://www.thefreelancertoday.com/demand-media-studios/

http://www.demandstudiossucks.com/2010/11/dmd-ipo-freelancers/

http://content.demandmedia.com/stats.html

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/

Declining internet usage

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:49:16 +0000

From http://allthingsd.com/20110623/the-web-is-shrinking-now-what/
Internet usage in terms of time spent is decreasing.

Some of the reasons could be
1. Lack of security online – malware, spyware
2. After using the internet for a certain number of years, people have a fair idea of the quality of content available online, and often look elsewhere for indepth information.