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Google Labs introduces browser size tool to visually evaluate your site content
Google’s latest browser sizing tool will help developers and website owners to evaluate the amount of content viewed by their users. The tool loads your webpage behind a colour full matrix which indicates the % of people who can see specific point on your webpage. By adding this tool Google has further strengthen its offerings [...]
Impact of ICANN’s decision to allow domain names in local languages
On 30th October at the ICANN conference in Seoul, Korea the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which governs domains, registrations, Internet Protocol addresses, and many other aspects of the internet decided to fast track the process to internationalize domain names (IDN). Very soon domain names would be made available in local languages [...]
Play Farmville on Facebook to enhance your business management skills
I have been on Facebook for a long time and have been an active social networker. One of the best ways to network is to get involved into playing games on the social networking sites. Being in strategic role I tend to indulge myself strategy games. I generally like games developed by Zynga as they [...]
A must read for job seekers in current economy
I came across a useful post which gives a list of must read presentations for a job seeker. Applicant.com has compiled a list of 7 presentations from SlideShare. The first thing to hit during recession was hiring and recruitment and the first thing will pick up would be the same. Economy is already showing signs [...]
How to install IntenseDebate on wordpress 2.7.1
IntenseDebate – super charge your commenting system I installed IntenseDebate to offer highly interactive commenting system to the readers of GigaThoughts. As always it started with a lot of research, which led to final two competitors to choose from – IntenseDebate and Disqus. After testing both commenting system on local machine for a week, I [...]
RBI makes it mandatory for banks to provide additional authentication for online shopping
According to a new ruling, the Reserve bank of India -RBI has made it mandatory for all banks issuing credit and debit cards to provide additional authentication information over and above what is visible on the card. To prevent fraud and to make online shopping safer, the RBI has made it mandatory, from 1st August [...]
Nandan Nilekani and Congress initiate unique identification card project
Latest update – UID project to roll out in first week of September, the state chosen for the launch is Andra Pradesh. Click HERE for more info Original Post follows below: 2010 On 26th June 2009 times of India carried the headlines “Infy boss to join the government as a cabinet minister.” I am proud [...]
Beware and Prepare for floods in Mumbai – June and July 09
Beware and Prepare for floods in Mumbai – June and July 09 I would like to use this platform to spread the message so that more and more people in Mumbai can be aware about the weather and rain forecast this season (June-July 2009) and be prepared to tackle the floods in a better way. [...]
Microsoft Bing – search and decision engine
This week has been excellent for social media enthusiasts. The second big news in of the week is the pre-launch of Microsoft Bing, its redefined version of search. The search engine will be launch officially on June 3rd. I have been using it for a week and as heavily as i use Google search and [...]
Google Wave – web based real time communication platform
During the Google I/O keynote, Google utilized the opportunity to launch its new communication platform called Google Wave. We all know that Google likes to surprise the world by developing application that changes the rules of the game. This time around they have raised the bar further by launching Google Wave as an open source [...]
