Digg Down?June 26th, 2006 Digg, the popular technology news site, appears to crumble under its own popularity. For quite sometime I am unable to access digg site.
Digg Down...September 19th, 2007 Digg is down. It comes up with an amusing message directing you to several sites like TechCrunch, PaidContent, BBC News & others.
Top 10 Social Networking Widget for Your Blogger/ Blogspot BlogAugust 28th, 2009 There's a common misconception that Blogger doesn't offer add-ons for social networking like Wordpress. Well, all you social bees with blogger/blogspot blog need to know that there are cool social networking widgets for your blog.
9 Popular Social Networking Sites: Public Profile on LinkedIn, Pownce, Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, MySpace & RyzeSeptember 24th, 2007 My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:
LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network.
Beware LinkedIn Invaded By Nigerian SpammersApril 21st, 2008 Here is a LinkedIn invitation I received from Elvis Ata (elvisata2001@yahoo.cn):
Elvis Ata requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
Angsuman,
DEAREST ONE
PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU OF MY DESIRE OF GOING INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.FOR THIS SIMPLE AND SINCERE BUSINESS. I AM ELVIS ATA THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR THOMAS ATA, MY FATHER WAS A VERY WEALTHY COCOA MERCHANT IN BOUAKE COTE DIVOIRE, BEFORE HE WAS
SHOT BY THE REBELS ON ONE OF THEIR OUTING TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS.
Twitter Rises Above Digg's Market Share, What's Next?January 20th, 2009 We all knew this is gonna happen some day, but not so soon! Twitter has actually reached and overwhelmed Facebook in case of market shares. Hitwise reported that as of Tuesday, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had for the first time surpassed the market share of visits of the hit content aggregation site, Digg.
Breaking News: Digg was Dead, Temporarily. Period.November 14th, 2008 Digg was down. And that is about it.
Landmark judgement of 1 Billion $ awarded to ISP in Anti-SPAM suitDecember 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :)
http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html
Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)
Digg: Technologies Used & Challenges FacedJuly 13th, 2007 This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects.
Twitter launches home page with a new lookJuly 29th, 2009 LONDON - Popular microblogging website Twitter has launched a new home page. The Internet phenomenon, which boasts of an estimated 55 million visitors each month, made changes to the page, that now includes a search facility and lists the 23 most popular "trending topics" "by the minute, day, and week".
LinkedIn To launch Subgroups featureJune 24th, 2009 Later this week LinkedIn is launching a long-requested feature for group managers: the ability to create subgroups. Subgroups are like a break-out session at a conference.
Study: CEOs are not active enough in social networksJune 24th, 2009 Study: CEOs not doing enough on social networks
NEW YORK — A new study says top CEOs should do a better job managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter and Facebook and even Wikipedia. Sharon Barclay, who runs the executive public-relations firm Blue Trumpet Group and the blog UberCEO, took Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs and found what she calls a "miserable level of engagement" when it comes to social networks.
Facebook is world's fourth most trafficked websiteAugust 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported. In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.
James Joyce's classic 'Ulysses' is on Twitter nowJune 16th, 2009 On Bloomsday, 'Ulysses' meets Twitter
NEW YORK — Forget about Ashton Kutcher. James Joyce's "Ulysses," one of the most difficult novels in English, is on Twitter.
TweetDeck Vs Twhirl ReviewMay 7th, 2009 twhirl has reigned as Twitter client for years before facing challenge from another Adobe AIR app, the TweetDeck. Once the Twitterati found the multi-column dashboard client, TweetDeck, things were not the same for twhirl.
Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost. Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone. It has surpassed the likes of Digg at 32 million, LinkedIn at 16 million and NYTimes at 17.5 with an overwhelming margin, according to comSource. In fact, comSource only measures the number of people who visit Twitter website and not the millions more who send and read tweets via their phones, desktop apps, or other Websites. Twitter.com has also taken over Bebo and Freindster for what it is worth. 
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May 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Great information, thanks for share. i love Twitter …
June 18th, 2009 at 8:06 am
It’s really amazing the kind of response Twitter has been getting, it’s very overwhelming. Even current events like politics, rallies, etc are reported on Twitter. From the trivial stuff to matters that affects a nation, Twitter has been and will undoubtedly continue to be one of the strongest means of communication in the online world. Thanks!