Web Services

Official Orkut App for Android 1.6 and Higher Launched!

Google announced the official Orkut app for Android platform 1.6 and higher. The application does quite a bit when it comes to keeping up with your friends and their scraps on Orkut.
The new application lets you click pictures and upload them to Orkut in seconds. Scrap notification, the application would be called [...]


Beware : “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support” Is A Facebook Password-Stealing Virus!

Facebook users, beware. Social networking scams are not new to us. McAfee has uncovered a facebook password scam, which involves email spoofing to steal passwords of facebook users’ profiles.
An email states that the facebook user password ahs been reset and to login, the user must download an attachment or feed the credentials required to reset [...]


Vodafone Launches Application Store in India, Brings Rain Of Joy

Vodafone Essard has launched its mobile application store in India, days after the launch of Airtel app store. Reportedly, the application store has been on air since Feb 15th, but seems like no official launch announcement was noticed only until this week.
Vodafone, in collaboration with Arvato Mobile, is offering both paid and free mobile apps [...]


Google Buzz Preparing for Real-Time Search, Starts Indexing Buzz Conversations

Everything inside your Gmail account is private and inaccessible without a password right? Well, not anymore. Google has just started indexing your buzz conversations and it’s just a matter of time before they start showing those results on the first page as real time information like the information from Twitter.
Though the information [...]


Twitter @Anywhere – If You Don’t Come to Us We Will Come to You!

Everyone who was expecting to hear/see the launch of Twitters revenue model or ad platform was left disappointed. Instead, Ev Williams, announced a new integrated platform which makes Twitter more commonly accessible across the web.
Users can now follow/unfollow, tweet, etc..  from sites that use the @anywhere javascript to offer few of the Twitter features on their sites.
This [...]


ChatRouletteMap Shows Location on Map and Catches Perverts Red Handed [NSFW]

Chatroulette has been in news everywhere (News on TV, Radio, Blogs, etc..) lately for its interesting service.
Chatroulette is a video chatting service which hooks you on with completely random people who can have video chat with and if you don’t like the person you are chatting with, just hit a button to [...]


Google Shopping Drives Shoppers to the Local Stores!

Google just announced a new feature for people using its “Shopping” search to find and learn about products they are interested in.
The new feature works on iPhone, WebOS and Android powered phones which detects your location when a product search is performed and shows the nearest store where the product is in [...]


Microsoft Online Video Player Challenges BBC’s iPlayer, Sparks Fly

Microsoft is expanding its line up of web services and it’s breeding a new online service in its farms which will allow broadband users to watch tv online for free.
Microsoft is reportedly launching a free online video player that should allow people to watch full length episodes of their favorite TV shows, which other such [...]


Google Apps Marketplace Open for Business!

Google’s Apps for Domains is hugely successful and has over 2 million businesses using its services. Users signed up for this product get to use 6 Google products for their business for free. These free products include Calendar, E-mail (Gmail), Chat (GTalk), Sites, Mobile and Web Pages.
Business can upgrade from the free standard version to [...]


Why You Should Ditch Google AdSense As You Grow!

Revenue was about $5 a month when I first started working full time on this blog which has grown to a few thousands in a year and a half but all of this wouldn’t have been possible if I had stuck with AdSense only. As a blogger or anyone who relies on [...]