Yahoo’s Account Recovery Just got Simpler. Update your Recovery Data!
Yahoo recently made changes to its lengthy and hectic account recovery process. The changes will kick in starting next week. Though it’s not very clear how the changes will help users recover their account quickly and easily its quite evident that users will benefit from it.
Sabari Devadoss, Platforms Product Manager [...]
It’s Official, The Wedding is Off. Google, Yahoo Call Off the Ads Deal
Personally I didn’t like the idea of Google and Yahoo coming together on ads. With whatever margin but Yahoo is suppose to be the closest competitor of Google in Ads and Search. This deal would have meant that Yahoo has given up on innovation in this space.
Google just announced [...]
TV Widgets: Intel and Yahoo announce the end of traditional TV by adding Internet Applications to it.
Where others have been trying to bring TV to Web, Yahoo and Intel were busy trying to do it the other way round. Intel and Yahoo jointly announce the plans for Widget Channel. This could be just the start of an era where lines between offline and online devices will be blurred and [...]
Top 10 sites by Time Spent in July 2008. MySpace loses to Facebook!
Compete just released July’s web statistics which show top sites based on the search criteria. Compete is a web analytics or a web tracking company. Which records online activities of over 2,000,000+ U.S. Internet users that have granted them access to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.
We decided to [...]
Yahoo Launches 2 new email addresses!
Yahoo! has launched 2 new TLDs (Top Level Domains) for it’s email service. Now you can have email addresses ending with Ymail.com or rocketmail.com. This gives it’s already existing loyal email users to have new accounts with a Ymail or Rocketmail extension. However, I am not sure if this might lead to brand cannibalization. Having [...]
E-Mail: Who’s got better suggestions?
Most of the e-mail services now a days are more or less the same and offer similar features to its users. So what makes them different and better than the rest. I think the best service is the one which uses the technology to talk to its users without making them read the help manuals [...]
PicLens: An excellent way of viewing and searching for pictures!
PicLens is one of the best picture browsing utility I have ever come across. This plugin is available for FireFox and Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Vista both, its also available for MAC users.
So what does it do? Once this plugin is installed you will start seeing a button on the pictures when [...]
WebCam Tricks: Things You Always Wanted to do with your WebCam!
This article will help you do several things with your web cam which you always wanted to do but couldn’t. Alright! Here you go….
How to record or capture video chats or webcams? You have been chatting which the coolest chick in the world and because you are a geek you friends wont believe you if [...]
10 Billion Videos Watched in Dec 2007. Google Leads with 32.6% Market Share
comScore Video Metrix released the report for the month of December for the most number of videos viewed online. December sets a new record in viewing video since comScore started tracking Video Metrix.
As expected Google leads with 32.6% market share followed by Fox Interactive Media and Yahoo! Sites with 3.5% and 3.4% market share respectively.
Report [...]
Lets go “Ahead” to the Past, DOS is the King!
The whole world, from IBM to Google, Yahoo & Microsoft every tech company and anyone who is remotely related to technology talks about “Cloud Computing”, “The Web OS”, “Cloud Applications” and what not!
Why do technology companies encourage users to use the web OS? Is it just to put all your data on the web or [...]
