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Archive for January, 2009

Google Says “Whole Internet May Harm Your Computer”

January 31, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Tech 2.0

How about this for the weekend talks – Google says “This site may harm your computer“. In short the whole internet may harm your computer.
Though I’m not sure what’s wrong with Google but this is the state of things around the web if you’re searching anything in google. Infact, if you search through any browser, [...]

Weekly Wrapup: Offline Gmail, Putin-Dell Feud, Online CPM Down and Few More

January 31, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Industry News, Marketing, Media 2.0, Microblogging, Online Marketing, Tech 2.0

As always, here are the weekly wrapup post from 25th-31st January, 2009 in whatever has happened in Web, technology and few more interesting stuff.
So last week’s happenings are as follows:

More bad news for newspapers — Printing the New York Times costs twice as much as it would to send every subscriber a free Amazon Kindle, [...]

Is ShahRukh Khan the New Indian Celebrity on Twitter?

January 31, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Microblogging

This is new & fresh. Ins’t it? Not exactly since there are one too many celebrities making headlines about either by starting off a new blog or being on twitter. The news around the park is Shahrukh Khan is the new twitterville inhabitant. Again the same old question – Is it for real or some [...]

Could opt-out Online Advertising be the Way of the Future?

January 31, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Advertising 2.0, Online Marketing, Strategy, Trend Spotting

This was quite interesting development from the realm of online advertising. Now it seems websites or UGC sites are giving more preferences to consumers in terms of being served ads online. At least that’s what one site is doing – enter wikiHow, a user contributed how-to site founded by Jack Herrick.
Recently Mr. Herrick decided to let [...]

Old Media Fights Back – Starting with A Twitter Handle

January 30, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Media 2.0

The post title makes the suitable one for a big old newspaper. Though I think it’s going to be the case in some years to come when the big, fat lady of old media slides down much to the reasons any new media guy knows.
But as of now, here’s the deal. The picture below tells you [...]

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