Interesting Stories

Online chat rooms have been a rage ever since the advent of the internet. This has been able to connect so many people to people on the other side of the globe, who you could have never possibly met otherwise.

It is not just the other part of the globe. It could also be people of two warring nations, like India and Pakistan, who could not have made friends with the people in the other country.

Unlike older chat rooms, newer chatrooms allow people on chat to upload profile of themselves, so that you know who you are chatting with. It is just not another anonymous chat.

Labels: Online stuff

The greatest benefit of discussion forums is while you are looking to purchase a new product, since it gives you both a positive and negative picture, so that you can have a neutral viewpoint. For example, consider Lunarpages. It is the shared webhosting platform of the quite popular hosting service Add2Net.

The Lunarpages user reviews website provides a platform for people to share their positive and negative points about the service offered. This not only gives the users an idea, but also helps the company to keep improving.It also provides a space for the company to offer their coupons to the customers.In fact, they collect the views from forums and even publish the positive and negative views on their website. A nice way to depict what the company stands for - "Do your research when you are finding a host"

Labels: Online stuff

Technorati has given a new dimension to blog-links - tags. Tags are used to categorize your content based on its keywords. While its use as a Search Engine optimization technique might not be great, it definitely helps in traffic generation from Technorati.

An article on this at Geeky Speaky talks about the plug ins available to make the Technorati tags on your blog entries. These tags can be made to appear at the end of each entry.

Labels: Online stuff

If you blog or atleast keep track of the blogging world, you would have surely heard about the newest phenomenon, PayPerPost. PPP, as it is widely known is a 'paid to review' website where quality bloggers get paid for review of websites and new products in the market.

How it works is the advertiser offers a certain amount of money for every blogger in the network who accepts to review the product, and if the post matches the basic stipulations, the blogger gets to be paid.

Now, why I like this service is because of its sheer transparency. Ever since PPP started off, there have been quite a lot of copycats who have also offered to pay bloggers for posting reviews. But nothing is as transparent as PPP. The website maintains a message board of all bloggers in the network, and so you simply can't miss out on the hottest product, or more importantly not cheated from getting paid, as you always know if others are also getting paid or not.

More recently, PPP announced a disclosure policy, wherein bloggers were rewarded for being honest to admit that some of their posts were paid, and hence advertiser material. Quite an honest service, I must say..Maybe this was the reason why PPP has simply got popular through word of mouth marketing.

Labels: Online stuff

Google is planning to incorporate over 9200 solar panels in its headquarters at Mountainneville, San Francisco, which is popularly known as Googleplex. The power that is expected to be produced is high enough to provide power to 1000 homes.

Google has not divulged the cost of the project, but it expects to recoup the amount in the form of electricity savings in 5-10 years. I see the project extending to India as well, thanks to the amazing sunlight received all through the year in South India, home to Google's India offices.

This is very well a right step for other corporates to follow suit. Clean and green is the way to go!

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Labels: Online stuff

Did you hear this? Google is in talks with YouTube, the popular video sharing service to buy the firm for over 1.2 billion dollars. This means that it is going to be a mega deal in sorts for Google which can then make a monopoly,or atleast a oligopoly out of the video market with their Google Videos. Not many other services are as popular as these two under question.

It will be interesting to see if Google does succeed in this or if Yahoo would step up and make a higher bid. In my view, this is a critical move for Yahoo as well, as it can let go one huge pie if they don't make a bid as well..

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I pretty much guess that this is one of the first reports on this news. Google has finally did the most awaited..Adsense finally arrives on Orkut. For the uninitiated, Adsense is Google's sponsored listing programme through which hundreds and thousands of website owners advertise on Google by paying up for their Adwords programme. This was already made available in Gmail, Blogger, etc which are part of Google.

However, Orkut, Google's social-networking site remained unpolluted from the cloaks of Adsense ads. Those days of pure talk seems to be over as Adsense ads have finally started to appear in vertical blocks on the 'communities' section of Orkut.

Labels: Online stuff