For long I’m yearning to write some posts in Bengali, my mother tongue. It’s so difficult you see. Terms like transliteration, Unicode and what not are clouding my head with no clear sense of what can actually make me realize my dream. Short of that, here is what I find Blogger is now allowing, which […]
AdWords Website Optimizer
Those of you who use AdWords to advertise products or services will now have another help from Google. It’s called Website Optimizer. Though Overture (now under Yahoo!) began before it did, Google can be said to have pioneered contextual advertising ever since it started AdWords in 2002. Popularly called pay-per-click ads or PPC ads, it […]
Google > Microsoft + Yahoo
This is one vintage rumor that refuses to die down. Surfacing every now and then, it simply doesn’t actually happen. This time however, the news is fairly strong and it seems talks indeed are going on for Microsoft acquiring Yahoo! for nearly $50 billion. If that occurs, it’ll be one of the largest acquisitions ever. […]
Y!’s Instant Messaging
Yahoo! has at long last started its free instant messaging service that doesn’t need any software to be downloaded as was the case earlier. This is necessary since many people surf the net from roadside kiosks where the computers may not have the erstwhile Y! Messenger installed. Google aleady has ‘chat’ and ‘talk’ services that […]
Kolkata burrps!
Considering erstwhile Kolkattans are fairly distributed in every nook of this country, when I study the log-files of this blog, it amazes me to see that apart from this city, the most number of visitors come from Bangalore and Hyderabad. Occasionally, there’ll be ones or twos from Mumbai and Delhi (the latter rather preferred to […]
India loves Orkut
Even as Google plays an April Fool on gullible Gmail users, Orkut, its other property, continues to blaze away with runaway success. Those of us, who have passed their prime in pre-Internet age, usually loathe wandering about in social media websites. Not so the present brigades of teens and 20s. Since both my son and […]
Local language websites
For all the euphoria over our tech-savvy young brigades, India lacks far behind in Internet usage (refer my post, 747 million people use Internet), but more alarmingly, India just doesn’t have enough content-rich sites. There are English language blogs like this one or other few content sites in English (mainly newspapers and portals), but coming […]
747 million people use Internet
According to a comScore Networks study, 747 million people used the Internet in January this year, as against 694 million in March 2006, which is a 7.5% jump. In January 2006, the number of people using Internet was roughly 677 million. Last year in January, India counted for 15.87 million Internet users, and this January […]
Making money with AdSense
No great disclosure this when I say there is pot of money to be made with Google AdSense. Do I make much? Nope, I do not make even a tiny fraction of what many website owners routinely make of whom I’m going to tell you here. 1Whoever doesn’t know that man seeks woman, and woman […]
Wiki for your website?
One of these days, I wish to pursue having a ‘Wiki’ for this website. According to Wikipedia, a Wiki (pronounced weakie), meaning ‘fast’ in Hawaiian language is “a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, typically without the need for registration”. Considering that Ward Cunningham, […]