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Free marketplace for ideas

February 7, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Have an idea? Can sell it? If the answers are yes, you’re welcome to FreeIQ to realize your dreams. It’s the free marketplace for ideas. As Brad Fallon, the CEO of FreeIQ says: Everyone knows something that’s valuable to someone else. And some people know things that are very valuable to many other people. A […]

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Most deserving online industries

February 2, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Time was when competition centered on laurels like best website design, best newcomer, and suchlike. Then the online world was simple, rather easy to follow and predict. Leapfrog to 2007. The year just gone by has seen phenomenal interest in social media. Sites like Facebook and Digg have snowballed into gigantic prominence. Today, any Internet […]

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Yacrosoft or Micrahoo?

February 2, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

A tech issue taking shape in faraway US has captured the pole position of lead story in 3 Kolkata newspapers. All the 3 – The Telegraph, Times of India, and Economic Times – have quoted stats to speculate the outcome. And so must be all the leading papers across the globe. [Image below source] The […]

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Have an idea? Earn $10K

January 30, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Advanta, a US company started more than half a century back, is that country’s largest provider of business credit cards to small businesses. Sometime back it shot into the news because of Ideablob, a social media product it promoted. Now Ideablob is not just another SM platform like the thousands that have sprung up of […]

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Video on mobile

January 26, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

With YouTube’s announcement of expanding “the number of supported cell phone technologies that can support the viewing” its millions of videos, a new peak is now set in mobile video service. Up until now this service was available to select users. No longer. In about 17 countries and 11 languages, YouTube videos will henceforth be […]

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Hear me!

January 24, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

I’m very happy to lend my voice to my blog. I’ve wanted to have it for a long time, but only yesterday got down to work on it. The audio clip nestles on the right sidebar at the top. Just click the play button to hear my voice. And in case you too wish to […]

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Kindle to revolutionize wireless reading

January 20, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device Our reading habits are transforming constantly with each passing day. Before the Internet thing, anyone would have laughed off the suggestion of reading on the computer screen, specs dangling on the tip of the nose. It’s no more a laughing matter. If you’re serious about keeping up to date […]

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Ripples from Los Angeles

January 16, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Sitting at my home, away thousands of miles from the thick of action, the cancellation of Golden Globes telecast by NBC on Jan 7 appears like a tiny blip on my radar of consciousness. I may have let it pass unnoticed and vanish into my mind’s oblivion, but for the fact I feel the story […]

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Wikia, the likely Google rival

January 4, 2008 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

If Google can tread on Wikipedia’s domain, why can’t the latter? And so, after a long lull of Google’s overwhelming supremacy we’re going to see some action in the ‘search’ scene. From who else, but Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. It’s named Wikia. Wikia plans to debut on Jan 7, that is 3 days from today. […]

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Vlogging, the next wave of blogging

December 29, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

How about being a nerd to get noticed? You bet there are good enough reasons for that. What that presently means is that you video-blog or vlog whatever that comes to your mind. In the process if you look silly, so be it. Making videos is not difficult these days. In fact this course teaches you […]

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