Life is not going to be the same again on the web, thanks to OpenSocial. To me, a non-techie, OpenSocial is like a super highway that conveniently connects to social websites that are affiliated to it. When you catch the ‘highway’ you’re able to reach any of the affiliated social sites seamlessly. More importantly, when […]

PayPal offering withdrawal to Indian bank account [image not to scale] If you’re in India catering to works outsourced online from other countries, and receiving payments through PayPal, here is good news. You can now withdraw funds from PayPal directly to your account in an Indian bank. This is great because earlier PayPal would send […]

Figure it out. A website 5 days old fetches nearly $1000 at an online auction. If you think it’s a joke, think again. Better still head off to this link. SitePoint Marketplace is an interesting place for web professionals. There are templates for sale, domain names for sale, and of course sites for sale. A […]

To US’ monopoly of giant web entities – Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, et al – China too has some matching answers. The first that comes to mind is Baidu, the vernacular search engine that ranks third in terms of searches made in August last (3.2 billion searches, 5.2% global search share). Baidu trades handsomely on […]

Discerning watchers who are regular witness to how the Internet has evolved over the last decade firmly believe that it’s still in an early stage. Those who have embraced this fast-becoming all-pervasive medium of communication beyond simply searching and emailing are considered a step or 2 ahead of others in realizing their dream goals. For […]

An inkling of sort was available when comScore made public its findings of Google totally dominating the global search scene. As much as 37.1 billion global searches including YouTube’s 5 billion were made through Google out of a total of 61 billion searches in August last. In percentage terms Google’s global search share is an […]

The phrase ‘making money online’ is now omnipresent. Check any 10 sites, the chance is you’ll stumble upon at least one that tells you how to make money online. As one engaged in this, I’ll be writing here about the different ways people earn money (ethically of course) on the Internet. Some of them make […]

Surfing the net in leisure with no particular aim does bring up a surprise or 2. Tim Ferriss’ blog, 4-hour Workweek, is an eminent qualifier in the category of pleasant and educative surprise. I find Tim’s Sep 26 post on 5 top uncommon timesavers for bloggers/writers was originally posted in Darren Rowse’s Problogger, my frequent […]

YouTube became a household name after Google acquired it for $1.65 billion last October. YouTube, a 20-month old company before joining Google’s stable, has since been seeing a phenomenal popularity. So much so that it is today the 4th most visited website on the Internet. In the 10 months that have passed since the famed […]