Facebook just acquired Instagram and the best place to get that news was, of course, Twitter. A number of hilarious reactions emerged and I decided to share some from my timeline here. Have a good laugh! Continue reading “The Funniest Instagram-Facebook Tweets”
I’m sure you are impressed by the wall decor shown above. Ideally, such a wall art requires expert help from those who create customized wall paintings. Not anymore. HP has launched a nice web based service for Indian users called CreateYourWalls (or HP Wall Art) – createyourwalls.com.
Continue reading “Indian Users Can Now Create Custom Wall Art Online With HP’s CreateYourWall.com”
Convergence India Expo is an annual telecom event held in New Delhi, India. It attracts global companies and leaders in the telecom space, and hosts conferences, panel discussions and exhibitions over a span of 3 days.
Saw this tweet from Brian yesterday.
Quite true. It also applies to our lives, isn’t it? We tend to assume and draw conclusions from a sentence, a look, a sound, an appearance, a situation or a moment. We rarely care about the context. If we did, life wouldn’t be so much fun, right? You know, less misunderstandings, more respect for the individual, less conspiracy theories, constructive curiosity…who needs all that simplicity!
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill which, if passed by the US Senate in the last week of this month, could have unprecedented consequences for small businesses, publishers and individuals not only in the US but around the world.
Copyblogger has an excellent piece up on their site that explains why the bill needs to be stopped now. I urge you to read that article word by word, and then act by signing the petition here – americancensorship.org.
If you are in the US, it clearly states what you should do but if you are not in the US, you need to scroll down a bit and put your email address in the box that says Not in the US? Petition the state department.
You need to understand that a bill like this getting passed in the US could cripple your internet usage no matter where you are in the world. That’s because whatever sites you can’t live without, like Google, Facebook etc are headquartered in the US and bound by the laws of that land. Also companies like Paypal, which form the backbone of Internet businesses around the world, are based in the US and will need to adhere to the provisions of this draconian law (if the act becomes a law that is).
Spread the word about this and pray that US Senators get some sense in their head and vote against this bill on January 24th. If it does become a law then God help the Internet.
Om Malik, Founder of GigaOm – one of the most popular tech blogs on the web – recently completed 10 years of blogging. I’m sure very few people on earth can boast about the same considering the fact that blogging picked up only sometime in the middle of last decade, probably around 2003 or 2004. And even at that time, there were just a few who rode the intial wave.
Some important quotes from his story: Continue reading “Om Malik Completes 10 Years of Prolific Blogging”
I come across a lot of great articles daily, so I thought I’ll share some here which I stumbled upon in the last 3-4 days.
Mark on Productivity 501 has a pretty detailed article on getting an online masters degree from Harvard. If you are not in a position to get a regular, full-time master’s degree and considering an online course then you should take a look at this.
Marc Andreessen wrote on WSJ on why he thinks software is eating the world. It’s actually kinda obvious considering some or the other kind of software powers almost everything around us these days, but his article still is insightful and makes a nice read.
A neat article I came across today on learning a foreign language without spending a cent. The content is well-written and the resources mentioned are very useful.
Another one from Productivity 501 on creating an electronic signature. I think digital signatures are going to take over pen-and-paper signatures in the near future so it doesn’t harm to know how to create them quickly and easily.
The Economist had this interesting article on the decline of Asian marriage and its far reaching effects. I wonder how the governments will tackle this new phenomenon if they could tackle it at all.
Abhijeet Mukherjee is a blogger & web publisher. This is his personal blog about blogging, productivity, internet marketing, social media and other random stuff. Read more.
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