Archive: November 2008
Twitter Turns Down a $500 Million Offer from Facebook
Twitter has reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook on 24th Nov 2008. Twitter executives believed it was worth taking a shot at creating their own revenue-generating system before giving up the company to acquisitions. And, BoomTown’s sources say that the $500 million [...]
Till this day, we had to use greasemonkey scripts or userstyles.org CSS styles to add spice to our Gmail Inbox. Yeah, it worked fine but once you were on a different PC, it would be back to vanilla Gmail. Not any more.. Gmail is now themeable and there are plenty of great themes to choose [...]
Top 25 Hottest Indian Web Companies, as compiled by AppAppeal.com, a Web-based application review site.
Sites in the list :
bharatstudent.com – social network
bigadda.com – Indian youth networking site
bixee.com – jobs search engine
burrp.com – local business reviews
chikka.com – web based text messenger
corners.in – social network applications
faayda.com – job search engine
foodiebay.com – restaurant directory
fropper.com – social networking
hellointern.com – [...]
Check out the enhanced PayPal website including customized content, easier and quicker navigation, and a new improved look. Here are some of the new features you will see:
Improved content.
PayPal has tailored the content and help pages on the new website to allow you quicker and easier access to the most relevant product, [...]
This is the first time I have seen an Interactive JS ad. (not flash) on the Google Adsense Network. The IFRAME source was ads.gmodules.com instead of the normal pagead2.googlesyndication.com. An animated demo of the interactive ad had been shown below.
Although I’m not sure if you’ll be shown the same ad, have a look here.
Just about two months back, we’d published the news of thepiratebay.org hitting the 15 million peers mark on its file-sharing torrent tracker. The Swedish website “The Pirate Bay” now has gone better by 10 million peers and raised the record to 25 million peers.
In the Guinness Book??
In a quirky move that’s bound to be [...]
