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Create Twitter Extended Profiles

Early adopters and social media junkies use twitter for connecting with friends, peers and others, what if the profile page of twitter can be customized to include a simple bio of you so that others know your other online destinations. Adam at Mashable pointed out to a technique used by folks like ... Read More →

186 For “Dummies” e-Books

I stumbled over a site today that contains 186 "for dummies e-books" as PDF and .chm files. It looks like some one deliberately did this with out creating a index file for the folder so the whole world can download it. If you are wondering what are for dummies books, wikipedia says "For Dummies ... Read More →

Technoratimedia: Ad Network from Technorati

The first blog search engine Technorati launched an ad network today for blog and social media publishers called Technorati Media. There are many ad networks already and Technorati wants to join the party. Six Apart also launched an ad network recently if you remember. It is always good for ... Read More →

Google Tools Will Tell You IF Your ISP Is Throttling

Google is developing tools to determine if ISPs are throttling broadband connections. Google is a big supporter of net netrality debate and this is no surprise they are developing these kind of tools to monitor ISPs manipulating the network connections. "We're trying to develop tools, software ... Read More →

Yahoo Pipes Widgets For Your Blog

Yahoo Pipes is the ultimate mashup tool if you just want to mash few RSS feeds or you want to create some useful mashup with RSS meta data. Yahoo pipes today introduced Yahoo Pipes Badges, widgets of Pipes output. You can share these badges or widgets on your blog or iGoogle home page or ... Read More →

Yidio Video Search

Yidio is a video search portal that launched today. It claims to index 200 million videos currently, thats a lot. Video search engines like Blinkx, truveo and ofcourse Google video are doing well in this space. Another point of mention is that Yidio search is powered by Truveo, why not search for ... Read More →

Adsense for RSS feeds goes live

Feedburner blog has posted about the launch of Adsense for feeds this week, i don't see them in lot number of blogs except TUAW feed. As they said they may launch it incrementally for all publishers. If you are a feedburner Ad network publisher sitback and relax the ads will roll out some time ... Read More →

Time Waster: 200 Flash Games to kill time

If you are getting bored or want to kill some time while you are waiting for something then go to Friv.com. It features 200 flash games for your entertainment. The homepage of Friv shows 200 games as tiny icons, click on any game to play that game. There is nothing else in the site and it doesn't ... Read More →