Category: Internet
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How these 50 famous websites looked in the past?
After the advent of Web 3.0 and HTML5, and other modern web technologies; most of the popular websites have a great look and feel and are very user friendly. Take the example of Facebook, YouTube, Gmail. These sites are powered by very complex processes and algorithms behind the scene. These sites employ many servers and…
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How internet has changed in last 10 years?
I completed 10 years as an internet user. I still remember, in 2003, I used internet for the first time in my life. It was a small cyber cafe and I was charged 20 rupees for around an hour. The computer system was loaded with Windows 98 operating system and the screen resolution was 800*600.…
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Congress vs. BJP, the Internet War
According to Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IRIS Knowledge Foundation, in 2014 general elections, Facebook and other social sites would be a critical tool which could influence people’s voting choices in around 160 constituencies. This research is based on the assertion on the grounds of a young demographic; the upsurge of popular…
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India’s top Fake News and Satire Websites
News satire means a fake news which is used to describe parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism. News satire has been around almost as long as journalism itself, but it is more popular on the internet. As you can very well understand that it is quite easy to mimic a credible news source and stories may…
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3 Reasons why Facebook bought Instagram
Facebook has bought Instagram, a free photo sharing application that allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. This deal has cost Facebook about a quarter of the cash-on-hand they had as…
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Rajinikanth’s Website runs without internet!
This is not a joke. You read it right, Super Star Rajinikanth’s website runs without internet connection. allaboutrajni.com is a website which runs without internet. It has been developed by Webchutney’s creative director Gurbaksh Singh. When you visit this website, you will see the message, “He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website.…
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Letter from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is going to sell shares to the public in an IPO. It could value the social network between $75 billion and $100 billion. It will be one of the biggest U.S. stock-market debuts of all time. The company is expecting to raise as much as $10 billion when it begins selling shares this spring.…
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Why Kapil Sibal wants to censor Internet?
Most of the popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Orkut etc. have already self-regulating mechanism in place and they take action whenever any offensive or illegal material is brought to their notice. For instance, in facebook, you can report abuse by selecting the “Report” link located near photos, videos, notes or other content…
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My Hindi Forum crosses 1 lakh posts mark
I must admit that I was waiting for this moment to arrive for a long time, I had wished that I would post this as soon as we cross this milestone and indeed I was the one who posted 100000th post on My Hindi Forum. So on this great occasion, I would like to congratulate…