Monthly Archives: June 2009

Broken News models

Posted on June 29, 2009 by manu prasad

The Iran crisis once again brought the present day tools of news gathering into the limelight, even while highlighting the inadequacies of traditional media. From real time tools like PicBrk to spoof ads and stories, the tools became the focal … Continue reading →

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Beyond run-of-the-mill

Posted on June 25, 2009 by manu prasad

..and I took a look at the last few posts and realised, that the excitement of the Facebook -Google- Twitter three way fight was making me obsessed, and I figured you guys would like a break from that too. Thankfully, … Continue reading →

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It starts..again..

Posted on June 22, 2009 by manu prasad

Facebook is on the march, though I have no clue about the destination. A few days back, I read about the ‘Search Inbox’ feature getting added, that’s after the overall search was revamped and the rumours of the “Everyone Button“. … Continue reading →

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Re: Search

Posted on June 18, 2009 by manu prasad

There’s this lovely Greasemonkey script that does the job of getting the best of both worlds- Google and Twitter, for me, but then it would be quite interesting to have Google bring out a microblogging search engine. (conjecture, but very … Continue reading →

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Its trending, trending..gone

Posted on June 15, 2009 by manu prasad

Much of last week’s discussions online revolved around some interesting news about, well, Twitter . From the Twitpocaypse scare (“it will happen because the unique identifier -a signed integer, associated with each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647 which is the limit … Continue reading →

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Ad Hawks

Posted on June 11, 2009 by manu prasad

I made a mental note not to write back to back to back posts about tools, but I have allowed myself this exemption because though the post is about Digg and Twitter, its equally about advertising/revenue models. Last week, Digg … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Twitter, and the future Wave

Posted on June 8, 2009 by manu prasad

Call it coincidence, but in the last few days, I have read two detailed interviews of the founders of two of the most talked about services  these days- Facebook and Twitter. Coincidence, because my last post ended exactly there – … Continue reading →

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Wave Content

Posted on June 4, 2009 by manu prasad

And just when Microsoft seemed to get moving on Google, with Bing, its new search engine (in case you haven’t heard) with a $80-100 million ad budget, and bundling the real time social search engine OneRiot with IE8, Google comes … Continue reading →

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Inside Intel

Posted on June 1, 2009 by manu prasad

A video that was shared yeterday on Facebook by a friend got me to check out Intel’s latest global campaign – Sponsors of Tomorrow. I then remembered that a few days back I’d seen a half jacket (a page takeover … Continue reading →

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