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Now here is a freelance writer, whose twitter id is twitchiker, in an attempt to create an unique record. He want to go for a world trip relying only on his Twitter friends

His self-imposed golden rule was that he could only accept offers of travel and accommodation from people who use Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows people to "tweet" what they're up to (or what they're thinking about) in 140 characters or less.

Smith was also banned from making any travel plans more than three days in advance and has to leave each location within 48 hours of arriving.

The snapspot given below give few insight why orkut is losing the battle for social networking ..

This is a Orkut community for Indian election, with so many Brazilian members (fake)...

MOTO™ W233 Renew is the world’s first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottles.

Who has the most popular page on Facebook? Barack Obama. Who's second? Coca-Cola.
Last August, an aspiring actor named Dusty Sorg was looking for a page on Facebook Coca Cola to adhere to. After he found nothing good he himself took a picture of a can of drink in high resolution and created a new group for Coca Cola.

Facebook Page Statistics -- Top Pages
	Name	# of Fans	Daily Growth Rate	Weekly Growth Rate
1	Barack Obama	5,881,499	0.10%	1.45%
2	Coca-Cola	3,287,101	0.19%	2.93%
3	Nutells	3,052,502	0.18%	2.98%
4	Pizza	3,005,922	0.20%	3.52%
5	Cristiano Ronaldo	2,730,570	0.23%	3.93%
6	kinder surprise	2,581,651	0.18%	3.13%
7	Facebook	2,492,881	0.27%	4.22%
8	Windows Live Messenger	2,469,402	0.13%	2.75%
9	Sid	2,409,639	0.17%	3.25%
10	Boo	2,343,221	0.20%	3.95%
Source: AllFacebook.com

Apple has unveiled a minuscule new iPod Shuffle that takes its "smaller is better" mantra to a whole new level.

The third-generation Shuffle, a slim aluminium rectangle less than 5-centimetres long, takes up about half as much space as the previous version even as it doubles music storage space to 4 gigabytes.

Now that the device can carry 1,000 songs, Apple has come up with a way for people to identify the music they're listening to or find songs they want. A new feature called VoiceOver can, at the push of a button, speak the song and artist name or rattle off the list of custom mixes — called playlists — that the owner has loaded onto the device.

Professor Matteo Matteucci (R) and Ph.d student Bernardo Dal Seno (C), wearing a skullcap mounted with electrodes and wired to a computer as he sits on a special wheel chair at the Politecnico di Milan department in Milan. Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer

Last month I posted about 'Prosper.com', which is a P2P micro finance system in US. Now here is a profile of Zopa, an UK based P2P microfinance venture

Zopa.com is another fruit of Web 2.0 and social networks, in this case applied to the field of loans, a kind of P2P, something like 'money exchange' instead of 'file sharing'. Zopa is an acronym for 'zone of possible agreement'

Zopa is the world's first social finance company. In 2005 we pioneered a way for people to lend and borrow directly with each other online as part of our continuing mission to give people around the world the power to help themselves financially at the same time that they help others.

Launched by Richard Duvall,the creator of the an Internet bank Egg.com, with an idea of having 'Ebay Of Money'. The model is based on peer-2-peer: thus whosoever in need of money, have to reports on the website zopa.com and announced how much is the requirement, for what period under, what interest he is prepared to pay. Bidders can participate (in English) with between 10 and 25,000 pounds or more if a licensing deal. Then they deposited the money into a special account in his name and under a pre-agreed annualized and then they also determine the amount of borrowing by the debtor, in packages as small as 10 pounds.
Thus Zopa tries to bring together thousands of people who can offer and borrow money so individual and achieve a better position than the banks.

In case if you are interested to know about any Indian entity based on this concept, wait for my next post on this series, anyway its name is Rang de.

If you like Google Chrome’s “New Tab” page, which offers an overview of pages you often visit, but you don’t like to use Chrome (just like me), here is the solution by Google itself, download

This rare footage is from a 1983 Macintosh conference featuring Steve 'Apple' Jobs hosting a 'dating game' starring Bill 'Microsoft' Gates.

Trivia: First keyword was sold by Yahoo! and it was 'Golf' not 'SEX'!!

Co-founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia created Kayak.com to provide consumers with more comprehensive travel options in one place.

Presently the two most common way of regularly publishing your content are blogging and micro blogging. Though Blogs (like us) are technically far less complex than any other professional content management systems, but still they do require some basic knowledge of web design. Micro blogging services like Twitter on the other hand, usually serve as a platform for short, daily or hourly status reports kind of thing for their users - at 140 maximum authorized characters per entry. Here comes another service Tumblr, created by young David Karp, in 2005

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.

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The Web, predominantly under its latest avatar of "2.0" offers many great things and these things do require a username to login. Sometime we do all the hard work of registering as a new user with a desired id, only to later getting a disappointing message as “This username is not available”. If , this is the same wit you also then do visit www.usernamecheck.com

The webpage reviews 68 Web Services (more will be added soon) one after another, and tells you whether a user name is available or not.

John Warnock and Charles Geschke, former Xerox executives, met working in the PARC (Research Center Palo Alto, Calif.). Soon they teamed up and developed a revolutionary innovation of a standard computer language and scalable-font called PostScript. When Xerox refused to market the product, both of them left the company and founded Adobe Systems in 1982. PostScript is a high-level computer language that communicates precise descriptions of computer generated graphics, photos, and text to any output device with a PostScript interpreter. Soon in 1985, Apple licensed Adobe PostScript helping to form the backbone of the revolution in publishing.
In the late 80s, after the popularisation of PostScript, Adobe released Adobe Illustrator, which soon became one of the essential software for professional graphics. The existence of these two technologies would be the basis on which created the PDF format and Adobe Acrobat.
In February 1990 came the first version of Photoshop that eventually would become one of its best-selling products.

Pdf, the paperless office?
John Warnock wanted to reduce the consumption of paper in offices, thus began an internal project to create a file format for documents that could be distributed by the company, to be on any computer, regardless of operating system.
Adobe already had two things that almost fit with the idea: The PostScript (a device-independent technology and platform used to describe documents) and Adobe Illustrator (created in 1987, a program that operated on different platforms, which could open up and show PostScript files very simple).
In 1993, Adobe engineers improved both technologies and created a new file format Pdf (Portable Document File).

The Vatican is endorsing novel technology which will bring the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones, via iBreviary, an iTunes application.
This iBreviary is a book of prayer created by the Italian priest Paolo Godfather along with few programmer, it contains all the prayers of the church year, and is available in Italian, English, Spanish, Latin and French, but later will launch versions in Portuguese and German.

Few days back I reported about IBM’s Project Big Green, which was energy efficient and cost saving solutions to manage data center. Now how can Google left behind on such projects, they have also designed and built the most energy efficient data centers in the world.

Most of our work is focused on saving resources such as electricity and water and, more often than not, we find that these actions lead to reduced operating costs. Being "green" is essential to keeping our business competitive. It is this economic advantage that makes our efforts truly sustainable.

Indian Railway in collaboration with Google is now providing a 10 digit
mobile number. Just SMS your PNR number on this mobile number and
instantaneously you will get your ticket's current status along with all
other journey related details.

The number is 9773300000. NO need to prefix 0 or +91.