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July 8, 2008

Screw You, Viacom!

This was kind of expected. I think YouTube is finding it hard to delete these anti-Viacom videos despite the pressure because of the publicity they’ve already got. How would you have reacted, if you found out that your individual data is being analysed and a thesis is being made from information about the kind of videos [...]

Monitor who’s reading your love letters

Gmail lets you see the number of places where you’re currently logged on. I’m not sure you’ll be happy seeing you’re logged on from multiple places when you haven’t shifted your position for a while, but this is a great step forward. This is one of most notable new features Gmail has introduced over the [...]

June 8, 2008

Beta within a Beta

Gmail stayed in Beta stage for 4 years now. Now Beta itself means experimental. When they introduced Gmail Labs, I was confused as to why they had to give it a name. The answer is simple, because Gmail which is actually in Beta is very well polished with few bugs.
Introducing new features before they are [...]

September 20, 2007

Google Docs

After seeing that Gmail Collaborative video that Indiatimes ad we see all the time on television looks like a complete rip-off. Here’s another great video from google which I really like because of the way the content on this video is presented. It’s different.

August 29, 2007

I Am, I Am

People misspell my name all the time. You do, Ankur does, Ankit does, Uma does and so do a whole lot of others. But be aware, I am no longer just another human being. Google will correct you if you misspell my name, Yahoo does too!
You may try many combinations, Google just loves to correct [...]

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