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By Amit Agarwal.

labnol Amit Agarwal Tech Columnist & Professional Blogger India http://labnol.org

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2007

January

Monday, 29th of January.

14:06:34 preparing for the anniversary party tomorrow 16:25:31 creating audio cd's for the party 18:44:10 back to work.. tons of email messages to take care of

Tuesday, 30th of January.

01:07:14 nominating a few good blogs for the indibloggies.org award 01:22:56 blogging will be light tomorrow because of the party..

Wednesday, 31st of January.

20:14:35 The question answer queue is just getting too long..

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February

Thursday, 1st of February.

10:05:07 exploring Technorati WTF (Where's the fire) 17:19:14 blogger is acting funny today..

23:45:16 blogger has been down for most part of the day and nothing can be done about it..

Friday, 2nd of February.

11:38:52 integrated a couple of youtube videos with my orkut accout.. it was simple.. they even fetched the descriptions right.

14:18:38 the rss option in blogads is simple amazing .. pretty easy to implement..

20:01:17 the Demo 2007 videos are quite interesting to watch..

Saturday, 3rd of February.

19:07:19 trying to build a press page for DI

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March

Tuesday, 6th of March.

10:29:30 exploring splashcast 21:47:51 published my fourth adsense case study featuring jkontherun 22:05:37 @KevinCTofel: Glad you liked the study. Thanks. http://tinyurl.com/ywtztb

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May

Monday, 21st of May. 17:45:38 Google Adsense Sandbox tool goes live at http://tinyurl.com/23j9t4

Wednesday, 30th of May. 12:41:48 Is there a way to integrate tumblr with wordpress ?

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June

Wednesday, 20th of June.

12:54:39 Am trying to get productive with MindManager 7 - it rocks.

Thursday, 28th of June.

11:50:01 Can anyone please send me a Pownce invite .. amit @ labnol.org

Saturday, 30th of June.

13:41:03 will be in Delhi for the next two days.

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July

Saturday, 14th of July.

16:41:09 Download any article from Digital Inspiration as PDF - http://tinyurl.com/ys9cgo

Thursday, 19th of July.

20:44:04 ASCII Art Blogger Paintings are now live at http://www.labnol.org/ascii-art/

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August

Wednesday, 29th of August.

15:10:44 Looking at: "Message Board" (http://tinyurl.com/2p4t2g)

Thursday, 30th of August.

17:28:44 At: "Adsense Optimization Guide" (http://tinyurl.com/2qy863)

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September

Friday, 14th of September.

14:09:21 http://tinyurl.com/2dnqjb GMail Offline coming ?

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October

Monday, 15th of October.

21:34:32 AdSense Referrals now contextual http://tinyurl.com/yvbbgb 21:34:40 AdSense Referrals now contextual http://tinyurl.com/yvbbgb 21:34:59 AdSense Referrals now contextual http://tinyurl.com/yvbbgb

Friday, 19th of October.

17:45:46 Valleywag discontinues self-linking. Thanks. http://tinyurl.com/ysnmsb

Saturday, 20th of October.

12:31:19 All sites hosted on Dreamhost are currently down.

Monday, 22nd of October.

17:23:15 Google Removes FeedBurner feeds from Search http://tinyurl.com/2h6zlh

Sunday, 28th of October.

19:37:15 Some very useful email addresses http://tinyurl.com/ys2aww

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November

Monday, 5th of November.

16:07:03 New Google Ads show live prices. Screenshots - http://tinyurl.com/yucphk

Thursday, 8th of November.

00:17:53 Adobe Buzzword is now available to everyone http://tinyurl.com/2dzgzm 01:01:28 @chrisgarrett web traffic from twitter is rare unless someone with a large following tweets your URL.

Thursday, 22nd of November.

15:42:54 Minimize Tax Liability on AdSense Income http://tinyurl.com/2g9d5o

Saturday, 24th of November.

12:06:34 Get SnagIt and Camtasia from TechSmith for free http://tinyurl.com/2qwrlp

Wednesday, 28th of November.

22:28:13 Ego Surfing with Google http://tinyurl.com/yqctdk

Friday, 30th of November.

21:43:59 @rafe loved the first episode of Working Webware - is there a way to embed that video in blogs ?

22:19:30 When moving from Blogger to WordPress http://tinyurl.com/2ad78d

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December

Wednesday, 5th of December.

12:17:28 Screenshots of Live Documents http://tinyurl.com/yq8smw 14:27:43 Thanks Google for the Christmas AdSense Gift http://tinyurl.com/yv5wrl

Friday, 7th of December.

12:56:53 An update on Marc Orchant http://www.gottabemobile.com/AnUpdateOnMarcOrchant.aspx Our prayers are with you Marc, get well - please.

13:08:30 Lets meet at BarCamp Delhi tomorrow http://tinyurl.com/ytxsvs 14:58:51 Did anyone check the new Adobe website - they have made it left-aligned like the BBC.

Tuesday, 11th of December.

17:20:42 catch me on NDTV 24x7 at 7 PM tonight.

Wednesday, 12th of December.

22:57:37 Need your votes in Blogger Face-off http://tinyurl.com/yr3h4p

Thursday, 13th of December.

19:40:04 Roundup - Tech Video Bloggers of 2007 http://tinyurl.com/ypqpez

Friday, 14th of December.

19:19:19 Some SnagIt Tricks http://tinyurl.com/33esfe 21:32:39 Easily backup all Outlook emails to Gmail http://tinyurl.com/yrhlte

Wednesday, 19th of December.

21:26:26 Facebook Friends List is now live http://tinyurl.com/yra26v

Friday, 28th of December.

10:22:29 The video I did for the AdSense Story contest is now on their official blog http://tinyurl.com/253eqb

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2008

January

Wednesday, 2nd of January.

18:05:18 Fake CNN Breaking News http://tinyurl.com/2hvt4a

Friday, 4th of January.

13:20:55 Economist covers Twitter http://tinyurl.com/ynszv8 23:39:32 More Creative uses of a Camera Phone http://tinyurl.com/29muhj

Sunday, 6th of January.

13:00:59 Watch how the Techmeme Homepage changes over time http://tinyurl.com/yumhxt

Friday, 18th of January.

13:28:15 The Best YouTube Tools http://tinyurl.com/25fthf

Thursday, 24th of January.

12:35:28 Can someone suggest a good Twitter client for Windows ?

12:54:23 @baxiabhishek @hnprashanth @doshiamit @doshiamit @doshiamit thanks.. checking out snitter 12:55:40 @emptyhead yes 8hands works with twitter but I am looking for a "twitter-only" client 12:56:48 @sunilbajpai Thanks 12:57:18 @tamar This is definitely good. Thanks for the suggestion.

14:50:20 will probably settle with twhirl 17:38:31 @MarkONeill I guess you can configure that time-period via Options in Twhirl.

20:04:36 Today is National Handwriting Day .. http://tinyurl.com/2dv9m6

Friday, 25th of January.

00:54:18 Ignore all Facebook apps request - http://tinyurl.com/293uy6

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Sunday, 27th of January.

10:51:57 @alexdc glad you liked it.. this script is like magic for Facebook users

Monday, 28th of January.

14:58:31 A Day in the life of a Blog Post - Nice Illustration http://tinyurl.com/ytt978 21:41:36 @rafe twitterdemo 21:46:10 @KevinCTofel Kevin, if your blog is on WP, this mobile trick may interest you http://ckunte.com/archives/go-mobile

Tuesday, 29th of January.

17:56:28 Behind the scenes with Gina of LH - good read http://tinyurl.com/2dj6r8 23:20:43 @marshallk Surprised they don't support Firefox on Windows

Wednesday, 30th of January.

00:19:47 Retweeting @graywolf: 24 hours later I still have no idea what prologue for wordpress is/does

Thursday, 31st of January.

20:19:15 I use the tracks command in Twitter but for some reason it doesn't work with twhirl. Anyone got clues ?

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February

Friday, 1st of February.

17:27:08 Retweeting @dannysullivan: microsoft makes move to buy yahoo http://tinyurl.com/24b7ns 17:28:31 Surprised the MSFT-YHOO news is not on Techmeme yet

Saturday, 2nd of February.

00:22:09 Know about the most popular twitter clients http://tinyurl.com/2z9x4a

Wednesday, 6th of February.

17:39:51 I will be attending BarCamp Hyderabad at Google Office http://tinyurl.com/2qfdpq

Thursday, 7th of February.

22:04:42 Email based file conversion http://tinyurl.com/2szlw6 22:20:55 @JenniferLaycock Some resources here http://tinyurl.com/2jjtpu 22:54:54 @betsyweber Thanks for sharing the Techmeme video on SnagIt news http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/newsletter/snagitnews020508.asp 23:07:04 Read Digital Inspiration on Mobile Phones - http://m.labnol.org

Friday, 8th of February.

23:17:31 I love this video editor http://tinyurl.com/2zebn7

Thursday, 21st of February.

20:34:38 Wondering what Microsoft plans to announce in this call http://tinyurl.com/2m75l2

Friday, 22nd of February.

11:16:12 Can anyone send me a beta invite for Evernote ? The web version looks cool.

Saturday, 23rd of February.

00:46:41 http://tinyurl.com/ywgcy9 Please try this new Google Gadget for Digital Inspiration, it also includes Google Custom Search.

Tuesday, 26th of February.

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09:31:52 Add Google Talk to Your Blog http://tinyurl.com/2qfdfx

Wednesday, 27th of February.

08:42:47 Twitter still pays the rent for @marshallk :) Excellent article at RWW http://tinyurl.com/33hupp 20:30:47 How AdSense Click Fraud works in India http://tinyurl.com/2tnz4r 22:50:49 Buzz Bruggeman has a suggestion for Steve Ballmer - http://tinyurl.com/2mx7cs 23:43:42 The financial side of power bloggers http://tinyurl.com/yprn3o

Thursday, 28th of February.

11:19:54 Google Sites http://tinyurl.com/2tztxp 15:57:52 Microsoft Telescope Video - http://tinyurl.com/394ggn 17:28:45 Thank you @RobinGood http://tinyurl.com/35gyzs

Friday, 29th of February.

00:03:24 Food for thought http://tinyurl.com/3dqh48 Thanks @nbradbury 00:04:12 Dealing with RSS Overload http://tinyurl.com/25mcuw

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March

Saturday, 15th of March.

09:52:16 Adv. Program for Tech Blogs http://tinyurl.com/2sdpqh 11:01:43 @jenstar Macobserver is one http://tinyurl.com/39p48u 11:03:06 @abdulqabiz Nothing like TLA, its much like BlogAds or AdSense without the contextual element.

11:09:46 @maheshexp A lot of readers download my articles in PDF format, maybe for archiving purpose http://tinyurl.com/ys9cgo 13:50:52 http://tinyurl.com/33ebc4 Google sent me some stickers for creating this Desktop Gadget.. Nice 19:12:12 http://friendfeed.com/labnol Join me on FriendFeed

Monday, 17th of March.

09:25:38 Statesman had a nice chat with @ginatrapani http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/other/03/16/0316guide.html 15:48:14 Negative comments take toll on another blogger http://tinyurl.com/39ckr8

Tuesday, 18th of March.

13:56:08 http://tinyurl.com/33rq8c Google Maps Viewer 23:59:42 @jeremywright Can I have one please.

Wednesday, 19th of March.

00:06:44 Quick Updates .. http://tinyurl.com/3bl6zk 12:32:35 @Kingsley2 I am all the more curious now to try Xobni .. got an invite ?

12:34:49 @sumesh If you are looking for simple and barebone solution, bbpress is nice else you may want to go with phpBB or vBulletin 16:47:54 @baxiabhishek Please one for me. Thanks.

21:46:24 New blog aggregator from AT&T http://tinyurl.com/2maxdx

Thursday, 20th of March.

11:30:05 @Kingsley2 No issues, just got one from @baxiabhishek - thanks anyway 13:01:28 http://www.labnol.org/faq/ finally written an FAQ for the blog 20:46:45 Just realized that I am visiting Orkut only to approve new friend requests .. @shweta 23:51:50 http://tinyurl.com/2nmdd6 Sraman Mitra on @techcrunch blogging dream team.

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Friday, 21st of March.

00:11:46 Blogging Basics from New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/technology/personaltech/20basics.html 01:59:16 Giveaway - 11 licenses of ACA screen capture tool - http://tinyurl.com/2opsww 16:33:07 http://tinyurl.com/3xtcpa Nice interview with @DonMcAllister - screencasting guru 18:28:10 http://trafcom.typepad.com/podcast - If you are into podcasting, this is one podcast show that you cannot afford to miss @DonnaPapacosta 23:19:08 How to Disable OpenDNS Search http://tinyurl.com/33v7t6

Monday, 24th of March.

15:14:04 @leehopkins Can't agree more. And she is probably the only one who adds such useful show-notes with every episode @DonnaPapacosta

Tuesday, 25th of March.

00:51:22 http://tinyurl.com/2whl25 How to test your website / blog

Wednesday, 26th of March.

12:56:41 Meet the Press http://tinyurl.com/38tsxr - good article by @scobleizer 22:06:49 Dropped your phone or iPod in water ? http://tinyurl.com/2uvkue

Thursday, 27th of March.

10:37:02 Photoshop Express http://www.photoshop.com/express/ 10:54:06 @baxiabhishek I think the live previews 17:59:38 Some more screen capture programs http://tinyurl.com/2ueeq9 20:18:10 @kawaljit Thanks - did notice that in my referrals.

22:30:43 @ranjanv glad it helped. Kwout is my favorite

Friday, 28th of March.

08:15:59 @anoopengineer Covered that before http://tinyurl.com/2whl25 19:44:32 Taxes For AdSense Income in India http://tinyurl.com/2g9d5o

Saturday, 29th of March.

11:02:44 LOLCAT pictures with SnagIt http://tinyurl.com/38ef2l 15:21:35 Know everything about a website http://tinyurl.com/2mt8fj 22:59:07 WordPress 2.5 has left the building http://wordpress.org/

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23:21:18 Make a Vista SP1 DVD .. finally http://tinyurl.com/2rkygt

Sunday, 30th of March.

08:51:37 Just managed to get on the front page of http://www.ratingburner.com/ at #49 ..

17:48:09 http://tinyurl.com/2nc49d - another excellent screencast on Website Usability from @molzy 20:37:17 just found that Blip.tv doesn't offer private video facility for regular accounts 21:00:32 http://tinyurl.com/277s6d Am surprised NYT missed mentioning "Upgrade Your Life" by @ginatrapani http://lifehackerbook.com/

Monday, 31st of March.

08:10:39 Digg button on a business card .. http://tinyurl.com/3bacfc 08:16:30 @brajeshwar has some good photos from BarCampMumbai 08:20:04 "I don't care if you work for a major company, or are in 8th grade. All will be given equal access." http://tinyurl.com/37qjy7 08:30:34 Dan Farber - "Don't blame Techmeme for blogorrhea" http://tinyurl.com/3yswo7 11:56:26 More useful Google 404 page http://tinyurl.com/2f3at4 15:11:38 The biggest problem with Clipmarks http://tinyurl.com/383zkb 15:28:33 BBC News website sports a new design http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 15:36:08 "if my math teacher had made screencasts for me in 1984, I might have been the next John Nash!" http://tinyurl.com/2mevl5 @betsyweber 16:49:39 How to share NSFW links on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/3bz4n4 16:55:06 suprised that no one is talking about Google Docs here..

17:53:23 @rodrigolj @shishirs @judis217 @chandan619 @amitgupta @shadez am doing a screencast on Google docs.. wait..

17:54:09 New!! Add YouTube videos to Google Docs http://tinyurl.com/2sur53 21:53:39 rk - Please refresh the page if trouble viewing the Google Docs+YouTube video http://tinyurl.com/2sur53

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April

Tuesday, 1st of April.

13:20:27 @bosky101 stay tuned :)

Wednesday, 2nd of April.

23:42:45 http://tinyurl.com/32zpzt Firefox 3 Beta 5 up now

Thursday, 3rd of April.

00:41:59 @Rafe Same here. Evernote is definitely good but slow (especially on Vista).

09:54:11 Hillary + Obama http://tinyurl.com/3ckjoh 10:30:26 @labnol Firefox 3 has a problem remembering my cookies - anyone else facing this issue ?

Tuesday, 8th of April.

10:07:37 Good Quote - "NYT Thinks Blogging Is Fatal, and just to prove their point, bloggers fight to respond first." http://tinyurl.com/6fvho3 17:20:04 http://tinyurl.com/57l5ce Send SMS from Outlook

Wednesday, 9th of April.

13:25:23 Rediff on "The Business of Blogging in India" http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/09blog.htm 19:42:38 If TechSmith ever integrates Jing with Flickr, it could become a good place for uploading short screencasts http://tinyurl.com/5eqwpq 20:56:48 Some Flickrites unhappy with video support - http://tinyurl.com/69tz2w 22:48:26 Dealing with Spam in Google Calendar http://tinyurl.com/6kpf8m

Friday, 11th of April.

10:14:06 Nice list of Twitter Web Applications http://tinyurl.com/56cozv 13:33:33 If the top tech blogs were actually about weight loss .. http://tinyurl.com/6ew3re

Saturday, 12th of April.

09:35:41 Question: When did you last buy a computer magazine - print version ?

Monday, 14th of April.

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11:39:17 Some labels for bloggers http://tinyurl.com/5g5vlz 21:01:12 @steverubel Steve - that's a good idea. I will put some Google stickers :)

Wednesday, 16th of April.

15:24:54 @jenstar If you are on Windows, consider Live Writer - it will pop up a warning if you don't assign categories before publishing a post..

Friday, 18th of April.

18:28:53 This post may hit Techmeme pretty soon http://tinyurl.com/4mcgaw

Saturday, 19th of April.

15:05:58 Check out http://www.dhingana.com - pretty good site for listening to some hindi music.

15:07:05 @hnprashanth yes I have been experimenting with adwords for some time now.

Monday, 21st of April.

15:43:04 Favorite Twitter Services - http://tinyurl.com/4e3l6g

Tuesday, 22nd of April.

09:10:35 @marshallk This should help http://tinyurl.com/6yqbpr 13:19:27 Really liked Yahoo!'s logo today http://tinyurl.com/6g8zzu

Thursday, 24th of April.

09:18:34 Went to meet someone close admitted in Apollo, Delhi .. spent 9 hours commuting to and fro but only 9 minutes with her ..

09:19:02 FB chat looks decent in the sidebar http://tinyurl.com/6d47b7 10:00:09 Wish there were some more color schemes to choose from in Alert Thingy..

10:16:08 @gauravgupta yes that was easy.. you need to get a key from friendfeed ..

10:33:24 @tejaaa yes.. everything is perfect.. thanks.

20:05:35 @dhinchcliffe Also try Ask blog search - it will throw up some more surprises.

23:10:34 Evernote opens the flood gates .. http://tinyurl.com/6blvqh

Friday, 25th of April.

20:36:32 @sarahintampa Mark everything as read and head over to techmeme river to catch up all the stuff that you may have missed ..

20:47:23 @tamar I guess Gmail for Google Apps will automatically redirect to the mobile version if you access that site from a mobile device

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21:00:37 @tamar you are right .. it requires you to download the gmail application on your phone..

21:14:22 @tamar guess that's only for BB http://tinyurl.com/5s9jvk 21:15:28 Matt of WP on AllthingsD http://tinyurl.com/65sphv

Saturday, 26th of April.

10:04:05 TIME covers the team behind "You Suck at Photoshop" videos http://tinyurl.com/5n2nwr 11:10:33 retweeting @sarahintampa Want an invite to Live Mesh? http://tinyurl.com/5w26le 12:36:09 @gautamghosh check this video http://tinyurl.com/62qvfw 12:59:58 @gautamghosh i think it can be stressful if you're working for a network.. when you have to worry about meeting targets (read, pageviews)

Monday, 28th of April.

08:52:56 spent this Sunday watching 3 hindi movies in a row .. jab we met, bhul bhaila, phir hera feri. ...

08:59:31 @swapnil_shinde i meant y'day 09:00:17 @tejaaa you are actually right.. i watched the ones that were released several months ago.. jab v met,.. bhul bhulaiye.. jhum barabar 09:02:51 The Digital Inspiration page on Facebook now has 139 fans.. sweet.. http://tinyurl.com/5ukj5y 10:58:20 @shweta it will be something about how-to stuff, not ent. for sure :) 11:28:01 And while my son was sleeping, I made this stop motion film with his animals .. http://tinyurl.com/6jdrgv 11:30:36 @ideasmithy http://twerpscan.com/ this looks like a possible solution 11:37:29 @prsn thanks.. that was shot during movie breaks :) 11:38:32 @speakLittle i guess is someone is following a very large set of people but has little or no followers, the profile gets flagged 11:39:17 @codelust you'll be surprised but i have just one now.. customizegoogle 11:45:50 @asfaq some movies have very long breaks now..

12:20:40 @gautamghosh I think they do ..

12:26:06 A really huge giveaway will be coming up on Digital Inspiration .. stay tuned everyone..

12:28:10 @codelust it's much bigger :) 12:31:00 @tejaaa yes.. i am slighly more active now.. don't know the reasons though 12:41:12 @scorpion032 it's not software .. it's hardware 12:52:36 @brentter Am I missing something here ?

13:01:03 @shishirs will put all the details on the blog.. stay tuned..

14:40:12 Some fun with the Wikipedia API - http://tinyurl.com/6mkbg5 14:41:43 @mrinal_desai thanks mrinal.. am still not too sure about the revenue sharing part..

14:53:32 @brentter thank you for all those intelligent suggestions.. will definitely help.. thanks again..

15:20:55 @DDeeps Guess that's because you are not logged into twitter 15:36:00 @DDeeps It's even a bigger problem if you are on http://www.mybloglog.com/ .. open the

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homepage and won't have a clue about what to do next 17:26:34 @speakLittle I don't use this on cell.

17:30:42 @baxiabhishek Microsoft Synctoy ?

21:07:35 OK, Digital Inspiration will be giving away an HP HDX Notebook PC that retails at $5K+ http://tinyurl.com/64fdfr - sponsored by HP

Tuesday, 29th of April.

11:40:50 retweeting @palinn search online forums with Twing http://www.twing.com/ 11:45:30 hit the snooze button on your verbose twitter friends: http://twittersnooze.com/ - from @emilychang 12:18:01 @nikhilnarayanan agree .. my favorites are tweetscan and quotably .. http://tinyurl.com/4e3l6g 14:52:45 @twilightfairy luckily it is very easy to block invites from that site.

15:41:08 @fredwilson if you on Microsoft Outlook, SMSOfficer is nice 15:42:19 Chacha on twitter http://twitter.com/chacha - Thanks @gauravgupta 16:19:38 Can you suggest a site for searching tweets ? I use Tweetscan but it's down..

16:25:37 http://summize.com/ looks like a decent alternative to Tweetscan.. thanks @gauravgupta 16:27:17 @sciencebase twhirl internally uses tweetscan and that's down.. i am switching to summize 19:48:30 @kamla Q for Naresh: When can we expect a pro version of Photoshop Express.

20:25:15 @Brajeshwar Never seen that format before.. is that iPhone specific ?

20:36:23 @ginatrapani Create an "imaginary feed" in FriendFeed for the "Cannot Miss" twitter group, then use Alert Thingy to track this group..

20:36:56 @baxiabhishek online - zamzar.com, offline - SUPER 23:45:16 TIME Magazine video - The Psychic Scars of Kashmir http://tinyurl.com/6s4pxh 23:59:16 http://whoshouldifollow.com/ recommends people to follow on Twitter

Wednesday, 30th of April.

00:35:15 @molzy so that means your site is 1 in 156 million :) http://tinyurl.com/2yrfxu 00:41:24 http://tinyurl.com/5youb9 BlackBerry 9000 has a great browser 09:30:35 http://snurl.com/26f67 I wrote about AdSense in RSS feeds y'day and suddenly lot of other big blogs covered the same news .. strange..

10:01:51 @leehopkins There's a "people" icon at the bottom (3rd from left) that may help you.

10:10:13 @leehopkins friend is someone you follow while a follower may not be your friend 10:10:58 @leehopkins stalker or maybe fan..

10:17:29 http://tinyurl.com/5r7kps Twitter visitor stay longer than Google referrals - from @kanter 11:57:52 Anyone using Google Sites here ?

13:18:31 @RakeshAgrawal Thanks. I was looking for a quick comparison and you answered it there itself.

14:30:47 @ckunte am curious to know the reason

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14:49:23 @ckunte never experienced a similar problem before but you could try clearning the Feedburner cache and do a force re-sync.

15:32:11 new desktop wallpaper http://tinyurl.com/6acp3o - let me know if anyone wants the source psd 18:31:25 @DreamTimes Thanks. You shifted base from Chen. to UK ?

19:45:52 off to Costa coffee .. see you t'row..

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May

Thursday, 1st of May. 08:52:46 @marshallk http://www.labnol.org/mybloglog.html I use this page to see the faces of last 100+ MBL visitors on my blog 09:57:31 @muthuonline feeddemon ?

10:13:02 Digital SLRs that won't break the bank http://tinyurl.com/6qjnpd 10:46:49 @shweta that was Interesting but it uses lot of old data as well.

10:47:42 @DreamTimes do let me know the results of your research..

11:05:22 May 1st is RSS Awareness Day http://tinyurl.com/6ehxud 11:07:20 Found another good blog on personal productivity http://matthewcornell.org/blog 11:07:57 @nikhilnarayanan Good one.

11:17:47 @codelust some of them are good to know but not sure how effective they are..

11:20:45 Flickr for Screenshots - http://www.scrnshots.com/ - Not sure if I would use it. Thanks @sarahintampa 12:02:10 @muthuonline is looking for a micro-blogging platform that's not tumblr.. any suggestions 12:48:33 @RobinGood Congrats Robin.

12:48:59 http://tinyurl.com/6pxz9m Worth getting on Techmeme ?

13:52:17 The techmeme + scoble redesign conversation shifts from twitter to friendfeed http://tinyurl.com/5hc239 14:06:20 @sumesh have no clue..

14:08:11 Arrington at #100 on TIME100 List http://tinyurl.com/6yw5r9 from Huffington 14:11:45 Another blogger Perez too was a candidate for TIME100 http://tinyurl.com/3h5hpt 14:42:43 @gautamghosh :) 14:43:16 Can the sony e-book reader or kindle read PDFs without conversion ?

14:46:20 @codelust am thinking of buying one that can read PDFs.. That giveaway was for HP HDX notebook PC http://tinyurl.com/64fdfr 14:58:30 @topa thanks. that was useful information.

15:26:47 @RobinGood That's so nice of you. Will get in touch once I think of some suitable topic 15:27:31 @shweta yoga fan ?

17:22:34 @gautamghosh try a .in - hyphens no..

18:50:40 @b50 the "no" here is relative .. if you have manage to grab one without a hyphen, that's always better..

18:51:55 @mrinalwadhwa know a resource that explains Open Screen in simple English ?

20:02:07 @om has a beautiful office http://tinyurl.com/5sbws8 21:59:52 Retweeting @sarahintampa: you can still join blogrize's private beta via this link: http://snurl.com/26jcz

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Saturday, 3rd of May. 08:12:43 Pete Cashmore of @mashable on Current TV - http://tinyurl.com/6kr8jw 08:17:01 @Shripriya what's the link ?

09:41:51 Looking for a lapel microphone for the computer .. any recommendations ?

10:09:04 @Shripriya don't find them very convenient 10:11:14 Only 14% of 35-64 yr olds consider information from bloggers as credible http://tinyurl.com/3b2juu 11:24:12 Gizmodo looking for an Editor in Asia http://tinyurl.com/5kjj3e 12:56:21 nothing like a cold glass of shikanji in summers 13:21:21 If you have a tablet PC, these tips will come very handy http://tinyurl.com/5v73r7 13:25:08 The best time to publish posts is between 1- 3pm PST (after lunch) or between 5- 7pm PST (after work) http://is.gd/bru - from @marshallk 13:27:12 Have a nice weekend folks.. see you on Monday.

Monday, 5th of May. 09:44:24 retweeting @mannu If Silverlight came with SWF capabilities, pre-installed with Windows, would you bother downloading Adobe Flash Player?

10:15:47 @KevinCTofel completes an year as a full time blogger .. congrats Kevin http://tinyurl.com/5txh2r 10:16:52 @nikhilnarayanan I find them more innovative than any of the existing online editors ..

10:25:29 NYT profiles Xobni http://tinyurl.com/5ka274 11:44:49 Joy of Tech: Jerry Yang's first day at Microsoft http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1102.html 19:40:41 http://tinyurl.com/5tw4jn 19:53:55 Thanks @mrinalwadhwa - happy to learn that brio is still available. You saved me a few minutes.

20:08:02 http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/digitalinspiration/ the labnol page on MyBlogLog may cross the 3000 mark soon.. 3 to go.

22:52:38 http://tinyurl.com/696a2f New pictures of Mukesh Ambani's home

Tuesday, 6th of May. 09:20:38 Cube finally ends a ban on sale of PCs .. http://tinyurl.com/64uqsz 09:38:42 Macromedia MXNA is now Adobe Feeds http://feeds.adobe.com/ 09:45:57 http://tinyurl.com/5roblo Duncan leaves TC 13:03:00 @codelust :) Maybe he's here to announce a localized version of FB 22:12:13 I will spend the weekend doing this http://tinyurl.com/3hoj4d 23:42:06 http://tinyurl.com/6pv4th Iterasi is live

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Wednesday, 7th of May. 09:05:08 Anyone using Zinio here ? Is it good ?

09:39:49 @wishal Can you export your magazines to read on another computer ? And does it use PDF ?

10:36:27 Ah! never knew that there's another @problogger blog http://www.problognews.com/ 10:47:52 lot of companies have a new position "blogger outreach" 10:50:55 @unitechy guess its related to spreading buzz in the blogosphere 11:32:04 @twilightfairy Am not aware of any such positions in India but Naukri.com and Monster do have some jobs related to blogging :) 15:36:08 Now that the bug in AdSense Reports is fixed, do you see any missing impressions for y'day or are they same as before ?

19:28:20 Looks like AOL has dropped Google Ads from all Weblogs Inc blogs like TUAW, Download Squad, etc 19:42:40 @jenstar Looks like that same program is quite popular among big publishers like Forbes, USA Today, etc.

Thursday, 8th of May. 16:18:23 @gautamghosh just saw your SMS - the network I was talking about during the phone call is Adify 21:04:13 @MeghnaK is probably one of the youngest members of twitter .. she is only 12 and pretty active here

Friday, 9th of May. 12:47:32 In case you want to read my blog updates on twitter, just follow @labnolfeed

Saturday, 17th of May. 17:24:35 Wait over! The HP HDX Dragon Notebook giveaway details are now up on Digital Inspiration, all can participate - http://tinyurl.com/64fdfr

Thursday, 22nd of May. 16:47:06 http://www.polldaddy.com/p/630414/ What kind of tech user are you ? This poll will take just two seconds.

17:51:59 @shankargan is only 16 and making waves already - see his profile http://www.shankarganesh.com/ - feeling old as I am twice his age..

17:55:23 @codelust even with the new release of Opera Mini, I couldn't get it to work on my BB curve..

19:02:06 @shweta i though it was coming during diwali 19:08:11 For folks in the NCR region - BlogCamp Delhi will happen on May 24 at MS Office in Gurgaon .. http://barcamp.org/BlogCampDelhi 19:10:41 @keithdsouza always nice to see such young achievers..

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19:20:43 http://tinyurl.com/66muox Some good blogging advice from @jenstar at Scribefire ... you must follow this blog..

20:02:40 Retweeting @jkendrick: Adobe's LCDS brings offline capability to AIR apps http://tinyurl.com/6h5r5s 20:07:09 Thanks @navjotpawera - I know APN has to be configured manually but not sure if BB allows changing DNS http://is.gd/kfh 21:03:16 @navjotpawera I can access the internet using the default BlakcBerry browser but not via OM. 21:04:09 http://www.polldaddy.com/p/630414/ - 200 responses received so far .. 75% say they are early adopters of technology

Friday, 23rd of May. 10:45:00 Retweeting @rww: RWW Live: Episode 1 http://tinyurl.com/65h9h2 The RWW authors start a live podcast.

Saturday, 24th of May. 09:42:25 http://www.brodeurmediasurvey.com/ GigaOm ranked by tech reporters as the most credible tech news site for content. So true. Congrats @om 12:13:19 #blogcampdelhi in now happening .. catch the sessions live at http://www.delhibloggers.in/livesessions 15:14:39 someone is talking about AdSense at BlogCampDelhi .. don't think I agree with his views..

Sunday, 25th of May. 13:02:56 anyone from Singapore here ?

Tuesday, 27th of May. 21:09:41 Twitter can also reduce your request quota.. http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/twitter-api-can-reduce-hourly-request-quota/3420/

Wednesday, 28th of May. 09:17:09 @peeyush Plug-in Room ? http://www.experiencemarriott.com/html/plugin/ 09:24:18 Windows 7 overdose now..

14:51:37 Long finds the source of fake Windows 7 screenshots that you just saw at Techcrunch http://is.gd/mPu 15:38:01 http://tinyurl.com/5j865d Sarah's interview on Blogger Talks.. @sarahintampa 16:23:26 @mrinalwadhwa Did you get a chance to try that Socialize code ? Any inputs ?

16:30:27 @mrinalwadhwa That was perfect. Thanks.

19:59:35 @abhishekkant upload the file to movavi.com 20:23:27 If you are getting bored.. http://cubo.cc/

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Thursday, 29th of May. 10:28:46 anyone been to Nainital recently ? Howz the weather / crowd there ..

10:52:01 CNN IBN is live-blogging the Delhi protests .. http://tinyurl.com/6j4z4h 11:36:11 Retweeting @mathewi Bloggers get “paid� with comments: http://tinyurl.com/5wd6hr 11:57:02 @twilightfairy do you mean the background music or the ads between audio segments ?

15:57:02 Some people say they are allergic to Wi-Fi signals and want them banned .. http://tinyurl.com/6evw7u 18:26:18 Need your suggestions / ideas - I recently acquired this domain http://www.digitalinspiration.com - what should I do on this site 19:04:37 @abhishekkant what is exact problem you're facing with AdSense ?

21:05:00 @amitsomani good to see you here..

21:07:20 anyone using Sony PRS-505 for reading PDFs ? How's the experience..

21:12:30 Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Becoming An Opera http://tinyurl.com/699l7g

Friday, 30th of May. 12:57:50 Insects for lunch ... http://tinyurl.com/6yemts 13:08:41 @arjunghosh am a pure vegetarian :) 19:02:35 do you know of any bollywood celebrities who have a blog other than Big B and Amir - I need this for my blog directory http://is.gd/oaI 19:34:56 @abhishekkant I thought so because the AdSense sandbox was also showing ads for your blog URL http://tinyurl.com/23j9t4 19:51:26 google.com not loading on my screen for the last five minutes.. anyone else seeing the problme ?

20:05:36 I guess this is an OpenDNS related issue 20:14:52 b5media is shifting their office today and they are live-streaming this http://tinyurl.com/5gnqff from @jeremywright 20:15:57 @sarahintampa Twitter has dropped the request limit for external clients ..

20:26:50 Still can't access google.. the ping request gets timed out.. see screenshot http://twitpic.com/1my5 20:28:38 @sarahintampa Its a very recent change http://tinyurl.com/4hl7w7 20:33:20 OK, I am now able to access Google if I type the IP address as suggested by @kawaljit but through the google.com route ..

Saturday, 31st of May. 08:50:46 http://is.gd/oxY 300 blogs are talking about Google's new favicon - this excludes discussion happening on twitter and friendfeed.. Strange 16:24:54 http://socialcamp.eventbrite.com/ Social Media Camp in Gurgaon next week..

16:29:54 If you have Photoshop, this page is worth your bookmarks http://is.gd/oDw

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June

Sunday, 1st of June.

11:27:55 Extinction timeline says that Google's existence will be insignifcant beyond 2050. For MSFT, the year is 2035 http://is.gd/oTW - Funny.

13:31:37 Strange! Vodafone is slapped with a notice for making that dog run behind the children's school bus in an ad .. http://is.gd/oVc

Monday, 2nd of June.

12:20:54 @amitsomani I sometimes find this harder than blogging because you got to say the thing in 140 chars or less :) 12:27:48 @siprasad I guess you are are looking for this article on buying web domains http://is.gd/pgJ

Tuesday, 3rd of June.

10:20:16 @twilightfairy Ctrl + F5 10:37:06 @sarahintampa do you perform some kind of search before clearing the folder ?

10:50:34 @betsyweber Google uses the example of Techsmith to demonstrate Site Search http://www.google.com/sitesearch/ 11:06:38 The new Windows Live Writer is seriously good... http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1508.entry 13:25:05 someone asked me for a good blog editing software that works on Linux - any suggestions 14:00:45 @gaberivera recommends avoiding the "Bad Behavior" plug-in (http://is.gd/hMt) if you want Techmeme to crawl your blog.

17:54:00 @Scobleizer I have tried Capturx http://is.gd/pWF - pretty good but the only issue is that they require special paper..

19:20:59 @sarahintampa I was just curious to know because I do find emails in my Junk folder that are not spam..

20:18:45 @steverubel here's my Opera start page http://tinyurl.com/6qzd5w - i think it's techmeme most of the time

Monday, 9th of June.

09:53:32 Am back to work after a 5 day break in the hills .. Some pictures http://tinyurl.com/66b8mf 18:21:27 http://tinyurl.com/5lbsns - This update is published using Windows Live Writer

Wednesday, 11th of June.

10:04:47 any WordPress experts here .. need help in debugging some site related issues 10:40:26 @aditya I din't get any of your message .. could you please email them at amit @ labnol org

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11:03:34 It looks like some script on my server is consuming all the memory and hence the site is down.. how do I find the culprit php script ?

11:23:47 @codelust @keithdsouza @interactivecode @Brajeshwar Here're the processes running on my server .. http://www.labnol.org/e.txt 15:24:29 thankx @wishal @roshanbh @honeytech @interactivecode @alpesh @codelust @keithdsouza @Brajeshwar @aditya @pooran @tquizzle 15:25:11 the problem I guess was related to the wp super cache plugin... looks like the site is up now .. http://www.labnol.org/ 16:01:19 @Shripriya You guessed it right.. it was stressful 16:34:24 http://is.gd/uZw - On CNN IBN again. This was a surprise because it mixes an interview that happened two years ago..

21:13:16 http://tinyurl.com/5lqyt2 - Build your own alltop with Google Docs

Thursday, 12th of June.

16:38:26 The new Opera 9.5 is very good.. quite stable on Vista and the interface just rocks.

17:10:10 what does the word "phategi" mean in Hindi ? Will this be considered a slang ?

18:30:56 @sarahintampa has done a nice background for her Twitter page http://twitter.com/sarahintampa 22:38:47 Outbrain (ratings widget) moves away from Amazon S3 citing poor performance http://tinyurl.com/6rpou4

Friday, 13th of June.

09:16:39 Interoperability between Gtalk and Yahoo IM is coming http://tinyurl.com/6bubz8 09:26:23 Video recording of all Google I/O Sessions in one place http://sites.google.com/site/io/ 09:38:58 @nbradbury Nick, is it possible to export the Popular Topic view in FeedDemon ?

14:58:37 From @sramana: If you are in India and have a reasonably high traffic site producing $300 a month [from AdSense], that could be real money.

16:26:55 If you use Google, do watch this keynote by Marissa - http://tinyurl.com/6baxoy 16:35:45 http://tinyurl.com/69z4xf Can you recognize the kid in this photograph 16:54:27 From @steverubel: TwitterCounter is a service that tracks the amount of followers you have on Twitter http://twittercounter.com/ 17:22:50 @ginatrapani Congratulations Gina.

17:25:15 It looks like Google has trouble indexing web URLs that have .0 at the end http://is.gd/wtk Thanks @DreamTimes 17:34:20 Beautiful Blogroll http://www.vfdaily.com/culture/2008/blogopticon/index.html - From @jeffjarvis 17:39:44 @nbradbury Thanks Nick. I can see the source but the problem is that links are very specific to FD so I can use that data anywhere else..

20:41:01 CNN: Bloggers learn to avoid lawsuits http://is.gd/wCe

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Saturday, 14th of June.

10:27:00 Google logo created using circles and lines http://www.flickr.com/photos/markknol/2568436053/sizes/o/ - Thanks SEL. 10:55:00 @gautamghosh Maybe thats for attracting more eyeballs 11:00:41 anyone else having a problem with twhirl - its all blank for me 11:47:12 http://tinyurl.com/6omvo9 I am not alone - @amitsomani too has a blank twhirl screen 11:58:07 Twhirl problem is now resolved - go to Twhirl options and uncheck "hide messages from prev. sessions" 14:41:35 EverNote introduces quota - 40 MB per month http://tinyurl.com/6o7654 16:26:59 http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/ - How we read stuff online..

Sunday, 15th of June.

12:19:17 http://is.gd/xGS - India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime 15:28:00 The new version of MyBlogLog widget is cool http://www.labnol.org/mybloglog.html 15:53:00 FeedDemon says that I pay maximum attention to these RSS feeds http://tinyurl.com/575odu

Monday, 16th of June.

13:33:41 engadget.com is down for me .. screenshot http://tinyurl.com/5rr2qt 14:04:24 It looks like all Weblogs Inc. blogs are currently down including Download Squad, Luxist, Apple Weblog, etc..

17:12:26 Tag Clouds for some famous speeches / blogs http://tinyurl.com/6ocz7h - thanks @nimbupani 17:24:05 BBC: More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report http://is.gd/yjO

Tuesday, 17th of June.

09:10:36 From Anand Iyer: How to get TechMeme’d - write about something bashing Vista http://is.gd/yYJ 10:24:04 @acmhatre Same here. In fact I am extremely happy with Vista's performance and all my favorite applications work just perfect.

10:35:55 This comes as a surprise - TechDirt is more popular than TechCrunch in terms of RSS subscribers http://is.gd/z15 11:49:39 @nixxin What is your preferred format for sharing documents ? PDF, DOC or something else ?

11:53:10 @nixxin If you prefer PDF - do try issuu.com - I generally keep my stuff offline :) 12:52:23 Firefox 3 Download Schedule on World Map http://tinyurl.com/65l5bs 14:44:38 Technorati blog ads network sounds promising http://tinyurl.com/5ejvta 15:30:46 Are Orkut themes live for everyone now ?

15:37:37 @ChiefBrutus what's bigadda ? Big B's blog ?

15:41:38 Thanks @bombaylives @pluggdin @apnerve @baxiabhishek @dineshsoni @nirmaltv - so I assume that Orkut themes are live for everyone now..

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15:48:36 @ceetee These maps say otherwise .. http://tinyurl.com/yr3233 http://tinyurl.com/34wm9y 16:53:28 @franticnews Thanks Stan. Since that old site is on blogger, there's no way to set a 301 redirect :( 18:23:31 Firefox 3 is out though unofficially http://tinyurl.com/5fomcu 19:19:54 Wow! see the top story on Techmeme 20:09:30 Facebook is down for me since the past 30 minutes..

20:40:53 screencast.com gets an upgrade http://www.screencast.com/tour.aspx 20:49:44 Desipundit.com founder @patrix is celebrating his fifth blogging anniversary.. Congrats 20:58:49 http://tinyurl.com/6gftgq Video tour of a data warehouse that holds data for popular sites like myspace.com Thanks @bansi 21:11:17 http://www.technoratimedia.com/ Technorati Media is live ..

21:19:05 A bad product review by Walt Mossberg causes a firm's stock price to fall 5% right after his column http://is.gd/zps - Thanks @stevebaker 21:56:54 Congrats @betsyweber on the new release. A question - what happens to the uploaded files when the trial account expires ?

22:12:58 http://is.gd/zsh - Blogging Group ?

Wednesday, 18th of June.

10:00:44 @gina got married today .. Congratulations! http://is.gd/zXN 10:06:09 http://tinyurl.com/5ukj5y The DI group on Facebook now has 250+ members .. sweet!

17:35:44 @RakeshAgrawal Just a rough estimate but I think I have met less than 5% of Twitter follows.

18:02:29 http://tinyurl.com/3sjlv6 - The great office war (video) 20:55:22 Now that Reddit is open-source, do you need to be a geek to create a Reddit like site ?

Thursday, 19th of June.

09:54:18 @judis217 which is your favorite component of acrobat.com ?

10:15:04 @amitsomani On AdSense Arbitrage - http://is.gd/AVn - thus the number of people doing this may have fallen sharply ..

10:30:22 Just how much data does Google process each day .. http://tinyurl.com/6ex77a 12:04:29 Would you sign-up for a ground breaking service that requires your Gmail password ?

12:27:27 Of all the replies received so far, 99% are not in favor of sharing their Gmail passwords .. now check this video http://is.gd/AZb 12:34:24 @Asfaq screencasts are nearly impossible to watch on youtube...

12:50:08 @AndyBeard I too share the same concern ..

13:26:52 @simplyarun Arun, slidecasting is perfect when your audio and ppt is disconnected.. @Asfaq was referring to a screencast video ..

13:52:12 After writing a technology column for Financial Express for nearly 1.5 years, am discontinuing that because blog takes so much time now..

14:01:04 Am looking for Indian bloggers who write exclusively about SEO / Internet Marketing.. do you

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know any names except Mani and Saptarshi..

17:16:00 Twitter is behaving pretty well these days.. haven't seen that flying whale error message in the last 3-4 days..

18:06:21 Can you help me find the name of this font .. here's a screenshot - http://twitpic.com/2gsi 19:59:55 Thank you @dappertext @aditya @ilikeprivacy @BillP - you got that right ..

20:37:48 @Aishwaryarao It turned out to Felt Pen http://twitpic.com/2gyf

Friday, 20th of June.

16:29:29 http://tinyurl.com/6mm5e7 The Twitter Hall of Shame -a collection of angry, awkward and funny tweets.

Monday, 23rd of June.

12:07:18 http://digitalinspiration.com Need 2 seconds - please add your name to this Google Map. You may put your blog URL also if you have one..

15:34:07 @gautamghosh Some tips on GMail IMAP - http://tinyurl.com/ys94uh 15:53:05 @b50 IMAP prevents lot of duplicate work - if you read a mail in Outlook, it's mark as read in Gmail as well..

16:20:23 @ideasmithy @siprasad @ngkabra @eshwarj Could you please try adding your name again http://digitalinspiration.com 17:15:29 @gautamghosh He's an impersonator ..

18:52:49 Never knew that @mannu is the man behind www.issuu.com - great site 20:02:25 http://tinyurl.com/63nwln there's a new video show from instablogs.. good effort.

Tuesday, 24th of June.

12:58:33 Is it just me but I am enjoying Opera 9.5 more than Firefox 3..

17:40:09 @dannysullivan how about using "Block" 20:01:59 Just a quick update .. more than a thousand people have added their names to the DI Google Map at http://digitalinspiration.com - thanks.

Wednesday, 25th of June.

19:28:13 @nixxin Nikhil, that was news to me.. Good luck.

Thursday, 26th of June.

21:12:37 @patrix use summize.com

Friday, 27th of June.

03:03:18 Google Media server http://tinyurl.com/5exqxf

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17:42:26 BlogCamp Kerala To Happen On a House Boat http://tinyurl.com/55rsm5 19:45:22 @nixxin Congrats Nikhil.. brings back memories of a discussion we had at BarCamp Delhi :) 19:46:32 From @steverubel: Big Rocketboom news is in the works. http://tinyurl.com/5hug5j

Saturday, 28th of June.

17:18:47 The Digital Inspiration Reader map is now on Google Earth.. http://a.p.agarwal.googlepages.com/labnol.kml 17:25:03 @amitsomani I want to but for some reason, Google Maps is ready to take this KML ..

Sunday, 29th of June.

16:11:25 TimesNow TV 9:30 PM today..

Monday, 30th of June.

12:42:51 @TOMHTML You can download this file locally and load in Google Earth - ignore the errros.. http://a.p.agarwal.googlepages.com/labnol.kml 12:44:52 @scorpion032 I have a video recording of the show here http://tinyurl.com/6adr6u 14:39:29 NASA Photo: Water on Mars http://tinyurl.com/hz3to 15:21:51 Strage.. Cannot hear audio while playing YouTube videos in Firefox 3..

16:18:40 @srikat any flash video.. and this is not consistent .. the audio does play in Firefox at times ...

19:43:38 http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/index.php This Blog Network application in Facebook looks pretty good - Thanks @sarahintampa

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July

Tuesday, 1st of July.

13:00:21 Commoncraft LinkedIn video - http://tinyurl.com/6eaczx 13:10:05 Considering the kind of attn RSS Band recd. in the last week, Newsgator should seriously consider integrating GReader with FeedDemon..

14:14:22 @palinn you can do that already.. @nbradbury has details on his blog

Wednesday, 2nd of July.

11:45:12 Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how http://is.gd/JKc 12:00:46 Rare speech of Mahatma Gandhi .. http://tinyurl.com/6fafxk 18:58:15 Some people suggest that WTC Bldg 7 did not collapse due to fire, it was brought down by a controlled demolition http://is.gd/Kpg 21:30:21 @nimbupani I could guess that.. no probs

Thursday, 3rd of July.

11:23:27 Do you use Alltop.com ? If yes, why ?

Friday, 4th of July.

16:34:46 @unitechy that information is available in your Google Webmaster Tools account - otherwise Yahoo! site explorer is also pretty handy 18:48:57 LinkedIn India recently hit has 1 million mark .. some pictures http://is.gd/LQh - Thanks @shefaligaur

Saturday, 5th of July.

13:23:18 @amitsomani I guess ads - they get to reach a clientele who has more spending power

Monday, 7th of July.

09:28:44 NYT on the BoingBoing vs Violet Blue drama http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/media/07link.html

Tuesday, 8th of July.

09:31:37 I got some SnagIt 9 licenses to giveaway.. http://tinyurl.com/5w98eu 12:10:46 @duncanriley shares an interesting screenshot - The TechCruch Digg club http://tinyurl.com/6ppffc

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19:45:18 English alphabets for the Web 2.0 crowd - http://tinyurl.com/65sgqh

Wednesday, 9th of July.

12:13:33 @palinn Go with Airtel .. 1 MBPS unlimited for around 2.5k 20:12:49 This is a piece I wrote for the Google Docs blog http://tinyurl.com/6nm2kp

Thursday, 10th of July.

10:34:12 Thank you @marshallk @Orli @Aalaap @KevinCTofel @gaetanocaruana @yogtec @AltafSayani 10:37:41 @sramana has done an interesting article of PaidContent calling it "one of the rare blogs that has some reasonable revenue" http://is.gd/PPI 13:19:33 @Shripriya You got that right.. here's the trick http://tinyurl.com/35nh5s 13:28:21 Quest for WordPress gurus - Is it possible to set custom fields for a post without using the web editor ?

14:33:16 @icarusprakash @imba @ajaykumarmeher - the idea is that I put a shortcode in a blog post and it gets saved as a custom field in wordpress.

Friday, 11th of July.

13:12:36 It is very disappointing when people / companies use words like "inappropriate, offensive" to describe things that are part of your culture.

14:56:57 PaidContent acquired by Guardian for 30million.. Congrats Rafat & team..

14:59:15 AOL paid Jason $25 million for Weblogs Inc..

15:03:51 More on this at AllThingsD http://is.gd/QUe and RWW http://tinyurl.com/6ahe2y

Saturday, 12th of July.

13:02:37 It's relatively quiet today.. maybe everyone is busy exploring their new eyeFone 13:06:38 "..apparently TechCrunch has been talking to AOL about a deal in the $20-$30m range" - from @mathewi http://tinyurl.com/5vejsh

Tuesday, 15th of July.

11:24:37 WordPress 2.6 is out..

Wednesday, 16th of July.

01:23:30 @rklau Pass that web page through a Lynx Viewer like the one here - http://tinyurl.com/lwjbk 10:45:17 How is the PDF reading experience on an iPhone (or iPod touch) ?

11:21:43 "Apple Walled Garden" - This is such a brilliant post by @cubrilovic http://tinyurl.com/5lb9fl 23:49:10 Hurry up .. registrations for .me to open in few hours http://tinyurl.com/6d76hy

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Friday, 18th of July.

11:09:03 Someone buys Podtech for 500k - I guess their video equipments alone would be worth more ..

22:54:57 @betsyweber I sometimes use a Samson C01 for scr. - the sound quality is good but wish I had gone for something wireless.

Saturday, 19th of July.

13:47:18 Some screenshots of Google's latest Interface http://tinyurl.com/68m8lh

Monday, 21st of July.

08:46:03 My unread item count in FeedDemon reduced by 30% after I removed all posts that mentioned Amazon S3 Down" 09:06:59 @shweta With FB ads, you get good number of impressions but the click-through rate is not very exciting..

09:21:10 @vinodlive I dont' have too many "gadget blogs" in the list so it's not too big a problem :) 09:28:05 "Funny how Amazon doesn't use S3 to store any assets for amazon.com" .. from @gruber 14:31:11 @siprasad If you're on Windows, Live Writer is just perfect

Tuesday, 22nd of July.

10:10:04 http://is.gd/ZPX - Visual Analysis of Singapore blogosphere - @nimbupani 10:13:47 @Brajeshwar That comment plugin is WP Ajax Edit Comments 17:10:48 This article on "Tech Blogging" from @scobleizer is long but don't miss reading it http://is.gd/100J 17:12:30 "Tech blogging is controlled by PR agents. This is why you see 15 stories all appear on Techmeme at the same time. All with the same news."

21:36:04 @crazybob Try this for your slideshows - http://myjugaad.in/

Wednesday, 23rd of July.

09:15:32 One of my favorite blogs on UMPC and mobile devices is acquired by GigaOm - Congrats @jkendrick @om @KevinCTofel http://is.gd/10YI 11:54:15 Which is correct: email or e-mail ?

Thursday, 24th of July.

12:37:18 Weblog Publisher MessyMedia Gives Up, Blaming Lack Of Ads, Writers http://is.gd/12gc

Friday, 25th of July.

15:41:01 Use spy to track the blasts in Bangalore http://spy.appspot.com/find/bangalore/1

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19:44:29 Can anyone count the number of "digital cameras" in this picture ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2699829038/sizes/o/

Tuesday, 29th of July.

20:16:27 @pawansahay - the answer to @kgopal 's question is Big B.

Wednesday, 30th of July.

09:10:25 @scobleizer 's Fast Company shows are getting more interesting.. he had David Allen & Buzz of ActiveWords on the show http://is.gd/18rU 09:57:27 An interesting article by @rafe - " the ratio of bad Web products to good (or interesting) products is worse than usual" http://is.gd/18u0 10:07:10 @Scobleizer I wish you also include low-res videos that download a bit faster.. the Office Online show was > 310MB 10:11:51 WordPress hires Michael Pick.. he's a talented screencaster and will continue to work on how-to videos but for WordPress http://is.gd/18uF 22:28:58 New spam related option in Gmail Search filters.. http://tinyurl.com/5k6yec

Thursday, 31st of July.

10:01:32 As an 'early adopter' of technology, do you prefer trying a web product yourself before reading the reviews or is it vice-versa..

11:19:57 @mathewi just noticed that @duncanriley got 'unpublished' from techcrunch http://tinyurl.com/66w7sb - another 'violetblue -boingboing' case 16:45:00 @nimbupani and @vyom just announced their marriage on Twitter.. congrats and a very happy married life..

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August

Tuesday, 5th of August.

20:34:54 My FeedBurner feed http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol has run into major issues after they moved it from feedburner to google .. returns a 404 21:16:30 @sciencebase GoDaddy issue a refund the very next day.

21:17:31 @ranjanv It looks like the migration is not happening very smoothly 21:40:31 @ashishmohta Thanks for letting me.. the issue is now fixed.. am in the middle of publishing more on this..

Wednesday, 6th of August.

14:07:44 Airtel will launch iphone on Aug 22 http://tinyurl.com/5fdu5m 15:48:30 @kunalgangar you are probably right.. i use the curve mainly for email and the bb keyboard absolutely rocks..

15:50:18 @RobinGood has an excellent write-up on "What Differentiates a Blog Post From A Professionally Article?" http://tinyurl.com/5zd4e4 20:24:16 Google Trends data is fairly accurate stuff .. http://tinyurl.com/66dt79

Thursday, 7th of August.

11:29:53 Guardian's Contentsutra looking for an editor in India, salary 'very generous' http://tinyurl.com/6mdleq 19:41:27 @vijayanands use zaptxt - http://www.zaptxt.com/ 19:45:00 Compiled a long list of blog add-ons .. http://tinyurl.com/6abnd7

Saturday, 9th of August.

08:27:05 Some stunning pics from Olympics Opening Ceremony on Boston.com http://tinyurl.com/5u8pke

Monday, 11th of August.

10:59:16 @scorpion032 could you please confirm that the feed address is http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol

Tuesday, 19th of August.

09:40:20 http://tinyurl.com/5r8833 - Sorry your country has won fewer Olympic medals than Phelps

Wednesday, 20th of August.

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10:58:35 iPhone data plans in India - http://tinyurl.com/6m353f

Thursday, 28th of August.

22:05:21 http://www.labnol.org/ - The new design of Digital Inspiration is now live .. your feedback please..

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September

Tuesday, 9th of September.

16:22:24 Need some WordPress help .. I have two tags - A and B - how do I show 20 posts on tag_A page and 30 posts on tab_B page without any plugin..

17:32:11 @swaroopch @gmishra The problem is that these things break pagination in WP 18:12:42 Thanks @kwbridge @swaroopch @gmishra I think this thread on WP support will help solve the issue http://wordpress.org/support/topic/167306

Wednesday, 10th of September.

09:42:50 Thanks @steverubel and @mrinal_desai ..

Thursday, 11th of September.

11:16:49 @problogger And now StumbleUpon has taken that position.. http://tinyurl.com/5bc94o 12:12:17 @problogger I think once that story moves off your homepage, it will rank just right on Google. I see it as a duplicate content issue.

Saturday, 13th of September.

19:14:41 A series of bomb blasts have rocked busy markets across Delhi. Nature of explosion is unknown. ndtv.com

Friday, 19th of September.

11:34:25 Guy shares some pictures from Googleplex Germany http://tinyurl.com/4e9b38

Saturday, 20th of September.

10:57:34 saw 'rock on' - enjoyed every bit . http://rockon.bigadda.com/ 11:04:49 @keithdsouza That was brilliant again.. And you can find all the tracks at Dhingana http://is.gd/2SgI courtesy @snehal and @swapnil_shinde 11:15:18 All the web 2.0 expo videos are available on blip - http://www.web2expo.blip.tv/#1280688 11:17:18 And the PPT slides of Web expo are here http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/proceedings

Monday, 22nd of September.

21:05:29 Anyone can now register on Digital Inspiration .. profile pages are coming next.. http://tinyurl.com/4wrtlx

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Tuesday, 23rd of September.

16:47:39 Mahatma Gandhi in a slightly controversial ad http://tinyurl.com/3vxrcw

Thursday, 25th of September.

10:08:57 @keithdsouza @dreamtimes @abhishek - thanks for letting me know about the issue.. it was gzip related as Keith correctly pointed out 18:24:29 @diovo thanks for the plug.

18:36:27 Boston.com's Photo Blog - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ - you must subscribe to this..

Friday, 26th of September.

00:36:08 http://bit.ly/bp Technorati says that the max. annual revenue for blogs in Asia is $250k while that for US bloggers is $350k.. thoughts?

22:16:06 Nice xkcd strip on YouTube comments http://xkcd.com/481/

Sunday, 28th of September.

16:58:46 Poll: Do you use Google Knol - http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/946319/

Tuesday, 30th of September.

16:40:52 @nirmaltv - Thanks for reminding .. yes there was an issue that seems to have resolved now..

16:51:08 Can you help me find sites that have PR10 - I know of just two - google.com and usa.gov http://tinyurl.com/4f2qfb 18:30:27 @naina has done a nice background for her twitter page 18:32:20 @AnnieCushing Thanks but that's no longer valid as most sites have fallen off the charts 18:37:55 @harrymccracken is giving away some free copies of RealDVD http://tinyurl.com/3smqoz 20:32:00 http://tinyurl.com/6z782t BarCamp Delhi now open for registrations. Companies willing to sponsoring the event may contact @gpiyush / @shweta 20:34:43 @peeyush How about spending a day here with your family .. would love to host you.. plus the Taj :)

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October

Wednesday, 1st of October.

13:37:25 Learn Hindi via Bollywood songs.. this is a fun podcast .. http://tinyurl.com/4m3d4b 14:31:31 Need a BlogAds invite ? http://tinyurl.com/4pqeg4 16:48:41 @TaraKachaturoff Thank you.

19:38:39 Microsoft has announced the MVP list for 2009.. title extended for anothe ryear..

Thursday, 2nd of October.

12:14:17 Not sure why Google had to code their Blogs Seach page in pure JavaScript.. http://is.gd/3pJC

Friday, 3rd of October.

13:30:06 @rajeshblue @nirajr you may want to explore Wetpaint .. they don't support native HTML tags but they do have a WYSIWYG interface 13:46:06 @nirajr I guess mediawiki with some custom extensions could do the job for you http://tinyurl.com/y63nc3 ..

Saturday, 4th of October.

17:09:45 This boy from Singapore is the "world's youngest professional blogger " http://tinyurl.com/3w2fxl

Sunday, 5th of October.

14:07:25 PC World puts Digg in the list of 10 most useless sites http://tinyurl.com/4sgco5 15:24:14 @ranjanv That files is on s3 so traffic should not be a problem.. here's the direct link http://www.box.net/shared/4cp44xzkga 16:26:50 From @gaberivera: An interesting assertion about "validation" of one's "space", or lack thereof http://bit.ly/30zLQI

Monday, 6th of October.

09:49:49 What would have prompted TechCrunch to write about ContentSutra's traffic? I think this comment from Mike gives a clue http://is.gd/3zOa 19:46:29 GigaOm secures another round of funding http://tinyurl.com/4rtghs Congrats @om.

Tuesday, 7th of October.

12:21:40 NYT: The measure of a President

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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/06/opinion/06opchart.html 13:27:54 BSE Sensex and Indian Rupee http://tinyurl.com/4lznwn 18:04:30 @steverubel hope we get to watch the video as well..

19:11:06 @mathewi makes an interesting reaction to Mail Goggles http://tinyurl.com/4q923d 19:27:37 http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/ DI picked ~650+ SMS subscribers this week. Thanks Google for giving this extra distribution channel.

20:11:40 @rualthan the content is same as @labnolfeed so if you are subscribed to this user, there's no point in subscribing via SMS. Thanks @namit.

20:17:06 @brajeshwar shares some pictures from the Mumbai BarCamp http://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/sets/72157607781341191/ 22:00:46 @marshallk cancels his China trip .. See why http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/949741577 22:52:55 Need help! Please recommend some good podcasts related to tech and software ? Thanks.

23:12:10 CNBC Confirms Lehman CEO Punched at Gym http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081006150152.aspx

Wednesday, 8th of October.

12:29:29 Thanks @realworld @rustybrick @geeksaresexy @javshak @artagnon for sending those podcast links.

13:17:44 @MadLid Have updated the post with a public link..

13:22:09 Wondering why people submit their blog articles on sites like articlecity or ezinearticles ?

13:23:02 even this illustration on SearchEngineLand suggest the same http://tinyurl.com/4npk2r 13:42:20 @mayankgupta but isn't there a possibility that your "republished" version may rank better in SEs than your "original" version.

13:48:26 Opera 9.6 is out http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/ 14:09:47 The new feed layout in Opera is simply awesome.. check screenshots http://tinyurl.com/3tq2w9

Thursday, 9th of October.

17:30:38 Font Sketches of movie stars http://tinyurl.com/53r5gd 17:36:57 I am surprised that twitter is relying on external URL shortening services like tinyurl - why not built this feature in twitter itself..

18:58:43 @Shripriya @pluggdin @sudarmuthu The problem is that if tinyurl shuts down, most tweets won't make sense as all links will return 404s 19:06:20 @mathewi I think Twitter does track external clicks via Google Analytics .. if they can provide a bit.ly like API, nothing can beat that..

19:08:19 @scorpfromhell Google is using TinyURL for shortening URLs http://tinyurl.com/5w3jey 19:15:02 @duncanriley says that Apple would launch a $800 laptop http://tinyurl.com/4jo4a8

Friday, 10th of October.

10:46:09 Shave Keystrokes looks like a really useful Firefox extension .. http://tinyurl.com/4g3omw Thanks @marshallk @lifehacker

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13:16:35 http://bit.ly/3O6plA this may give some clue about the ongoing pay rates in the blogging world 14:56:36 @indyank No opportunities at labnol but you find lot of writing gigs at @problogger's job board http://jobs.problogger.net/ 15:03:07 See you at BarCamp Delhi tomorrow.. Registration link: http://tinyurl.com/6z782t 16:57:03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/saxoji/2927982497/ This Office Suite comparison chart is produced

by Thinkfree and may obviously be biased

Saturday, 11th of October.

20:49:58 enjoyed day one at barcampdelhi .. good job organizers 22:50:12 @twilightfairy don't think if i can make it t'row

Monday, 13th of October.

10:03:58 The DI group on Facebook needs one more member and we touch the 500 mark http://tinyurl.com/5ukj5y

Tuesday, 14th of October.

11:34:58 The Big Picture has some gorgeous images of the sun. http://tinyurl.com/4hay23 17:09:30 @gautamghosh Go here http://twitter.com/account/notifications and change the @replies option

Wednesday, 15th of October.

11:36:05 Digital Inspiration now in the Technorati Top 200 Blogs http://tinyurl.com/47jffp 12:25:05 Thanks @vinodhn @gsik @lan24hd @vimoh @b50 @manuscrypts @tsuvik @indianterrain @rahulgaitonde @vijayendra_d

Thursday, 16th of October.

09:22:17 Thanks @snehal @praval @speakLittle @3rdbrain @wanderer08 @vijaysankaran @gautamghosh 09:22:42 TIME Photo Gallery: The Recession of 1958 http://tinyurl.com/4cgj6s 20:46:19 WSJ: HP is working on a touch-screen laptop http://www.wsj.com/article/SB122411503892938579.html Will this be any different from a tablet

Friday, 17th of October.

08:55:16 rt @nancyduarte How good are you at geometry? http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html 21:08:52 Dear bloglines. it's been two weeks since you stopped indexing my feedburner feed. Why? It works just fine with Google Reader, Newsgator ..

22:50:31 Use Google Docs? This guide may interest you http://tinyurl.com/5h4rxw

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Saturday, 18th of October.

10:48:50 @OurielOhayon The volume becomes even higher if you substitute layoff with layoffs http://tinyurl.com/5bmwxf 12:31:15 The new design of WP 2.7 http://tinyurl.com/5qboa9

Monday, 20th of October.

09:13:58 The AdSense search feature currently being discussed on TechCrunch has been around for ages if I am not wrong http://tinyurl.com/55k2f6 10:02:15 Google has blocked Loren's Gmail account.. can't imagine a nightmare worst than this .. http://tinyurl.com/68allj 10:17:00 @varunkrish yes.. bring your gmail mails offline via outlook and then put them in yahoo via zimbra 12:15:50 @twilightfairy I am sure @lorenbaker would share full details of the story once that issue get resolved.. i guess this is a false positive 13:01:51 http://tinyurl.com/65b5l5 The Google Docs article was on Digg today and surprisingly there're no negative comments.. when did they change?

15:58:02 Philipp Lenssen is not too happy with Google's "first click free" policy http://tinyurl.com/6ea5jv 20:14:57 The redesign of Digital Inspiration .. some tips .. http://tinyurl.com/5575eh 20:26:08 Congratulations @lorenbaker - he just got his Google account back .. everyone curious to know the reason behind this blockage ..

Tuesday, 21st of October.

11:35:23 http://tinyurl.com/586nkn Pictures from Google Developer Day that was held at Bangalore 12:28:15 @nirmaltv Looks like I may have to skip the Goa meet..

12:33:23 dear @twitter .. is there an option to permanently hide that "election trends" bar from my twitter page?

12:48:25 Thanks @anujseth @shwetank @aalaap @scorpion32 for suggesting workarounds.. This is what @ev said http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/942211262 13:02:08 @Aalaap Cool... you're a star..

15:46:21 Just how unsafe things are in Delhi http://tinyurl.com/57x7r7 17:33:53 @codinghorror perhaps not anymore as twitter fixed that loophole as soon as it was discovered..

Thursday, 23rd of October.

10:40:30 Video tour of YouTube HQ: http://tinyurl.com/5h9ymn 11:08:22 http://tinyurl.com/6hznpk @duncanriley says that @techmeme is biased.. waiting if @gaberivera would comment on this 11:49:09 All great minds think alike http://tinyurl.com/55jopv 12:45:27 snagit fans .. betsy has some free stickers for your laptop http://tinyurl.com/5wp8lz

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Friday, 24th of October.

10:46:01 Barack Obama: The TIME Interview http://tinyurl.com/558s7o

Monday, 27th of October.

11:13:44 Google Diwali logo could have been better http://www.google.co.in/logos/diwali2008.gif 13:50:31 Looks like it is good time to invest in some blue chip stocks..

Wednesday, 29th of October.

12:02:57 Diwali for geeks http://tinyurl.com/5vjagc 16:27:03 Some good tips on formatting excel charts http://tinyurl.com/69bbz6

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November

Monday, 3rd of November.

12:10:42 This picture is of a moving train http://tinyurl.com/6jp96c/1102/

Tuesday, 4th of November.

13:15:18 Did you see the dasvidaniya site http://www.dasvidaniya.in/main.htm .. very nicely done 13:23:13 Never knew that Google uses "font size" as a factor for serving AdSense ads http://tinyurl.com/6zvr89 20:51:38 If Apple decides against releasing new products before XMas, that becomes big news as well http://tinyurl.com/5v76g2

Wednesday, 5th of November.

09:19:57 @varunkrish Thanks for lettting me know about the issue. Fixed now.

09:55:03 Nov 4 Illustration http://tinyurl.com/5m5qtc 11:44:17 Slate: How to kill time on the web http://tinyurl.com/5ewvvz 18:10:11 @om reviews BlackBerry Bold .. http://tinyurl.com/6jy2ng "must buy" for QWERTY lovers

Thursday, 6th of November.

11:13:54 Want the Blog Blazers book? Check this giveaway http://tinyurl.com/57qleq 12:25:24 Some pictures of the RocketBoom Office http://tinyurl.com/6223j3 13:53:00 why can't gmail mark "microsoft lottery award" emails as spam..

15:32:58 10 Reasons Why Your Website Looks Like Spam http://tinyurl.com/5frgt7 17:43:02 I got a Camtasia Studio 6 license to give away courtesy Betsy .. please fill this if you like to participate http://tinyurl.com/584yop

Friday, 7th of November.

10:56:40 How do you ask for sponsorship from companies for an event? Who do you approach - their PR agency or someone in the company itself?

11:25:13 Thank you all - so I should contact the mktg / corp. comm. team .. now I need figure out how to reach these teams in Google India..

Saturday, 8th of November.

12:14:32 Thanks Steve for this http://tinyurl.com/6ygeq2

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Monday, 10th of November.

10:52:54 I have cut my feed subscriptions by almost half and feel much better

Tuesday, 11th of November.

10:00:08 RT @johnbattelle Recession = fatter, unhealthy Americans. http://tinyurl.com/47j4a7 10:02:31 @nbradbury Can't locate the "Send To" feature in the new FD 2.8.. Has it moved ?

10:12:13 From @scobleizer "Things I learned in China" http://tinyurl.com/3orkho 16:47:26 @nbradbury Thanks Nick - that was brilliant..

23:45:33 The best tech podcasts http://tinyurl.com/5enpxg

Wednesday, 12th of November.

12:28:03 http://tinyurl.com/6p7kwp @karaswisher talks to @harrymccracken about his new blog Technologizer .. nice short interview 13:03:20 If you want to know the exact traffic on popular blogs, go to http://tinyurl.com/2f4m3k PerezHilton does 50m pv/week 13:26:07 For people planning to invest in the ICICI 11.15% FD http://tinyurl.com/5g6lv4 16:01:46 offebeatguides.com from @dsifry is a pretty useful site .. checked it for my own city and found the data both accurate and up-to-date.

16:34:32 sorry, the right link is offbeatguides.com and here's a sample PDF guide for LA http://blog.offbeatguides.com/LosAngeles.pdf 18:14:42 http://www.barcamppune.org/ @barcamppune happens on Nov. 29 .. I might attend this one 20:24:39 The latest issues of BLogger & Pod. magazine is now online .. read here http://tinyurl.com/6ms66f

Thursday, 13th of November.

10:35:59 Do you know of a Firefox plugin that sits as an icon in the status bar and upon clicking, shows a list of latest items from some RSS feed?

12:56:37 @kamla & @kiruba - two of India's best known podcasters are starting new shows on MSM. Good luck to you both.

17:45:53 Excited about Windows Live 3.. game changer 18:57:36 @ck72 i want something that can display items using feed of the current page without adding it to live bookmarks 21:42:22 Honda just reduced the price of Civic by 8 lakh.. from 21l to 13l .. CRV next? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3706418.cms

Friday, 14th of November.

09:33:59 @spinesurgeon around 50% of the CRV cost is due to duties since they import the car in a ship.. the price may fall if the duties are reduced

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09:35:38 @sampad Thanks for letting me know about the SMS issue.. will see if I can do anything to fix that..

12:01:10 25 most bookmarked sites on delicious http://tinyurl.com/6qb2gm thanks @orli 12:36:24 @Orli Looks like FC will become hugely popular once it gets public .. how has been your experience with the program so far?

13:23:56 If you like to catch-up with the England - India cricket match on twitter, follow @cricketnext 18:09:57 "How do you work out who to listen to on the web" - another good piece of advice from @chrisgarrett http://tinyurl.com/5wx3bx

Monday, 17th of November.

15:17:49 Congrats @RobinGood - Taken your Federated Media Survey.. but looks like the OPML files has moved to a new location..

15:18:27 @vrreddy Sorry, don't have a combined feed for DI and India Inc. but I can create one if you like..

16:37:54 @sciencebase Yahoo! Pipes is a good option but lately, it's not letting me create new pipes.. No idea why.. using Google Reader instead.

16:49:18 Looking for a wordpress plugin / function that can take the first image of any post and convert it into a thumbnail .. suggestions please 17:24:35 @jeetblog Good suggestion jeet .. but unfortunately it only works with JPEGS .

21:59:26 @abhishek .. thanks .. i am seeing that people are spending more time on the front page as they have more things to explore..

Tuesday, 18th of November.

16:39:49 moved static content on labnol.org to amazon cloudfront..

16:47:35 @sciencebase - Cloudfront is a CDN so they have servers everywhere.. regarding cost, I will comment on that after about a week of use 20:47:25 I really like the way articles are written on Slate - they always link to good external sources that definitely adds value http://is.gd/7YF8

Wednesday, 19th of November.

19:03:45 Some nice icons for Twitter http://tinyurl.com/6mm2qt 20:03:04 Looking for gadgets, try poguematic http://tinyurl.com/657zkj

Thursday, 20th of November.

14:27:57 Follow @sitepointdotcom and they'll send you a nice CSS book

Saturday, 22nd of November.

09:46:40 Good advice on saving your domain http://tinyurl.com/5ackpj 09:47:05 Gist - Change contact email in your sensitive web accounts (paypal, domain registrar etc.) from

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your primary Gmail account to something else

Monday, 24th of November.

12:18:45 @movingahead Try shozu.com for uploads 12:26:13 If you find video codecs confusing, this guide should help http://tinyurl.com/6mfq24

Tuesday, 25th of November.

11:30:49 For programmers .. Google C++ style guide http://tinyurl.com/5ss4z9 16:58:11 @steverubel they launched a new gadget blog the same month so blogs are probably still safe at NYT http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/ 22:42:58 @kiruba - I think you need a US address to order the plus account.

Thursday, 27th of November.

10:48:08 @duncanriley Not sure about your source but don't think they are trying to block twitter here.

10:56:25 @budip I am surprised to read this because, at the moment, all these pages are very much accessible.

11:00:54 Thanks @prashmohan .. looks like he has a presence on twitter as well at @monikkinom 13:09:37 NDTV website goes does .. this tragedy has recd. intl. attn. and I think NDTV servers could not handle all the traffic 19:32:46 1 Touchsmart PC, 2 Laptops, 1 Netbook, 1 Wireless Printer and more.. http://tinyurl.com/59vafl

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December

Monday, 1st of December.

09:27:04 @om @shripriya @centernetworks Probably this approach saves Jason from worrying about comments posted on his "email blog"

Wednesday, 3rd of December.

09:54:12 which router would you suggest .. it should also support the wired ethernet port 10:12:26 @alpesh @netcitizen @shantanugoel @kamalkrishna @pcubed @Ruhii @srikat thanks much.. will go with linksys wrt54gl 19:35:00 http://www.technorati.com/ Technorati is returning a 403 error - via @centernetworks

Thursday, 4th of December.

09:25:59 Some people know how to enjoy life even during floods http://tinyurl.com/6hw358 10:42:35 @ganeshkulkarni it's more of a photo aggregation site licensing the best photos from other agencies..

11:33:11 @tomjohnson I was in a similar situation last week but the culprit turned out to be the USB port on the computer.

18:10:28 Looks like Google has finally opened FriendConnect to lot of new publishers.. getting too many emails now and there's no unsubscribe link..

Friday, 5th of December.

11:47:26 @narendranag glad to learn that you are getting some traffic from the blog directory.. and absolutely loved that title of your post :) 12:36:10 @Orli very cool.

Monday, 8th of December.

10:30:23 @gkjohn Quantum Leap? Did they change something recently?

11:40:38 NYT Column: Why is old media pouring so much money and time into “main event� programming that goes unread and unviewed? http://is.gd/awL6 12:41:04 RT @Shripriya: A real-time interview on twitter - @jonathan83 interviewing @prempanicker in full public view.

19:57:28 @nikhilnarayanan Right.. their stories are hosted on Google News for a fixed period..

Tuesday, 9th of December.

18:06:43 http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/ - This is one of best Indian food blogs on the web .. she also

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adds a video to all her recipes..

18:13:55 Webcomics .. http://tinyurl.com/5tg3q8 18:14:49 Arun Sarin for Yahoo's top job? http://tinyurl.com/5jyepn 21:17:16 The giveaway at Digital Inspiration will happen from Nov 14-20. http://bit.ly/4GeH 21:22:49 Oops! I meant to say December. The giveaway will happen from December 14-20. http://bit.ly/4GeH

Saturday, 13th of December.

18:29:02 @albins Thanks Albin.. yes you're the 500th member http://tinyurl.com/gconnect

Sunday, 14th of December.

16:48:03 http://tinyurl.com/6bdqvo The Computers Giveaway is live at Digital Inspiration - 7 prizes - Open for all.

Tuesday, 16th of December.

11:57:36 After AdSense, IDG is the next best performing ad network for Digital Inspiration.. http://tinyurl.com/64zkuh 12:01:12 Another great example of Tumblr integrated with an existing wordpress blog http://shripriya.tumblr.com/ by @shripriya 17:40:47 Another Technorati 100 like blog list http://www.twingly.com/top100 via @problogger 18:02:38 Gmail stickers http://pikchur.com/c1s 18:38:20 @ooomz @DeepakJain1989 You can get the stickers anywhere .. just make sure you send an envelope with intl. postage to the gmail team

Wednesday, 17th of December.

13:35:47 A question in HP Giveaway contest is "how do you read new content on DI" - 44% say website while 43% use RSS 13:38:02 http://tinyurl.com/6ztz5j You can submit entries until December 20. Enter as many times as you like & your latest entry will be considered.

18:30:38 The perfect headline "Politics Not Pancreas the Reason for Jobs' Macworld Exit" http://www.cnbc.com/id/28265938

Thursday, 18th of December.

10:53:22 http://tinyurl.com/4fv2et I think this "embargo" drama is all about getting exclusives - nothing to do with bad PR 11:57:31 Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow - Does this shortcut invert your screen?

12:06:49 Thanks all who tried that invert shortcut .. it seems to work on half the machines.. guess it's something to do with drivers, not OS 15:41:49 Her PR career may now be at risk.. http://tinyurl.com/423enh

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18:14:12 Game: Can you throw a shoe at Bush http://www.kroma.no/2008/bushgame/ 18:18:05 @sampad maybe.. I just saw that in FB profile 19:11:15 http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html Something for ICanHasCheezburger fans - photomosaic made of lolcats

Friday, 19th of December.

10:54:38 An excellent blogging tip from @om - "write everything as if your mom is reading your work" http://ff.im/-kUyf

Saturday, 20th of December.

20:12:10 Q: What can you buy with $10 billion? Ans: Some bread http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/19/zimbawe.currency/index.html

Monday, 22nd of December.

14:06:46 @swapnil_shinde The AdSense performances has been more or less consistent for me .. did you get "smart priced" ?

14:07:26 Just announced the winners of HP Giveaway http://tinyurl.com/99sbmh 16:23:18 @dannysullivan First impression: very good.

20:24:11 Reverse Etiquette http://tinyurl.com/9qonth

Tuesday, 23rd of December.

11:29:49 @swapnil_shinde I am no expert here but think that ad prices should not go south during the holiday season.

12:46:01 What happens when you delete a comment or mark it as spam in WordPress - does it stay in database or removed forever?

13:33:47 Thanks @aswinanand @sudarmuthu @amitgupta - if spam comments stay in the DB, we can further reduce the DB size by purging them .. right?

15:12:21 Valleywag now a part of gawker.com domain http://valleywag.gawker.com/ 15:18:49 Now that techmeme has an editor @megan, they should remove personal conversations like this one http://tinyurl.com/9tq8vp 22:26:18 Can't agree more - "Why build Twitter or Friendfeed's equity, when you can invest in the turf you spent so much time on?" http://ff.im/-nlEg 23:02:26 @technosamrat maybe you should trying restarting Firefox in safe mode.

Wednesday, 24th of December.

17:56:33 Technorati: 99% of all blog searches aim for something less than six months old. http://tinyurl.com/labnol-technorati

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Monday, 29th of December.

10:16:39 Fantastic Flickr Photographers http://tinyurl.com/86toja 19:26:01 Essential web apps / software for a new computer user http://tinyurl.com/8wr7ou

Tuesday, 30th of December.

11:38:50 @b50 @darthdilbert @sathyabhat @sengupta @prsn - glad you liked the newbie guide.. thanks.

16:13:40 Can you please suggest me sites where I can get design ideas about office interiors..Flickr is one good resource but finding stuff is hard 19:56:13 @steverubel Steve - thanks for sharing such useful stuff in your lifestream - that's the reason for its #6 position.

20:11:27 @vjshankar @sizzler_chetan @homedesigning @rjaideep04 @nmw @technikhil @siprasad @gsik @DigitalMofo Thanks for all the lovely suggestions.

20:29:49 @leehopkins Thank you for this http://tinyurl.com/7k47ce I am honored.

20:35:41 Huffington's book on blogging seems to be doing really well http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/15375281/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_4_last 20:49:39 Google tries another web comic to promote Orkut http://www.google.co.in/orkut/features/ nothing impressive 20:50:40 List of finalists for the 2008 Weblog Awards http://tinyurl.com/7ahqme 21:56:03 One year in 40 seconds http://ff.im/rg8x via @DonnaPapacosta

Wednesday, 31st of December.

10:12:50 @patrix - there are just too many great tech blogs out there so the list doesn't surprise me at all..

10:21:26 Search Cloudlet becomes more useful if you set your Google preferences to show 100 results http://www.getcloudlet.com/ 10:34:51 If you're on Windows Live .. let's connect http://tinyurl.com/7ayomw 11:35:18 Blog valuations going south? MediaMemo says that Consumerist.com sold for "mid-six figures" around $.5 million - http://tinyurl.com/9e7j5a 11:38:41 I thought PC World would give www.labnol.org some credit here but no :( http://tinyurl.com/9k2rrb 13:36:53 Thanks everyone who sent me invitation for live .. as expected Gmail marked each of them as spam..

23:19:31 My last article of 2008 is a long guide about Adobe PDFs http://bit.ly/12Zli - Happy new year everyone .. See you in 2009

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2009

January

Friday, 2nd of January.

15:47:35 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02das.html An excellent NYT piece by Gurcharan Das on India and China 20:10:56 Check the all new Desipundit .. http://www.desipundit.com/ 22:05:53 Based on feedback, I guess I will cover less of social tools like twitter, ff, facebook, etc. on my blog in 2009 22:15:48 @SameerPatel @HomeBiss I think more how to's and video screencasts, news analysis, less tech news, etc..

Saturday, 3rd of January.

11:09:03 @webtrafficroi to answer your prev. qustion - yes they are interested in social tools but excess coverage turns them off ..

11:11:56 @HomeBiss @sgordon70 hey guys.. it's actually a fun site made by Tata Sky to market their TV service.. not a dating site ..

11:15:36 @pcubed @meshash i had the same reaction when someone sent me that link.. but it's actually a viral ad campaign .. not a dating site..

11:23:46 If you are applying for a job at a startup, check these resume tips from Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/02b.html 11:26:20 @ryanstewart I think this is extremely rare .. both grandfather and grandson tweeting

Sunday, 4th of January.

12:46:20 New twitter search engine lets you limit search to people you follow plus sort results by follower count http://hottieornottie.cloudapp.net/ 12:50:20 Thank you @billbrandon, @cjweb, @fozbaca, @JesseNewhart and @tonykarrer for spreading word about the PDF guide http://tinyurl.com/9xqzdu 12:50:58 This youtube search engine is something like compfight for flickr http://wibe7.tv/ 14:49:54 @navjotpawera @shwetank - would you guys know how to copy paste links in Opera Mini .. any workarounds?

Monday, 5th of January.

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11:01:59 New on India Inc: What changed the game for Indian film industry http://tinyurl.com/a7vkko 14:00:27 @anujseth has launched a nice directory of twitter apps, plugins, mashups.. at http://twitdom.com/ 16:46:32 Recoded this video with Google SketchUp http://tinyurl.com/7uwext 20:06:11 Google's Euro logo and Micro$oft http://tinyurl.com/7m4wgv 20:27:30 From @MParekh "Hormone Imbalance" will likely be a very popular Google search term today http://tinyurl.com/892ual

Tuesday, 6th of January.

10:57:09 AdAge says that Huff. Post made just $300k in ad revenue from Jan-Aug'08.. I can't believe this figure http://tinyurl.com/8kgaga 11:03:30 Either qwitter is out of service or people have stopped unfollowing me.. http://useqwitter.com/ 11:26:36 Thanks @twilightfairy @prolificd @DrDollars @nb42 for confirming that Qwitter is dot.gone they should at least mention this on the website 11:36:31 @twilightfairy Twitter "apps" are often abandoned as developers lose interest - there's no money and web hosting costs continue to grow 11:46:09 Stocks that Warren Buffet could choose for investing in India http://tinyurl.com/73h5wg 11:58:33 Not sure if you noticed but starting 2009, I dropped AdSense from my RSS feed based on feedback http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol 13:01:29 @arpitnext removing them meant sacrificing a couple of hundred dollars in ad revenue so its got more to do with the feedback..

13:13:17 @sumants regulars prefer ad-free content (at least in feeds) - its a reasonable request as these are the people who spread the initial buzz 13:20:09 @sumants It depends .. if the ads are contextual and talk about a product / idea that is unknown to many people, it could do well.

14:27:48 @sumants would be great if you can post your question(s) here http://www.labnol.org/forums 20:58:02 Techsmith has just launched JingPro http://tinyurl.com/8nkr5t 22:02:19 @Orli - The pro version support HD recording and the videos are without TechSmith branding ..

22:45:34 @Orli Do you know of other Mac apps that can create screencasts in HD? 23:29:06 @indyank You were right.. my post on Jing Pro is now up http://tinyurl.com/9yhvpt 23:30:13 How to embed almost anything into your website http://tinyurl.com/a57mlf

Wednesday, 7th of January.

11:56:35 Bakhtawar Bhutto's song on YouTube http://tinyurl.com/7wt68u 12:24:26 Saving Money in Plain English http://tinyurl.com/6ss7ud 13:13:02 This is the letter from Satyam that started it all http://tinyurl.com/8owmqx 21:40:39 Wow! the author of Google Apps: The Missing Manual has written another book on Zoho Office http://tinyurl.com/8mb2zj 23:14:26 Some blogging styles http://tinyurl.com/8eszue

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Thursday, 8th of January.

10:29:27 This article from Independent says that Gawker could be trouble.. http://bit.ly/a7sO .. I don't think so 12:01:47 Pictures of Steve Jobs - 1 Year Apart http://tinyurl.com/8mqz9t 19:54:27 Fog Creek office pictures by Joel Spolsky http://tinyurl.com/a5dr8h - the bathroom are fitted with showers as well (you know why).

Friday, 9th of January.

17:40:21 @ramkinavy i included that in my article as well..

17:43:39 @jenstar That's interesting.. so the referrer information is passed even with the back button.

Saturday, 10th of January.

10:10:13 Google changes favicon and the news hits techmeme .. http://tinyurl.com/9wgddt 10:11:07 If you have a blog hosted on blogger.com, you must add @blogger to your friends list for new updates 10:19:21 Watching Crunchies .. http://tinyurl.com/9bdmpx 11:03:01 Happy to learn that Live Mesh won a crunchies - its my favorite service for 2008.

12:36:14 The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating http://tinyurl.com/5mmrrl 15:12:26 The branding of Ghajini http://tinyurl.com/8j7l2n 16:13:09 BBC uses wordle to show words that George Bush used most during this eight-year presidency http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7813432.stm

Sunday, 11th of January.

16:48:50 @adityarao310 I won't recommend Dreamhost Apps (free service) for a photo blog.. try tumblr instead

Monday, 12th of January.

09:55:18 @adityarao310 I am sure there would be many photo blogs on tumblr.. here's one I found on their home page http://stewardesses.tumblr.com/ 09:55:57 @rishabhkaul this link has some more invite codes for Dreamhost http://tr.im/4716 09:57:24 @denizakay Posterous is a good choice no doubt but I somehow find tumblr blogs more beautiful 09:59:38 Brand Bournville Hits the Bulls Eye in India http://tinyurl.com/7eb43y 10:38:33 @ramkinavy Try the codes mentioned in this list http://tr.im/4716 .. maybe some of them are still available 17:06:49 @twilightfairy i think the print ads of bournville (that appear in ET) aren't so bad 17:33:09 Should one include a picture of himself on his blog - what's your opinion? http://tinyurl.com/8aohrz

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Tuesday, 13th of January.

13:12:14 @Orli Is this ticker something similar to snackr ?

14:08:28 @purvapar not just mtv.. even news channels have these now 14:10:08 @sciencebase it's a simple plugin setting -"use custom style for subscription manager" 16:18:24 The health cover to onsite employees of Satyam expired in December and has not been renewed http://tinyurl.com/8dvogc - via @priyankarocks

Wednesday, 14th of January.

16:27:51 @abhishek - that was fun .. probably we should have more such meets 16:32:30 Satyam has hired KPMG and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to restate accounts at the company http://tinyurl.com/7elw9l 16:44:59 do you know of any organizations that award Indian websites other than PC World - not talking of any blog awards here..

16:55:40 @anirbanroy I remember seeing some website awards in either CIOL or PCQuest but have no clue if they still exist 19:45:00 @amitgupta Just checked their last 12 online issues but they seem to have discontinued the feature. Completely agree with @sudhirsyal 20:55:27 @Nitine Thank you Nitin .. that was a good find 21:14:55 The man who threw his shoes at Bush has 111k fans on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/7qsv5v

Thursday, 15th of January.

09:08:57 Google shuts down Google Notebook, Catalog search, Jaiku and some more products http://is.gd/fW6H 13:38:51 This service will set your latest Flickr image as your Twitter background http://tinyurl.com/62eqkf 14:00:41 @fredwilson made a really smart move last week by selling his entire position in AAPL http://tinyurl.com/a2eh23 14:02:36 @howardlindzon - it looks good but I don't feel very comfortable sharing my twitter password with external services that are still very new 14:56:21 Good coincidence - Google abandoned Notebook while Zoho announced lot of new features in their own notebook http://tinyurl.com/77ujsd 16:17:45 BlogCamp Mumbai will be held on Jan 17 at Microsoft, Santacruz East http://www.blogcampmumbai.org/ 16:34:19 Some tips for photographing babies http://tinyurl.com/6wjqj2 16:57:14 fachak.com lets you bookmark & import stuff from YouTube, SlideShare & Flickr - invites for fachak here http://www.fachak.com/preview/labnol 17:23:59 @k3n13 @speakLittle @ajaykumarmeher I am like thousand miles away so won't make it 18:12:28 Need an Obama like poster? http://tinyurl.com/73qqdt 18:38:49 The word "cold" is currently very "hot" on Twitter trends

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http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Cold 19:17:16 @OurielOhayon tinyurl uses a 301 redirect so may be flowing juice to the underlying pages 22:02:48 If you are retweeting a link on twitter, consider using one of the foll. symbol instead of saying "RT" ♳♴♵ ♲ or ♻ http://tinyurl.com/9t93d9

Friday, 16th of January.

10:17:44 @flyyoufools @sriks7 @amitgupta this is how the symbols appear on my screen http://tinyurl.com/76aqad 11:58:36 @nehatambe thanks

Monday, 19th of January.

15:13:18 The website of Circuit City had around 600K pages but now everything redirects to this page http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html

Tuesday, 20th of January.

13:04:39 @dipenchaudhary I use CloudFront with S3 .. this post has the details http://tinyurl.com/5gcq3d

Wednesday, 21st of January.

11:46:37 Time Photo Essay: How Obama Prepared His Speech http://tinyurl.com/8qn85z 13:26:14 Is flickr down?

13:43:21 Thank you all.. Flickr is now working for me as well..

Thursday, 22nd of January.

11:07:17 Big crowds often look like ants from space http://tinyurl.com/72douc 18:28:43 Am doing a blog conference in Agra on Jan 25th (long weekend) .. would be glad if some of you can make it http://tinyurl.com/bmk29o

Friday, 23rd of January.

08:55:42 Thanks @gautamghosh @busygod @shahpriya @sizzler_chetan @pchere for spreading the word 08:57:20 @RaviKapoor - glad you are interested .. the best option is by rail.. you can catch the Taj Exp.

Tuesday, 27th of January.

15:06:39 Thanks all who made it to the blog conference .. here are some pictures and presentations from the event http://tinyurl.com/blogconference 18:20:23 @betsyweber Track this on Google Maps and you'll find it even more addictive http://www.packagemapping.com/

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18:35:16 @sandeepvizedu is seriously good at creating "zero text" visualizations. Check his work at http://vizedu.com/ 19:37:31 @startupdunia Such events are frequently held in metros .. and second.. the logistics was easy as I am based here

Thursday, 29th of January.

10:21:32 Can someone please update Barkha Dutt's wikipedia entry http://tinyurl.com/c5pdyc 10:48:35 That was quick http://tinyurl.com/db2pd4 12:31:48 Did Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates or Bush take any break when they were attacked with eggs, cakes & shoes? Then why should Arrington do so.

16:36:33 You can nominate Indian blogs for Indibloggies starting 1st week of Feb. They're also looking for sponsors http://indibloggies.org/ibblog 16:44:52 The NDTV episode http://bit.ly/NELe

Friday, 30th of January.

10:16:39 Can you believe it. There's a full blog blog devoted to Michelle Obama's clothes http://www.mrs-o.org/ Thanks J-Walk.

11:43:08 A bunch of Indian Bloggers have teamed up to launch http://www.mediaredefined.com/index - a social media branding & consulting studio 12:30:20 @UpbeatNow Rajesh - here're the people behind the company http://www.mediaredefined.com/founders - I guess they are all active on twitter 13:08:51 Great list of Excel shortcuts and formulas here http://tinyurl.com/dx99gl 15:40:31 Pakistan officially says that Mumbai attacks were planned somewhere else.. http://tinyurl.com/bxxb4a 17:06:21 Someone created a monopoly game where you can buy or sell blogs, every player has a google pagerank and so on.. http://tinyurl.com/dg35s3 18:50:49 @DonnaPapacosta is doing a webinar next month on how to use new media tools to make the most of your event http://tinyurl.com/cpf8au 20:34:59 @smashcut_media Thank you Michael for recommending DI on WordPress.tv http://tinyurl.com/d2ctwc 22:32:21 Fast Company: 10 Tools to Make Your Blog Smarter http://tinyurl.com/akh777

Saturday, 31st of January.

11:06:40 When people unfollow you on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/b8h4ee 11:16:24 For Mumbai Bloggers only: @unitechy & co. are organizing a "Best Blog Competition" .. you can register here http://www.mumbaibloggers.net/ 15:33:27 http://www.labnol.org/websites/ - This is a list of all my favorites blogs, will add a couple more in the next update.

16:27:31 @keithdsouza If there's anything we can do to help you out, please shout.

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February

Sunday, 1st of February.

12:45:28 Maybe I am the only one here who didn't enjoy slumdog millionaire. Not sure why critics call it a "feel good" movie 12:59:49 @vijayanands @sizzler_chetan maybe the expectation levels were too high..

13:01:53 @nishantmodak I would recommend commandN, epic fu, Scobleizer (fast company), twit and the cnet podcasts http://is.gd/76no 13:08:44 @atul recommends lot of good stuff to techmeme via twitter and they really listen to him http://tinyurl.com/cgqtpo 13:17:20 Due to all the recent issues, @thomas of popurls has decided to move the popurl feeds out of feedburner http://tinyurl.com/akgos2 14:00:19 How to change your username on twitter http://tinyurl.com/a2wvod

Monday, 2nd of February.

10:15:15 You are not looking at Gmail but a WordPress blog http://deluxethemes.com/gmail/ 10:28:34 I have had Google FriendConnect on labnol.org for few weeks now and some 800 people signed up.. but not sure what to do next..

10:28:56 Wish to switch to Facebook Connect but it's a bit geeky for me 14:34:40 Just learned that @OurielOhayon is moving from TechCrunch http://tinyurl.com/dbkycb - Good luck Ouriel 16:01:52 http://bit.ly/yKMM - Your guide to some of the big moments in Indian blogosphere Thanks @purvapar 19:04:43 @purvapar Thanks for including me.. though am not very sure about the "millions" part :) 19:10:40 @thecomicproject I was just playing around with Infinite Campus so you nothing much there.. you can d/l the slides from http://bit.ly/ETfN 19:26:08 If you want to make a mark on Twitter, check this presentation http://tinyurl.com/bdmudb 19:34:25 Here you can find pictures from almost every Google Office in the world http://picasaweb.google.com/photos.jobs 19:37:52 Fans of Mr India movie may want to check this web comic http://tinyurl.com/b65u97 by @thecomicproject

Tuesday, 3rd of February.

12:00:42 You are a true Apple fan if you design a blog like this http://www.darnellclayton.com/ - sidebar inside the iPhone & main content inside Mac 12:14:44 An old group photo from the Delhi Bloggers Meet http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjukta/144217575/ 16:26:58 Got this unique request .. A couple is celebrating their 11th wed. anniv. and you can wish them by visiting http://www.punam.me/

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16:54:32 This short video footage is from the Indigo aircraft that we thought was "hijacked" http://tinyurl.com/blw7wt 17:03:25 @kapilb Sort of yes. It was shot by some passenger and clearly the "suspect" appears harmless in the video 17:36:11 @Shripriya Got the video here :) http://tinyurl.com/86fl77 17:37:24 Things seem to be improving at Satyam - they added 15 new clients last month http://tinyurl.com/aa3es3 17:47:38 @gmishra You have a valid point. But the fact that these clients decided to stick around even after the scandal broke is a comforting news 19:52:09 Want some @Techmeme love ? Read this - http://tinyurl.com/d4nmu8 23:03:47 Google Internet Bus - this is real van with computers inside http://tinyurl.com/dkfm6o

Wednesday, 4th of February.

10:38:09 WordPress 2.7.1 beta is now available http://tinyurl.com/bmwc9e 10:41:40 Thanks @betsyweber - I have been using almost the same approach to create HD screencasts for DI but glad you explained everything so well.

12:10:40 Love this animated gif created by Mozilla - it represents bugs eaten by the current release of Firefox http://tinyurl.com/yte3ac 13:13:14 I wish twitter had gmail like labels so that we could tag all our favorite tweets

Thursday, 5th of February.

10:21:22 @nancyduarte is part of the selection committee that will select the final TED fellows. Congrats http://tinyurl.com/dxdlba 11:12:24 Chrome 2 available as portable app http://tinyurl.com/68ke2c 16:28:34 The Dawn says the the mumbai attacks were planned in Bangladesh and not Pakistan http://www.dawn.com/2009/02/05/top2.htm 16:29:39 @rahulgaitonde I edit the screenshots in PS CS3 16:31:38 @sohamdas If you want to do stuff online, try zamzar but for offline conversions, SUPER from erightsoft may be good choice 16:56:56 @kamla is now doing podcasts for NDTV http://tinyurl.com/c4lhhd and it's her birthday tomorrow so double congratulations 16:58:04 @mrinaldesai Thanks Mrinal :) 17:03:12 @mrinaldesai She's younger to me by a day :) 19:28:56 Google Phone Search Launched in Mumbai and Bangalore http://tinyurl.com/b8dxwk 19:37:35 Loads of people aren't feeling very happy about their AdSense earnings in Jan http://tinyurl.com/cuykun

Friday, 6th of February.

13:19:55 @Orli This is now standard in all Youtube embeds http://bit.ly/137Gu 13:26:02 @nimbupani Thank you Divya.

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13:27:53 @orli - you're right - that's read only so you can only view the overall rating of that video.. wish they had used a more readable font ..

13:34:10 @Orli If the video has very low rating, you can skip watching it altogether .. that's one use I can think of

Monday, 9th of February.

10:03:21 Hi-res images of Kindle 2 that Amazon is expected to announce later today http://tinyurl.com/cl7ph2 10:16:09 N.Y.C. so costly you need to earn six figures to make middle class http://tinyurl.com/ahrjkn 10:18:11 Thanks @KnxDT - that happened in 2006 though :) 11:31:50 tweetthis button for blogger http://tinyurl.com/cbgv2c 12:30:58 Find the gender of someone using his or her Twitter stream http://gender.twitmarks.com/ 12:46:58 @serendipitynz maybe its for users who tweet anonymously :) 12:58:52 Good catch @debiprasad - I think you hit the train button and now it says that @priyankarocks is female..

13:12:22 Fake Steve Jobs says Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale http://www.newsweek.com/id/183666 19:37:58 Why journalists visit Web sites: http://bit.ly/iRre (via @DonnaPapacosta)

Tuesday, 10th of February.

15:11:36 The venue for WordCamp India is Adobe office in NOIDA http://tinyurl.com/ascwuk 16:06:07 Someone edited Barkha Dutt's Wikipedia entry and removed all traces of Chetan Kunte episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkha_Dutt

Wednesday, 11th of February.

11:46:56 PCWorld has compiled a list of 10 "great" twitter tools http://tinyurl.com/app2ly 13:02:36 List of things that were fixed in WP 2.7.1 http://tinyurl.com/cudaro 14:25:03 "Getting things done with Twitter" http://tinyurl.com/ccfgzb 16:03:24 This cow in China is made using the keys of a computer keyboard http://www.supradaurval.com/photoblog/archives/409

Thursday, 12th of February.

16:10:25 "Never Blow Your Nose When You Have a Cold " http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/health/10real.html 17:22:33 tip @techmeme Buy Videos from YouTube http://tinyurl.com/b8xbd9 17:26:19 Is it possible to add custom fields in the Quick Edit area of WP 2.7 ?

18:47:17 PCWorld tracks down 20 of the wildest Webcams on the Internet http://tinyurl.com/c5avl5 18:51:38 A list of Google Tools for online marketers http://tinyurl.com/9lxwax

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19:02:20 Check out TwitterRemote in the sidebar of Ouriel's blog http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/ - it's like MyBlogLog for Twitter 19:04:59 For MindManager users - see how you can integrate Gmail & Google Docs with your mindmaps http://tinyurl.com/dypfbj 19:19:54 Looking for Twitter bird icons? Get them here http://tinyurl.com/3u66xj - courtesy @randaclay

Friday, 13th of February.

12:00:08 @Pogue explains twitter in his unique style http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/12/technology/personaltech/1194837757843/twitter.ht ml 13:17:20 Google India is organizing a Webmaster Conference in Blr, Adam Lasnik is also coming http://tinyurl.com/cmyz3k 15:50:04 According to this list of most influential people in history, Newton is more influential than Jesus just below Md. http://tinyurl.com/2czfcw 16:40:46 @kamla - have you ever done voiceovers for some cartoon movies of rajshri ?

16:57:22 Things you can do with Gmail multiple inboxes http://tinyurl.com/b8sqya 17:35:03 Is Yahoo still working to improve MyBlogLog .. their official blog was last updated more than two months ago .. http://blog.mybloglog.com/ 19:02:50 BJP is launching a program called "Advani for Bloggers" .. don't think I will be a part of that 19:15:20 @nirmaltv Have no idea.

19:17:02 The Unix time will display 1234567890 today - 9 hours to go http://coolepochcountdown.com/ 19:59:22 The date February 30 is not as fictional as you might think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30

Saturday, 14th of February.

09:52:12 @kamla My son was watching this video on YouTube and the voice sounded very familiar .. http://tinyurl.com/ad6gal 11:08:48 http://tinyurl.com/apatjf Microsoft released a new version of Windows Live Writer today 11:47:38 DI now has 800 fans on Facebook.. Thanks http://tinyurl.com/5ukj5y 17:42:12 Everything will be OK in the end http://tinyurl.com/yu2xxw 17:45:14 How to create TinyURLs in WordPress http://tinyurl.com/apzkt6 20:52:17 FriendFeed has finally created a rectangular feed button similar to "Add to Google" http://friendfeed.com/embed/chiclet 21:50:19 The song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog is fairly popular among kids in US :) http://tinyurl.com/cp7m9y

Wednesday, 18th of February.

10:28:58 It's time to nominate your favorite Indian Blogs for the annual Indibloggies award http://nom2008.indibloggies.org/ 13:47:29 List of 100 Most Retweeted Users http://www.retweetist.com/users 13:52:00 Came across this funny ad on Ustream while watching the 24 hour screencast session with

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#camtasia http://tinyurl.com/bvdoo5 15:20:03 From @neilpatel: "15 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My First Blog" http://tinyurl.com/bs4y3t 21:53:19 Your search for social buttons should end here http://mysocialbuttons.com/buttons/collections/ 22:19:05 @Padmasree Tube Rose?

22:34:33 Try the Flash widget in Twitter http://twitter.com/widgets/which_widget - Thanks @rustybrick

Thursday, 19th of February.

00:11:03 Bollywood stars seems to be very popular in Pakistan http://tinyurl.com/cc3by5 00:11:44 List of Adobe employees who are active on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/beo28h 00:15:35 GottaBeMobile.com blog has been acquired by Notebooks.com http://tinyurl.com/d4y4g6 16:22:41 @om you may want to take a break at either Costa Coffee or Pizza Hut - they're pretty close to Taj 16:29:06 RWW vs. TC .. Why? http://tinyurl.com/byed32 16:34:55 This poem is actually a palindrome http://www.slate.com/id/2101150/sidebar/2101387/ent/2101353/ 16:38:24 BBC: Social Networking sites may be harmful to your health http://tinyurl.com/aey775 16:57:52 @archonline People may take things more seriously if they carry the BBC stamp :) 17:42:46 You can now follow @indiablogging to track blogs that get featured in the India Blogs directory http://bit.ly/YWRkv 18:49:56 My session at WordCamp India is about blog advertising & ad optimization .. would you have any specific questions related to these topics ?

19:18:40 Thanks @narain @ankurb @flyyoufools @sankar_datti @acmhatre @dj_priyam for your inputs - will definitely cover these in the session.

19:19:39 @knayam I hope to be there on 22nd as well 20:31:59 The Credit Crisis Explained in Simple English http://tinyurl.com/bk4u29 21:29:29 Woman calls 9-1-1 after Burger King gets her order wrong http://tinyurl.com/cw3xmf 23:49:24 RT @MadLid Search engine for error codes and messages http://www.errorkey.com/

Friday, 20th of February.

00:33:09 What can happen in a second http://smas.studioludens.com/ 12:15:34 Design a Twitter Theme Online http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com/

Tuesday, 24th of February.

10:22:28 Am back from WordCamp .. It was nice meeting so many of you #wci 10:23:02 This guide is simply awesome .. Hack your Facebook Profile Photo http://tinyurl.com/bbafhs 12:17:15 I think I need to show this graphic daily to Garima :) http://tinyurl.com/dg3hoj 12:18:38 Business card inspired by Twitter http://tinyurl.com/crggg5

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13:45:17 @om The built-in email system of BB + ping.fm Or you could use a plugin that creates a mobile interface of your WordPress post panel 15:29:18 Estimating the value of blogs http://tinyurl.com/dh8e8x 16:02:01 The biggest barrier to cloud computing http://tinyurl.com/65cqot 17:09:35 Life would be more convenient if the Twitter logo on the search.twitter.com pages could link to the Twitter homepage 18:37:08 It looks like you can tweet the same message over and over again to make that a trend http://tinyurl.com/b925o9 18:42:01 This is probably the first "paid app" on Adobe AIR store http://tinyurl.com/dlo79z 18:48:01 @shortcovers will you provide the software for BB Curve as well?

20:18:43 Apple just launched Safari 4 http://www.apple.com/safari/ 20:22:17 AdSense Generator http://googleadsensegenerator.com/ 20:24:20 tip @techmeme Twitter should buy Mr. Tweet http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2009/02/24/TwitterShouldBuyMrTweet.aspx

Wednesday, 25th of February.

09:38:42 This website has interesting navigation - see what happens when you hover the mouse over any of the blocks http://www.gursimran.com/home/ 09:39:47 This chart will come handy if you are doing a mass forward http://tinyurl.com/cwtsxn 09:50:09 Learned about a new acronym - IANAL - it means "I am not a lawyer" #wci 10:04:37 @ideasmithy Probably that interpretation would help some people at least remember that complex acronym :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL 10:20:47 How to coordinate a carpool using an online Calendar http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!35191.entry 10:37:38 Looks like some sites have recently been dropped from Google News http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019495.html 12:18:47 Why did Gmail go down yesterday? http://tinyurl.com/cxl93f 12:49:46 WordPress Trick: Get the first image from a blog post http://tinyurl.com/ateofx 12:51:52 Some people aren't very pleased with Safari 4 http://tinyurl.com/azv88h 13:25:25 Portwiture grabs Flickr pictures that match the content of your most recent Twitter updates http://portwiture.com/ 17:38:46 Dear Vista - I can't wait that long :) http://i42.tinypic.com/2mhssix.jpg 19:18:48 Can you believe it! Perez Hilton had 14 million page views yesterday for their Oscar coverage http://tinyurl.com/bgmke9 20:03:13 Slides from my AdSense Presentation at WordCamp India http://tinyurl.com/d9p5dr #wci 20:34:23 From @sarahintampa "a friend just pondered if Gmail's outage was a trick to get everyone to install Google Gears!"

20:38:05 The chargesheet filed against Kasab contains 11,280 pages and has been written in 7 different languages http://tinyurl.com/dx9ntz 20:59:38 @nirmaltv Oops! I meant 160x600 ... fixed http://tinyurl.com/d9p5dr

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Thursday, 26th of February.

11:08:32 @peeyush I actually did that y'day and suddenly my FB friends have started commenting on my Twitter messages ..

11:10:30 After Gmail, Google Calendar goes down http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/unavailable.html - via @sarahintampa 11:23:09 @abhishek yes, I have recd. your email :) 11:23:47 Anyone attending the search masters conference at Google Bangalore on Saturday? http://www.indiasearchmasters.com/ 11:37:10 @peeyush True.. and the same holds true for this reply as well 12:26:44 @arjunram great.. I'll be there 12:29:11 Simply loved this tweet http://twitter.com/yahoo/status/1252718764 - via @orli 12:48:47 Not sure why some people put an extra "g" in my surname.. :) http://tinyurl.com/brn3sw 13:00:56 @LimeIce looks like the "gg" spelling is pretty common as well so it's not numerology :) http://tinyurl.com/ca2hvk 13:02:32 @real_in thanks :) 13:22:23 @tsuvik great, we'll catch up.

16:00:38 Catch tweets live on a rotating globe http://www.twittearth.com/ 16:26:42 Inbox tip: "Set a timer for 5 minutes. Eliminate as many e-mails as you can. Track results & try to top yourself." http://tinyurl.com/af725l 16:31:38 IBN is reporting that Islamabad's Marriott Hotel is on fire - hope it's not another terrorist attack http://ibnlive.in.com/ 17:00:53 Thanks @bloggingtom - CNN has a picture though the cause is yet unknown http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/26/pakistan.unrest/ 17:25:20 http://tinyurl.com/b5pjbl "The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits" - TIME mag. is perfect at writing headlines that sell 17:58:51 Visualize weather http://www.kurtli.com/weather/index.htm 21:15:53 Bangalore folks - can you suggest me an area where I should be staying - it should be somewhere between the airport and Google office

Friday, 27th of February.

07:46:12 Thanks @Vaulten @makash @abhinavy2j @sharninder @ReviewOfWeb for your suggestions.

07:48:13 AdSense was down for about 90 minutes y'day http://tinyurl.com/an7dkj 22:26:18 Am in Bangalore.. The new airport. Is pretty impressive

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March

Monday, 2nd of March.

10:02:54 @real_in I am really happy to read that.

10:10:19 @tsuvik @manikarthik @varunkrish @bgmahesh @technosamrat @dhempe @pagetraffic @arjunram - It was nice meeting you all at #gsmc09 10:18:40 skittles uses Twitter Search on their home page http://tinyurl.com/agdb3d - this tweet would show up there as well - via @johnbattelle 11:17:30 There's no delete key on the web http://tinyurl.com/ctagfa 12:39:49 Readers can respond to your writing in six different ways http://tinyurl.com/bvxa3b - interesting observation 12:56:20 @rafe has a quick run-down of places where you can watch Demo 09 live http://tinyurl.com/b7np3n 12:59:00 @OurielOhayon add filter:links to the wow query and results will become even more interesting 13:29:55 Technorati rank for labnol blog is now 137 - this is the lowest ever http://technorati.com/blogs/www.labnol.org 13:36:59 @flyyoufools It's the other way round because according to the technorati equation "low is good" :) 13:39:17 @mrinaldesai I love technorati for tracking blog reactions.. Google Blog Search contains just too much noise (read this as spam) 13:55:03 @shortcovers - am unable to use your app on the Curve - it says "uncaught exceptions: articinterface:docpostocaret: error 3" 13:55:44 @mrinaldesai "sites that are linking to you" 14:05:14 Aibek has a 50 page PDF guide on building your own computer http://tinyurl.com/cfoep8 18:19:42 @parislemon Does this have a detachable keyboard?

19:12:14 "A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites" http://tinyurl.com/cpms8t 19:46:26 #DEMO09 will start in another two hours at http://www.demo.com/live/ 19:48:15 Slide-show of products that will be launched at #demo09 http://tinyurl.com/bmeu4h 20:02:09 BBC: "Getting angry at work may not be a bad thing and may help you move up the career ladder" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918622.stm

Tuesday, 3rd of March.

10:05:15 US soldiers arriving from Afghanistan inside a plane http://tinyurl.com/aohf4s 11:09:55 I just hope Pakistan will punish the culprits this time even if they're "non state actors" http://tinyurl.com/bp2jy8 15:48:29 @jdlasica Thank you.

18:31:36 Today (3/3/2009) is a square root day - next will fall on April 4, 2016 (4/4/2016) http://tinyurl.com/6yrl2m

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19:44:45 Notes from the Google Search Conference http://tinyurl.com/bl4gdy #gsmc09 20:37:08 I have no clue why but the official website of Pakistan Cricket is currently saying "Good news cricket fans" http://www.pcboard.com.pk/

Wednesday, 4th of March.

09:28:47 This is interesting. Zoho is advertising their online office suite on auto-rickshaws of Chennai http://tinyurl.com/aewbbk 09:36:51 This AFP image hosted on Google News appears a bit photoshopped http://tinyurl.com/dg64wr 09:38:47 Thanks @cdeepak @tharayil - same here.

09:57:45 http://tinyurl.com/aj4cps This is best graphic so far to illustrate duplicate content on your website - via http://tinyurl.com/cbr2ug 10:52:14 If you have 5 min. to spare, please take the Digital Inspiration reader survey at https://surveys.researchresults.com/legacy/006/3333/S1.htm 12:01:35 @anaggh @friedclyde This is from IDG and the drawing is only open to US / Canada residents.

Thanks @DeepakJain1989 @popology for your time.

13:43:51 Interesting. Find people who are tweeting near your current physical location http://nearbytweets.com/ 22:15:26 Check this new AdSense format http://tinyurl.com/c97ka8

Thursday, 5th of March.

01:24:53 Facebook will soon sport a new design - looks cool http://twurl.nl/2at0sl 09:54:30 Looks like AdSense maintenance is going on longer than expected 10:03:32 @angsuman a question about your trans. plugin - is it real time or does it create a cached copy ?

10:11:08 @priyankarocks good review of the Vaio P. What's your take on the battery life vis-a-vis Mini http://tinyurl.com/au8v2h 10:13:16 @nirmaltv Thanks - that answers my doubt 10:37:27 @MParekh Kind of expected :) See this Time photo essay http://tinyurl.com/7u2q6y 10:53:16 How America changed during the Bush era http://tinyurl.com/9erbsn 11:00:51 @priyankarocks thanks.. even the Dell Mini with Ubuntu gives 4 hours so its probably the same for all netbooks 11:27:51 Google on the need for "Smart Grid" http://www.google.org/powermeter/sgtestimony.html 12:13:30 Learned a new acronym today: HITS (as in pageviews) = "How Idiots Track Success" http://tinyurl.com/apcfme - created by @avinashkaushik 12:15:20 If you use Microsoft Office Live, do follow @officelivegal for updates 12:24:28 @jenstar but I think they still have a problem with stats 12:26:44 If you find the TV remote too complex to use http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=4065 17:24:09 This was a pleasant surprise http://tinyurl.com/aokkk4 - Thanks @om 18:04:09 The original Slumdog Millionaire of India http://tinyurl.com/cy8gja - not exactly a slumdog 18:27:30 @soumyadipc Won't be surprised if this get repeated

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Friday, 6th of March.

10:03:30 It's really hard to digest that a start-up didn't Google a person's name before hiring him http://tinyurl.com/cxrqxy 10:20:03 Sky News appoints Twitter correspondent - his job is to scan Twitter for breaking news http://tinyurl.com/cgd4vm 10:36:56 The comments layout in @photomatt's latest design is awesome http://tinyurl.com/cvxozd 11:00:09 @ankurb not "paid to twitter" but "paid to scan twitter" 11:36:08 @honeytech "providing search density" - what's that?

11:52:10 @honeytech OK, so here's a company that does this "professionally" http://tinyurl.com/d7mhfo 11:57:07 Do you know that women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia http://tinyurl.com/a9sdcq 12:42:16 @honeytech I can be at least sure that visitors won't ever see the "bandwidth exceeded" message 12:44:44 Honda CRV will soon cost around 24-25l in India - they blame the weak rupee http://tinyurl.com/dmvnbu 12:47:38 @priyankarocks Think the ban is only in Saudi Arabia not other Islamic nations .. so it may not be connected to religion 13:02:29 @sakshijuneja The base price is same everywhere but add 110% import duty on cars that are sent via ship and not assembled in India 13:04:28 @realin Can't comment on Akamai as they don't have plans for small publishers - I am on CloudFront + Amazon S3 http://tinyurl.com/5gcq3d 13:08:24 @sakshijuneja 17k Euros + 110% + Taxes - something between 23-25l though your dealer would know better 13:09:54 @shantanugoel Can't think of a reason why they may be good for 'seo' though I do use them 15:18:07 Banned AdSense Publisher Gets His Money Back from Google http://bit.ly/QHeg5 15:26:32 Good luck @scobleizer http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/robert-scoble-to-leave-fastcompany/ 16:04:23 There's a blogcamp happening in Delhi t'row http://wiki.ibnms.com/BlogCampDelhi2 16:07:31 @parislemon Wondering if they can all fit in one phone :) 16:55:11 @doshiamit - @acmhatre should be able to help you here .. his indicast podcasts are available on iTunes http://www.theindicast.com/ 18:01:26 @priyankarocks - there are some more funny reasons for that as well http://bit.ly/16SPda thanks @mskadu 18:10:24 @doshiamit so I guess it works for the India store as well?

18:23:35 @algore is planning .eco TLDs to host environment related sites .. Why? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7927812.stm 18:43:40 The web domain http://www.example.com/ is exclusively reserved for documentation - good to know.

19:02:54 Google Suggest http://imgur.com/EYY9.png 19:17:16 How can people eat at this "Toilet" restaurant http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/03/06/vo.china.toilet.restaurant.cnn

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19:28:57 http://tinyurl.com/amcyot If you buy pirated DVDs in India, you are indirectly helping the underworld dons - via @peeyush 19:41:16 Looks like Kumo is live for some users .. someone reached my blog from Buenos Aires through Kumo 19:50:29 @Harkaway True.. The equation applies almost everywhere 20:07:20 Topify lets you reply to Twitter DMs via email http://www.sciencetext.com/twitter-by-email.html

Saturday, 7th of March.

08:57:52 TwitterCounter has an interesting business model - they charge $500 per week to feature a profile http://TwitterCounter.com/pages/featured 18:42:25 @JuliaAngwin has done a nice round-up of useful twitter apps (see the sidebar) at http://www.wsj.com/decoder

Monday, 9th of March.

10:04:56 An easy way to remember whether to put your clocks forward or back is this phrase "spring forward, fall back." http://tinyurl.com/dmxksv 12:47:54 The Hindu newspaper is now on Twitter @businessline 16:58:02 It's quite possible that the Army (with US backing) may take over control in Pakistan http://tinyurl.com/8gpzql 18:07:31 This request is for the AdSense team http://tinyurl.com/a8o5el 19:19:07 Love this NYT quote "The Internet has made it easy for a lot of young writers to make money by making enemies" http://tinyurl.com/bhpfex 23:26:36 Vizualize a trillion dollars http://bit.ly/5LPS5

Tuesday, 10th of March.

09:24:14 Do you think blogs should filter out Digg-style comments http://bit.ly/1504Mx 09:36:24 @om says that Apple may be working on a touchscreen slate http://tinyurl.com/aedm3k - am sure a lot of us would love to have one 09:52:40 @mashable just acquired a company that perfectly fits their space http://tinyurl.com/d6hk6k Congrats Pete.

09:55:17 Now I won't be very surprised if @mashable releases a Wakoopa like app to track your software & web usage for blippr 10:06:19 GeoTargeting gone wrong? The Time website is displaying Gambling ads in India even though it's illegal here http://tinyurl.com/c77kr9 10:09:31 Maybe this is a good time to buy GOOG http://tinyurl.com/cxm9w7 10:48:18 8 Racist Words You Use Every Day http://tinyurl.com/8ps29x 11:06:57 @BINC I think the Cracked.com story is factually incorrect - here's the correct definition http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/P0288700.html 13:12:46 If you attended WordCamp India, please tag yourself in this group photo http://tinyurl.com/bqmdkm captured by @sdkrdk #wci 13:34:09 http://tweetpkr.com/ - this will help you check tweets from any web page. Cool. Thanks

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@SteveRubel

Thursday, 12th of March.

08:16:45 @priyal I think @ravikapoor already answered your ques. LKA is probably the only Ind. politician who has a blog. Lalu stopped in July itself 08:31:15 @rafe FeedDemon too has ads and they aren't annoying. Going forward, more desktop titles may try to follow this web apps like revenue model 12:51:30 Google Voice is only available in the U.S. You can DM @googlevoice for an invite - via @peeyush @rklau 13:15:07 @sidin Am quite hopeful that they will bring it to India as well though not in the immediate future..

13:16:51 @rahul_garg good point. i think a tweet should do or you can put in the request here https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/ 13:22:25 http://tinyurl.com/ch3zq6 "Last year the world had 1,125 billionaires. Today there are 793." @dewalt 13:27:55 Not happy with these survey forms that pop-up randomly and darken the background http://tinyurl.com/d8wkpg 15:05:40 CNN: The man who threw shoes at Bush is jailed for three years.

21:13:27 Most Useful Bookmarklets http://bit.ly/txqKk 21:28:11 http://tinyurl.com/dxugg7 FBI has raided the office of Vivek Kundra - via @shilpikadas 22:58:31 http://bit.ly/16yRpE - Do we really need Google Blog Search?

23:06:39 @nirmaltv might also come up with social features sometime in the future 23:08:23 "Firefox needs Google more than Google needs Firefox, and that situation will only become more pronounced [hint: Chrome]" http://bit.ly/y8fI

Friday, 13th of March.

09:38:03 @jenstar quick question about "interest based" ads - are these limited to display banners or do they apply to text ads as well?

10:25:11 "Spawned a New Process" - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001242.html 10:26:48 Gmail is not always very efficient in filtering spam that is written in other languages 10:45:34 It looks like Palm is all set to make a comeback with Pre http://tinyurl.com/abj5y4 17:03:54 Dave Winer was unhappy with Twitter as they made Arrington a suggested user. Now Arr. is unhappy with FB as they gave Kev. Rose a vanity URL 17:09:17 "If you're receiving DMs on Twitter from yourself that you didn't send, chances are you signed up for an RSS feed with your Twitter info" 18:27:01 @mattcutts The quality of videos that you recently posted on your blog was excellent. What kind of camera do you use?

18:35:43 "How to Blog For a Global Audience" http://tinyurl.com/cf3umx - this is an excellent article (via @RobinGood)

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Saturday, 14th of March.

10:09:58 @Wysz @mattcutts Thanks.

10:15:06 Why people working with computers have spare time... http://bit.ly/HaZJo 13:28:51 @linkedin introduced applications in Oct' 08 but they haven't added any new application since then 13:41:14 Quick Poll: What's your favorite English News channel in India http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1453835/ 15:59:40 Bollywood actress Gul Panag is now on Twitter - @gulpanag

Sunday, 15th of March.

11:57:44 @wefollow #technology #blogs #google (I am trying to add myself to a twitter directory at www.wefollow.com - everyone pls ignore this tweet) 12:10:55 @SparxNet @soumyadipc - thanks for correcting. Rgd poll: Your favorite English News channel in India http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1453835/ 12:53:33 @mrinaldesai I don't think so but AutoHotkey may offer some workaround 13:00:54 @mrinaldesai there are some things you can't do with bookmarklets - like change user agents, modify links on web pages (Cust. Google), etc.

Monday, 16th of March.

08:47:25 Some 700+ ppl have used the default "yourtag" for wefollow http://wefollow.com/tag/yourtag/page29 09:30:43 Some dolphins are pink in color http://tinyurl.com/cbph4t 09:35:50 You can't really measure traffic from Twitter as most ppl using apps that don't provide referral information - eg. http://bit.ly/info/g4DfS 09:46:31 @deadpresident But the problem is that bit.ly is only one of the dozen url shorteners out there ..

09:59:39 @interactivecode Thanks.. this was new to me.. you should update Wikipedia with this information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin 11:23:16 Foreign Workers Heading Home - The New York Times http://bit.ly/nfkc 11:24:07 In the last two decades, 50,000 immigrants left US & returned to India /China. In the next 5 years, 100,000 more will make the return trip.

11:48:15 @kevinrose you may want to fix the title tags for wefollow - they're all same at the moment http://tinyurl.com/cr5gyd 12:15:51 @amitsomani worst part is that these ppl use the same "SMS style" language when leaving comments on blogs.

14:54:33 The Obama Deception - the full documentary is now available on YouTube http://bit.ly/Nhm2p 19:03:31 @om am also a bit surprised that your Cisco story isn't there yet though it was tipped several hours ago http://tinyurl.com/8phsk8 20:44:58 Some solutions to help you manage multiple email accounts http://bit.ly/rf1Hy

Tuesday, 17th of March.

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09:23:07 I wish this Apple Tablet rumor becomes true http://tinyurl.com/dherhz 09:40:21 How to design a Twitter Background http://bit.ly/gb0W 11:31:17 TIME mag. says that Obama and other political elite are "rather powerless to act" against AIG http://bit.ly/C23 11:50:29 If you want more people to discover your profile on Facebook, change the view settings http://tinyurl.com/cosupj 12:38:17 http://www.labnol.org/technology/ - My shared links (mostly related to tech.)

18:54:01 @rustybrick Is that "tip" or "tips" ?

19:26:28 Add "Tweet This" to your WordPress or Blogger blog http://bit.ly/zHvGX 19:29:28 @anchalsingh @sidin @anjali28 @babychen - The issue is with the word "tips" and not "tip" http://tinyurl.com/582p8r - Thnkx @robinwauters 20:42:30 @anjali28 If you are only interested in collecting links (and not feeds), services like Read-It-Later or InstaPaper are worthing considering 20:55:09 @arunkamath02 ppl who uses these plug-ins aren't really interested in checking out ads so it really doesn't matter.

20:58:18 The Apple event will start in another 1.5 hours.. http://tinyurl.com/dd9hd9 22:10:57 Check this review of Dell's Adamo Laptop in 140 characters http://twitter.com/waltmossberg/status/1343005996

Wednesday, 18th of March.

13:47:20 tip @techmeme IBM in Talks to Buy Sun Microsystems http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735124997967063.html 16:20:48 http://tr.im/wciquiz (PDF) - This is quite an interesting quiz on WordPress and Twitter prepared by @ankurb http://bit.ly/QSkfX #wci 17:03:40 @writeguy If I got the question right, you can have a custom "from" address in Gmail http://tinyurl.com/2h4cze 18:33:05 Why people on Twitter should use NutShellMail http://bit.ly/s79W4 19:17:40 @leemathews Thanks Lee. 21:45:45 @sarahintampa this is exactly why you need to think before you tweet: http://bit.ly/U9ZuP

Thursday, 19th of March.

09:39:42 @ClaireSale @gfriese Thank you for spreading the word.

18:51:05 tip @techmeme Cisco has acquired Flip http://tinyurl.com/c458l8 18:57:20 @RakeshAgrawal Will YouMail help? http://tinyurl.com/ddbvbb

Friday, 20th of March.

18:04:58 How to create IE 8 web slices for your WordPress blog http://bit.ly/zd096 19:05:04 I think Gmail should seriously consider borrowing this setting from Zoho Mail for their new "Undo Send" feature http://bit.ly/ZIz4

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19:44:07 When some leaves a comment on a WP 2.7 blog, the page URL in the addr. bar changes after the submission.. Can anyone help me fix this pls.

20:25:08 @ck72 Chetan - I think your tip will fix the WP issue. Thank you.

20:47:04 @ck72 what was that?

21:58:54 @ankurb that looks like a good option.. it doesn't support nesting though.

Monday, 23rd of March.

10:14:52 @keshav I don't use any plug-in - it's just a line of php code that I have inserted in the feed-rss2.php file http://bit.ly/aEvq2 17:32:54 "Media Companies Ask Google to Favor Their Content Over Blogs" http://bit.ly/4Diev 17:42:11 10 Things your should know about NANO - the world's cheapest car http://bit.ly/DBIu 17:48:50 Tutorial on how to create HD screencasts for YouTube http://bit.ly/7ilgM 18:13:30 @indibloggies is looking for some script that can fetch Technorati Rankings of multiple blogs.. if you can help, pls reply to @dchucks 20:40:57 @sarahintampa Such things make Twitter directories like @wefollow pretty useless.

Tuesday, 24th of March.

18:43:29 @fmanjoo According to WhatTheFont, your typeface could be Franklin Gothic .. http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Wednesday, 25th of March.

09:23:48 Actress dumps boyfriend because of his Twitter 'obsession' http://bit.ly/OzLs 17:10:15 @nixxin @pacificleo - can you help answer @wanderer08's query related to short codes http://twitter.com/wanderer08/status/1387368277

Thursday, 26th of March.

10:52:54 Why gadget blogs fail readers http://bit.ly/UxCfE 18:42:08 What Twitter Can Learn from Google Reader http://bit.ly/23jGnW

Friday, 27th of March.

11:17:29 So much hatred on either sides http://tinyurl.com/d3kehb 14:46:42 I hope @OfficialPETA doesn't have an issue with this @TechCrunch post :) http://bit.ly/QGQo 15:23:10 Tools to help you browse the web faster even on a slow connection http://bit.ly/2RJhIp

Monday, 30th of March.

16:54:46 You'll love this LEGO Twitter Fail Whale http://tinyurl.com/cnozv2 21:10:08 FeedDemon 3 loves Twitter http://tinyurl.com/cpmglu

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21:40:40 @leemathews I don't think so though @nbradbury would be in a better position to answer this

Tuesday, 31st of March.

11:17:55 If you are using Kodak Gallery to store photos, read this http://bit.ly/14rROu 11:34:47 @rahulgaitonde Yes, it was in the initial plan but was removed from the beta release due to some "business reasons" 14:05:20 @pinaldave Will put you there in the next update.

18:59:55 Some stuff that you may want to backup http://bit.ly/337vN6 19:10:29 More Twitter Followers Don’t Always Mean More Clicks http://bit.ly/UIxbP 20:16:37 If are love technology and are based in India, nominate yourself for the Microsoft MVP award http://bit.ly/XxNY5 20:35:00 @tsuvik Thanks. Fixed.

21:23:44 tip @techmeme Wales giving up on Wikia Search http://tinyurl.com/cv3gwx

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April

Wednesday, 1st of April.

17:19:56 http://bit.ly/13Kkl My AdSense presentation had 800 views y'day but now that number is 70k+ .. something is seriously wrong with slideshare 17:26:22 OK, slideshare is playing a prank here - they have inflated the page views and want everyone to tweet this .. http://bit.ly/fMMS 17:40:20 @gauravity thanks 20:10:56 Here's something for Cricket fans on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/c4zsn9

Thursday, 2nd of April.

11:24:08 Slideshare's blog post indicates they are in damage control mode as some people are very very upset with the prank http://bit.ly/7BoPV 17:07:53 There's a rule that you can't touch the queen http://bit.ly/rlDZq 18:49:43 People excited about another PageRank update http://search.twitter.com/search?q=pagerank 19:26:51 @bradlinder Congratulations Brad.

Friday, 3rd of April.

09:00:06 RT @indiablogging: I have enabled Snap screenshots in the Indian Blogs directory .. do you find this useful or annoying http://bit.ly/YWRkv 10:34:47 From PBS: Twitter, YouTube, etc. Need Transparency in Editorial Picks http://bit.ly/DQhIf thanks @simonowens 11:01:48 The "brave" Taleban men http://bit.ly/14iWLa 11:20:29 Blogger marries her blog reader .. their relationship started through blog comments http://bit.ly/1LthhC 11:22:37 @RaviKapoor Just put your blog URL here http://www.labnol.org/suggest 11:31:50 @atul - if not acquire, they can at least borrow @gaberivera's algorithm to make the tech clusters more relevant http://bit.ly/1wIGRr 12:33:27 Twooting is an interesting audio podcast about Twitter.. yes, they discuss Twitter every single day http://www.twooting.com/ @thepodcast 14:59:09 @steverubel If you are using Gmail, you can simply switch to plain text view and then copy-paste the bookmarklet code in the message 15:15:06 @steverubel If you use the preview feature of tinyurl, it should work http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=dmpaxr 15:22:17 There's a Bloggers meet happening in Delhi tomorrow .. http://www.indiblogger.in/bloggermeet.php?id=33 15:33:46 If you want to see the effect of recession on blog advertising, check out blogads .. most sites have no ads except Perez http://bit.ly/LyMxM

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20:11:55 Take a video tour of Nancy Duarte's office .. http://blog.duarte.com/2009/04/a-video-tour-of-duarte-design/ - (remember Al Gore's keynote) 20:23:01 @erickschonfeld vs @karaswisher http://bit.ly/vUjm5 #quarrelfriday

Saturday, 4th of April.

12:41:01 Hard to believe .. Taliban says they are behind the attack on U.S. immigration centre http://bit.ly/15ab4

Wednesday, 8th of April.

08:54:49 @edunetsys Re: subscriber drop .. guess this is due to some issues with google feedfetcher http://bit.ly/16g2NI 08:55:27 @gauravgupta @swaroop @keithdsouza I have been traveling .. hence the lull :) 10:59:38 Lot of buzz about bumptop today - I run all my windows maximized and therefore never get to see what's on the desktop http://bit.ly/HARP 19:26:40 Head of U.S. Armed Forces has joined Twitter http://bit.ly/1avJrY 20:39:02 Diggbar is not evil but I prefer reading web pages without it http://bit.ly/pyTh

Thursday, 9th of April.

10:19:56 FeedBurner subscriber counts are back to normal. FeedBlitz says this is not related to Google FeedFetcher http://bit.ly/111O0f

Friday, 10th of April.

09:35:19 A mention in New York Times nearly crashed Zoho servers for few hours http://tinyurl.com/cz6pza 09:54:31 @b50 Thanks but some part of that ET story is just false information.

21:52:16 @edbott It's a DNS related issue http://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1491263892

Saturday, 11th of April.

11:12:52 Diggbar is not passing you any google juice for sure http://bit.ly/y4hS 13:06:40 It seriously hurts when "feed scrapers" outrank the original source in Google search results http://bit.ly/7vYEI 13:10:17 @petegrillo - what is the user agent for @iterasi ? do you read robots.txt ?

13:45:21 His videos were viewed 154 million times on YouTube yet Google paid him only ÂŁ11 http://bit.ly/FrGf 13:48:49 @boundlessdreamz Agree.. @iterasi should either use noindex or block all bots just like archive.org 21:49:49 Congrats @parislemon for your new job at @techcrunch http://bit.ly/133zOj 21:55:35 Former chief minister Mulayam Singh wants to ban computers as they create unemployment http://bit.ly/EUKcV .. anything for votes

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Sunday, 12th of April.

13:41:32 Heard of Daily Rotation? This alltop like tech aggregator has been around since 2001 http://www.dailyrotation.com/ 13:44:30 Infosys has sacked 2,100 employees http://bit.ly/3qim8 17:20:14 @mbchandar @vinitneo I think you guys are right.. have deleted that tweet 17:45:54 If you ever want to replace your #wefollow tags for twitter, follow this link http://wefollow.com/add

Monday, 13th of April.

08:41:10 What is the ideal length of a screencast video? Most people say ~5 minutes http://bit.ly/udiHG 08:45:02 @priyankarocks I guess gmail auto-pilot wasn't something real 08:48:11 @TariAkpodiete Thanks .. agree - it depends on the subject .. if you're explaining a quick feature through screencasts - 3-4 mins is OK. 12:13:32 @gaberivera - I see that the length of techmeme homepage has reduced ..is it a design change or due to lack of stories in the blogosphere 12:15:31 @gaberivera OK..

12:23:02 Check this stack of diggbars on a single web page http://bit.ly/digg-stack 13:32:12 http://bit.ly/P7YD - Economic Times (via @kiruba) says that my blog revenues are $4k .. wondering how the journalist "derived" this number 14:02:02 If you want to create Flickr like hover notes for your pictures, check this tutorial http://tinyurl.com/czpf6p 14:24:04 @ankurb That's the whole problem.

14:34:30 PCWorld defines a typical yahoo mail user as a "non-IT-industry worker who has been too lazy to sign up for Gmail." http://bit.ly/11um5s 17:27:26 xxx.love.com may be the new ego search engine (replace xxx with any term) http://bit.ly/15npH 19:37:25 US is planning military action against Somali pirate bases http://bit.ly/n0CND 22:36:35 Help @marshallk stress-test some new screen sharing application http://tinyurl.com/d2tf9y

Tuesday, 14th of April.

10:49:49 Some of your tweets may have been deleted from Twitter http://bit.ly/VFPxW 12:43:49 The new design of ndtv.com is not very impressive but glad that they removed in-text advertising from their articles 19:55:29 Twitter Mutuality - http://is.gd/pF4p - via @problogger 20:02:27 "sasural genda phool" - does anyone know the meaning of this line? http://tinyurl.com/cgccae 20:49:48 @sudhiru Thank you for pointing to that post. I think she got the interpretation right.

22:00:44 Google Latitude Tips http://tinyurl.com/d8py7f

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Wednesday, 15th of April.

09:20:56 Get a vanity URL for your Google Profile ASAP http://tinyurl.com/ces9vn 10:21:46 Ordering some dominos pizza? Check one of their kitchens http://tinyurl.com/chxbbz 10:45:24 @paavani yes, disgusting for sure but I just hope that its a one-off case 15:18:19 @Orli Or add &hd=1 to the URL and it will open in wide-screen .. http://tinyurl.com/dmmxl7 18:28:46 @kiruba .. this is awesome http://www.flickr.com/photos/kribs/3433585862/sizes/l/ .. congrats 23:24:00 Some pretty interesting advice for start-ups http://blip.tv/file/1995301 - presentation recorded at proto.in

Thursday, 16th of April.

08:36:42 @centernetworks - congrats for the smooth migration Allen 12:59:32 http://miibeian.gov.cn This Chinese website has a Google PageRank 10 - can you guess why?

13:08:53 @renjith @pinaldave I missed the www .. try this link www.miibeian.gov.cn/ 20:19:10 @ujwalaprabhu - are you from India ?

20:20:07 Move your stuff from Google Pages http://tinyurl.com/dx4kks 22:53:15 Gmail users: Before you set a vanity URL for your Google Profile, read this http://bit.ly/NKFMs

Friday, 17th of April.

13:23:49 http://bit.ly/digg-time-lapse - Time Lapse video of Digg home page - Watch the video in Full Screen.

Wednesday, 22nd of April.

10:47:16 Diggbar just got the axe http://bit.ly/wFMVP 11:12:07 @speakLittle - Does your blog show up in Ggle Rdr for these keywords? If not, consider tweaking the title / desc. of your RSS feed 14:01:22 Skype is advertising pretty heavily on Twitter http://bit.ly/RLUFq

Friday, 24th of April.

22:13:17 Your Guide to Wikipedia Tools http://bit.ly/Drk3l

Monday, 27th of April.

15:47:46 Office pictures of some bloggers http://tinyurl.com/dhhbyg - via @shankerbakshi 20:59:46 Setup Your Own URL shortening service on Google Apps http://bit.ly/ATpAU

Wednesday, 29th of April.

20:37:02 @FlipTheOrg Thank you Jeff.

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20:58:56 How to Design a Website from scratch http://tinyurl.com/cdfd33 21:06:25 Some excellent ideas for WordPress bloggers http://bit.ly/OqPd6 21:29:28 Add an alternate name to your Facebook profile http://tinyurl.com/ckfege - via @eyalsela

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May

Tuesday, 5th of May. 11:48:31 @askbal @bvlad Thanks. Glad you found that article useful.

11:52:43 @arvindblogs True, it can only help you find tweets published in the last 35-40 days.

12:49:04 If you enjoy eating Maggi noodles, check out some interesting recipes at www.meandmeri.in especially the Noodle Bhelpuri 18:03:22 http://bit.ly/DGWLs An interesting Twitter mind map from IQMatrix http://tinyurl.com/dkypso

Thursday, 7th of May. 18:52:13 http://bit.ly/zd3G3 This is a Techmeme clone but limited to Indian blogs .. good job @saurabhsahni

Friday, 8th of May. 08:48:00 If you can read Chinese, the AdSense Chinese blog published an interview with me.. http://bit.ly/4OqCE 09:08:04 @amitsomani Thanks.. The problem is that lot of answers don't make sense after machine translation..

Thursday, 14th of May. 10:56:55 Publish your Blog on Kindle - Available to bloggers worldwide http://bit.ly/lAQgb 18:49:19 How one tweet fooled the entire tech blogosphere http://bit.ly/162V64 tip @techmeme

Friday, 15th of May. 10:54:16 Loads of software up for grabs at @keithdsouza's site http://bit.ly/FEmZV - includes titles from TechSmith, Symantec, Nero, etc.

17:42:25 Taking a cue from @TechCrunch, Instablogs too have started broadcasting their office on the web http://www.instablogs.com/livecam.php

Saturday, 16th of May. 19:23:16 @IvyBean104 is 104 years old and she is now active on Twitter - http://bit.ly/3OoJKy

Thursday, 21st of May. 18:13:37 Sad news. 5 employees of Infosys have died as their bus overturned http://bit.ly/ym9Cg 18:57:30 Why do people retweet - http://bit.ly/ePLuF

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Monday, 25th of May. 22:24:33 Here's how you can design a Twitter bird http://bit.ly/EbWTJ

Tuesday, 26th of May. 09:47:12 Twitter overdose http://bit.ly/lQyos 21:45:21 The website of Forbes (India Edition) looks like a blog http://business.in.com/

Wednesday, 27th of May. 11:21:16 Acrobat Presentations http://bit.ly/Us8EO 17:32:44 @bhava good work on the attachment detector.

Thursday, 28th of May. 10:44:10 RT @ShashiTharoor "Off to Rashtrapati Bhavan for swearing in. " 21:44:47 Hello @bing 23:07:57 Want to try bing.com ? Check this tweet from @bing http://twitter.com/bing/status/1949350207

Friday, 29th of May. 18:58:30 An excellent introduction to the Type tool in Photoshop - these concepts can be applied at other places as well http://bit.ly/188m20 19:02:39 Great tips on how we can balance our work and personal lives http://www.alistapart.com/articles/burnout/ - a must read article 21:02:11 Saw a live demo of @Bing in a MVP meeting today .. impressed so far.

Saturday, 30th of May. 19:48:20 Google working on Ads for Internet Radio http://bit.ly/NDxMJ 19:48:55 Microsoft - getting things right this time http://bit.ly/iHeYa

Sunday, 31st of May. 20:34:42 Link your Facebook and Google Accounts http://bit.ly/14O5tx

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June

Monday, 1st of June.

11:21:50 Question for Mac users .. what font is this http://bit.ly/p35x1 11:31:22 Thanks @gurupanguji & @poojakashyap 11:51:28 @swaroop So it's a hint that they pay emphasis on the "age of a domain" while ranking stuff 13:07:29 Some tips on using Bing http://bit.ly/17P5Mz 14:57:07 @techmeme - thanks for the @bing love http://bit.ly/swQLa 15:02:11 Is BING an acronym for "But It's Not Google" - Interesting (Hat tip Hemant via fb) 18:29:10 [Cartoon] What do popular bloggers do all day http://bit.ly/KwAEj

Tuesday, 2nd of June.

15:30:09 Need help! Can you pls. open my blog at http://www.labnol.org/ on your mobile phone and let me know if it works .. thanks.

19:41:14 Hey @bing - what's the user agent of your mobile crawler .. thnkx.

22:44:54 @centernetworks try http://random.org/ :)

Wednesday, 3rd of June.

11:14:03 Bing ring tones for your phone .. http://bit.ly/1agKWn 12:27:00 Why would anyone want to write content for Mahalo when they can create their own blog for free and also keep 100% of the AdSense revenue..

13:00:11 Mahalo fine-print says that "you will be required to make at least 1 significant contribution to your page each week. " http://bit.ly/3Vs0h

Thursday, 4th of June.

12:03:32 @parislemon Can the CrunchPad read PDFs?

Friday, 5th of June.

09:39:28 @bassgoddess You can copy-paste the "preview" URL into siteadvisor.com to know if the site is safe or not - siteadvisor is a McAfee service 21:17:11 @Carnage4Life Encarta lives :) 21:28:04 Thanks everyone who helped me with the mobile phone test re: http://twitter.com/labnol/status/2002057521 21:30:47 If you are curious to know how Googlers made that Chrome Ad, check this photo gallery http://bit.ly/40Rx54

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Saturday, 6th of June.

14:01:25 ..whenever you use a piece of technology, therr a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it" - Sergey Brin http://bit.ly/1JSnV

Monday, 8th of June.

21:56:43 @dsilverman has compiled a list of 12 sites that are live-blogging the WWDC http://bit.ly/Z2Nbq

Tuesday, 9th of June.

14:31:45 Some tools that will help you publish screenshots on Twitter effortlessly http://bit.ly/Ek6Pw 14:37:49 @serendipitynz True, SnagIt is a good option but I wanted to limit this list to free tools.

21:26:26 @davewiner Or get it free with Google Apps http://bit.ly/30twjz

Wednesday, 10th of June.

13:40:28 The YouTube channel for Webby's is very cool http://www.youtube.com/webby 19:17:00 Kiva to feed cash-starved US small businesses - http://bit.ly/HlZ5d 22:38:24 @Rafe You can easily search your Twitter archives through FriendFeed - just add from:rafe to the search query

Thursday, 11th of June.

10:38:55 tip @techmeme WordPress 2.8 is out http://bit.ly/wmRRE - surprised this news is not on Techmeme yet 15:30:18 Some tips on how to secure a Facebook Vanity URL that you want http://bit.ly/DF77Y 16:45:42 Check for Facebook usernames that have already been taken http://bit.ly/jVAxM 18:05:31 @aalaap @chicalit Facebook has allotted usernames to some bloggers as well - try "techcrunch" or "mashable" or "loic" http://bit.ly/10Y8VR

Friday, 12th of June.

15:49:35 Am looking to hire some good tech writers for DI. If you know someone, pls pass on this message to him or her http://bit.ly/n22pl 22:23:32 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Google Wonder Wheel - Just a test video, pls. ignore. http://bit.ly/lGVbi 23:10:46 Dear @youtube, none of your embedded playlists are working as of now.. not even the one on @chad_hurley's home page http://chadhurley.com/

Saturday, 13th of June.

11:04:34 Some similarity between Gmail & Facebook - both can't read dots http://bit.ly/U1lp7 13:04:07 Testing flick to twitter http://flic.kr/p/6w3iU1

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20:23:53 Some really cute twitter icons are available for download here http://bit.ly/iqLJ0

Sunday, 14th of June.

18:26:35 If you are based in India, here's a chance to win two Nokia N97 phones .. http://www.labnol.org/nokia/

Monday, 15th of June.

08:08:04 http://www.labnol.org/nokia - The Nokia N97 contest is now live on Digital Inspiration. If you are in India, do participate 09:58:57 Now follow @arrahman on twitter - hat tip Purva (via #FB) 10:09:57 @abiiyer @maxdavinci @rushiv @apnerve A.R. Rahman's twitter account is not verified but this tweet says it could be real http://bit.ly/e27YG 11:17:47 Very disappointed with Safari for Windows.. Crashes too often and there's no way to recover lost work 11:26:02 @dpreacher IE 8 can restore sessions in case of a crash .. @crystalunicorn I don't have a Mac so can't comment on the stability factor there 11:50:42 @amitgupta that statement is at least not true for the Windows version.

11:52:44 @michaeldpick - thank you for sharing those resources. Will let you know if I have something useful to contribute.

16:45:37 Don't forget to update your public Google profile with the new Facebook Vanity URL that you grabbed over the weekend http://bit.ly/15sPyf

Tuesday, 16th of June.

21:47:38 @phanirajkvs If it doesn't support Telugu, you can use the tran. bookmarklet http://bit.ly/r4G80 22:01:09 Wondering why some people get so excited with these "unboxing" videos..

22:02:20 @jenstar That's when these virtual "on screen" keyboards come in handy :) 22:08:47 Check out the new CBSNews.com http://bit.ly/newcbsn - via @natalidelconte

Wednesday, 17th of June.

12:21:50 Twitter Search in Plain English http://bit.ly/189Xd2 15:36:58 All paidcontent sites have just been redesigned with a bit of Guardian flavor http://paidcontent.org/ http://contentsutra.com/ 16:18:42 Network18 owned in.com is building a people's database using copy-paste from Wikipedia.

Compare http://bit.ly/164tNJ & http://bit.ly/vwdmp 20:33:59 A good recap of search features available in Google http://www.google.co.in/landing/searchtips/ 21:23:43 See what Walmart is doing to improve their search rankings http://tinyurl.com/nnvheu - via @wordtracker 21:47:18 You got to love Photoshop for this http://bit.ly/nFi68

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Thursday, 18th of June.

15:20:46 Am feeling a bit excited because the RSS subscriber count of Digital Inspiration crossed the 50,000 mark today.

22:59:34 Google is introducing Digg-like ads in Orkut http://labnol.org/?p=9125

Friday, 19th of June.

13:19:20 RT @labnolfeed Now Download all your YouTube Videos Legally http://bit.ly/w5ekA 16:07:46 @keithdsouza Thanks Keith.. I'll be more than happy to meet you.

16:08:10 @maggiev Thanks Maggie.

Saturday, 20th of June.

00:28:40 @copyblogger @MillionClues - the data is saved in the Google sheet but I get an email notification whenever there's a new entry.

00:32:44 Want to know how popular your blog is on Twitter? Try this Google Docs sheet http://bit.ly/rAIxw 17:19:36 @marshallk and @davewiner are doing a weekly tech podcast .. this is worth subscribing... http://bit.ly/ePqbJ

Monday, 22nd of June.

21:24:50 http://bit.ly/fb-labnol Here's a Facebook App for Digital Inspiration.. please spend a minute and let me know if you find it any useful 21:38:38 @patrix would love to but don't have all the stuff that is required to create & test one.

Wednesday, 24th of June.

15:40:17 Now this can make you feel a bit jealous - RT @orli "I love that in Israel there's free WIFI almost everywhere!"

15:43:10 If you own a Blackberry, you may also want to subscribe to their official blog http://blogs.blackberry.com/ 18:21:34 @Shripriya If you are willing to modify your WP template, this piece of code might help http://bit.ly/nkhYf

Friday, 26th of June.

18:01:31 It's a baby boy :) http://bit.ly/QmEZG

Tuesday, 30th of June.

11:06:30 Thanks all for your good wishes.. both the baby and mom are doing fine :) 11:08:05 Funny.. am not able to connect to any website that has the word "microsoft" in the sub-domain

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or the main domain name.. any clue?

11:14:31 @shefaly @sidin @rahulanand The problem is limited to only one of my computers... can access the MS sites from other computers just fine 11:14:56 @twilightfairy hope not :) 11:19:33 @sidin It didn't backfire :) 11:24:43 @manmitt Manish .. true.. I am unable to access any of the sites that you mentioned.. so looks like some virus related issue..

11:34:11 @abhinavsahai That was a good one :) 13:16:49 @rajeshja Turned out that the problem was due to Conficker.

13:48:18 @XavierLanier Thanks Xavier.

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July

Wednesday, 1st of July.

11:55:56 http://bit.ly/A1wIH - A nice wallpaper for Michael Jackson Fans

Thursday, 2nd of July.

10:09:01 True. @RyanBlock says that "most gadget sites cater only to 5% of a gadget’s lifecycle - the lust phase." http://bit.ly/2WkLz tip @techmeme

Friday, 3rd of July.

21:04:21 You can send capture screenshots, download files or even kill processes on a remote computer - all via Twitter http://bit.ly/iSqE6

Tuesday, 14th of July.

20:36:33 @lowrobb Am in the process of shifting to a new office .. probably this month itself .. hence you see slow updates on blog & twitter

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August

Monday, 3rd of August.

17:24:23 A friend is asking if he should buy a cooling pad for his laptop - do they work?

17:37:19 @leemathews @shashi_bhushan @karthikjai @harisn - thanks for your suggestions.. will pass them on.. @abhi2point0 - will ask :) 17:44:05 Firefox 3.5.2 due today http://bit.ly/aOJXM - via @dsilverman 22:45:17 @om - the new gigaom logo is awesome #gigaom_fw2

Tuesday, 4th of August.

10:59:27 @ChrisSaad I wish the Crunchpad thing had some built-in storage 12:26:42 @rajeshlalwani Search bots and humans may assume that your .in site targets the Indian demographic while .net are considered int'l

Friday, 7th of August.

16:07:51 An nice video recap of the proto.in event that happened in Pune last week http://blip.tv/file/2431981 16:24:55 Upgraded to Windows 7 .. the backgrounds are awesome .. and all the s/w programs are working without issues..

16:29:32 @emptyhead got that as part of my MSDN subscription (MVP) ..

16:30:25 @nichetechie it took around 90 minutes .. but the installation was smooth and went about unattended .. upgraded from Vista to 7 16:31:16 @SparxNet It's the 7 Ultimate edition (32 bit) 17:05:10 @abhi2point0 don't think any of the tech mags are distributing the RC 19:23:49 An interesting "behind the scenes" video from TED http://bit.ly/GMFxp 19:41:09 Google Apps ad takes a dig at Microsoft - screenshot @ http://kwout.com/t/yamx7fze

Wednesday, 12th of August.

12:44:40 Tip: To find the stats of any bit.ly url, just add the + sign .. for instance, http://bit.ly/1izZ0+ will have stats for http://bit.ly/1izZ0 15:38:33 There's a new Zoozoo commerical .. for India's independence day http://bit.ly/zndev 19:21:27 @jumpinjehosofat @fundubytes - while you are in town, let me know if you need any help guys.. and good luck with the contest ..

Thursday, 13th of August.

09:58:46 @smashingmag - thanks for sharing some of my recent stories with your readers.

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19:43:43 http://bit.ly/ringthebell Here's an opportunity for you to ring the closing bell at NASDAQ .. from @howardlindzon 20:39:40 Facebook recently moved to a new office .. here are some pictures http://bit.ly/Y9JBG .. nice

Friday, 14th of August.

12:03:04 Please read this .. "The Evolution of Blogging" by @Om http://om.bit.ly/1aitew 18:35:28 I started a thread: What's your favorite Twitter mashup .. mine is http://t4bp.com http://a.tinythread.com/XDLDZj99M7 19:37:11 @KIntheHouse And if you want to see twitter updates in one go without using the mouse, check out http://twitter100.com/

Saturday, 15th of August.

11:29:12 Concierge is my social mojo. What's yours? Find out at http://bit.ly/knowmojo 11:40:31 If you want to try the new Yahoo home page, use this address http://m.www.yahoo.com/ 12:35:08 Looks like Mr. Pervez Musharraf is a good singer http://bit.ly/xqJ4g 13:20:08 @mintyrich what made you think so :) 13:45:00 Someone created 4000 accounts on Twitter to promote his "make money online" business http://tweetmeme.com/style/day ..

13:53:44 If the twitter community was 100 people .. http://bit.ly/12GHwV

Sunday, 16th of August.

13:28:35 "Some movies provide NOT only ent. but also pack valuable lessons for life & business" http://bit.ly/CTE6P - great stuff by @UpbeatNow 13:32:04 "With Bloglines & Newsgator dead, I wonder what would happen to RSS if Google shuts down GReader (does it make money?)" - from @Carnage4Life 13:49:59 From @amitsomani - 50 IIT JEE #1 rankers - where are some of them now? http://bit.ly/1RX5vless than 5 seconds ago

Monday, 17th of August.

11:16:36 good to see that Hindu redesigned their site .. they should also add a dedicated Technology section I guess http://beta.thehindu.com/ 14:50:05 Am not able to reach quite a few websites today.. looks like a problem with the ISP (Airtel in my case) 19:18:07 @bosky101 @twilightfairy @naina @mayank @gauravisthere - are you guys still facing that Airtel issue?

19:55:03 Would anyone have a clue why is Microsoft building another social networking site http://wlplanet.com/ .. we don't need one..

20:43:09 Wow! @leolaporte and @ginatrapani had something nice to say about my blog on twit .. thank you both http://bit.ly/17Pss0 - around 59:35 20:47:38 @mrshl True.. this is aimed at teens

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Tuesday, 18th of August.

18:25:27 Scary.. Facebook application tries phishing to steal your Facebook password http://bit.ly/U6PGk

Wednesday, 19th of August.

10:19:23 This looks like a good idea for a homepage http://www.sequoiacap.com/ via @amitsomani -> @neerajarora 10:34:35 Tip: If you have a Facebook Page for your blog, always import your blog feed into that Page instead of importing it to your own profile..

10:49:51 Looks like Google is upgrading their AdSense algorithm to improve ad relevancy .. that's good news for publishers http://bit.ly/PwXds 10:51:22 @KnxDT More people will interact with your Facebook notes then 11:28:43 @rahulgaitonde Had this happened in US, am sure someone would have sued them :) 12:13:06 @bhunga True.. if you have any good recommendations, just send them across 12:17:30 @bgmahesh Thanks .. the only thing they are now missing is an RSS Feed 20:10:52 Can you identify the correct Google Logo? http://bit.ly/KZqsh

Thursday, 20th of August.

14:09:14 @cyberbuff You can do that with Camtasia Studio.

Friday, 21st of August.

10:17:14 Compare Google Rank of your Web Pages with Caffeine http://bit.ly/cZMc0 10:20:26 Use the same email address with all your Twitter accounts http://bit.ly/EEh38 10:40:43 Would you know the the procedure for renewing passport in India .. couldn't find anything on the official website 12:06:50 Thanks @bhunga @nirmaltv @manishmo @rajeshlalwani @cherian @PurplePerl @bgmahesh @ayub @abdulqabiz @naveenindia @ManiKarthik @elatedamit 12:07:54 @OurielOhayon WP could prove to be a good choice in the long run..

12:13:11 @OurielOhayon Well you can get the simplicity of Posterous even on WP - just use wordpress@posterous.com instead of post@posterous.com :)

Monday, 24th of August.

15:50:49 Use your Mac in a Corporate Environment: http://bit.ly/3atq6A 23:07:09 Would appreciate if you retweet this message from @nancyduarte http://twitter.com/nancyduarte/status/3516033629 - it's a very noble cause 23:27:51 If you don't want to make 50 mouse clicks, here's the TIME's list of 50 best websites in one page http://bit.ly/pNRW4

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Tuesday, 25th of August.

11:47:41 In case you missed it before, here's a big list of my favorite websites & blogs.: http://www.labnol.org/websites/ 16:22:54 Are you planning to create your own startup? Get this PDF http://bit.ly/EkBh4

Thursday, 27th of August.

01:02:26 Where FriendFeed Went Wrong http://bit.ly/4aOIgN tip @techmeme

Friday, 28th of August.

15:24:03 If you get this tweet during your work-hours, you may apply for an editorial job at @Techmeme http://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/3599749147 20:27:10 Get a Virtual Business Card for your Online Profiles http://bit.ly/17dIpe

Saturday, 29th of August.

01:11:10 Delete large attachments in Gmail & avoid exceeding the quota http://bit.ly/USNWO 17:28:27 @Shripriya When you reach a drop-down, I think you can use the arrow keys to navigate that list.

Monday, 31st of August.

13:06:51 "Practical Tips for Thriving in Tough Times" - PDF ebook http://bit.ly/owkoq 13:10:40 RT @anildash Mac update changed the way they count gigabytes http://bit.ly/gbvsgib (So *that*'s where all that free disk space came from!)

13:50:55 The Korean homepage of Google is so different http://www.google.co.kr/?sp=korea&hl=ko 19:15:53 Press release or breaking news ? http://bit.ly/KHxVU 19:30:10 Twitpic doesn't allow video uploads but you can put animated gifs http://www.twitpic.com/fnjwf

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September

Wednesday, 2nd of September.

14:33:27 Some new videos of Nokia booklet 3G + specs http://bit.ly/4zA6yo 17:38:40 Looks like the craze for barcamps is fading .. in India at least 19:14:51 This is strange! Nokia's corporate blog is included as a "news source" in Google news http://bit.ly/7ngqv 22:25:28 Microsoft Vine http://bit.ly/R1Nmx

Thursday, 3rd of September.

12:09:42 This is awesome.. Google is promoting Google Reader on their homepage with names like Lifehacker and Huff. Post http://www.google.com/ 13:00:50 Every other week, there's a new story saying RSS is dead.. and the same bloggers still display the RSS button so prominently on their sites 16:04:24 RT @labnol_blog Navigate Google Hot Trends with Bing http://bit.ly/U0R2b 17:20:32 Cool.. if you need help with your ICICI bank account, ping them on twitter @ICICIBank_Care 19:03:30 Wow! Gawker blogs deliver 353m pageviews every month - that should translate to ~$2m in monthly rev. at a modest $5 CPM http://bit.ly/MLRqe 20:49:24 This secret link will tell you who all joined Facebook because of your invitation http://bit.ly/40XnCS

Monday, 7th of September.

12:00:16 Interesting quote from Forbes India - "Facebook has more followers than Buddha" ..

Tuesday, 8th of September.

13:10:29 Wondering if @ndtv has permission to republish all these blog feeds on their site http://bit.ly/vJUQT 14:24:14 Bookmarklet makes it easy for you to distinguish between external & internal links on a web page http://labnol.org/?p=9678 16:41:05 @kawaljit from @ndtv clears it - "we are meeting the t&c of all publishers. Giving credit, linking to original site. Keeping ads in place" 18:11:53 Click this link to determine which external sites have access to your Twitter account http://twitter.com/account/connections 19:08:22 Find @spam users who may be following you on Twitter http://labnol.org/?p=9686 21:41:57 How to buy genuine software online for less http://bit.ly/DCa5r 22:19:35 Don’t Copy That Floppy - Version II http://bit.ly/ArSOe

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Wednesday, 9th of September.

16:36:29 Sad news! Actress Lisa Ray has been diagnosed with some form of cancer - see her blog http://lisaraniray.wordpress.com/ - via @adese

Thursday, 10th of September.

11:52:20 The site google.com ranks #5 on Google for the keyword "search" but this post http://j.mp/tJC0q might push that up.. look at the first word 13:08:56 @nimbupani Thanks for the twitter tip .. have covered it before http://search.labnol.org/?q=backtweets 13:13:20 @amitsomani Weird - definitely yes. But if you look at the source of google.com, it contains just the word google & rest everything is HTML

Friday, 11th of September.

00:03:53 Guide: How to switch from Blogger to WordPress without losing Google traffic http://labnol.org/?p=9707 10:50:23 Facebook just played an April Fool's trick on TechCrunch http://bit.ly/1k5Bk5 11:57:42 I can't get the Facebook status thing to work.. Is it not live yet? http://bit.ly/HuzBd 20:28:50 So many add-on products will go out of business as Skype kills Extras http:/bit.ly/zaCWP - tip @techmeme 20:45:35 How do people share content on the Internet http://labnol.org/?p=9729 - thnkx @micropat

Saturday, 12th of September.

11:31:47 @OurielOhayon Just google it :) "site:twitter.com inurl:ourielohayon <search query>" 16:23:52 You can now associate 5 tags with your Twitter name on wefollow .. update your listing here http://wefollow.com/add 16:36:28 Blog Tip - I recently added a search box in the footer area of my blog and lot more visitors are now using that box - see http://labnol.org 17:40:21 Finally time for a family vacation .. going to Goa this Thursday..

Sunday, 13th of September.

14:33:40 connect.in.com is a mainstream media site but purely SEO - scrap search terms and build pages around them automatically http://j.mp/14ilmF

Tuesday, 15th of September.

11:24:35 If you don't see Visual Search in Bing yet, here's a workaround http://labnol.org/?p=9819 11:55:05 @Aishwaryarao you should try it.. it's actually good..

12:06:55 @devenGoa Thanks for you invite.. will ping you in case the schedule permits 12:37:11 After 36 hours, 1 press conference, 2 statements and an appearance at MTV Awards, Serena

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Williams finally apologizes http://bit.ly/10sjm8 12:56:37 @GetAdam @mark_articulate screenr seriously needs an "add a friend" feature so we can automatically follow screencasts of select users.

13:15:03 @kevinctofel Which slate-style device would you recommend for reading PDFs on the go.. thanks.

13:40:37 @[5791561181] This is a test message from Twitter for Facebook http://bit.ly/40pwzD 14:50:52 @rajeshlalwani That's done in camtasia but there are quite a few web based tools out there for making such demos http://labnol.org/?p=9454 17:17:48 @KevinCTofel The problem with Kindle is that it lacks color.. Viliv looks like a good option though.. Thanks Kevin.

Wednesday, 16th of September.

13:27:44 Opera Mini Gets Better http://labnol.org/?p=9859 20:03:09 The Simple Things Missing in Google Chrome http://labnol.org/?p=9881

Monday, 21st of September.

20:30:42 Here's how you can get access to Microsoft Office Web Apps http://labnol.org/?p=9884

Tuesday, 22nd of September.

16:54:06 Now upload files directly through Bit.ly http://labnol.org/?p=9890 17:42:24 Some pictures from the vacation in Goa http://bit.ly/UFyzN

Wednesday, 23rd of September.

14:33:21 An author links to the pirated version of his own book http://labnol.org/?p=9911

Thursday, 24th of September.

13:48:18 @ckunte And how you discover that - via referrals from Alexa? :) 14:13:11 @RaviKapoor @meerasapra - meebo.com is another good option that you may try in the browser itself.

19:35:02 Use Google Sidewiki without the Google Toolbar http://labnol.org/?p=9959 21:45:40 Quick screencast - Google Sidewiki bookmarklet inside the Google Chrome browser http://bit.ly/ixWx6

Friday, 25th of September.

09:57:57 "You can form a $100 billion company by selling 0.000000001% stake in exchange for $1" http://bit.ly/TghNO - Brilliant stuff by @soulsoup 10:33:15 Microsoft bought googlesearchbing.com and googlebingsearchengine.com - via @longzheng 15:14:48 In Google Reader, you can sep. tags & folders by adding a prefix (like *) to the folder names

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http://bit.ly/309GMa - good tip by @eyalsela 18:26:53 @lajiraj I don't know if it's a "copy" but yes, there are some similarities in the two products.

20:02:56 @marshallk http://ma.gnolia.com/ is back.. wondering if old timers would return? (via @Woork)

Saturday, 26th of September.

00:09:04 @rsivaram Thanks.

Monday, 28th of September.

20:47:10 Know When People Unfollow You on Twitter http://labnol.org/?p=10033

Tuesday, 29th of September.

01:04:16 @gauravonomics has prepared a nice list of Indian blgers, etc.who are active on Twitter http://tr.im/A0Rp you can help expand it thkx @arzan 10:04:15 Put snippets of live web pages on your desktop http://labnol.org/?p=10041 12:50:51 Perform OCR on Scanned Images with Google Docs http://bit.ly/B5yII 19:02:20 Norton video pokes fun at freeware http://labnol.org/?p=10077 21:47:27 This new anti-virus software from Microsoft is free, lightweight and capable http://labnol.org/?p=10070 23:08:18 @techcrunch on FastFlip http://bit.ly/19DYZT 23:35:17 @protoiyer That would be useful but the shortcut doesn't work for me.. am using Chrome on Win 7

Wednesday, 30th of September.

09:31:27 After 3 days, I can say that @nutshellmail and @goodbyebuddy are the best tools to track unfollowers on Twitter http://labnol.org/?p=10033 10:03:13 @protoiyer So we know the reason now.. i am using v 3.0 not the dev version of Chrome.

Thanks.

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October

Thursday, 1st of October.

00:25:25 How to write a Facebook Application in 5 minutes - http://labnol.org/?p=10116 - The video screencast is here - http://bit.ly/Gbssq 17:27:21 http://labnol.org/?p=10135 Which Google Translation Widget should you use on your website (play with the choices here http://bit.ly/3wA3aF) 19:33:30 MVP again :)

Friday, 2nd of October.

13:35:58 If your blog is on blogspot.com (or self hosted), here's something that will help Google crawl your site better http://labnol.org/?p=10149 21:02:13 These are some awesome pictures from China's 60th anniv. http://bit.ly/JdJ5W 22:26:58 Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympic Games - via @bbcbreaking 23:18:31 Fearing backlash, TechCrunch quickly dropped this controversial line from their post - "Yes, Muslims Go Online Too" http://bit.ly/15XCu2

Saturday, 3rd of October.

14:21:59 That was quick .. Google Brazil creates a logo inspired by Rio's Chris statue http://bit.ly/h5Gny 14:31:10 The party in Rio http://bit.ly/hGzCz - You got to see this - thanks @cronai 15:27:52 Smashing Magazine acquires a web design blog http://bit.ly/wltTI - tip @techmeme 16:20:38 What happened to FriendFeedLinks? It was a useful service http://friendfeedlinks.com/ 16:31:09 http://retwt.me/r8JE Fav. tech blogs of @steverubel - wish DI was there :) 16:42:10 Nice use of Flickr .. Zoom out (Ctrl -) for the full effect http://www.flickr.com/photos/norby/sets/72157617411033629/detail/

Sunday, 4th of October.

13:03:52 This is a directory of Bollywood stars who are on Twitter http://bit.ly/3NW303 - Am I missing anyone?

19:38:01 @techandlife I don't use a plug-in but yes there's a translation feature on my blog that uses Google.. it's right at the top.

19:41:03 @ShuchiU @manansinghi @amitshekhar3 @nspeaks @bollywoodtalk @enepalmedia Thnx for ur input, will scan for fakes (reg. http://bit.ly/3NW303)

Tuesday, 6th of October.

14:23:58 Do you have a memorable phone number? http://labnol.org/?p=10375 #fb

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18:00:20 Adobeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Desktop Client for Facebook is Better than the Official App http://labnol.org/?p=10388 18:31:51 If you are a business who wants to advertise on Slideshare, you have two new options now http://www.slideshare.net/business - via @rashmi 21:49:57 @marcusatmsft I think Tweetdeck does store your settings online..

Wednesday, 7th of October.

22:13:48 @CaliLewis Can you point me to your podcast where you reviewed Bamboo 22:15:13 If you are a dad and a geek .. http://labnol.org/?p=10420 22:16:36 @ranjanv reg. your spreadsheet question.. can you explain that a bit 22:30:37 The Delhi-Noida and Delhi-Gurgaon Expressways will be toll-free this friday during peak hours http://labnol.org/?p=10448 22:36:36 Write a nice caption for this photo and @jeffsand will buy you a copy of Windows7 http://bit.ly/74met 22:45:32 @CaliLewis Thanks. i was initially quite impressed by their promo on YouTube http://bit.ly/b3Q3S 23:27:03 @twilightfairy yes, that info. came in a press release.

Thursday, 8th of October.

15:48:12 @MicrosoftIndia is inviting bloggers in Bangalore to their office for a Windows 7 event t'row .. send them a tweet for details 16:25:22 http://youtube.com/thenobelprize - @YouTube is now live-streaming the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature announcement from Sweden 16:50:29 Would anyone know if the upcoming Kindle device would work in India ? #gigaom_q82 17:02:02 @LizaSaha Do you represent Amazon here?

17:12:31 @AmolDhir That's right.. you get real answers here.

17:51:17 @rimeswithcya - haven't tried it myself but there's possibly a workaround - use gift-cards http://labnol.org/?p=4022 18:50:32 @web20classroom Screenr offers the best quality.. check this detailed comparison http://labnol.org/?p=9454 http://labnol.org/?p=9451

Friday, 9th of October.

14:39:50 US President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize - via bbc #fb 19:09:30 @kiruba Flickr & FB allow uploads by email.. so you can just attach all the pictures to an email and put both the services in the CC list 21:28:24 Google Docs for Distraction-Free Writing http://labnol.org/?p=10538

Monday, 12th of October.

11:23:34 @AmolDhir True, things were in a mess over the weekend.

14:06:21 Looks like people had a great time at @BarCampMumbai - http://bit.ly/6om0t (pics) - good job

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organizers http://bit.ly/16dzGe #bcm6 #fb 23:28:38 Some tips on how you can secure your Wi-Fi network http://labnol.org/?p=10549 #fb

Tuesday, 13th of October.

10:17:31 Obama's first major announcement after winning the Nobel for Peace .. 21,000 more troops for Afghanistan http://bit.ly/KWMd1 #fb 20:09:22 Nokia Booklet 3G will cost $299 at Best Buy - via @shansell 20:30:40 Congrats @Zee for http://bit.ly/2SAq7a - I knew something like this was coming after your comment on @scobleizer's blog http://bit.ly/3WIer 20:41:45 @Zee Thanks for reminding. This list badly needs an update :) http://bit.ly/fJmUe

Wednesday, 14th of October.

12:12:17 Google Building Maker looks like another attempt to get things done for free :) #fb 13:07:29 The new Technorati blog directory looks useful .. http://www.technorati.com/blogs/directory/technology/ 18:46:29 Presentations To Help You Get Started with HTML5 http://labnol.org/?p=10587 20:31:07 Here's a nice search engine for Muslims and your kids http://labnol.org/?p=10604 #fb

Saturday, 17th of October.

09:31:30 Gizmodo is agitated since they didn't rec. a review unit - this story is sick http://bit.ly/2K3cHp and am surprised to see it on @techmeme 09:34:34 LetMeGoogleThatForYou for Bing - http://LetMeBingThatForYou.com - here's an example http://letmebingthatforyou.com/labnol via @shanselman

Sunday, 18th of October.

10:33:23 @davewiner Try this link http://technorati.com/blogs/www.scripting.com

Tuesday, 20th of October.

12:16:06 Manage Comments on your WordPress Blog with Windows Live Writer http://labnol.org/?p=10637 12:42:32 From the Facebook India developers contest - @muziboo wins the 1st prize for their Facebook Connect integration at http://www.muziboo.com/ 13:20:31 @2020Social uses BuddyPress for their main website http://2020social.com/ .. that's a nice idea 16:38:09 RT @labnol_BLOG Quick Tip: How to Discourage Co-Workers from Interrupting You http://bit.ly/1uiob9 16:52:41 This is sad.. BBC is reporting that suicide bombers attacked a university in Islamabad http://bit.ly/2tvT6P #fb 17:09:26 @sudeepdsouza Can't agree more.

21:09:54 You "must" have these indoor plants at your home http://labnol.org/?p=10654

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Wednesday, 21st of October.

12:44:08 Tip: If you are getting too many emails from Facebook, you can turn them into a single digest using FeedBlitz http://labnol.org/?p=10669 #fb

Thursday, 22nd of October.

09:37:34 A Visual Guide to Computer Cables http://labnol.org/?p=10694 10:29:03 @mattcutts is such a sport! http://bit.ly/ZB3Cv 11:36:20 @suhasinih - That's sad and scary. "SAP India CEO (42) died of a heart att. - No smoking, drinking, regular gymmer- lived on 4 hrs sleep."

22:13:33 The Complete Guide to Microsoft Outlook Add-ins and Tools http://labnol.org/?p=10722

Friday, 23rd of October.

22:16:17 @RamkumarKR Check the first question in the Flickr Guide http://labnol.org/?p=4973 22:39:06 @jg_howard Looks like they dropped it in the newer release because the version I reviewed in Feb'08 had flv support http://bit.ly/2BgDpw

Saturday, 24th of October.

01:02:25 @judis217 Pleasure :)

Monday, 26th of October.

12:16:02 @acmhatre There are quite a few MVPs who are knowledgeable and will be willing to help http://bit.ly/2Gwy6y 13:54:35 The official tag for @TEDIndia related tweets is #tedindia and here's a complete list of people who are speaking at TED http://bit.ly/15cxFt 18:49:08 CIOs trust Microsoft more than Google, 2-to-1 http://bit.ly/1pNrDO tip @techmeme 20:29:33 @audiolize no plans .. will like to stay offline during that time :)

Tuesday, 27th of October.

19:36:45 Newsgator owns FeedDemon but @NBradbury manages it all by himself though he's no longer an employee of Newsgator http://bit.ly/cwPIm 20:10:07 @varunvnair And for reading password-protected feeds like your Twitter timeline.

20:12:51 Tired of deleting these Halloween related press releases from the inbox 20:26:13 @TEDIndia Around 16 hours I guess

Wednesday, 28th of October.

10:17:56 @twilightfairy yes.

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10:18:29 @varunvnair Twitter Lists should solve that issue once they go live.

18:27:00 @dhempe Agra, not Delhi :)

Thursday, 29th of October.

18:51:45 @Scobleizer Thanks for including me here http://bit.ly/38QabG 18:54:30 @Orli Agree.. "the number of followers" you have won't matter anymore 18:59:53 This is like the "hosts" file for Wikipedia - no Wikipedia page can link to these domains http://bit.ly/284T5Y 19:07:24 They have redesigned Orkut.. http://bit.ly/4BgcSK 19:45:14 Camtasia Studio, one of my favorite software, turns 10 this year http://bit.ly/2TFKkG .. congrats @techsmith

Friday, 30th of October.

10:22:49 This article lists 7 reasons why @adsense "sucks" - http://bit.ly/4xhd6N - none of the points made are convincing though 13:56:42 Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, who just returned for Russia, has tested positive for swine flu http://bit.ly/477x0a #fb 14:09:17 @realmadrid_rock @unitechy Yes, it should be "From" .. wish there was an edit button in Twitter :) 17:03:38 W3C offers a very useful tool to help you find any broken links on your site http://validator.w3.org/checklink 18:29:52 @abhishek198 @trakin thanks for pointing the error.. surprisingly its only on the homepage..

19:01:47 @abhishek198 Looks like clearing the cache fixed it .. thanks for all your time..

20:13:10 @dhempe would love to but sorry as I am flying back to Delhi on 7th itself 21:55:58 Who's talking about you (or your brand) on the Internet? http://labnol.org/?p=10864 #fb

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November

Sunday, 1st of November.

09:30:56 This is cool.. you can put anything in the bing sub-domain and it will still work.. see example http://labnol.bing.com/ 09:40:57 @om @marshallk Agree. Don't think this has anything to do with "influence" but just an indicator of popularity in the Twitter ecosystem.

10:03:15 Wow! More than 6.5 million lists have been created on Twitter already http://bit.ly/1Smnnr the number could be higher as some lists are pvt.

Monday, 2nd of November.

13:07:11 @Scobleizer A 140 character summary would be great as well.

13:08:58 Subscribe to this Flickr set for pictures from @TEDIndia http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedconference/collections/72157622589332097/ 16:39:37 How to Edit PDF Files - A detailed guide http://labnol.org/?p=10870 16:57:39 I'll be mostly offline this week due to @TEDIndia - if you're taking the afternoon Del-Blr SJ flight t'row, let me know and we can catch up 17:52:58 Check the Google logo on their Mexico page http://www.google.com.mx/ 17:56:01 @protoiyer glad it helped :)

Monday, 9th of November.

17:39:10 They are livestreaming the Indian Economic Summit here http://www.livestream.com/worldeconomicforum 17:55:43 @thesharath I think this thread captures everything :) http://bit.ly/fgYbr 18:36:34 If you got a Nokia 7210 in the past 6 months, you may want to replace the phone charger http://bit.ly/O4AgI http://labnol.org/?p=10920 18:41:28 Google logo for the Berlin Wall http://www.google.de/ 18:51:59 Women's soccer match turns ugly http://bit.ly/3yNbjU 19:08:47 How @google helped save a life http://bit.ly/2KBxw6 - wish you speedy recovery Max. 20:16:31 Save money when you are buying books online http://labnol.org/?p=10908 20:54:08 This is the official site of Paa movie http://paathefilm.com ;also check the YouTube channel for trailers http://youtube.com/paathemovie #fb 21:47:14 7 Deadly @AdSense sins - "Pride, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Envy, Wrath, Idleness" http://bit.ly/2kBjYy 22:17:27 RT @mrjain What @labnol is to tech, @MissMalini is to Bollywood Gossip :)

Thursday, 12th of November.

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19:05:40 The digital photos lying on your home computer won't last forever - put them online http://labnol.org/?p=10947 19:10:49 For about $10/month, you can promote your blog articles on other sites via OutBrain http://tinyurl.com/y9hbb7s - nice idea!

19:24:15 @vijaysankaran In case of Flickr Pro and Picasa, the original version is preserved..

19:33:31 @vijaysankaran Here's a tool I covered earlier that lets you download files from Picasa in their original sizes http://tinyurl.com/pe8ywx 20:06:27 Would you like to try Office 2010 Starter? http://bit.ly/1pSwrr 21:35:15 There are now close to 2 billion pages on google for the keyword "google" http://gog.is/google 23:00:37 @Mrcalzone Stats look useful to me .. if it could also track geo-location of "clickers", that would be awesome 23:03:56 Twitter API to include support for trends with location.. expect to see some cool mashups with google maps http://tinyurl.com/yaf94uf 23:24:24 Congrats @steverubel - Starting December, he'll do a monthly column for Forbes.com (in addition to AdAge.com)

Friday, 13th of November.

12:53:59 Forbes: Osama Laden (#37) is less powerful than India's PM (#36) but more powerful than Pakistan's PM (he's at #38) http://bit.ly/2oEYEM #fb 14:02:15 @RakeshAgrawal You can only do that if you have an invite wave in your Wave inbox http://tinyurl.com/yadlvh3 14:10:21 Sony Satio looks like an interesting phone.. anyone using it? http://bit.ly/StXzC 19:06:33 So true. RT @dsilverman "been covering tech too long. whenever i write the words windows or apple, i start to capitalize the first letter" 20:26:25 Dell has "mini" notebooks, now they're using the term "mini" for their smartphones as well.. very confusing http://tinyurl.com/ye82z8p #fb

Saturday, 14th of November.

01:47:30 Here's how you can find tons of free books for your Kindle Reader http://labnol.org/?p=10990 #fb

Monday, 16th of November.

10:52:18 This handy chart compares the pay-per-second tariff plans from various telecom operators http://tinyurl.com/yhwj8la - by @priyankarocks #fb 22:44:39 Make calls over the Internet (VoIP) and lower your phone bills http://labnol.org/?p=11012 #fb

Tuesday, 17th of November.

13:28:49 Watch 4 Days of TED India in 4 Minutes [Video] http://labnol.org/?p=11039 by @shrutir #fb 16:29:44 @ankitv Have been tracking Satio for a while, would love to read your feedback 22:07:48 Connect two computers using a c/o ethernet cable and share the same internet connection

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http://labnol.org/?p=11049

Wednesday, 18th of November.

18:21:50 @shrutir thanks.

18:24:32 @kcinculvercity Unlike Sony, they don't have a deal with Google books but you can still read public domain books on Kindle via Stanza 18:27:27 What's new in Microsoft @Office 2010 http://labnol.org/?p=11132 19:39:25 As a Twitter user, I learned so much frm this little tweet by @scobleizer - http://bit.ly/2RRozU thx @upbeatnow for ur thoughtful analysis 19:47:17 Looks like they have an @adsense related event at Google Gurgaon sometime next week.. anyone attending this.. #fb

Thursday, 19th of November.

11:22:06 Here's a nice service that can instantly turn search results from Google Images, Amazon, etc. into photo collages http://tinyurl.com/yjdva4u 12:39:11 Got multiple WordPress blogs? Here's a tool to upgrade / backup them all from the desktop http://bit.ly/2Dridg by @keithdsouza n' @shobankr 17:37:00 HP is giving away 3 HP Wireless Printers to Digital Inspiration readers in India, pls do participate http://labnol.org/?p=11182 #fb

Friday, 20th of November.

00:35:39 Though I did capture some screenshots from the Chrome event, nothing exciting came out from that event http://labnol.org/?p=11234 #fb 13:58:55 Request you all to turn off Google Analytics integration with FeedBurner .. else your URLs look extremely ugly 15:56:58 Interesting! All Twitter messages can be accessed using two different URLs - see live example http://bit.ly/i3Xrs http://bit.ly/3RtFZc 18:11:12 @twilightfairy The URLs of individual Tweets.

Monday, 23rd of November.

14:51:53 @indibloggies You should probably authenticate users via Facebook Connect /Twitter OAuth /Google Friend Connect before the voting process 20:25:42 Google Earth is probably the first and only desktop application that has AdSense Ads http://labnol.org/?p=11259 22:20:59 @gmishra Can you please send me a couple of examples.. haven't see any app myself 23:52:11 @howtogeek They're yet to ban them :) Put "stomach" in the sandbox and you'll see them all over http://bit.ly/adsens 23:53:54 This service will turn your Twitter stream into a printed book http://bit.ly/4ApJ6S (via @dsilverman)

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Tuesday, 24th of November.

10:40:25 @patrix you can use zamzar.com 10:42:26 @RichardWants if you are on Vista / Win 7, you don't need a desktop search prog. else try Copenic or X1.com (this is paid but brilliant).

12:22:33 Voting for Indian Blog Awards will commence t'row. This year, they have a new category for Twitter blogs as well - http://bit.ly/5iH4fq 12:33:24 @twilightfairy Think the process is over now.

13:17:53 This is sad - 20,000 buffalos will be slaughtered in Nepal to please the Hindu Gods (via @breakingnews) #FB 16:30:33 @sunfever @maguay - yes, the service hosting the site suffered a massive failure.. looks like things are getting to normal now..

Wednesday, 25th of November.

12:29:34 @movingahead Thanks for the suggestion Rohit.

13:05:42 Play Classic DOS Games on your Windows or Mac Computer http://labnol.org/?p=11289

Thursday, 26th of November.

11:42:25 Lenovo X200 that costs about $1600 in US starts around $2900 in India.. why @lenovo_IN ??

11:51:12 @AmolDhir @sumants - right .. is it because of the high import duties?

11:51:54 If you want to follow all the @ndtv folks on Twitter, here's a wonderful list by @kawaljit http://twitter.com/kawaljit/ndtv 12:55:26 Question for @googlewave gurus - how do i know which of my email /Twitter /Facebook contacts are already on wave?

13:41:08 Thnkx @sumants @prathiks @mikig2 @vaibhavp @samiksaha - turns out that Wave uses email-addr from Google Contacts and not the Gmail addrbook 14:07:50 Have you see the latest Fevicol ad where that girl is wearing moustaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUc4iKIAPV8 - loved id :) 15:35:46 For @sumants, @suhel or @pranav - of these two buildings, which one houses your Gurgaon office? http://bit.ly/4FlhmK thanks 15:43:58 @manansinghi Thanks much Manan. It's a bit confusing because the listing says "Google Delhi" while the address is in Gurgaon.. Thks again :) 15:49:21 Important: If you spam the comments section of other blogs, it might well harm the rankings of your own site http://bit.ly/8FpAGl 16:57:43 Do you have any questions related to @AdSense http://labnol.org/?p=11320 #fb 22:15:38 @suhel absolutely

Sunday, 29th of November.

11:44:47 @khashu Can you please email me your postal address - mine is amit AT labnol.org 11:46:08 @manansinghi @suhel - thanks for everything.. was nice meeting you.

11:54:24 The property prices may be rising in Gurgaon but after spending one and a half day there, I

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think its still an incomplete city.

Monday, 30th of November.

12:57:01 This is brilliant .. Clock made of Scroll Bars http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/ - via @orli #fb

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December

Tuesday, 1st of December.

16:31:15 The Biggest Nuisance on Facebook - Photo Tags http://labnol.org/?p=11355 #fb 17:44:17 New site from Yahoo! India - Newsmakers of 2009 http://in.yearinreview.yahoo.com/2009/overview #yahooin2009 #fb 20:20:42 @RichardWants Thnkx Richard

Wednesday, 2nd of December.

20:18:24 An Indian Express story says that @NDTV is about to sell their Imagine channel to Time Warner http://bit.ly/8yF6tG #fb 20:48:25 Have we met each other offline? If yes, please reply to this tweet with your twitter handle.

Thanks! #fb

Thursday, 3rd of December.

19:15:04 @shrutir Any specific reason?

Friday, 4th of December.

00:40:53 If you've never changed DNS servers on your computer before, here're some screencasts for setting up Google DNS http://labnol.org/?p=11439 01:06:22 Wondering if Google DNS will affect search rankings because Google can now track all kinds of traffic to websites (including direct visits) 11:18:47 @steverubel Sorry to hear that. Please get well soon.

11:54:37 Here's a list of the most popular lists on Twitter http://listorious.com/top/lists 14:22:32 This is how SEO companies game Google News .. http://news.google.co.in/news/search?aq=f&um=1&cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&q=seo+india 16:40:41 Congrats @AmolDhir for winning an iPod Touch from Yahoo! http://twitter.com/YahooINNews/status/6333183847 18:41:27 Burrp has launched some interesting panoramas of local businesses http://bit.ly/8Mi4et - full list here http://bit.ly/8tTmaL 22:30:14 @shahpriya if you are looking to add something like a sticky note to your PDF pages, pdfescape.com might help.

22:37:39 @techsutra The concept is definitely interesting.. it will be useful once they have a larger selection of businesses across cities..

22:39:23 OK, here's a very interesting domain name that actually belongs to @bing http://when.you.have.google.why.use.bing.com #fb

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Saturday, 5th of December.

00:37:49 You can hide your Email Address from spam bots with the help of Facebook http://bit.ly/7Iv0CY - see live example http://bit.ly/my-email 17:27:39 [hindi] Funny take on those "What an idea sirjee" ads of @juniorbachchan .. http://tinyurl.com/ybfe8f2 20:21:48 Needs suggestions .. which are your favorite websites for indian music? #fb

Monday, 7th of December.

20:32:32 @naina (http://bit.ly/6VZAou) & @adese (http://bit.ly/4qrSnk) are in the Kingfisher Calendar race.. you can vote for them via Twitter or FB 20:33:45 thanks everyone for sending me links to all your fav. music sites.. thanks again..

20:54:58 Congrats @mikig2 you are the 2nd person to win an iPod touch after @amoldhir. And the contest is still on http://bit.ly/62M09Q #yahooin2009 21:04:08 If you want your @WordPress blog to look exactly like @Facebook with all the cool AJAX animations, here you go http://nazieb.com/

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