- Amazon India Sellers vs Amazon India: How Just Are Marketplaces' Return Policies?
The secret of any successful marketplace is not the discount or the range, it is the seller. Disgruntled Amazon India sellers have ‘revolted’ against Amazon India for its highly liberal returned policy products,…
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- Basicversity: A Great site to Practicing & Testing Your Basic Knowledge of Anything
This is an update from Pramit Singh at MediaVidea about a great newmediavidea.blogspot.com/2013/04/basicversitycom-test-your-basic.html online education site he just launched, Basicversity.com, which currently claims to…
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- How Reddit can be an alternative to college
This is the idea of the week: Reddit as an alternative to college. Lots of like-minded, better-read-than-average people doing a dazzling mix of internet activity, combining the best best and worst of learning with typica…
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- How to get Linkedin to stop sending you spammy emails
Here's two facts about LinkedIn everyone must know: 1. It is a spam machine as no one likes to visit one's resume repeatedly 2. LinkedIn is more useful to HR companies who in turn spam all the time, than the average user…
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- How to be remarkable #131: Promote your company like Google
Google has had a long history of promoting its products in innovative styles. You remember the comics made to promote Chrome in 2008, or the beautiful online book made in html5 to promote html5 usageNow Google Indonesia …
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- What Size Am I: A Universal Size Chart for Women
Developed by Anna Smith, What Size Am I is an online visualization tool that helps women find branded clothes that fit. You enter your body measurements (inches/centimeters) and you will get recommendations about suiting…
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- Big companies are taking over the internet, redux
The relentless march of big companies (who would like to call themselves people now) over muchy of the internet continues. Sample these two news items: Item #1: Twitter's new 140 characters+ tweets can be huge, with pict…
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- Annals of just desserts: Court strips Copyright troll Righthaven of copyrights, to be sold to pay off its victims
Righthaven became infamous as a copyright troll that went after hapless bloggers for quoting newspaper articles and suing them for damages in court. As fate would have it, the defendant took on Righthaven and look how th…
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- Dave Winer's challenge to hypocritical, dubious tech blogs: Practice what you preach
When a blog that is being financed by a group of VCs who want their investments covered favorably, ran a post mocking Dave's criticism of iPhone-related security issues, in the wake of Path's attempts to steal users' add…
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- Annals of American Healthcare: Medibid, letting medical providers bid for your business
In a highly dysfunctional American healthcare, where medical premium costs outspeed the rise in people's incomes, comes Medibid, that lets medical service providers bid for patients' business, in the style of ebay. Read …
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- What do we learn from the Gawker Password hack? Have non-lazy passwords
If you look at the list of top 25 most popular/common passwords chosen by users of Gawker.com, you will understand what I meant by having non-lazy passwords. From the the top 25:
No. of times password
2516 …
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- 13 Things I will miss when the Internet is Dead
Two things will happen if the internet is no more, on account of a variety of reasons - global nuclear war, breakdown of the internet backbone due to overload, a virus/DNS attack that cripples the DNS...there are many mo…
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- Facebook is evil (contd.): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Uses a 'Ghostwriter'
Professional first adopter/product evangelizer Robert Scoble need not be gloating with the email he received from Zuckerberg on Facebook's privacy issues. Gawker speculates that Zuckerberg might have used the services of…
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- The Chronicles of Facebook the evil (and what can we do about it)
How big is the Facebook problem, what can we do about it and what are people saying about itI compiled this rambling report from my web clippings saved in a file titled 'facebook is evil'. The file was getting bigger by…
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- The Online Job Hunter's Handbook: 350+ Websites to find a job in any industry
This is Part 2 of the Career Handbook series. Read Part 1 here. This comprehemsive list features job websites for almost every industry and locality. Please bookmark this for easy access.
[From the 100 Ways To Be Be…
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- The Online Career Handbook
This is Part 1of our Career Handbook series. Here, you will find 100+ tips and links to best career advice on the internet - covering topics such as essential career blogs and websites, career exploration tools, intervi…
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- Google vs. China: How Google plans to win in China, destroy Bing...
Faced with a soild Baidu in China, and helped by a timely attemted hack of Gmail accounts held by Chinese Human rights activists right from Google's servers, Google has chosen to play the "Do No Evil" mantra. From now …
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- How Wikileaks can fund itself
There is no doubt that Wikileaks is one of the most politically important platforms on the Web. A treasure like Wikipedia. A news platform better than Digg. The enemy of locked information and vested interests on this pl…
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- Google GDrive: Competition for Amazon S3
Google is getting more serious about cloud computing by the day and has just announced that the GDrive online file storage system.
GDrive will give 1GB free storage to users. It will charge $.25/G/year for more spac…
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- Will Facebook and Twitter ever make some real money?
Like Facebook before it, Twitter has done deals with cash-rich heavyweights, which has given some hopes that the company is actually profitable. How realistic is that thinkingWhen you put the revenue into perspective and…
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