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Twitter disables flash widget temporarily
Twitter being the brightest star in the social networking arena is vulnerable many threats. In the recent threat sensed by the company they had to disable the twitter flash widget which is used to display user updates on their web site or blog etc. This decision was taken on 23rd jan, 2010 in an int
Read Full PostTwitter Retweet (beta) finally here
Hey Folks, There was a post on Digimantra few months back when one of my friend claimed that she had a RT button in her twitter account. Few people agreed and quite a few disagree. But twitter has started showing retweet (rt) buttons as beta, the notification is like : The retweet can
Read Full PostGoogle Dashboard – Launchpad for Google services
We all use lot of Google products, or in short its part of our Internet odyssey. Let it be youtube, orkut, blogger, Gmail, Google Reader, but have you ever wish to keep track of all these products you use. To keep them in one place and see their stats like which service do you use the most? Googl
Read Full PostTagging friends in Facebook is now available
Facebook announced introduction of @replies like feature in its status updates. This announcement was made 3-4 days back. World was going crazy to give it a try and start using it, but nothing worked on the day when they announced adding this feature. However when I check Digimantra's Fan page ju
Read Full PostAnd we’re back !
Today morning our Database servers went down which are hosted with Godaddy. The hosting provider ( Godaddy ) did not specify any reasons for this downtime and it took around 5hrs for their engineers to recover. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to our visitors. Some of you might not even sen
Read Full PostFacebook introduces Twitter like @reply
"If you cannot acquire them, copy them" is again true when we talk about facebook and twitter. Facebook after copying the twitter like layout has today introduced the twitter's @reply like feature. Facebook on its blog, mentioned that its like tagging people. Its more like tagging people in image
Read Full PostYahoo meme english – inside preview
"WTH is Yahoo Meme ", this is what @neobluepanther tweeted me today after I talked about Yahoo Meme on twitter. Most of you do not know about this project of Yahoo as it was not available in English language before few days back. But Yahoo is definitely coming up with something bigger to make things
Read Full PostWP.me- A shorten URL service by wordpress.com
Wordpress.com has launched its own URL shortening service with the name wp.me. As discussed in my previous post for creating your own URL shortening service using google App engine, that everyone today is going after this URL shortening services. The early days we used to have is tinyurl, but then w
Read Full PostBhuvan – Indian Google earth by ISRO
India seems to be no longer away to be a fully digital nation with the continuous development in various fields. Latest development includes satellites, Submarines and other research works. India is heading rapidly towards development. Bhuvan is a major step taken in terms of development over t
Read Full PostFriendfeed custom themes goes public
Recently friendfeed got acquired by the facebook, but that wont stop it to continue to add new feautes. Recently it introduced custom themes for the users. But so far so good, these themes can only be seen within the account and hence for your public account it was the same generic theme. Today
Read Full PostYahoo agrees with Microsoft to stand against Google
The deal between Microsoft & Yahoo which has been lingering on since almost a year finally gave some clues yesterday(jul 28). Yahoo and Microsoft has agreed to an online search and advertising partnership as reported by Reuters. As seen in the past both Microsoft & Yahoo have been very str
Read Full PostAlert: Twitter hit by Koobface malware
Twitter sent out a notification that some of the twitter user's PC are hit by a variant of Koobface malware. This malware which sends out bogus tweets after user logs into his or her twitter account. Koobface is actually anagram of Facebook and it hit really bad some time back. It used to send mes
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