Internet - Part 10

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Facebook rolling out new user homepage today

posted on March 12, 2009 in Internet, Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Been seeing this for the past few days? Get excited!! Facebook is giving you a spanking new home page and he roll out happens today. This time, it’s actually looking good. Clutter free, clean, fast and best of all it’s a live home page. Meaning that all social content from your network will be reflected [...]

History of the Internet

posted on March 10, 2009 in Cool Stuff, Internet, Tech with 1 Comment

Here’s an awesome video by Melih Bilgil on the History of the Internet. From “Arpanet” to “Internet”, this video covers it all. All the icons you see in the video were taken from PICOL, the Pictorial Communication Language. For more information on the video drop by the Author’s site.

Google’s on Twitter

posted on March 2, 2009 in google, Internet with 0 Comments

I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010 That was Google’s first twit. They finally got on to Twitter. If you were wondering, for all you non geeks out there, the zeroes and ones translate into “I’m feeling lucky”. Follow Google on Twitter.

Favicon generator

posted on February 18, 2009 in HowTo, Internet, Software with 0 Comments

If you own a site then chances are you need a favicon. A favicon is a 16×16 icon which normally sits next to the URL in the browser’s address bar. It’s a small visual representation of a site. Most browsers today support favicons in multiple formats, .png, .gif, .jpeg and .ico but as usual there [...]

The Internet Bus Project by Google

posted on February 4, 2009 in Cool Stuff, google, Internet with 0 Comments

India is commonly related to having a high number of IT professionals. Most of them get pulled into big firms like Google, MS and many others. But the hard truth is that there are still millions who have no access to the Internet or have never even heard of it. Google put together “The Internet [...]

The Danesh Project