Yahoo - Microsoft Deal

Microsoft and Yahoo patched up their differences and made a search deal, with Microsoft's Bing to become the search engine on Yahoo, Yahoo to sell premium search ads, Microsoft's AdCenter to run the ads and Yahoo to get 88% of search revenues from searches on Yahoo

A nice video on globlaization and Information Age

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Another explanation for Vodpod

It’s a social networking video sharing site and right about now you’re thinking, ‘Why do we need another YouTube?” Well, if YouTube becomes increasingly commercial, as it appears it will be, then user-generated video will need a new home. VodPod is heavily designed around social networking. Users can join multiple groups that cluster videos around various subjects that allows them to post and collect new videos that pertain to that topic. Although you don’t have to join s or even sign up with VodPod to search pod videos. Users can “lurk” within the pods anonymously without being socially networked. Videos added to a pod don’t have to be original VodPod material. They can come from other sharing sites like YouTube using the embed code.

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Vodpod.com

Vodpod : A new video publishing service

What is Vodpod?

Vodpod is a site where you as a user can bookmark or aggregate all your favorite videos They are not a video hosting site like you tube or google videos. They help
in creating and managing a favorite video list and also allows you to create
certain code snippets for placing them as widgets in any other sites you wish.
They also provide you some UI control over the widgets so you as a user can decide
the look and feel.

Twitter: Why Twitter and How it work?

• Everyday, millions of users create, share and discover
ideas on Twitter
• Users also find great value in connecting with
businesses of all kinds on Twitter to:
• Share their experiences, both good and not so good
• Provide feedback on recent events or launches
• Discuss product ideas
• Learn about exclusive deals or offers
• Get customer service

How Twitter Works?
Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to
140 characters, or the very length of this sentence,
including all punctuation and spaces.
• The messages (also known as tweets) are public,
and you decide which accounts you want to receive
messages from
• Twitter works equally well from your desktop or
mobile phone

Did you Know?

Facebook.com is a top 10 site that reaches over 91 million
U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more affluent, teen and
young adult, very slightly female biased following.

Myspace.com is a top 25 site that reaches over 63 million U.S.
monthly people. The site appeals to a slightly female slanted,
teen and young adult audience.

Twitter.com is a top 50 site that reaches over 22 million U.S.
monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more
female than male audience.

Google Wave

Google wave is the new communication and collabration tool on the web. They have exposed certain API's which can be used to integrate collabration tools like chat into any web sites.