When last did a politician have this effect on us? (2)
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Justin Sullivan of Getty Images captures a superb slice of history at the Democratic National Convention in Denver: Moe Spencer, a delegate from Washington, being comforted by a colleague after the nomination of Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for the November presidential elections. Besides the symbolism of being in the midst of a man who could be America’s first black president, Obama’s 46-minute acceptance speech apparently left many in the 80,000 audience teary-eyed with ...
‘In a rape, the rapists are on trial, not the raped’ (2)
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ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Early this morning, a Delhi-datelined news item in Deccan Herald made me pull my hair out in wonderment: the Supreme Court of India had ruled that nobody had the licence to rape a woman who appeared to be promiscuous in her sexual behaviour. Yes, nobody has the licence to rape a woman who appears to be promiscuous in her sexual behaviour. It might seem common sensical, but the beauty of ...
Is India still a developing, third world country? (1)
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Amitabh Bachchan in The Telegraph, Calcutta: London, August 22: India should no longer be dismissed as a “Third World” country but should henceforth be given due respect as a “developed nation”, Amitabh Bachchan, said in London yesterday…. No doubt, economists will protest that India combines extremes of wealth and poverty, but Bachchan stated: “India today is a recognised force and I hope to see that India is no longer referred to as a Third World ...
Who Are You? M.S. Gill, the Union Sports Minister Asks National Badminton Coach and All England Champion Pullela Gopichand! (1)
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It is in many newspapers, I read it in the Indian Express. Saina Nehwal and Pullela Gopichand go to meet M.S. Gill, the country's sports minister. Gill recognizes Saina (she lost in the quarter finals in the badminton singles event at Beijing). Then he turns to ask Gopichand- "Who are you?"While Gill greeted Saina heartily, he could not recognise Gopichand who was standing next to Saina and asked him who he was. “Who are you?” ...
Ask not what India has done for you but what… (1)
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Bibek Debroy in The Indian Express: “We may be proud of our glorious past and our glorious future. But we aren’t yet proud of the present, because being proud of the present is tantamount to being proud of the system. We think we are what we are, in spite of the system. We owe nothing to the system. If we have done well, and are relatively rich, we have learnt to manipulate the system, because ...
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type (83)
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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks. With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking ...
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Tcritic said:
it would be great if something like openID or some kind of common identity component could be used to tie together disparate networks.
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Jay said:
其实，我很想一些插件，把我用 WP 搭建的 Jaylee.cn 与校内、Facebook 上的朋友互动起来。
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Greg said:
Annand, Facebook connect takes care of the 'more profiles to Maintain" section...right?! Wooo!
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Tommaso said:
La transizione da blog a comunità attraverso gli stessi strumenti che hanno reso popolare il blogging
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heidigoseek said:
I love the idea of this. I'm a fan of bringing social networks and lifestreams to the blogs. My poor old blog misses me. :)
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type (69)
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"So where is WordPress's social network? It's still under development. Unlike MT, social networking with not be a feature of WordPress - instead, the WordPress MU core is being used to build out a next-gen publishing platform called BuddyPress . Essentially, BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU specific plugins, each adding a new feature. When complete, BuddyPress will offer extended user profiles, private messaging, groups, friends, status updates, albums, as well as something called ...
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Tcritic said:
it would be great if something like openID or some kind of common identity component could be used to tie together disparate networks.
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Greg said:
Annand, Facebook connect takes care of the 'more profiles to Maintain" section...right?! Wooo!
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heidigoseek said:
I love the idea of this. I'm a fan of bringing social networks and lifestreams to the blogs. My poor old blog misses me. :)
Send an Anonymous Email Message With Note2Email (10)
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Note2Email is a simple web form that you may use for sending email messages anonymously to just about anyone - no need to create any account. Your IP address is not passed in the message header so your identity remain hidden and the email recipient will never know who exactly sent that message and from where. Other than sending anonymous emails, this service will also come handy if you are sitting on a public terminal ...
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Sai said:
wats the practical use of this??
HitMeLater: A Snooze Button For Your Email (83)
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I complain about my email inbox problems endlessly, and even performed a major purge a couple of days ago that wiped out over 23,000 unread emails. I don’t know what the solution is, but I think it may ultimately involve an admin of some sort despite my stubborn hope for a software solution to make things right. While I wait for that startup/admin to fix my life, Philip Kaplan (my partner in my second best ...
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Tcritic said:
such a simple idea, I love it
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colladude said:
hitmelater service snooze
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Krrrazy said:
aha... now that's somethin i could use
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MERc said:
Cool Feature!
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skp said:
Can be handy with stuff like bday alarms, meeting days etc.
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Sai said:
May be this helps those who are buried in email pile
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Alex Leonard said:
Nice little idea.
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interesting service.....
HitMeLater: A Snooze Button For Your Email (57)
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I complain about my email inbox problems endlessly, and even performed a major purge a couple of days ago that wiped out over 23,000 unread emails. I don’t know what the solution is, but I think it may ultimately involve an admin of some sort despite my stubborn hope for a software solution to make things right. While I wait for that startup/admin to fix my life, Philip Kaplan (my partner in my second best ...
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Alex Leonard said:
Nice little idea.
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Tcritic said:
such a simple idea, I love it
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Mari said:
I'm still pretty good about handling my email, but this could have definite possibilities...
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captbunzo said:
interesting service.....
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skp said:
Can be handy with stuff like bday alarms, meeting days etc.
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MERc said:
Cool Feature!
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Krrrazy said:
aha... now that's somethin i could use
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Sai said:
May be this helps those who are buried in email pile
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haggaret said:
This is kind of cool. I can see it being useful.
iPhone @ Rs. 31K?..Comparison with HTC Touch Diamond (4)
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The news is already out that iPhone will be priced for Rs. 31K! 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone will cost Rs 31,000 16 GB version will cost between Rs 36,000-37,000.[ToI] - Thanks Lokajit for the tip Though the reports aren’t yet confirmed, it’s quite difficult to digest the fact that iPhone is priced for ~740$! (3.75 times the price in US?) The price slash in US was primarily attributed to the fact that ...
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Or Wait for Samsung Omnia..
If you can’t beat them, Mock’em (2)
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Response to - If you can’t beat them, learn Kannada There can’t be more than a handful of north-indians actually putting an effort to learn the language of the southies. If they are made to swear in the native language, or if they are forced to learn the native language then its only because they have forced it on themselves. So whats the big deal in Delhiites and Punjabis learning the local language. That’s not ...
Entrepreneurial Lessons from Olympics - Swifter, Higher and Stronger (2)
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[Guest post by Sanjay Anandaram, entrepreneur turned investor. A very well timed article (esp. after Abhinav Bindra's gold medal] The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games would have just begun by the time this article appears in public. 10,500 athletes will be participating in 28 sports and 302 events for personal and national glory. The Indian contingent consists of only 57 athletes representing the dreams of a country with over a billion people! With the Indian hockey ...
Abhinav Bindra’s Olympic Gold Medal and Indian Mamis! (1)
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As news of Abhinav Bindra getting India’s first ever individual Gold Medal spread, the following conversation was heard between two ladies, respectfully called Mamis for their tradition oriented leanings. They had a bewildered look about them: Mami A -"Why have they given Gold medal to a this guy, da?" Mami B - "Yeah, what will a man do with Gold? " Mami A- "Maybe gift it to his wife" Mami B - "Look at the ...
Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience (109)
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Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it. No matter how long the outage du jour, Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service despite an ever-changing backdrop of alternatives. Blogging isn’t for everyone either. But unlike blogging, Twitter enjoys a far ...
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Akshat said:
Brilliant analysis...
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Alastair said:
Very interesting article on making sense of one's social information stream, and what could be done to improve it.
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rob said:
excellent explanation of the differences between twitter/friend and facebook audiences.
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Joe said:
Good stuff this TechCrunch.
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