Anand’s Journey Towards The Unknown

Hi guys,

Were you fooled by Google this April Fool’s Day?

See what G tried to fool people.

Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

BTW, dont you dare think that Anand was fooled.Cuz, I knew from last time that it had to be a prank from G. ;)Dont bother commenting!!

EnJOy!!

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After days of speculation, Yahoo’s board of Directors has decided to reject Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited takeover offer. The board feels the $31 per share offer was too little and it wanted atleast $40 against each share. Everyone is keeping their fingers crossed over the possibility of Microsoft increasing their initial bid of $44.6 billion. If they were to do so it would be an additional increase of $12 billion!

Read more here.

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Just in case you were wondering the reason for your slow internet connection at your home, office, or even the local cybercafe, dont even dare blaming your local ISPs.

Then who to blame? - Blame the ship that accidentally cut 2 undersea cables in the Mediterranean Sea.Nearly the whole of India and large parts of West Asia including UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are the worst affected.60% of normal services have been affected in India while Egypt has reported a 70% downfall in internet services.

This is surely going to result in huge losses for the IT industry especially the call centres, where the international calls are now being rerouted.

Wondering how long you would not be able to chat with your chat friend? Well, it could take upto 1 full week to have everything back in place. So keep your fingers crossed.

Hey, dont you think it could be a chance for people like us to look around for some other things.

Have your say on what you are planning to do…

AK

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Hi guys,

I am back after a while, and that too with a bad news for you all.

Bad news? Well, yes. More so if you are a blogger or a webmaster who used to be jumping for joy each time google sent you the fat pay for the AdSense clicks on your site/blog.

Confused? Ok, here is what the big G has decided…

ACCIDENTAL CLICKS ON ADSENSE WONT BE PAID ANYMORE!!

Not sure what do I mean? Read what Google says,

“we’ve just changed our text ads slightly to help reduce accidental clicks. In the past, users could click on both the background and full text of an ad, but now they can click only on the title and URL of a text ad. By allowing users to click only on the ad title and URL, we aim to decrease accidental clicks, better aligning visitor behavior with their intent. Overall, the decrease in accidental clicks will keep users on your website, interacting your content, until they intend to click on an ad.”

The image should have made it clear for you by now. There are people on the web who make a living out of AdSense only. This step would be a serious jolt for them.What do you feel, is it a good move by G or something that would seriously put back publishers and help only the advertisers.Here is what others are saying on this move,

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3503359.htm

What do you say????

Keep thinkin’. Until then, sayonara!

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Funny Gmail Video

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Hi guys,

Just the other day in office I realized something strange happening with my yahoo messenger - the status bar just would not take more than 40 characters!! Stange, ain’t it? To me, definitely yes.

I thought may be I was doin something wrong but that wasn’t the case (Anand isnt always wrong after all!) . It actually was that Yahoo has imposed a limit to the no. of characters that one may type in the status message. I am sure many people in our office would be holding their heads in disbelief by now because they need to provide long status msgs at times to make others understand what they are working on.

Today after googling I got to know that indeed it has happened with others across the world as well. But strangely I couldn’t find a single page where there was any announcement from guys at Yahoo on this!!

Even the official Yahoo Messenger Blog doesn’t say anything. Strange for a biggie like Yahoo!!

What you guys gotta say on this? I gotta roll outta office now. Cyas

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Update: Yahoo has this update for all of us.

Hey friends, Yahoo has fixed that problem!! Now you can write long status msgs again.

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Today as I was checking my mailbox, my eyes stuck on a news that just might disappoint millions of Cricket fans across the globe!

“Sachin Tendulkar is contemplating quitting ODIs at the end of the ongoing season.”

Since I am in office now, I cannot cover the whole story for you. Sorry about that.

Read on the full story here.

See you all soon.

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Hi friends, I am back after my unforgettable Rakhi sojourn. Today, like every other day, when I was checking my emails in google, my eyes suddenly stuck on a particular highlighted link - Watch our video! After watching it, I found it funny enough to share. The video will tell you how an email that is sent via Gmail, reaches the recipient, albeit, in a funny way. Enjoy! Until next time, cya’s. Technorati Tags: google google video gmail google mail gmail video funny video

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If you are still scratching your head as to what that title means, here’s what - Orkut (now please dont tell me you havnt heard that name!) has been voted as the Pepsi & MTV Youth Icon of the Year 2007.

This comes as a welcome relief to all those associated with this hugely attractive networking website. After staying in the news lately for all the wrong reasons(be it hate communities, terrorist activities thriving under its nose, stolen passwords and what not) this would certainly bring smiles in many a faces.

Orkut came out trumps over its other 4 co-nominees that included the likes of Bollywood heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan, multiple award winner Rang De Basanti, the Multimedia Cellphone and You(th).

Some previous winners include some big names like Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2006), Shah Rukh Khan (2005), Rahul Dravid (2004) and Anil Ambani (2003). Interestinly, Orkut had also bagged the PC World India’s Award for the “Best Social Networking Website earlier this year.
BTW, who would you have voted for?Chalo see ya all soon. Happy weekends and Happy Kutkuting (oops! i mean orkutting).

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