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Chirping birds or fail whales?

Posted by Sid on Monday, March 29, 2010, In : think:next

With its massive growth (50 million tweets a day) and adoption, twitter is becoming a part of our lives. More and more people and companies are flocking to the bird website, chirping about what's happening in there world.

Twitter has adopted a lot of ideas that worked for Google and made its service easy to use for all kinds of users. The very concept of tweeting (and retweeting), simple user interface, mobile & SMS integration, the API and the geo-location features make Twitter an a...

Smartphone Apps!

Posted by Sid on Friday, August 21, 2009, In : lists

Photo by Nimbuzz

Like many of you, I carry a smartphone (Nokia 5800) in my pocket. Whether you have a Nokia, a Blackberry, an iPhone or any other smartphone in your pocket, you will find these applications useful :

1. Mail for Exchange
2. Opera Mini
3. Gmail Client
4. Google Search
5. Google Maps

[I have purposefully left out games and social networking related apps here.]

Google provides three of the five applications in my list, but Microsoft's Mail for Exchange simply rocks. Ano...