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Zuckerberg’s Sister Leaves Facebook To Start Own Social Media Firm

Facebook’s director of marketing, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of the social network’s billionaire-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving her brother’s company to start her own social media consulting firm. Randi, who has been with Facebook for the last six years, said she felt it was the “perfect time” to move outside Facebook to build a company focused [...]

Google launches Hotel Finder

Google, which purchased a leading flight software company earlier this year, has launched a new tool for finding hotels. Hotel Finder is an “experimental search tool” designed to help users locate and book hotels, according to an AFP report. Hotel Finder, which is restricted to the United States for now, lets a user refine their [...]

Google VS iGoogle

Google is very popular for its user friendly and effective search engine interface. In internet most other sites are provide search engine capabilities,  you cannot do anything else aside from perform searches. Google addresses this void in their services by the introduction of the Google personalized Homepage which eventually evolved into iGoogle. iGoogle is a [...]

How Schools Could Use Social Media

How Schools Could Use Social Media” and this reminded me of something I had thought of some time ago. Lets face it, kids nowadays love social networking websites and there are many to choose from. Popularity of websites seem to go through phases or fashions, but no matter what the website, we at some point [...]

How I Use My Website

My Site is your personal starting point for accessing and contributing to your organization’s intranet through the portal site. It provides a place to save and share your own work, a way to find other people in your organization and see their work, and a way for other people in your organization to find you [...]

5 Tips To Power Your Gmail

Google’s Gmail is claimed to be the most powerful and configurable of the free email services out there. But most people tap just a small percentage of its features. That’s in part because a lot of what you can do with Gmail is hidden beneath the surface. Here’s bringing some of that functionality to light. [...]

Now, You Tube Videos To Come With Captions For Deaf People

YouTube videos can now be more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing thanks to new automatic captions technology. The feature will initially apply to English language videos, but other languages will be added in future. The Google-owned company has claimed the use of speech recognition technology is probably the biggest experiment of its [...]

How To Take Backup Of WordPress Powered Sites?

Taking the backup of any database driven website is very necessary for the website administrator. Ofcourse any wordpress powered website is not its exception. If the database gets erased or corrupted, the author lose everything he has written so it is necessary to take the backup of the site from time to time. I have [...]

How To Avoid Hacking Of Security Codes

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found a new way to fix the security holes linked with the popular “captcha” security mechanism-wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box-used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking into servers and databases. While these codes are becoming increasingly complicated [...]