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Archive for May, 2008

Facebook, baba and Christmas bhandara

By debashish • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Latest Story, Life-Around

By now we all know that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in India. Speculations were ripe on his planning an Orkut killer product targeted specifically for Indian net users. Gossip website Techgoss had declared a bounty for his pictures and yet it seems nobody really knew why he was here.
Valleywag reports that Mark was actually [...]



Can Mukesh Ambani control Free Wikipedia?

By debashish • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Life-Around

Recently while adding some information (link to a Hindi Podcast that dwelled on the subject of the first stone pelting student at the “Reliance Fresh” outlet at Ranchi) to the English Wikipedia article Reliance Fresh I came across a user “Ril editor” who would repeatedly delete my entry. The user is apparently a worker of [...]



Has Google discontinued Adsense on Hindi sites?

By debashish • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Blogism

Has Google discontinued showing Adsense Ads on pages written in languages other than English? My Hindi blog has been showing PSAs since last day and some of the Ad blocks are showing empty. Few other Hindi bloggers also noted the issue. Strangely, the advertisements still show up fine on a few pages, for example this [...]