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Why is MS after Yahoo and Facebook?

Who is more evil – Google or Facebook? Or, maybe you don’t care, but there is an ongoing battle for user data and user attention on the web 🙂

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

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Google maps mashup by Google

Google mashup with photos and wikipedia entries!

Google mashup

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Settle for less in love

A single-woman’s and also a single-mother’s perspective of life. Interesting user comments follow, for example: There is always “better.” Ask instead, what’s “enough?”

Settle for less in love

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World’s fastest computers

Top500.org generates lists of world’s supercomputers based on various user defined metrics. For example here is a list of the supercomputers ranked by the processing speed (most number of operations per second) which is toped by IBM’s BlueGene/L at 478 TeraFlops (trillion operations per second).

Top500.org

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Travel 2.0 in India

Air Travel and Web 2.0 are making a tremendous impact in India. Here is the definitive list of Travel 2.0 in India.

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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers

For example, here is a lesson in Physics.

Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers at TED

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Support Tibet!

Support Tibet against China’s colonization of Tibet!

Ten Important Facts About Tibet

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Meditation for inner peace

Scientists are beginning to uncover evidence that meditation has a tangible effect on the brain — there is evidence that meditation changes brain structures.

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The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations

Often, even great new technology needs a partner to really change the world. Here are 10 marriages of technologies that have shaken the digital world over the last 25 years.

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Google Apps for your domain – personal experience

Google Apps for your domain is great for small businesses and organisations that would like [email protected] functionality, with free backing Gmail accounts – with excellent spam filtering and generous Inbox sizes. However, it is quite disappointing to create domain pages for myDomain.com and feels very 1990s.

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