I have been on StumbleUpon for more than two years. Generally, everything works fine. Sure, the toolbar sometimes seems to crawl and buttons act like they are about to curl up and die, but nothing serious there. The most irritating bug for me is this: The Toolbar Tag feature that does not let me tag! Tags are...
Posted by A Correspondent on December 13th, 2008
WordPress 2.7 was officially released on Dec 10, 2008. Like most bloggers who use WordPress for their blogs, I too was eagerly waiting for it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by A Correspondent on December 11th, 2008
I came across some of the typical Indian English funniness today.In fact, You kicked my dog!, How can she slap, and similar stuff have been big hits online. Today, I came across this ad, suddenly, on several sites I visited. Read the text: Indians Will Speaks! World WIll Hear! I was quite curious to know how Indians (I am...
Posted by A Correspondent on November 17th, 2008
This is the most irritating StumbleUpon bug I have come across. What makes it really irritating is that none of the toolbar updates have gotten rid of it. I have a habit of tagging pages which I see and like. That’s why I have the tag search box enabled there. And most of the time, it...
Posted by A Correspondent on November 5th, 2008
Live Search Maps, the new Microsoft India feature, has gone live in India and promises to offer users access to detailed listings and street maps for nine cities in the country. This is the first version of its local mapping service for India and the main features have been developed by the Microsoft India Development Centre...
Posted by A Correspondent on November 1st, 2008
In a significant tie up in the television entertainment scene, Netflix Inc has struck a deal with TiVo Inc in its bid to realise its goal of offering its web streaming service directly to TV sets. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by A Correspondent on September 20th, 2008
First of all, let me say that I am not an active Digger anymore. I gave up on Digg some 3 months back, when I found that the amount of time required and the network required to get some occasional FP was too much for me. Zaibatsu banned! Zaibatsu is the latest top Digger to be banned....
Posted by A Correspondent on July 21st, 2008
I really do not want to moan and groan about social media nuttiness. But sometimes, things get a bit ridiculous. I am a top stumbler – a Top Stumbler is, according to StumbleUpon, someone who contributes a lot to SU, through his discoveries, reviews, thumbs ups and tags. I do a lot of that, it is...
Posted by A Correspondent on July 7th, 2008
This is what I see when in my recommendations page in Digg today. Either the Digg Recommendation Engine is on crack, or the submitters are! Do Diggers have a life? 4 people submitting the same story in the space of a minute. Just imagine them at their keybooards, eyes darting between windows, continuously refreshing their RSS reader to...
Posted by A Correspondent on July 6th, 2008
I remember when Corank started – they got write-ups everywhere. i was thrilled too. Went and started a little site on Corank immediately. It gets some 300 visitors a day now after almost an year. I haven’t tried to market it, too lazy. But what the hell is going on with Corank itself? Nothing much seem to...

