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Visual.ly now supports Google Analytics data

May

2013

I love infographics. The way they break out data into beautiful little pictures and help you understand their impact is excellent. However, it can take a fair bit of efforts to create an infographic … believe me, I have tried and used multiple tools to do this. If you are thinking of doing those from ...

Top 5 things you should do after launching a site 6

May

2013

So after toiling on that idea for more than 4 to 5 months, you have finally launched your site … the journey till here was literally blood and tears. Having to either grapple with the content management system (CMS) or even worse, having to convince the developers working on your site that the site needs ...

Hacking your Alexa Ranking 1

May

2013

In case if you are working in any web related business based in India, then you would be aware of Alexa. The site which maintains website rankings by traffic. These numbers are indicative, however some people rely on them so much so that they look at a definitive way of increasing the rankings only … ...

UK Government and its forced IE6 use 4

May

2013

As a developing country, we often take a look at how are some of the infrastructure problems handled by the developed nations. In fact in most of these cases, we end up emulating them … the western culture, the accents, the products … we are more than happy to borrow from our western brothers … ...

Twitter closes down Posterous

Apr

2013

Sad to see good products go down and fade to oblivion. I received an email from Posterous, saying that the service was closing down so the staff could focus more on Twitter. Here’s an excerpt from that email – Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect ...

An interesting perspective to Technology 2

Apr

2013

I have been working for the past decade or so, and almost always in the Technology department, in fact, I have headed this department in at least 3 different companies yet. In all these organizations, I hand picked and built the entire team from scratch, was involved in mentoring and training them as well. Yes, ...

Earth Day 2013 2

Apr

2013

April 22nd, is Earth Day and you can see that in a beautiful interactive Weather Control Doodle on Google’s home page. On Earth Day, I would expect people on different social media channels to do multiple idiotic things … such as switching off their electronic devices for an hour. Yes, and that would make a ...

10 tips to save you from dying in DOTA2

Apr

2013

DOTA 2 has been around for less than a year, but the gaming community has been fast adopting to this game. This community is mostly made of people who have been playing League of Legends, or Heroes of Newerth … and also the successful predecessor DOTA. What this means, that sometimes this community can be ...

India’s first passenger train journey

Apr

2013

On 16th April 1853, India’s first passenger train journey began. It started from Bori Bunder in Mumbai, all the way up to Thane. This was a distance of 32 km, wherein 3 coaches were hauled by the engine. Thus started rail transport in India. This piece of history came to my notice not because of the ...

Education in China

Apr

2013

In India the number of graduates may not be as high as China, but we are sure fast catching up.