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Free group video chat on mobile & browsers

Mani Karthik — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:18:57 +0000

Facetime will sound like from the 90’s with this – a seven way group video calling feature on your mobile (iPhone, Android). Plus, its cross browser compatible, cross platform compatible, works seamlessly over browser and mobile and supports SIP compatible phones. That’s what friendcaller does precisely. It makes the whole thing about group calling so [...]

The best uptime monitoring tool: Pingdom

Mani Karthik — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:25:38 +0000

You know when you sign up for your website hosting, they always give you that 99.9% with conditions. Basically, a 99.9% means that your site should not be down for more than 43.2 minutes in a month. The total number of minutes in a month is about 43200 minutes or 720 hours. So, 0.1% of [...]

Try Bing Desktop Search (No reason why)

Mani Karthik — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:10:41 +0000

Well, too many questions here. First, Google had a similar product earlier, the Google Desktop. Which sat on your computer indexing all your files and additionally letting you search the internet right from the desktop. It was a nice idea but not something that people found really useful, as probably they already had gotten used [...]

AdWords Ads will be better than ever: Says Google

Mani Karthik — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:23:30 +0000

So, Google announced earlier today that its cracking down on scammers on AdWords more aggressively than ever. The blog post claims that Google will not be accepting or publishing ads for illegal products such as counterfeit goods or harmful products such as handguns or cigarettes. Also it has upped the standard bars for fighting most [...]

Analytics: Find referral path to conversions with multi channel funnels

Mani Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:28:02 +0000

Ever since Google launched Multi channel conversion back in August 2011, E-Com sites have been able to track down and optimize up to 3-4 layers of referrals prior to conversion. Rather than getting only the first level of conversion, i.e tracking the last website which referred you, with multi channel funnels, you could now track [...]

How Dell uses Telligent for creating Social Media communities

Mani Karthik — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:01:33 +0000

Telligent is a Social Community building software for the enterprise and many big businesses including Dell & Microsoft uses it to build communities for its employers and customers today. What’s interesting about Telligent is that they enable employees & customers use social networking sites they use in their personal lives on these communities while enabling [...]

An Online Marketing Project Management Tool

Mani Karthik — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:39:11 +0000

When it comes to project management for online marketing (including SEM & SEO), there aren’t many tools available dedicated to the stream. Many online marketing folks I know use either their own custom made in-house tools (which are mostly ported from other intranet CRM like platforms) or a set of free tools or general purpose [...]

Why you’re not safe online [Infographic]

Mani Karthik — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:12:00 +0000

How safe are we online? One of the scariest thing to know about the Internet is knowing that someone somewhere is watching us, checking your web history and leaching your data. While it sounds like the 90s, online privacy is indeed a threat, even in these days of social media and revolution. Online Marketing Degree [...]

4G Broadband is just a marketing gimmick?

Mani Karthik — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:22:08 +0000

The mobile world today is hammered with 4G ads! With companies like T-Mobile boasting about 4G speeds, it already feels 3G is outdated and dead. We want the next in-thing, and that is indeed, a 4G Internet connection. But how much of the hype is reality? What are the actual Mobile Internet speeds we can [...]

Daily Journal : A beautiful personal blog WordPress theme

Mani Karthik — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:18:38 +0000

Elegant Themes has come out with another amazing WordPress theme, this time for personal blogs. Finding the right theme for a personal blog is tricky, because the themes that we see mostly are the complex-to-configure, suited for lot-of-content kind of themes. Personal blogs on the other hand might want something simple and easy to read. [...]