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BlogCamp Mumbai 2009

The 2009 BlogCamp will be held on 17th January at Microsoft, Mumbai. An annual event, BlogCamp Mumbai is a place where you meet fellow bloggers, discuss ideas and meet interesting people. Event Details: Date: 17th January (Saturday) Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Address: Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd. 4th Floor, Windsor Building, Off CST Road, Kalina, Santacruz (East) Mumbai [...]

Undersea sub-cable cut causes mass internet outages

Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged. These carry more than 75 per cent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America. Egypt’s communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages. Undersea cables [...]

Google Search Results Promote and Remove Feature

I’m seeing a new feature today ‘Promote and Remove button’ next to Google search results. Note: These buttons only appear when you are logged in and only affect the results that you see. Log in to your account, promote a page and up it comes, then logout and you will see it drop back. Login again [...]

Google drops out of top 20 most trusted companies

Google dropped out of the top 20 of an annual survey ranking of companies most trusted on privacy by consumers. Some of the companines in the top 20 were: American Express eBay Inc. Apple Inc. Yahoo Inc. Facebook Inc. IBM Corp. Hewlett-Packard Co. Intuit Corp. Source: bizjournals.com

Google Countdown to 2009

Google has set up a countdown page where you can see how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left for New Year. Find out each day how to count down the holidays with Google. The calendar also presents a new item each day for users. Yesterday was “Get gift ideas and holiday savings”, and [...]

Facebook and Google launches new single user-ID services

Web giants Facebook and Google unveil new features to promote the social web. A services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites. Google’s Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said [...]

Collapse of the Yahoo – Google Deal

The much talked about Yahoo – Google Deal has finally collapsed. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s chief executive says he felt let down by Google’s decision to pull out of a advertising agreement between the two internet rivals. Yahoo’s lack of growth is the main reason behind all this. By next year, the company will have been through [...]

Google spiders to index Scanned Documents

Google has announced that its spiders will now begin including scanned documents in its search results. In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results. Google said they are now able to perform OCR on any scanned documents that they find stored in Adobe’s PDF format. This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets [...]

Top 5 Blogging Tips from Technorati CEO

David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. So you’d imagine he probably knows what makes a good blog.

Google Search Tips

Google can be your phone book. Type a person’s name, city, and state directly into the search box, and Google will deliver phone and address listings at the top of the results. The feature works for business listings too. Google can be your calculator. Type a math problem into the search box and Google will compute it. You [...]

Google announces changes in the AdWords Quality Score

Google has been tweaking its search algorithm of late and within a few days all AdWords advertisers will begin to see a change in their Quality Score. The new features include real-time evaluation of search results, the elimination of “inactive for search” keywords, and the replacement of minimum bids for priority placement with “first page bid [...]

Samsung launches innov8: 8 Megapixel mobile phone

Samsung finally launches its much awaited mobile phone called innov8 or i8510. It will hit European markets by August 2008, while it will make its way to other markets during September. Based on Symbian OS v9.3 the smartphone is the first 8 megapixel camera phone which is certain to strengthen Samsung’s notable dominance in the [...]

Google Pagerank is coming – July 08

Matt Cutts (head of Google’s Webspam team) yesterday announced that the new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. He also said in the next few days Google will be expiring some older penalties on websites.

Google to buy Digg for $200 million?

Rumours are doing rounds that Google has signed a letter of intent with Digg to purchase the social news site for around $200 million. Google has a history of buying companies like YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, GrandCentral, Keyhole (Google Earth), Writely (Google Docs), JotSpot (Google Sites), Dodgeball etc. Purchasing Digg wouldn’t be any surprise. It is reported that [...]

4Chan gets Google Owned!

Google Trends is a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now. Google Trends charts how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. Recently, A well known forum that goes by [...]

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang warns employees

According to Yahoo!, Microsoft teamed up with Carl Icahn with an offer to acquire the battered company’s flagship search engine on Friday night, under the condition that Yahoo! accept the deal within 24 hours. Yahoo CEO and founder Jerry Yang sent an e-mail to employees warning them of the pending mess and offered a Q&A: Subject: over [...]

Google executive defends partnership with Yahoo

A Google Inc. executive defended the company’s proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. in prepared congressional testimony released Monday, contesting the prevalent notion that it will only expand the market leader’s already considerable influence. On June 12, Yahoo said it would run advertisements supplied by Google alongside search query results as part of a four-year [...]

Webicy Webmaster Forums Traffic Stats – Jun 08

Site Stats – Jun 08 I’m really happy with the progress of the forum. And I thank all the members who are a part of this Webmaster Community. Below are the Forum Traffic Stats for the month of Jun 08 SticKer Webicy Forums – For Webmasters!!

Apple iPhone 3G unveiled

The much anticipated next generation iPhone has been announced by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. The 3G device will come with location based GPS mobile services and new iPhone 2.0 software that runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit). Apple claims that the new 3G connection will be roughly 2.8 [...]

Microsoft teams up with the biggest U.S. nonprofit HMO

Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health maintenance organization has teamed up with Microsoft to expand its HealthVault online medical records program. The partnership was announced on Monday and they will be running a pilot project which will run until November. The pilot program aims to expand functionality to the personal e-health records of Kaiser Permanente [...]

Adsense now supports EFT in Hungary and Hong Kong

The Google Adsense Team announced that publishers located in Hungary and Hong Kong can now sign up to receive payments by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). With EFT, your earnings will be directly deposited into your bank account so you won’t need to wait for checks to arrive in the mail and clear at the bank. Signing-up [...]

Webicy.com – Updates – May 2008

There are some things I have been working on for the last few days and I’ve tried to get them implemented. I wanted to move the forums under a new sub-domain so I setup the sub-domain and moved the forum to http://forums.webicy.com/ I’ve setup the redirect so if anyone goes to the old url they are automatically [...]

ONO to test broadband service with speeds up to 100 Mbps

‘ONO’ one of Spanish leading cable network operator will test broadband service with speeds up to 100 Mbps in the metropolitan area of Valladolid. This service will be a pilot project and the operator plans to test this technology for six months before the service’s commercial launch in Madrid. The operator plans to invest EUR 75 [...]

List of DoFollow Forums

List of DoFollow Forums that will help you get better search engine rankings for specific keywords.

Webicy Blog is now PR2

Yes.. You heard that right. We just got a new pagerank PR2 for our blog. There’s no change in PR for the forums. The forum still stands strong with PR2. Anyways I’m happy that the blog got a PR. I haven’t promoted the blog a lot but whatever little promotional techniques I used, it has got [...]

LG Secret: New addition to the LG Black Label Series

Earlier today LG announced the third handset in the Black Label range called LG Secret. The phone features a 5MP camera with face recognition, 5 multi media functions in the menu and a 2.4″ touch screen display. It’ll also handle video at 120fps, as well as DivX. It’s even loaded up with a special Google package so [...]

NameCheap API is now available

After a long time, Namecheap has announced that its API is now available to anyone interested. NameCheap API makes it possible to write your own application to manage your domains or integrate domain registration with your billing solutions like Modernbill or Ubersmith. They also have a separate testing environment which you can use to test your [...]

Honda adds crime avoidance feature to its GPS System

This is a new feature Honda decided to add to its GPS System: crime avoidance feature. With this feature drivers will get an alert through Honda’s on-board navigation system about areas where cars have been damaged, stolen or broken into in the past. The new feature is expected to start this week. The new system [...]

Microsoft announces Windows Live Mesh service

Microsoft unveils Windows Live Mesh a service that gives you access to your docs from anywhere. Live Mesh is a service that will give you 5-gigabytes (GB) of online storage that is accessible from anywhere in the world, provided you’re on one of your Internet-connected devices (laptops, handsets, etc). The idea is that you would [...]