Vonage is one of the VOIP providers in the US who has just introduced a new offer where for less than 25USD, we can call 60 countries from the US for no additional cost. I consider this as revolutionary and in marketing terms ‘disruptive’. Before this offer was introduced there were many options for people [...]
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Vonage Unlimited Calling to 60 countries!
August 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · General News
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EEE PC – Reinstall XP on Netbook?
August 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · General News
I had one of my Netbooks infected with a spyware and a quick call to the tech support helped me reinstall WIndows XP and have this machine reformatted clean as though it was fresh from the factory. SInce I found some tips which I did not know earlier about my Netbook, I thought it will [...]
Tags: ASUS
Long Tail Concept
August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · General News, SEO and SEM
Long Tail concept is a very popular concept in online world, especially among online marketing folks. Ebay and YouTube are perfect examples of websites which have capitalized on the long tail concept. Hence I prefer to use these two sites as references while trying to explain the long tail concept.
Tags: Ebay·MusicPlugin·YouTube
NS Rebranding by Network Solutions – Are they stretching it?
August 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · General News, Web Hosting
I logged into my Network Solutions account today and realized they have rebranded many common names using their trademark names starting with ns. For example, they do not call domain a domain anymore, they call it nsWebAddress. Similarly ‘web site’ is now called nsBusinessSpace, ‘web hosting’ is now called nsHosting and so on.
Tags: Network Solutions
JK Divorce Entrance Video – Viral Marketing opportunity again
August 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General News, SEO and SEM
We had written about the JK Wedding Entrance Video in You Tube a few days back. It already has over 15 million views and has now a follow up video has been produced by a bunch of college students called Divorce Video. They have done a very good video making fun of the original one [...]
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Pleasant experience with The Planet
August 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · General News, Web Hosting
I had a very good experience while placing a server order with The Planet recently. All my past servers with The Planet have been with 100mbps uplink and I was trying to get a server with one of their specials with 10TB bandwidth a month. I realized while placing the order that the server only [...]
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Customer Centric Websites – Google is the best
July 31st, 2009 · Comments Off · General News
I was talking to a friend of mine while talking about hosting and he said that Google might soon enter the hosting market in a big way. I was trying to shrug it off (or should we call it the internal fear of losing customers to google? ) and asked him to give me one example [...]
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Latest Youtube Wedding Video and Viral Marketing
July 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General News, SEO and SEM
I happened to watch this video on You Tube and it has now been watched over 12 million times in the past few days since it was uploaded. The interesting element in this video is that in the past 24 hours three people have shown me or spoken to me about this video.
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Services keep up with technology
July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · General News
In recent times, we have seen an explosion in the number of services exposing their APIs to developers in order to leverage the creativity of these developers. We saw the start of this a few years ago with many applications as YouTube enabling embed code feature to allow users to copy and paste simple code [...]
Personalization feature from My Yahoo
July 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · General News
Yahoo had announced earlier this month that it was opening up its home page to be personalized fully by the users. This was a significant change as it is the first time any leading portal was allowing users to customize their content 100%. BBC website had allowed this to certain extent, but Yahoo has now [...]