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A popular debate around the blogsphere has always been if blogs should have comments or not. Today, Marc Andreessen adds to that debate by removing comments from his blog. Personally I have always believed that without comments, in general, a blog loses out since so much discussion happens in the comment section. [...]

Fascinating story in Wired about a hand-written paper facing a digital future. Many people I know from South Asia appreciate the beauty of Urdu calligraphy, even if most of us cannot understand it. The story highlights one of the challenges facing us as we move into an increasingly digital world. The story showed [...]

Aditya Agarwal asks an interesting question and then answers it in the context of Facebook. The answer in this case is yes, and the logic behind it is pretty good. In his own words ” … searches carried out on Facebook had a particular structure that only we could understand and optimize for.” [...]

I am not sure how popular SlideShare is, but I find it extremely useful. It is a great resource for some great (and some terrible) presentations, has a cool interface and puts social features around it. The Facebook app is also quite nice. Via Webyantra comes the news of SlideShare’s advisory [...]

I’ve been using Pownce for a few days now and Twitter for some time (after resisting for a very long time). I am still trying to understand whether Pownce will succeed or not. After all Twitter has critical mass, Evan Williams, and a loyal fan following. On the other hand, the first [...]

Over the past week, I have been playing with kyte.tv, which could be labeled as a personal video publishing platform. How do the folks at kyte describe their efforts?

As seen on Techmeme, Google has made some of Feedburner’s premium services free to everyone, specifically TotalStats and MyBrand. This is in line with previous acquisitions, where paid services were made free following the acquisition. As someone who paid for TotalStats till today, I am delighted to see this move. As Joe Duck [...]