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So the rumor is that Automattic is for sale, at a value somewhere between $150-300 million. For the 2 of you who don’t know Automattic is Matt Mullenweg’s company, and is behind WordPress (the best blogging platform in the world IMHO), Akismet and now Gravatar. My first reaction when I heard this piece of news was an exclamation of display and a few choice curses. Read the rest »

Al Gore and the UN Climate change panel has won Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations to them. This is significant because their efforts had gone a long way in creating the awareness among the masses regarding global warming and its dangerous impact on the earth. Mr. Gore has been the part of this campaign from the early stages onwards. He was instrumental in creating mass awareness over the issues, especially through the documentary The Inconvenient Truth. The UN panel on climate change has been instrumental in the formation of scientific reports that squashed the propaganda made against global warming by vested interests. We, in TechBizMedia, do not write about politics but all the authors believe in science as an ultimate problem solver in the society. This post is a reflection of such a belief.

Let’s hope that the video of me playing with a lite saber doesn’t pop up when someone clicks on the location of the Sharper Image store in San Diego. That, of course, is not why the news that Google is going to integrating geo-tagged YouTube videos with Google Earth is burning up the internets Read the rest »

Ever since facebook opened up its application platform, the blogosphere is full of hype paralleled only by the hype during dot com boom days. The hype these days is almost at the delusional levels, with valuations going to 100 billions. I am not an anti-facebook person. I use it extensively. As Robert Scoble points out, it is a modern day Rolodex for me. It is a pretty neat tool for managing my personal and business contacts. With the opening up of its application platform, facebook helps me with some of my social and business tasks. In this post, I am going to cut through the hype and put some perspective on what facebook is in realistic terms. Read the rest »

The internet is full of posts telling you what the value of links should be (I am not going to link to any of them) and how you can get links and so on and so forth. Perhaps I am grumpy today, but I almost yelled about loudly as I read yet another one of those posts. When people start talking about link porfolios and long-term linkbuilding, something is wrong with the world. Read the rest »

Marshall had the scoop, and now it is official, Video Units are live, or at least have been announced (I still don’t see the option in my adsense setup). Definitely interested in trying out the ads and seeing how they might serve relevant material on a very niche set of topics. Read the rest »

Here is the press release by OAuth working group

The OAuth Working Group is pleased to announce publication of the Final Draft of the OAuth Core 1.0 Specification. OAuth (pronounced “Oh-Auth”), summarized as “your valet key for the web,” enables developers of web-enabled software to integrate with web services on behalf of a user without requiring the user to share private credentials, such as passwords, between sites. The specification and supporting resources can be found at http://oauth.net. Read the rest »

Cross posted to bbgm

The tech blogosphere rarely talks up infrastructure and other non-sexy technology, so all the attention to Amazon’s Dynamo is good to see. I am going to use the headline from Techcrunch to ruminate over what a WebOS means to me, if anything at all. Read the rest »

One of the first places I stop every morning is Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme. Both the blogs I contribute to show up on there from time to time and I remember being quite thrilled the first time it happened. Last night, The Techmeme Leaderboard was unleashed upon us and even before its formal release had generated a buzz around the blogosphere (which you can find on Techmeme of course). Michael Arrington believes that this could spell the end of Technorati, since the Technorati100 was its one remaining differentiator. Read the rest »

The office 2.0 space got crowded today with the news about Microsoft’s online office suite and Adobe’s acquisition of Buzzword and its release of Adobe Share. Techmeme is buzzing along with the news from Adobe and Microsoft. The online office space is pretty crowded now and it bodes well for consumers as competition drives innovation. Let us try to make sense out of the current chaos in this space. Read the rest »