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Orkut adds photo tagging feature

Orkut added a new feature today that allows you to photo tag your friends in photos. This may not be a most important feature but it surely a fun feature to have. You have a photo with 10 of your friends you can tag each one with their name or with some cool tag line. To add a tag select "add ... Read More →

Plurk: Twitter Clone with a Timeline

Plurk is the new social microblogging tool that is buzzing all over the blogosphere today. When i signed up first it was confusing but then got used to it. So what is plurk, Plurk is a microblogging platform like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc but with rich user interface and some more features. ... Read More →

Ringo is going to deadpool

Ringo, photo and video sharing community site is going to deadpool. I don't remember when i created an account but it is there from long. Today they sent emails to users telling effective from June 30, 2008 Ringo will close its doors. Now a days everyone uses sites like Flickr and Youtube, Ringo ... Read More →

Is Technorati and Alexa dead?

I am looking at Alexa stats and Technorati rankings, surprisingly none of them is working correctly at the moment. Both of them stopped working or behaving weirdly, i hope it is a small glitch in the system. Alexa is usually behind 2 or 3 days in displaying stats but now from May 19th it is not ... Read More →

Create Interactive Social Profile Cards with Retaggr

If you are a social media junkie probably you are everywhere from Flickr to Twitter, how about showing all your profiles in a single widget. Retaggr just that it makes an interactive business card with your online social media life. These cards will follow you online, you can leave them wherever you ... Read More →

Technology Talk 31/5/2008

It has been long since i posted some interesting links from the blogosphere. Here we go for this week. How to Shred Files In Your Hard Drive for Free? by Shankar Create Web Album Quickly with Web Album Generator by Nirmal Snackr - Pimp Your Desktop with RSS News Ticker by Syahid Set Facebook ... Read More →

Turn images to icons with Bradicon

Ever wanted to turn your images or photos in to icons so you can set custom icons in your desktop or for your blog. Bradicon allows you to turn any image in to an icon quick and easily. Using the app is simple, upload an image and download the icon. The service is currently free and works well. ... Read More →

Yahoo BrowserPlus

Yahoo unveiled a browser plugin called BrowserPlus that allows developers to add desktop like features to browser. It supports drag and drop feature like a desktop app and allows you to do things like "client_side" image manipulation, like a real photo editor app. The most unique attribute of ... Read More →

Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin

Ultimate Tag Warrior is really the ultimate wordpress plugin for tag management, but unfortunately it is no longer developed and not compatible with latest wordpress versions. My online buddy Keith Dsouza just released a tag management plugin called Better Tags Manager. As the name suggests it is ... Read More →

5 Free Icon Search Engines

Icons are an important part of any user interface, whether it is desktop or web icons are everywhere and they are essential for visually appealing designs. Icons look tiny art pieces but designing them is not as easy as they look, but thankfully there are lot of people who have released their icons ... Read More →