Google AdSense Alternatives

A good list of Contextual Advertising programs [http://netprofitstoday.com/_resources/google-adsense-alternatives.html] which can be used as Google AdSense [http://adsense.google.com] alternatives. I tried Chitika sometime back but it didn’t yield good results. For now, I’m just using Adsense and Pheedo [http://pheedo.com], and…

Rediscovering your freedom has repercussions

When I first saw Wasp [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388534/], a short film by Andrea Arnold, I was moved by its absorbing yet naturalistic pace. Wasp went on to win an Oscar in 2005 for the Best Short Film, but I resisted writing about this great film until I…

Contextual Term Extraction

The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service [http://www.trynt.com/trynt-contextual-term-extraction-api/] provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. Yahoo has a similar Content Analysis Web Service [http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html], which is also available in Yahoo Pipes [http://pipes.…

Google Indic-ation

Google has launched Indic Transliteration [http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic] for instant English to Hindi language translation online. I gave a quick try and it seems quite good.…

Decision made!

If you are trying to decide between two things, a good trick is to flip a coin. Assign one choice to heads and the other to tails. You’ll find yourself subtly “hoping” for one choice over the other. Decision made. Keep things simple!…

Micro funding is gaining momentum

Lately there’s been a surge in the number of Internet startup’s and entrepreneurs willing to experiment more vividly with their ideas. Everyday I read about startup’s [http://news.ycombinator.com], meet [http://www.meetup.com/] like-minded entrepreneurs, and focus on my own startup Over the period of…

The Water Wars

The politics of the state, and the state of politics – both mirror each other in today’s world. Politically-driven wars have been fought for oil (the black gold, as they call it). However, many skeptics believe that the next wave of socially-driven wars will be fought over Earth’s most…

PAYG Web Hosting

Web hosting is a tricky affair – for the hosting company as well as the end-user. If you find a reliable web host as per your requirements then it works out great, else you might end up facing issues like downtime, lack of support, refund disputes, and continuous hopping from one…