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History of Internet – An informative video

June 29th, 2010 Vijay No comments

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Have fun with Facebook Status using Flip Text

May 11th, 2010 Vijay 1 comment

Many of us are Facebook users. Updating Facebook status is almost like a daily/weekly routine for us. There are few who updates Facebook from Twitter.

How to merge Twitter with Facebook?

Updating the status with flip text will be more fun than the normal updates. How to get this?

Flip Facebook Status is a simple web app that flips your text. You can copy the flip text and update your Facebook status.

Flip text will look like this.

Vijay For Victory => ʎɹoʇɔıʌ ɹoɟ ʎɐɾıʌ

Flip web app URL : Flip Facebook Status

Update: www.upsidedowntext.com is another website which retains the upper case letters in flip format. Thanks to Jacob

Have fun!!!

Social Media Revolution – Video with latest stats

May 8th, 2010 Vijay No comments

Is Social Media a Fad? has been released by Socialnomics last year. Few days back, they have released an updated video with more interesting stats.

The facts and figures provided in the video are quiet interesting.

  • More than half of the world’s population is under 30.
  • Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the populations of Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama.
  • 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media

    Check out the video for more interesting stats.

Sleeping habits revealed by Innovative Twitter App

March 19th, 2010 Vijay 3 comments

Innovative Web App reveals Sleeping Timings

There are many twitter apps available to analyse the tweets, find the followers etc.,

Here is an interesting and innovative web app developed by Amit, that reveals the sleeping habits of any twitter user.

The results are amazing and many are agreeing that the web app gives accurate (almost) timings. I do agree with the result.

If you want your or your friends sleeping timings, then please login to www.sleepingtime.org and just enter the twitter id.

This is one of the most innovative web app I have ever seen in the recent past.

When should not you tweet?

March 18th, 2010 Vijay 4 comments

Twitter changed everyone’s day-to-day life. Tweeting EVERYTHING has become the part of our life. So many of us started tweeting EVERYTHING.

What is this EVERYTHING? Below picture depicts EVERYTHING.

This image is applicable only for Twitterholics.

Do Not Use Twitter

Do Not Use Twitter

How to find the person is Twitterholic ornot?

Here is a small tip to find out whether someone is Twitterholic or not.

If someone tweets after tweeting “Good Night” or saying many Good Nights, then he/she is definitely a Twitterholic.

Do you have any other tips?

Twitter hits 10 Billion Tweets and still counting

March 5th, 2010 Vijay 1 comment

Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets And Still Counting

Twitter hits 10 Billion tweets today. Most of the people who tried to track the 10 Billionth tweet were disappointed as the 10 Billionth tweet is from some protected user.

On an average, there are 45 Million tweets are logged in a day. And the growth rate is rapidly growing. More information on the counter can be found at the popular website Gigatweet.

What next? 20 Billionth Tweet :)

How fast can you clear your StumbleUpon shares?

February 1st, 2010 Vijay No comments

stumbleupon_logo StumbleUpon is a great way to share the web links with your friends. This offers a tool bar to instantly share, like and dislike web pages you come across.

StumbleUpon toolbar can hold a maximum of 500 links. If you don’t clear the shares and reaches the limit, your friends will not be able to share the new content with you. You may loose some interesting stuff.

How quickly you can clear the stumbles? If you are familiar with StumbleUpon toolbar then, this tip would help you to give better stumble experience.

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Click the Stumble Button by holding Ctrl key will open the page in new tab. Or you can use the mouse scroll button to open the content in new tab.

This will allow you stumble faster and help you to clear the shares.

You can follow my stumbles at http://vijayforvictory.stumbleupon.com