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Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 2 February 2013
When I first heard about Skipfish on a Matt Cutts’ presentation, I was quite excited about that nifty tool, as I was working on an e-commerce site on that time, where security was paramount. Also I wanted to have a good use of my newly updated Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx- Linux machine.
So...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 27 November 2011
FunnyJunk is an image and video sharing website where people post funny pictures, animated gifs and funny videos. After posting other users can vote if it is funny or junk and comment on the pictures. According to its statistics page, everyday it gets on average 600/700 new sign ups, 20m page views...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 8 August 2011
UK based Bloombla combines Twitter style updates with past tense story telling in a short format, for a service I can honestly say I’ve never seen anything quite like before.
The core premise of Bloombla is a statement starting with “I’ve.” Users enter what they’ve done before, for example...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 4 August 2011
Everyone, especially Wall Street, is standing up to salute social commerce. Look at the IPO pipeline – LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Living Social. But despite all this attention, the definition of social commerce is fuzzy at best. How do we know if these companies will win, if we can’t even agree on...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 4 August 2011
Locanto Classifieds now offers a French version of its local classifieds sites in 38 major cities across Canada to cater to the needs of the large Francophone community.
The English version of Locanto Canada (www.locanto.ca) has been offering the Anglophone community a free classifieds platform for all...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 20 June 2011
Intriguing site – convenient to use and provided that you are keeping an eye you can get yourself some great bargains as well as giveaways. Already I found a free desktop computer from there. In their own word-
“Bonsoni.com is an online marketplace for buying and selling items, properties,...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 17 February 2011
Google seems to be testing display ads in Gmail. I’ve not spoken to anyone but found the following image ad in my personal Gmail account this morning.
Image ads have created their way into paid search on Google.com and numerous other properties on Google. But this was truly jarring for me to encounter....
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 29 August 2010
After coming back from a holiday in Spain, I received a letter from Spanish authority (written in Spanish) informing me that I received a speed camera fine for speeding.
There was some instruction that I may pay the fine using http://www.dgt.es/ . After spending more than half an hour on the DGT site...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 15 November 2009
I went to the cinema to watch Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” after reading few good reviews and Amitabh Bachchan’s criticism about the film. I came out with a mixture of sad and sweet feeling. It is not often you hear criticism and praise about a film in the same time, so...
Posted by Mamun Ahmed on 8 October 2009
A quick Google research on how much the International prepaid calling cards in UK market worth did not bring any results, if it were bringing any results at all that would be a surprise. However, it brought some information about North American domestic and international calling card market, that combined...