Should You Build Organic Traffic or go with Pay Per Click Ads?

24 aug 2009

Should brands spend money on Pay-per-click advertisements (SEM) to make their site visible in search engines or should they invest in building organic ranks via search engine optimization (SEO).

Your Taste in Music Can Reveal How Smart (or Dumb) You Are

24 feb 2009

Virgil Griffith has mapped musical tastes of college students with their intelligences levels determined by their SAT score. He has done a similar exercise for books as well.

Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed

24 feb 2009

The next time you jot out a set of instructions or tasks for someone to follow, keep in mind that the choice of fonts might well determine if that job gets done in time or not.

The Size of Internet to Double Every 5 Years

18 jan 2009

Chinese researchers believe that Internet growth can be predicted using a variant of Moore’s Law and that the size of internet (host names) doubles in size every 5.32 years.

Never Forget Anything with list.it

22 dec 2008

list.it, or the Latitudinal Information Scrap Trapper that Indexes Things, is a small, simple note-keeping Firefox extension designed by MIT researchers to help you manage the tons of little information bits you need to keep track of each day.

Which Twitter Clients are the Most Popular ?

22 dec 2008

Twitter Sources reports the overall usage of Twitter clients derived from the 20-message slices taken every minute from the Twitter public timeline starting 31st July, ’08. Not surprisingly, the Twitter web client is the most popular at 43%, followed by TwitterFeed at around 10%, and Twitterrific, SMS and Twhirl at around 5% each.

Device to Annoy Young People

03 dec 2008

A British security consultant has invented a device that emits a high-frequency sound that can’t be heard by people over age 25. Since young people can hear higher frequencies than older people, this device, called "the Mosquito", emits a high-pitched pulsing noise that’s unbearable only to younger people.

Firefox Plugins Can Help Conserve Power

02 dec 2008

Researchers at SecTheory have come up with an interesting observation – they say that Firefox plug-ins like NoScript and Adblock Plus help in conserving power.

Google Docs Users Spend Only 5 Minutes per Month on the Site

14 nov 2008

Compete says that, on an average, a unique visitor to Google Docs logs in to his/her account just on 3 days per month. And the overall engagement level is even worse because an average visitor is spending just about 5 minutes per month on the Google Docs site.