The Story of Facebook, soon to be a Hollywood Blockbuster

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While at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the Harvard servers to get the photos of all the girls in order to start Facemash, a sort of “hot-or-not” site exclusive to Harvard. That eventually led to the creation of Facebook.

This is the story of Mark Zuckerberg – ‘The Accidental Billionaire’ and soon its going to be a Hollywood blockbuster – ‘The Social Network’. From the director of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ , David Fincher, the movie is expected to be released this October.

How to remove ads from Orkut pages

orkut-adsYou must have noticed that Orkut has now shifted the position of ads to the top of Orkut pages. Doesn’t that make Orkut look dirty? I will show you how you can remove those ads from Orkut pages. This trick has been there for quite some time, but now that Orkut is showing them right at top of pages, I think it would be good to remove them.

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Manage emails from twitter using multiple inboxes feature of Gmail

Social networking sites like Twitter sends you a lot of email daily and if you don’t use separate emails it might be difficult to manage your inbox. In this post I will explain how I use the Multiple inboxes feature of Gmail to over come this with the example of managing emails from Twitter.

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Thank God I’m not a Chinese

Twitter, WordPress,Blogger,YouTube, Flickr, Hotmail and even Bing is blocked in China.  Ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre the Chinese government is doing everything to quiet down the social media. I don’t know how many of my Twitter friends would survive without access to Twitter here in India

It’s your life and you should have the right to choose how to live. Why on Earth would someone want to control you unnecessarily as long as you don’t cause trouble for others.

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Get a free domain name and 2 year unlimited for free

Update: This offer has expired but I would recommend you to follow the Dreamhost blog. They come up with similar kind of offers often

You can get a 2 year web hosting and a top level domain (.com,.info or .org) absolutely free .But only if you are an existing Geocities user (Note that Geocites do not accept any new registration).Yahoo! is  shutting down GeoCities. But Dreamhost is providing 2 years of hosting with a free domain name to those customers.

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