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Google Reveals 'What' Countries Want Them To Reveal ?

Posted on May 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

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Government Requests is  a tool from Google that reveals what different governments across the Globe are asking them to reveal. These are categorized into two – Data Requests and Removal Requests. Data Requests include requests for information about Google users and products and Removal Requests include requests for removal of content from Google search results.

The data is based on the number of requests received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. Brazil tops the list with 3663 data requests and 291 removal requests. India is in 4th position in Data Requests with 1061 requests and 3rd in removal requests with 142 requests.

In the FAQ section it says – “We are working on a separate tool to show you when Google services have been blocked by governments or government agencies” .

You can view India’s profile on Open Net Initiative here.

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Thank God I’m not a Chinese

Posted on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

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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My first vote

Posted on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments

Finally I can decide who should rule me !I voted for the first time in my life. The first phase of polling to the Parliament started today and would end on May 13th  in 5 phases. The results would be out on 16th.

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The road is not so smooth for Shashi Tharoor

Posted on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Former UN Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor is contesting in the current Lok Sabha Elections from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. Unlike many other constituencies in the state where the contest is primarily between the Left Front (lead by the CPI-M) and the United Democratic Front (lead by the Congress) candidates, he faces tough challenge from BJP candidate P K Krishnadas and BSP candidate A Neelalohithadasan Nadar apart from the Left Front candidate Ramachandran Nair.

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Election campaigns goes online in India

Posted on November 26, 2008 | 4 Comments

The US elections and the Obama campaign was closely followed here in India also and the way Obama reached the youth and common people inspired many. Now it seems that the political parties are experimenting with similar campaigning tactics here also in the coming Assembly elections. The youth forms 2/3rd of the total population and the political parties are trying to reach them through the new age media’s including  the internet and mobile phones. While the Indian National Congress has produced some promotional videos (link) that are widely promoted over the internet the BJP goes much beyond that through official websites and forums. Through this BJP hopes to reach individual voters. Continue reading →

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Orkut get sms notification for new scraps for free

Posted on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

Orkut has introduced Orkut SMS in India also so you can receive new scrap notification and sen scraps via your mobile. But this is a premium feature and you are charged by your operator (Rs 2/-) per sms. But here is how you can get SMS notifications for new scraps absolutely free. This is similar to my post about getting email notification via sms but this one doesn’t use  FreeMyFeed service.

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Get email as sms for free

Posted on November 1, 2008 | 4 Comments

Here is how you can get your Gmail emails as SMS for Free in India. This uses the Google SMS Channel that has been recently introduced and FreeMyFeed service

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Free my feed is a service that allows you to bypass password protected feeds. They say passwords are “never stored on the server,” and discarded immediately after parsing your feed. This is featured in Lifehacker and Google systems. So you might try this risk free. Continue reading →

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Add user menu to Orkut

Posted on August 10, 2008 | Leave a comment

This is a GreaseMonkey application that adds  a user menu to user profiles on orkut that provides one click access to their scarpbook,album,add as friend etc when you right click on user pictures. This is really cool feature and avoid wasting time by visiting the user profile each time.

There was some other userscripts for firefox similar to this that replaced user name with links to scrapbook, album etc, but this one is better and beautiful. See screenshot

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This script works only with Mozilla Firefox free downloadable.

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