US politicians out to restrict Google mail service

Google mail or also known as Gmail’s strategy is to insert advertisements beside the email message as a way of targeting marketing. The Gmail server would scan the email message for keywords and target the advertisements appropriately. Today the US politicians have taken the first steps toward imposing restrictions on Google’s Gmail service, according to [...]

The internet business search engine

Google has proved to be a leader as a search engine today but for serious business research, Dow Jones and Reuters believe that a better search engine can provide quality research data. Factiva is the business search engine and as a business tool, Factiva knows that if you search for Orange you will be looking [...]

Blogger’s rival blog.com

Originally posted on 27 May 2004
Blog.com, another blogging service is now in beta test. You can sign up for a free account but you must first be invited to join. How do you get invited, I don’t know. They have an interesting comparison chart of the functionality available in blog.com and blogger.
Blog.com claims that it [...]

Orkut

Originally posted on 25 May 2004
Received an invitation to join Orkut yesterday. I am familiarising my way around Orkut. I have a Friendster account too but I kinda like Orkut more. For starters there are loads of communities to join. That makes it interesting.
For those who do not know about Orkut, it is an online [...]