Further to yesterday’s madness, Google now appears to apologize for the “Swastika Situation“. Here’s Google’s response
We have an automated system to identify and remove inappropriate or offensive material in Hot Trends. In rare cases, when such material is missed, we manually remove these results from our Hot Trends list. We apologize to any users who [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Marketplace and All Things Current, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 21 Comments »
TechCrunch is getting all worked up about the word Swastika appearing on Google’s Hot Trends. They obviously want to make a lot of noise about it and hint that it’s the return of the Neo-Nazis. But if you notice Google’s related words list – there’s absolutely nothing Nazi or Neo-Nazi or Neonatal-Nazi about it. [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Marketplace and All Things Current, Social Software, Technology and Internet, wtf | 14 Comments »
Via Dina, this hilarious video on a Supermarket going 2.0 [Supermarket 2.0]. Some really hilarious references – including Quakr and Watr.
glumbert.com – Supermarket 2.0
Watch out for the part when the “user” holds up an egg, and asks if there is more from this producer, and a helpful person asks her to subscribe to feed [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, Random Links, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 1 Comment »
In some supremely air-conditioned room, cops will sit on their computers, logging into Orkut. They will then meticulously wade through all the offers of “fraandship”, “oye, sexy pic you got” and what not to track down the very bored people who form hate groups. Not just if you hate India. If you hate Ambedkar, Shivaji, [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Governance, India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Rights, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 18 Comments »
If there are one link you click on today, make it this one. The BBC profiles the Kalleda Photo Project –
Children at a rural school in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are running a photoblog about daily life in their village, Kalleda. The school gives children from poor families a free education.
The [...]
Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Marketplace and All Things Current, Online Projects, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 4 Comments »
If you click on one link today – make it this one. Geert Lovink writes on “Blogging, the nihilist impulse“.
There is a quest for truth in blogging. But it is a truth with a question mark. Truth has become an amateur project, not an absolute value, sanctioned by higher authorities. In lieu of a [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Social Software, Technology and Internet | 2 Comments »
I don’t know why I still use Bloglines. Today, while checking feeds of a particular blog, I saw that Bloglines decided that a particular subscriber had been reading the feed since 1970!
Ze mind.. it boggles..
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Blogs, Random Links, Social Software, Technology and Internet | 6 Comments »
