Author: Prashant Sharma

Once Orkut was the best social networking sites, mainly in India and Brazil, but things are changing now. This article will tell you about Orkut Monetization. However Orkut isn’t a prominent social networking site in U.S. and Europe but when the stats are compared worldwide, Orkut seems to be a frontrunner in its arena. Orkut majorly dominates Brazilian and Indian market. In India, there are local competitors like Bigadda and ibibo which are also fueling big bucks into their systems but Orkut is unarguably the winner of young Indian hearts. But this Google’s service is still struggling for the monetary…

Android devices are on boom because of the large application base it currently have. This article will tell you what is Android? Android is a software heap for mobile handsets which packages an OS(operating system), central layer and purpose driven programs and applications. Buzz about ‘Android’ is everywhere and millions of eyes are waiting for Google’s debut in Mobile phone Industry but there are still many guys who don’t really know what “Android” is all about,its background and about its launchpad “HTC Dream” & related details.So,here’s our first Dummies guide(hmm..smart branding !) which briefs up everything about Android. ………………………………….. What…

Facebook isn’t a Social Network,it’s a Social Utility. But MySpace and Orkut are a typical Social Network. Further details are given below. Recently,Facebook came into limelight for disabling few user accounts just because those users were majorly spending their time on Facebook playing a game called PackRat.Facebook justified it saying that the game is so addictive that many guys create new Facebook accounts just for the sake of playing PackRat and not for the actual purpose of this ‘Social Utility’. Such accounts,which rather ill-utilize the ‘social utility’ are a burden to the website and hence may be banned. The mail which was sent…

Plurk is currently a less popular but Plurk will grow steadily and will prove more engaging. This article will tell you why to choose Plurk over Twitter. When it comes to micro-blogging,then Twitter is the service that completely rules.It has by far,the maximum micro-bloggers of the web,specially when it is compared with some other competitors like Friendfeed and Plurk,which also offer a similar concept. The traffic graph from Compete clearly shows the leader and the struggles in the micro – blogging arena… I’ve been using all these three services(Twitter,friendfeed and Plurk) and have spent minimum time with Plurk(just over a week)…

CraigsToolbox that lets you browse your very own craigslist with images. Here are some good solutions for cluttered Craigslist. Seven days back,there was a post written right here  on TechPluto titled “Five popular websites that desperately need a re-design”.And the number one spot was graced by none other than Craigslist. We aren’t saying that they are come up with a re-designed CL version but somebody else(CLHack) has done something good for CL visitors in this regard. CLHack pulls in craigslist listings and displays them all in the form of images.This lets users browse the listings in a comfortable manner. But,this…

There is a myth about Google that it replicated Overture’s concept for online advertising and presented it with a cluster of improvements naming it AdWords. Google is a great company and people love their products and services. In the internet space, whatever Google touched has turned Silver(if not gold).They have their active services in the majority of the fields on the web and they can surely be called as “Crocodile of Internet”(the king of its pond). So,what’s that one product/service that made Google where it actually is right now ? Is it ‘Google Images’,’Google News’,’Orkut’,’YouTube’,’Blogger’,’Gmail’,’Google Books’,’Picasa’,’Google Docs’,’GTalk’ or ‘Chrome’ ?…

Flex and Silverlight are best among their users. But when it comes to the best of both then there must be a winner. The complete description is given below. Adobe was having a real good time before Silverlight’s debut. Microsoft lovers(rest were already into Adobe services right from dreamweaver to Flash to ColdFusion) didn’t have any option but to go for Flash/Flex for developing RIAs(Rich Internet Application),but with Silverlight,the MS community is on a high because they’ve got an ‘easy to grab’ option over flex and they’re simply lovin it… However Flash is ubiquitous but Silverlight is making up the…

Month of September has been great for TechPluto by far.We featured a number of tech startups,covered a lot of tech grapewine,compared web technologies,compiled interesting listings and last but not the least,got decent feedback from our readers as well. Not to forget our re-ideation,just before the start of this month… So,here we are listing the write-ups that our readers liked the most…(It will be good specially for those who just in case missed out any of them) —————————————————- Date : Sept 1,2008 Title : ‘cuil’ might be the next Microsoft acquisition ! “There has already been a lot of talks of…

Asians at techcrunch50. Indians are far behind when it comes to realizing their presence at international level in the field of technology. Are indians far behind when it comes to realizing their presence at international level in the field of technology(specially web technologies)….? We need no facts to prove that the situation seems quite pathetic for indians in this regard at the moment. Most of the indians who play a critical role in any startup(CEO,CTO etc) that hits bull’s eye in international market are NRIs(Non-resident Indians).They actually don’t represent their startup as an ‘Indian startup’. And those who represent themselves…

Yammer Techcrunch50 winner has already been chosen. The reason why the winners decision was a disappointment are given below. First of all,let the confession go first…. We admire TechCrunch because of the content it delivers with almost no ‘silent'(NO hot discussions) period.And our level of enthusiasm was above average when TC50 was going on..BUT,the results(the winner of TC50) came as a BIG UPSET after such an well-hyped event(as we all say,”all’s well that ends well” but here the end wasn’t that “well”) TC50 had a neck-to-neck competition with DEMO and they were scoring pointing over DEMO in many ways,but the…

Poor design of a website not only affects users using their services but also makes them jump to another website. 5 of the poorly design websites are. We doubt if they care about ‘it’ or not(as they don’t seem to) and they are already popular(if not ubiquitous) in their respective fields without giving a damn to ‘it’ but we believe they need ‘it’…and by ‘it’,we mean……….. a “Re-design” So,today,we thought to go through the bulk of popular websites and filter out five of them which seriously need a “Re-design”.This will not only help their users find a lot of ease…

Here’s Myngle reviews. Myngle is a site where users learn new languages. Myngle offers students and teachers in different locations with all the tools needed for synchronous e-learning It’s good to see that e-learning sector is emerging really fast and every facet of learning is getting technology support so that a global approach can be followed in education sector as well. An area which has been typecasted as an “offline only” facet in education sector is “Foreign language learning”.There have been very limited attempts to create a intelligent online marketplace for foreign language learning till date.One of such attempts is…