http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun Just another brick in the wall Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:31:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The friendly search engines on the internet know a lot about you, more than what you think. Whenever you search something on the net, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search engines not just search and fetch you results, they also store a lot of information about every query you make. This ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/07/25/big-brother-is-watching-you/ Security researcher Didier Stevens ran a google ad that promised to infect the pcs of anyone who clicked on the ad. More importantly, the ad ran unnoticed by google for about 6 months and 409 people clicked on this during this time period!! more here. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/hundreds_click_.html http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/05/15/google-ad-for-infecting-pcs-with-virus/ Spammers are getting scarier. They used to be irksome and even funny sometimes. But now it seems at least some of them have decided to scare people. Spam that threatens recipients with death if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender is circulating on the Internet, according ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/04/27/threatening-spam/ The going is not so great as this article points out  http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/03/chacha-90-pranksters/ http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/03/06/recent-techcrunch-coverage-for-chacha/ I'd written about cha-cha earlier. Now they get a mention here in popularmechanics.com Nice to see.  Looks like they are gaining popularity. http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/02/02/cha-cha-gets-a-mention/ senduit  - another online file sharing service, similar to DivShare. The difference here is senduit has a limitation of 100 MB whereas divshare claimed unlimited storage. You also have the option to set an expiry time for the link. I personally like the simplistic-looking UI. http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/01/28/another-online-file-sharing-service/ Last week, my close friend's father was diagnosed to have cancer of the esophagus. This made me want to know more about this particular disease. So I did a google search on esophageal cancer and found 3-4 websites that had some basic information about esophageal cancer. Almost all the websites I ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/01/22/dont-ignore-difficulty-in-swallowing/ Nice little article on managing your online business by Joe Stec. All the points are very valid. Good read. Quote: Getting Your Business Online - 5 Tips for a Profitable and Productive Web Presence Taking a new or existing business to the Internet is not easy. It requires a lot ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/01/18/nice-read-online-business-opportunity/ Mani Ratnam's Guru has released all over the country and abroad. Initial reports have been very positive. Almost every one is praising the movie and the performance of its lead actors. I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I've heard, this movie has the potential to become a box-office ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/01/17/guru-so-far-so-good/ Couldn't resist sharing this. Code: Dracula castle in Transylvania may fetch €60 mln Dracula's castle may sell for €60 million ($78 million) after the local government offered to buy the Transylvanian fortress to boost tourism revenue. Brasov County Council in central Romania is in talks with a foreign bank on ... http://blogs.adventnet.com/arun/2007/01/09/dracula-castle-fetches-78-million/