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People who have failed to understand the true essence of social media keep looking for proof of it being a devil. In one such argument amongst a number of my blogger freinds, someone used the example of the Abraham Biggs Suicide Video as an example of how social media, web 2.0 and pretty much all web technologies have made our hearts cold.

What is exactly the issue of Abraham Biggs Suicide Video?

Abraham Biggs Suicide happened around 4 months back. The guy must have his own reason to end his life. However this story attracted a lot of attention as the guy had done a live webcast of his death and it is suspected that the viewers had egged him on, instead of trying to convince Abraham Biggs, not to commit suicide. It has been 5 months since Abraham Biggs Suicide, but still distractors of social media use it as a proof that web 2.0 is pure evil.

It is stupid to blame technology for Abraham Biggs Suicide

Saying that web 2.0 was responsible for Abraham Biggs Suicide is like saying that medicine is responsible for every idiot that commits suicide by popping sleeping tablets. Moreover he committed suicide may be because of the fact that he was suffering from a bipolar disorder disease. Even if web 2.0 was not there, he would have committed suicide. So how can you blame technology for what mr Biggs did.

I had recently written about most viewed video on youtube. Related research shows that there is a massive demand for free bollywood movies onine. There are many websites that allow users to download free bollywood movies. There is also no dearth of websites to watch online bollywood movies. I have been trying to figure out a feasible business model for starting a website where users can watch free movies. I am not able to find much content related to the legal aspects of the topic. If any of you happen to have any experience in the topic, then please drop me a mail.

Also do you know if working on a seo project for a website which may be illegal is legal or not. My previous posts about romantic hindi songs and romantic hindi movie may get me a project from a site about bollywood hindi movies. I am not sure if it is legal though. What should I do?

TRAI has allowed ISP (Internet Service Providers) to offer unrestricted internet telephony services in India. What this essentially means is that users will be able to call (dial) to mobiles and landline phones in India from their computers. Under existing norms, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a computer to a mobile or a fixed phone.

As per the TRAI recommendations, the STD service providers would be connected to ISPs through public internet for the purpose and the two service providers would have mutual agreement for the same.

The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), a technical arm of Department of Telecom, will work out the number plan for the ISPs to enable them to offer telephone services. “Telephone numbers from identified blocks shall be allocated to ISPs, Unified Access Service Providers, Basic Service Providers and Cellular Mobile Service Providers for internet telephony,” TRAI said.

With a view to make internet telephony secure, TRAI said, all ISPs interested to provide unrestricted internet telephony would have to install “Lawful Interception” equipments.

I believe that this will be more beneficial to corporate customers than to normal users (retail customers) like us. Reasons:

• India has low internet penetration with only 1.1 crore connections with even lesser number of broadband connections.
• Net speed of 256kbps is classified as broadband in India, which is not sufficient for decent voice clarity.
• Even after having a decent broadband connection, calls from PC to mobiles/fixed phones won’t be free. Users will definitely be charged per call.
• STD Call rates are already very low in India. In fact call rates are so low that even ISPs won’t be able to lower them significantly. Almost all the mobile operators now have plans where STD rates are same as Local rates.
• It is always convenient to call from a phone or mobile than to switch on you PC, connect to internet and then dial the number.

For corporate customers, where the volume of calls is really high this is definitely a boon because they can now deploy VOIP Phones over their Wide Area Networks and can virtually run their internal phone usage for free, independent of the phone service providers. BPO and IT companies will really benefit from this. This will bring in substantial cost savings for these companies. “This is a welcome step particularly for the Indian IT-BPO industry,” said the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or NASSCOM.

But this will mean a loss in revenues for the telecom operators and it will definitely not be welcomed by them. But I believe that they should have a long term perspective of the view. Rather than opposing this they should provide better broadband internet connectivity to the users. In fact as I see the way forward will be rolling out of WiMAX services in coming years, with wi fi enabled mobiles and voice communication moving over from switching networks to IP (internet) networks.

This is a welcome recommendation from TRAI and lets hope government approves it fast.

Xeeber is one more service that allows you to detect invisible yahoo messenger users. I have not used Xeeber myself yet. Have you used Xeeber? Please leave a comment stating your experience with the service.

Google trend for websites is a tool from google that allows you to get traffic statistics for any website. It gives out details like countries of origin of the users to a particular site, other sites visited by the users of the particular site and most importantly the popular search terms that brings traffic to the website. You can see the traffic trend for techcrunch here.

You can know similar data for youtube with google trends, right?? Wrong. When it comes to google’s own sites like youtube.com or google.com, almighty google will not give you anything. You need not take my word for it. Check google trends for website for google.com or youtube.com to see for yourself.

P.S: If you are able to see the trends for google.com or youtube.com then do let me know. I shall take down this offending post

SMS prices might have dropped. However who does not like an option to send free sms messages? Here we profile some websites that allow you to send free sms in india. Bookmark this page now. You will need more than 1 of these sites as they have a restriction on number of free sms you can send daily.

way2sms.com: This is one of the earliest players amongst the free sms service providers. The best part is it allows you to send messages upto 110 characters long. Really hassle free registration.

160by2.com: This is one of the newest players amongst the free sms service providers. However it allows you to send messages upto 80 characters long. However they are getting a lot of traction among new users.

www.jaxtr.com Jaxtr provides many more solutions apart from free sms. It is functional in countries outside india as well. However it works quite well in India. It even gives 50 free credits to make free calls.

www.spicesms.com: They support a imited number of service providers. As a matter of fact they do not support any of the 3 mowas using to check out the free sms services in india.

I have been doing a fair bit of research for a new domain name for my second hand mobile website. Seems like most of the usable english names have already been booked. That made me think about using a hindi name for the website.

As a matter of fact if you look at the most successful indian websites, except for rediff, all other major sites have a hindi name. naukri, shaadi, sulekha all are hindi names.

Every domain name has two parts. One before the dot(.), and after it. In the previous post, I had talked about points to consider while choosing the domain name i.e the first part. However the second part is important part as well.

The second part of the domain name or the part after the . is known as the TLD. You can choose from among several TLDs for your website.

dot com (.com) is the most preferred one by me. Simply because majority of websites use this TLD and hence people just have the tendency of typing .com after the domain name. If you use some other TLD for your domain name, then you shall have to keep reminding the users that your site is not .com.

Using country specific TLD in domain name You can choose a TLD specific to your country as well like .in for India. Google seems to give a higher priority to country specific TLDs for searches done in the respective google domain.

Register multiple TLDs for your domain name If you see your users liking your website, then it is a good idea to register multiple domain names for your website. Keep one main site and redirect the other urls to this one. That will ensure that noone else can take your traffic away.

Do you use a TLD other than .com? If yes then please let me know the logic for the same.

Your domain name will play a significant part in the success of your online venture. This is not the most important factor of success.This is one factor in your cotrol. Till you choose it the first time!!

There are several factors to consider while choosing a domain name. Some of the important factors are

I had created a list of gmail proxy sites and gmail proxies. The response to those 2 posts has been phenomenal with the first post getting more than 2300 views. So here is aother list of proxy sites for youtube

Most of these are geeral purpose proxy sites that work for other sites as well. However you can use all of them as youtube proxy sites
youtube proxy
http://rcx1.com
http://polysolve.com: My favorite youtube proxy site.
http://www.greatproxiesonline.info
http://www.browseprox.com
www.facebookfirewall.com: This works as a proxy for youtube
http://btunnel.com
http://defusefilters.com
http://www.oneinoneout.com
http://www.filtersneak.com
http://browseschool.com
www.proxysite007.info
http://www.secretlysurf.com
www.jacoto.com
http://magictunnel.info

Please let me know any good proxy sites you know. The idea is to create a comprehensive list.