June 2009 - Posts - Play Things

June 2009 - Posts

Michael Jackson: A brief YouTube HIStory

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Michael Jackson passed away today after a career known as much for its hugely influential music as the turmoil and allegations in Jackson's private life. Jackson's music and unique persona made him one of the most successful American exports ever. For someone with such longevity in his repertoire there will be few people who have had a chance...

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The legend of the scribblenauts: The "write" stuff

Posted by Krish Raghav at 
So another E3 has come and gone. The yearly extravaganza of fancier explosions, prettier graphics, and sequels reaching fairly ridiculous numbers (Final Fantasy XIV, anyone?). The necessary dose of violence and guns and muscle-flexing machismo to tide over the rabid gaming press for another year. Same old, same old, yeah? Well, wrong. See, something...

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How much would you pay for the iPhone 3G this August?

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
With Apple having announced the new iPhone 3Gs and that this model will be available in India in August, the first thought on my mind was: "Why did I not study software and get a green card and go to the US and settle down and buy the iPhone for a reasonable price and feel content in life?". My second thought was: "Then what could happen...

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Faster than a speeding.. Firefox?

Posted by Ayeshea Perera at 
Traveling through cyberspace is about to happen at warp speed, if one is to believe Mozilla's claims about the soon-to-be-launched Firefox 3.5 . Touted as the fasted browser ever (or so far at least given the speed at which browsers seem to be one-upping each other these days), Firefox 3.5 is reportedly twice as fast as Firefox 3 and ten times as...

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Susan Boyle and Reality tv: too fast, too furious?

Posted by Ayeshea Perera at 
What are the chances of a frumpy, middle aged woman walking into a recording studio, wooing the Tommy Mottola type producers with her voice and making it big? In 2009 baby, non - existent. The newest entrants to the commercial music scene are generally young, hep, physically beautiful, dance well, sing tolerably and can pout with the best of them in...

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The unbearable truthiness of Google Suggest

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Earlier today @rashmid sent me an image via Twitter. About Twitter: This is a grab from a simple Google Search page. Type in a term into the box and Google automatically tries to guess what you are looking for. Mostly based on content online and previous search histories. It throws up a list with a corresponding estimate of how many results are available...

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PlayStream 1: Unlock that iPod with Sharepod

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
It gives us tremendous pleasure to announce the launch of PlayStream, the weekly tech video show on livemint.com. Completing the terrific tech trio of PlayThings (blog) and PlayCast (podcast), PlayStream will showcase short--5 minutes or less is our target--videos where we will focus primarily on freeware applications, browsers and browser extensions...

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