Saravanan Sahadevan

Another weekly dive into current buzz in the social media scene, productive lifestyle & current technology trends. 

• Fan’s of advertising networks, well there seems to be more good news for you this time around. Technorati have launched their own advertising network called the Technorati Media.
• Chris Pirillo gives an in-depth review on the best Adobe Air applications around till date. 
• Facebook takes a step forward at the chinese market by spreading its presence towards them.
• Had a thought on having domain extensions such as .sex , .monkey , .blahblahblah? Well perhaps your dream might come true as ICANN might consider relaxing on certain naming rules. Having said that, did a quick scan over the blogosphere and it looks like bloggers are not to happy over this issue. I guess you know why.
• Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 is finally out. Do take it for a spin. Lot’s of notable changes. Direct download link

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Quite a bit happened this week. Just highlighting some. Lots from Techcrunch on my radar.

• Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit - I reminded my self that, Leo Laporte once said, that he saw a bug that seemed to allow more than 5000 friends. Now this is some good news. 
• Apple’s iPhone To Land In India, Australia, Italy, Seven Other Markets - India!, when would ever Malaysia get such news. I believe not in this century. 
• Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com- One unique thing that google had on it’s front-page since day one was it simpleness. Hope ads don’t loose my faith but hey, who does not need money!
• Yahoo’s Answer to Google’s Universal Search is Glue - Head to Yahoo! India and search for soccer, you would understand what is this all about.
• Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday - Open Social Related
• Amazon ‘Forgets’ to Pay Taxes - That worries you?

• Ferrari launches teaser website for upcoming 2+2 -  Ferrari launched a website featuring the new car’s exhaust sound. Now this is weird!

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Some new updates around the corner. Big ones from Microsoft !

• Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade - Direct Download Link. Although Microsoft isn’t yet hosting a download page for SP3, the download links directly back to Windows Update.
• iPhone coming to Canada later this year
• ScopeTel Standardizes Services On iDirect Platform. ScopeTel will consolidate its current customer networks onto iDirect’s satellite communications platform in an effort to increase bandwidth
  efficiency and simplify network management.
• Wigix Brings Order to World of Online Trading

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Well today I have just got some web application links and some news update links. 

• Adium, voted best choice of IM for the mac and Pidgin for the pc. What about web users ? Your choice is all time favorite Meebo.
• Twhirl an desktop application that lets you post and manage your twitter messages as well cross posting to Pownce & Jaiku which is really useful. Regarding Twhirl, Seesmic video/audio chat company has acquired it today.
• Dell goes green..Interesting..

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As I said, I would try to anymore post things that looks good, productive or maybe things that simply helps you to go on with your life easier. From fashion to technology, this is your place so bookmark this site now. As from today a new type of post from me, titled “Saran Scout”. There are many good links and products that I come across and I just cant write a review for it. Maybe its just an update or maybe its just a roundup of a post I made. So I will place a short note together with its links. The categories wont be specific. So the best ways to find previous link post, is to either search or use the tags for the term “Saran Scout”. Lets get started then.

• Adrive, Do you need tons of free online space for backup purposes or something like that ? Well Adrive is your choice. “Free” 50GB online storage. Sounds big but thats the truth. 
• Firefox 3 Beta 5 released. Check out the release notes.
• Virgle. Alright it does seems to Google and Richard Branson that the World is not enough. Project Virgle is what they are calling it. Seems to be an April fool joke but its going on pretty serious. Go ahead and subscribe to become the first civilizations in Mars.

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