Ok so we wrote sometime ago how twitter is turning into a spammers paradise, between back then and now, there have been lots of changes, no twitter have not gotten any smarter, they are still doing it manually, however the bots have definitely got much more smarter.

Orkut the popular social networking site in India and Brazil just rolled out new changes to their interface where they are now showing ads right on the top of the page.

Let’s face it twitter has changed completely from what it was supposed to be, I emphasized that because it has really changed in a lot of ways, it has gone from being a way to tell people what you were doing, to a communication tool, a spammers paradise and now desperation, yes desperation.

Remember v3.0.187.1 is a dev channel so don’t download it unless you have been using the dev channel for Chrome.

If you are using the dev channel for Google Chrome do not download or update the browser to v3.0.187.0, this version is very unstable and crashes the browser whenever you visit the menu item.

Quite recently we told you about how China had banned Twitter and Flickr, however those are not the only sites that fail to pass the censorship in place in China.

The Chinese government has banned two new services Twitter the micro-blogging service and Flickr the photo-sharing network in China, this ban comes after the earlier ban on Blogspot blogs.

This is disastrous to say the least, whatever little privacy was left may completely disappear with this move, hopefully twitter should be smart enough to allow users to control whether or not their geo-locations should be shared with others, otherwise this will cause a much bigger backlash than the issue they created with @replies.

Google has been displaying a “Warning: Suspected phishing site!” message for websites that use the Google Ad Services code on their website. This happens only when users are using the Google Chrome browser to browse to the site.

I have been a big Feedly fan for quite sometime, for those who are not aware of Feedly, it is a really good service and Firefox add-on that enhances Google Reader, however no matter how good a application is, it definitely disappoints in one way or the other. Feedly is as good as it is, [...]

Many a times people make mistake and unlike everyone we are imperfect too and made a mistake of not testing new changes we rolled out last weekend properly. The change we made was including the Lightbox plugin for WordPress which would make browsing images much more easier for our readers. However to our surprise over [...]

For quite some time I was facing a problem where Adobe Air applications particularly Tweetdeck (or any twitter client) did not open the links in my default system browser (Google Chrome) and opened the link in Firefox which was my earlier default browser. Initially I tried to pinpoint the issue to Tweetdeck, but it seems [...]

Quite recently Quick Online Tips was sent a reminder to clearly demarcate ads from the content, this was a usual reminder to improve ad experience and work on making ad clicks more transparent. In addition to that Google strictly asks publishers to not sell text link ads, the penalty being a huge drop in search [...]

Just came across a major glitch in the AdSense payment system several Indian publishers have encountered. The glitch shows the conversion rate as $1 = 1 INR (Indian Rupee), the current conversion rate is $1 = 45 INR. The huge difference in the rates may have definitely left several Indian publishers as to what went [...]

Recently I got a email from a long time friend and blogger which startled me, the first thing I thought was to spam it, but then I realized instead of doing that, I should just send him a email saying, please stop sending me such emails. I did send him a email, and he immediately [...]