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Upgrade your computer memory with Memoryx.com

Upograde your computer memory with Memoryx.com Originally uploaded by shashiBellamkonda Warning ! geeky post ahead ! My Desktop is a pentium 4 with a processor speed of 2.53 GHz. I…

Twitter poll - No prize - Just for fun

Do you Listen to NPR? When I first came to the US over a decade ago, a good friend of mine told me about NPR and since then I am a fan. I listen to 88.5 WAMU whenever I can and tha…

Bill Marriott on YouTube - Wishing You a Happy, Healthy and Safe New Year

When Bill Marriott first started Blogging I posted the news in a previous Blog post : Bill Marriott on the Move Today I saw that the 2007 holiday greeting from Bill Marriott is pos…

Andy Carvin Talks about Twitter & Utterz on NPR

NPR story click here to hear I got alerted to this NPR story by @podcastjunky Megan Evins who writes the blog Podcast Junky . I was thrilled to listen to this story. Its about how Bl…

Taking Time During the Holidays

I am having a wonderful Holiday vacation. Along with spending time with the kids I am also catching up on some reading . Here are some observations on what I have been reading: I am…

Exciting News

To all my friends in the Blogosphere, Twitter, and Facebook and in my offline life I would like to make an exciting announcement. I am moving from Product Management into a new p…

Twitter / T-Mobile - Updated

I have been watching this episode of Twitter vs. T-mobile erupt since last evening. I am a T-mobile customer but use my Web browser to use Twitter mobile (m.twitter.com)so i am no…

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Mobile post sent by shashib using Utterz .  Replies .   mp3

Movable Type is Open Source

As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. Now Word Press has …

Twitter Aftershocks: What To Do With The Conversation Now Social Media Explorer.

I have been called many names and now Jason Falls says - "Shashi Bellamkonda, an Internet junkie and thinker from D.C." at http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2007/12/12/…

Vote for the 25 Best Products and Services for Small Business

SmallBusinessComputing.com has a poll where readers can vote for the favorite small business technology tools. Here is a link to the ”. Small Business Technology Tools poll to che…

Google Accidently Bans Hundreds of Users from Gmail

A Google Groups thread is tracking a major problem for hundreds of Gmail users. Many users were noticing that their Gmail accounts were all of a sudden disabled. read more | digg s…

Led Zeppelin Reunites in honor of Ahmet Ertegun

Great Blog post from Jeff Pulver on the Led Zepplin concert with pics and video read more | digg story

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Microblogging for Marketers

This is my second post referring to a Forrester Analyst today. I was just on Peter Kims' Blog - "Being Peter Kim" He is @Peterkim on Twitter. He announced that the …

Death By PowerPoint

| View | Upload your own Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang - Web Strategist who posted the link on Twitter.

Twitter Members say goodbye to Marc Orchant

R.I.P. Marc Orchant by ZDNet 's Dan Farber -- A week after suffering a massive heart attack Marc Orchant passed away today. Marc was part of our ZDNet blogger team for a few y…

Auto-Follow Those that Follow you on Twitter With this Open Source Script

Jesse Stay wrote this script that you can install on your own server so you no longer have to worry about following those that follow you on Twitter. Run this script, it does all…

US House and Senate on Twitter

My impression is that both the houses of legislature adopt technology very fast and have lead to success of companies. RIM ( research in motion) owes a lot to its success to the a…

Travel Tips From a Road Warrior

Nicole shares her tips from her travels all over the country in her Blog at nicolespag.com I have personally suffered by not taking tip 3 seriously. Must read blog post if you tra…

Nonpartisan Effort to Support the Troops Needs Help Today

eMail Our Military is sponsoring a mail drive to show support for the troops during the holidays. Whether you support the war or not, the men & women of the military currently…

Songza.com Listening to humanized music

I was excited when I discovered Pandora. I felt the same excitement when I read GigaOm's Blog post The founder of this company Songza is 23 years old. You cannot download any s…

Looking at Flight wait times on a Map

TechnoSailor- Aaron Brazell posted this link on Twitter for flightwait.com . I quickly compared the Flight Delays for BWI(Baltimore Washington International) with IAD ( Washington …

Help to find out who called you - Social media too

Social Media is all about people helping themselves and others by sharing knowledge. I was surprised to see a number on my caller id that i could not identify beyond the number. S…

Community Manager Role

While Community Manager Roles have extended for many years how do companies who are dealing with the new citizen journalism coping. What is the Community manager's role now. W…

Small Business Survival Blog

I am visiting a cousin who is a small business in the NJ/NY area. Every year when we meet up we exchange tech thoughts and I give him tips on how to concentrate on running his bus…

Added activity while driving

The term of the future is "hyperconnectivity' Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google has said that the first thing he does on the morning is check email. I am tempted to check my…

LinkedIn - Some interesting Facts

LinkedIn users average around 60 connections ( San Francisco-based executive headhunter Ron Bates has the most LinkedIn connections with 33,540 direct contacts) The average number …

Charging The T Mobile Dash using USB

I am not sure if all cell phones can be charged using the Laptop USB connection - I love it that I can do that with the T Mobile Dash. Since I use the cell phone for email, twitte…

Point Blank stealing of Domain Names

This blog post is from a few months ago. But it is a very important issue for people to watch out for . This goes to show that you should be very careful where you buy or even sea…

Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook

always wondered what the Yahoo game plan in this space was. They may be losing executives but they must have some amazing homegrown talent that can come up with new ideas. The fut…

Podcamp DC EDU - 11-10-07

Podcamp DC EDU - 11-10-07 Originally uploaded by Joel Mark Witt Shashi Bellamkonda (me) Talking to Whitney Hoffman of LDPodcast a free weekly podcast/internet radio show about lea…

A Vision of Students Today - Students and how they absorb Information

Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University created this video and posted it to YouTube. The video has so far had 803,906 views since it was posted…

Joel Mark Witt - very witty marylandzoo.tv

Community Participation in Action

Joe Mark Hewitt made everyone take their phones and cameras out and take video at the same time. here is the Video i took from my T-Mobile Dash. I am sure these will be available …

99 ways to promote your blog

A list of 99 different ways to promote your blog globally In the Social Media. Also read this article http://tinyurl.com/2fy2s9 which ategorizes all the Social Media sites in the …

Joel mark hewitt Sure woke everyone - He is Witty

Look at MarylandZoo.tv to watch Joel Mark Hewitt ride camels.

PodcampDC2007

Newmediajim and Loren at podacampDC2007

GEosteph at podacmpDC2007

Notes from PodCampEDU2007

Amazing resource on Podcasting : http://davidwarlick.com/ Wiki for PodCampEdu2007 http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampEDU Rods Pulse Podcast http://rod4jefferson.blogspot.com/

Tammy Munson at Podcamp EDU

Tammy Munson : PodTalkDivas.com Website resources: PodcastPickle.com Phonecasting.com Juice.com Pod cast tools: h2zone Olympus ws200 flip Tools: Audacity GarageBand AudioAcrobat Slabpcast.co…

Andy Carvin talking at pPodcamp Edu 2007

Presentation from PodcampEDU2007b is at http://andycarvin.com/vlogging101/podcamp-edu.ppt Andy Carvin's Blog This is a more interesting Blog from Andy Carvin!

Great idea & You got there first ....Story of MobaSoft

I wrote about Chipin in a previous post. Today on Twitter Michael Bailey posted a link to his Blog and talked about his products and his struggle for launching them. Its a story t…

ZDNET Review of the T-Mobile Shadow

T-Mobile Shadow sets the standard for Windows Mobile usability by ZDNet 's Matthew Miller -- I was reading one of my favorite mobile sites, Mobility Site, and saw that NY Time…

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FaceBook Business Pages

I was reading Jeremiah Owyang 's posting on the  Facebook Announcement yesterday. Jay answers some good questions. I think since he mentioned that they had a Foresster page es…

Collecting Money from your group -Chipin.com

My friend Steve Dembo is doing a very noble thing. He is raising money from his online and off line friends for Habitat for Humanity . Extremely noble motive and a great thing t…

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What does the Google Android Announcement Mean to you ?

I have been complaining about the restrictions on cellphones in the US by the cellphone companies a lot. I probably should be happy with today's announcement of a Open Phone O…

Startup Related exciting articles In Today's Washington Post

The Washington Post has two exciting articles. one was on the start up week end and the other is about the start ups in general in the DC area - very interesting to read. listen Bu…

Flock New Social Media Browser

When I first tried Flock I had given up on them. When they came back with their latest avatar they have done a good job. Flock is a free makes it easy to connect with your social …

Hi, this is my first post calling in to Jott

Hi, this is my first post while driving using using Jott. I want to experiment with this and see if I could post this to my blog without actually doing anything that they [...]. l…

Can .Name be the default for Blogs and Social Media?

I saw Seth Godin Twitter yesterday on domain names. Seth is quoting from a Wired magazine story from 1994 by Josh Quittner . Josh was trying to evangelize the use of a domain name…

Google, OpenSocial, and Marketing

Everyone is waiting with bated breath. Chris gives a fantastic insight into what to expect. Marc Andreessen has a good post explaining OpenSocial from a tech angle http://blog.pm…

How do Pebbles Communicate -

What's a pebble? They’re often first generation adopters. they are followed by swimmers, surfers and others.Most of the people in Twitter fall into one of those three categori…

NewTeeVee Live In SF- November 14th

It pays to have friends in high places : Om Malik is doing his first conference, on the future of television and the web. It's Nov. 14th in SF, it's called NewTeeVee Live, …

Programs to use to create screenshots

There are some pretty good programs to use for Screenshots. A lot of companies use Snagit Snagit currently has tools to upload screenshots directly to your blog. HEre are two free…

AddressBook 2.0 and Social Media

The web 2.0 conference coined a term Addressbook 2.0. The basis is that if we had an addressbook integrated across all communication tools and social network platofrms that we wer…

Send a message to Fish phone

Source: http://www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_7185839 Still not sure which is more eco-savvy, farmed or wild salmon? Snd a txt msg. The marine conservation group Blue Ocean Institu…

How do top online retailers send their welcome email - study

Key findings from the study include: 32% of welcome emails include a discount, reward or incentive, down from 34% last year62% of welcome emails asked the subscriber to white list…

Time to 'Mobilize' Your Site? - Entrepreneur.com

With more people accessing websites through mobile web browsers, it might be time to redesign your site or create a new one with them in mind. read more | digg story

Terry Pratchett In Washington DC September 29th

He is a nice guy. Amazing speaker and always jovial. Hear His video here Launch in external player

Usability testing a funny insight - from slideshare

Slideshare is a great site kind of a youtube for powerpoint presentations. It is worth a visit every now and then.

New Business Ideas: Cell Phone 2.0

Steven Teo writing in smallbiztrends.com has some pretty cool sites listed. From sending pictures of your food from your phone for nutritional analysis to giving you the nearest r…

Emails that Expire

Rohit Bhargava in his blog posting : Idea Bar: Self Destructing Emails has an interesting idea about how to make emails that you need to receive but dont need to keep in your inbo…

Hilary Clinton Needs a SEO

Hitwise reports that www.hillaryclinton.com is number 3 among websites for the key candidates of 2008 Presidential elections based on US Internet usage for the week ending Septemb…

Washingtonpost.com launches a interactive fact checker

Washingtonpost.com, launched a new interactive feature that will examine controversial claims and statements made by presidential candidates involving important national issues. T…

TextBook Renting

I read this in the Newsweek and this will be useful when the kids go to college, two websites where you can rent text books and save money. textbookflix.com and BookRenter.com The we…

MTV India On Direct TV again

Its funny that DirecTV starts including MTV India in ints package and never informs its customers. Heck ! tehy could have a got a lot of goodwill from subscribers like me. ANyway …

IE7 Ability to open 3 home pages

I am sure a lot of you may have already discovered this. Instead of s[ecifying a single homepage in IE7 you can specify multiple Pages to open in tabs. To do this you should follo…

New Senate Bill Aimed at Wireless Carriers

Problems with cell phone companies in the US: a)No freedom to buy any phone and use it with a provider b) You have to stay too long with a provider because of all the fees. c) The mo…

The Buzz about Cuill resembles Google

I remember 1998 when there was such a buzz about Google among the early adopters and thos with their ear to the ground on tech news. I switched my home page immediately to Google. …

Flickr and many others

I spent a lot of time this weekend tryign to make sense of all the ways you can process, save, share photos. There was a time when photos simply meant taking the film to the groce…

The NetFlix of Books

I was excited to see two entrants into the space that is very similar to NetFlix. A kind of Netflix for books. If you are a avid reader then this is going to be very great for you…

Indian language Radio available on MSN for US

MSN has teamed up with WorldSpace to offer Indian language Radio stations online. They are offering the indian language Radio Stations for free for 24 hours. I am not sure how I la…

Buying A TV is not easy

LCD vs Plasma 720p vs 1080p 2HDMI vs 3 HDMI I never thought these are the kind of decisons you have to make. I am buying a TV and I plan to do it the old fashioned way . Go to a stor…

Network Down delaying passengers at Los Angeles airport

This incident is a reminder, how dependent we are on computers. I cringe to think of what the passengers went through after maybe 8 to 13 hours of flight time. On the way back fro…

Zagat.mobi

I was thrilled to receive a email introducing Zagat.mobi - the mobile restaurant review portal. Access to this is free from mobile devices. No matter which city in the world I am…

The Mobile Web Site Builder Gives the Mobile Web a New Life

I am really excited that Network Solutions has launched a new product called BuildMyMobi a mobile website creator. It is a easy way for anyone to build a website for a mobile phon…

Google Browser Sync

I have been using a plugin to Firefox called Google browser Sync . I use at least 3 computers each day - work, laptop, home computer. After installing the plugin on all 3 it helps …

Network Solutions® Improves its ImageCafé Easy Website Building Tool

In full disclosure I work for this company - Network Solutions and I am proud of this product ImageCafé Easy Website Building Tool . Its the most amazing ,easy to use application …

Skype fights for consumer freedom with cell phone devices

Its frustrating to US consumers that their cell phone choice is limited by the company they choose. Skype has filed a petition with the FCC to allow consumers to use any phone on …

Cell Phone Confusion

I am sure choosing a cellphone is usually a frustrating experience. I recently shopped for a cellphone and after 2 weeks of research chose the T-Mobile Dash. Its small and handy a…

Bill Marriott on the Move

I just read Bill Marriott's Blog at http://www.blogs.marriott.com . He says that he cares enough to get the Marriott's customers the best technology in the rooms and prefer…