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I did chronicle my experience about my post Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!
Though there were traces of the existence of the mafia, no one proved it until Pronet Advertising used a script that worked on top of Digg Spy to reveal previously hidden information of who was burying which posts.
Everton decided [...]

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Over at Weblog Tools Collection, I’ve written some Tips for Theme Authors.
Few points that I have covered are:

The importance of having a theme page to distribute your theme
The importance of having individual posts about the theme
Effectively using the Theme Viewer
Explaining the contents of your theme to the users

These are ofcourse to be considered in addition [...]

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Every month, Microsoft releases a set of updates for Windows and the other software. It’s been nearly two years since Windows XP SP2 has been released and we have approximately 70 critical updates since then. Even if you have the Windows XP with SP2 installed, you need to visit the Microsoft Update site and download [...]

Posted by Ajay under Microsoft, Operating Systems, Techtites Daily, Tuesday, Windows
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/How_Reddit_beat_the_Digg_Mafia’;
Last week I posted an article Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!.
For one, I definitely didn’t expect it to hit the homepage of digg. But, there is an interesting story to tell.
The story was submitted by a top Digg user and in five hours had managed to get only 15 diggs [...]

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I’ve been meaning to run a poll on my blogs. I didn’t want to try a WordPress plugin so that I could avoid cluttering the database. While looking for an online service, I came across PollDaddy.
Here is the sample poll I have created. Do take it. Are you subscribed to our feed?

PollDaddy comes with good [...]

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In early 2006, Google Apps launched as a beta to provide educational institutions and organizations a central space to manage their email. Initially the only service provided was Gmail. Soon, Google Talk was added to the list of services offered. Start page and Google Docs and Calendar were also added.
You could also customize the urls [...]

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It’s been more than two months since a release was churned out for Firefox. But Mozilla has finally delivered with versions being released for both the 2.0 series and the 1.5 series.
2.0.0.2 fixes 158 bugs! And people think Firefox is bug free!
I do hope that the new version is lighter on the system. 1.5 was [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Firefox, Software, Tech News
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In breaking news, News.com reports that Microsoft has been ordered to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent for the technology used to power MP3 audio in Windows.
The figure has been set as per the number of PCs sold with Windows in 2003.
MP3 technology has been jointly built by Fraunhofer and Alcatel-Lucent. This court ruling against [...]

Posted by Ajay under Legal, Microsoft, Multimedia, Tech News, Windows
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For the more intellectually inclined… or then again, for just about anybody, Atom Smasher lets you design you’re very own Word Puzzle.
It allows you to customize four lines in the puzzle and you can even set an optional hint question.
You can use letter, numbers and some special characters. The underscore creates a blank letter.
Here is [...]

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WordPress.com has now announced that they have added support for Digg.
Their FAQ neatly explains the process with pictures on how to go about getting this done.
You currently need to have your post submitted to Digg and then return and edit your post and add [digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg] to the post.
This will then add the button which your [...]

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