Archive for June, 2009

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, philanthropist and businessman. The mYpassion team was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Michael Jackson. We would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends.

Facebook to roll out its new search results that will continue to include people’s profiles, Facebook Pages, groups and applications, and some entirely new Search features. With the test, you will be able to search your News Feed for the most recent status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you’re a fan. You will also be [...]

I’m not joking here, the English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Not sure if anyone is willing to go that far but a student in UK has actually converted 0.01% of the Wikipedia encyclopedia [...]

Bing – Another search engine by Microsoft but this one is Good!! Now that Bing’s around for some time and is available for everyone to use, here are some quick tips and tricks that will help you do more with Bing.com and to know your search engine better. 1. Bing helps you search the Web, Images, Videos, News, Maps & more… - Web searches: All web searches have a “related searches” [...]

Facebook & Social networks blamed for students underperforming in exams. Research has confirmed what many parents and teachers already feared: social networking sites are damaging students’ academic performance. Researchers from French have discovered that majority of students who use Facebook\Orkut every day are underachieving by as much as an entire grade compared with those who shun [...]

A vanity URL is created to point to something to which it is related and indicated in the name of the URL. In many cases this is done by a company to point to a specific product or advertising campaign microsite. In theory, vanity URLs are creatively linked to something making them easier to remember than a more random link. On the other hand, they’re becoming so big so fast too. Almost may social [...]

If you are an Orkut fan just like me and can’t stay away from checking your Orkut scrapbook now and then, then you need the Orkut mobile application. Every day, many of the users sign in to Orkut on the phones from all over the world– checking out scraps, updates from friends, and even viewing photos. As mobile phones are becoming one of the major ways that you access Orkut. This feature is [...]

The fast-growing social network phenomenon on Twitter generates nearly all the content from a tiny fraction of its users, shows a study by Harvard. Twitter Inc is a social networking website in which users post messages of 140 characters or less — known as “tweets” — that can be viewed by other users who elect to follow them. The Harvard study examined public entries of a randomly [...]

DO NOT reply to those messages which reads like “You won 850000$, to claim the prize send an email to xxxxx@gmail.com.” – This basically is the international lottery scam witnessing a new spin: Mobile phones are now being used as baits by fraudsters to net victims. Earlier, they used to send e-mails telling people to deposit money to claim big lottery prizes. Now, these emails have been [...]

Gone are those days when people needed to sit in front of the computer and signup for online dating sites to catch a hot chick and go on a date… There is a new site called Virtual Dating Assistant, which takes care of all your dating online needs … yes it’s true! This site virtualdatingassistants.com basically provides specialized & comprehensive Online Dating Management for busy [...]