The first video starts out with an unsteady shot of Manjula Jain in her Rancho Bernardo kitchen. Alex Jain, her husband and the man behind the camera, says “Go.” Manjula began explaining her recipe for gulab jamun, an Indian dessert of fried dough balls in syrup, and Alex uploaded it on YouTube. He wanted to […]
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In its fifth acquisition of 2010, Google has acquired a fledgling video Relevant Products/Services service that could offer some backup Relevant Products/Services to its YouTube property. The Internet giant snapped up Episodic for an undisclosed amount, reports TopTechNews. Google hasn’t officially announced the deal, but the San Francisco-based startup was so “thrilled” to join the
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Inc.com writes sure, it’s been mocked as a super-sized iPod or a laptop sans keyboard, but Apple’s iPad is also a brand new tablet platform with a diverse audience and few rivals. That means that programmers, merchants, designers, and just about anybody with an existing business is probably asking themselves, Is there a way my
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The Internet made shopping without checkout lines a no-brainer. Now, some Web companies are betting that people are ready to forsake another shopping tradition: tangible products according to a Reuter’s story. Often available for a $1 or less, virtual goods range from video game accessories like extra weapons for shooting games, to electronic birthday cards
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Content deals with Google and Microsoft, plus renegotiated rates with the telecom companies that carry its members’ tweets, have combined to make Twitter profitable, BusinessWeek reports. The Google deal and Microsoft deal, both announced in October, make Twitter members’ content available to Google’s search engine and to Microsoft’s Bing. These deals are worth around $25
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Simple games based on Adobe’s Flash technology have multiplied like weeds in recent years, with an estimated 100,000 of them available on the web, mostly for free. But a significant number of Flash game developers have moved from amateurs to pros; a survey shows that one in five Flash developers make more than $1,000 a
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ReadWriteWeb is reporting that according to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a very small number of consumers is interested in making micropayments
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The New York Times is reporting that PayPal is seeking new ways to use its payment system. PayPal held its first developer conference in San Francisco to officially open its platform to software developers wanting to include payments in their Web or cellphone applications. With the new platform, any software developer can embed PayPal’s technology
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Fast Company: The strategy of giving everything away often creates as many hassles as it solves. Why charging just a little can be smarter than charging nothing at all. Why? Because free costs too much, weighed down with hassles that you’ll happily pay a little to do without. That’s why people buy bottled water and
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Website Magazine: Times are tough in the publishing world. And the news doesn’t seem to be getting any better. A new survey from PaidContent:UK and Harris Interactive polled nearly 1,200 UK readers and found that a scant five percent would consider paying for their “favorite” news site if it began charging for access. Close to
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