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HostGator Shared Hosting from $0.99/month – Flat 80% discount [Black Friday Deal]
Google offered to buy Twitter for $2.5-$4 Billion
Which one is the original? [Min.us vs Dropmocks ]

HostGator Shared Hosting from $0.99/month – Flat 80% discount [Black Friday Deal]

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:51 PM PST

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3 days back we posted about upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday events and how they bring opportunity to make/save money!

As expected, we are loaded with plenty of deals here. This post is about most lucrative webhosting deal from HostGator where you can get decent quality web-hosting starting from $0.99/month. For the first-time HostGator is offering flat 80% discount on all their hosting products which includes VPS as well as dedicated hosting.

HostGator Rate-Card for Black Friday

As you can see, there are two flat-rate discounts available on Black Friday.

80% discount will be available for 4-hours only between 5AM to 9AM CST. From 12AM to 5AM and 9AM to 11:59PM, flat 50% discount will be available.

Clocking CST timezone!

If you are already in CST timezone, then only big deal for you is to wakeup early, i.e. 5AM to get maximum 80% discount. 80% discount may end-up earlier than 9AM, if HostGator gets more sales than anticipated.

For other bloggers from around the world, below are 2 helpful links:

Using first link, I found in India, it will be 04:30 PM when 80% discount will take off.

Link: HostGator

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Google offered to buy Twitter for $2.5-$4 Billion

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:49 PM PST

According to Yahoo Finance, Google made an offer to Twitter for about $2.5 billion. Twitter I guess did not like it much and decided against it. Well this makes sense as Google can manage to make money out of Twitter and its search facility. Bing which is a Microsoft product has tied up with Facebook to create something called ‘Social Search‘.

Apart from the initial hype over it, I have not met anyone who has really found Social Search all that useful.

Microsoft too is interested!

There are also reports the Twitter was made an another offer for about $4 billion. That might mean, Microsoft might be offering them. Twitter against decided against it. I guess Microsoft wants to make sure Google does not own Twitter and vice-versa.

Well if I do let my imagination run riot and think that Google made it’s decision to buy Twitter based on our post, Twitter should thank us for starting off a bidding frenzy for them.

Jokes apart I do feel that at some point of time Twitter will be acquired unless its current owners manage to monetize and bring in a profit with Twitter. What are your views? Will Google manage to acquire Twitter?

Do drop in your comments.

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Which one is the original? [Min.us vs Dropmocks ]

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 09:57 PM PST

Recently I wrote about Min.us, a minimalistic photo gallery application, which allows you to upload and share your photographs easily. Its been making the rounds these days that Min.us is hugely ‘inspired’ by Google’s Dropmocks.

Min.us is designed by John Xie and Carl Hu, while DropMocks comes from Glen Murphy of Chrome team. If you visit the two sites, one is easily fooled to believe they are the same site with probably two different URLs! Keeping that in mind, it would be incorrect to discredit Min.us entirely.

Here are screenshots of a gallery I created on both these applications.

DropMocks Which one is the original? [Min.us vs Dropmocks ]

DropMocks Gallery.

Minus1 Which one is the original? [Min.us vs Dropmocks ]

Min.us Gallery

While the layout and design is starkly similar to DropMocks, it does have features which stand out.

Why Min.us over DropMocks?

Upload Capacity: Min.us wins with 7MB limit per image while DropMocks has a mere 900KB limit.
Login: Neither of the sites requires an account to upload images. However, DropMocks allows you to login with your Google account as compared to Minus where you have to sign up for one. One positive for DropMocks.
Browser Support: DropMocks is not supported by Safari so Min.us wins as its supported by Safari on Mac.
Bulk Download: Min.us, unlike DropMocks, allows viewers to download all the images within a gallery in a zip file.
Gallery Editing: Min.us generates an ‘Edit’ URL, which when shared with viewers allows them to add or delete images from your gallery.

Though the user interface is very similar, Min.us wins this round with more user-friendly features. Personally though, I’m disappointed with the stark similarity of interface. While everyone is still guessing who copied whose design, what matters is which one people use. From the functionality perspective Min.us seems to come out as the clear winner. What do you think? Which one would you rather use? Let me know your views through your comments.

Links: Minus, DropMocks

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