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Following the announcement from rediff.com for unlimited email storage, Yahoo! has announced that it will start offering unlimited e-mail storage for its users. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/tc_nm/yahoo_mail_dc_1 Google started the mail storage wars when it started offering 1GB space free for its gmail users and now it currently offers 2.8 GB. Microsoft's Hotmail service is not far behind with 2 GB of free space. Not to be left behind is AOL which is also jumping into the 'unlimited' bandwagon. http://www.techspot.com/story17773.html The spill-out effect is that iPhone too will have 'unlimited' E-mail space. For more details, check out this link. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/iphone-to-have-unlimited-email-storage-247650.php

Being an Indian, i only hope that India wins the World Cup 2007, but still i decided to see how things fare for them this world cup. An interesting email doing the rounds caught my attention and really raised hopes for India. Called the wcc 2007 trivia which i have reproduced below. Year - 1981 Prince Charles got married Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe Australia lost the Ashes Pope Died Year - 1983 India won the World Cup Cricket!!!!! Year - 2005 Prince Charles got married Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe Australia lost the Ashes Pope Died Year - 2007 India wins the World Cup Cricket ? Though not an expert at numerology , i decided how things look like using some of the techniques of numerology called digit summing . Lets look at the important event(year) for a country which had won the World Cup in the Past. 1. India Attained Independence in 1947 (1+9+4+7) => (21) => (2+1) = 3 Won the World Cup in 1983 (1+9+8+3) => (21) => ( 2 + 1) = 3 2. Pakist...

List of Google Subsidiaries. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312507044494/dex2101.htm

Ziki.com is Social Networking site that sponsors your Name for free on Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. They call it as a "light social Network".This is what they have to say about themselves. "Ziki is an open social network. It does not yet offer a publishing tool; only syndication is available at the moment. You are free to publish your content where you wish: your blog (blogger, typepad, msnspaces..), your photos (flickr, fotolog..), your videos (youtube, dailymotion, vpod.tv..), your favorites (delicious, blogmarks.net, blinklist), and you can automatically gather all this content on your ziki. " To create your account, you need to have an OpenID account, and though the amount they sponsor may not be high($10), it is a good attempt and since it is limited to the first 10,000 people, you might need to hurry up. Here is my ziki.com page. http://www.ziki.com/people/raviblr

Check out the links for some insider views of Yahoo, Campus Photos and interesting trivia. flickr http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/06/27/inside-yahoo/ http://www.time.com/time/2007/inside_yahoo/

Photo Gallery of Opera Software. http://operawatch.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=420

ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/