In the event you got lulled into a groovy seat dance by that most excellent muzak above, let us repeat – this app does not protect your lockscreen. That said, Visidon’s Applock will prevent the privacy-adverse from messing with your personally curated app collection. Have a nosy significant lover? No sweat — snap a pick with your front-facing cam, enable the face-lock in your settings, and those sexts are as good as blocked. It’s far from foolproof, however, as some comments indicate an extended bit of facial-wriggling tricks the app into unlock mode. Oh well, you’re so vain, you’ll probably think this Android market link is for you — don’t you?
[Thanks, Matti]
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According to a report by Vizisense, Facebook is continuing its dominance over both Orkut and YouTube in India, achieving 100% growth in the last year. The report also found that Gmail is still the most preferred email service in India.
The report tracks the growth of twenty prominent online categories such as Airlines,Travel Commerce, Online Gaming, Jobs, Real Estate, Email and Mobile in India for the twelve months to April 2011. And it states that the gap between Gmail and Yahoo! Mail has widened, with Gmail recording 30% more users than Yahoo! Mail in April 2011.
Amit Bhartiya, Business Head, ViziSense said:
“The Indian Internet space has witnessed some interesting and huge changes in the past year. Apart from the introduction and growth of some new online business models such as private clubs, daily discount sites and group buying, an interesting factor to note is the large scale adoption of these formats by the Indian consumers. This growth trend is largely driven by the youth in India which makes it even more important for marketers to make the web an integral and important of their growth plans. Additionally, conventional website categories like automobile, banking and stocks /finance have also seen a sharp upward trend partly driven by the overall growth of these sectors last year as well as additional focus by these companies to meet the needs of the discerning Indian consumer.”
The report says it has been a brilliant year for Travel E-commerce, experiencing an overall growth of 40%, with companies like MakeMyTrip leading the way among online travel websites. IRCTC, an Indian railway subsidiary, grew by 45% in the last year and it’s expected to reach 10 million customers soon. Considering this impressive growth, it is no surprise that travel information portals like TripAdvisor and MustSeeIndia have also become a hot commodity, with a strong interest emerging in domestic tourism.
On the other hand, group-buying and daily-deal websites dominate the e-commerce portals, while Amazon outdid eBay in April 2011 for the first time in India. Indiamart and Naukri.com remained the undisputed leaders in the B2B Commerce and recruitment markets respectively.
Live cricket streaming during the World Cup and Indian Premier League drove massive traffic to sport websites with Yahoo! Cricket, who were the official World Cup partners, grabbing pole position followed by ESPN. Ibibo’s pivot from social networking to social gaming made them number one in the online gaming category.
Online matrimony websites registered growth figures of 30% year-on-year (YOY), with Bharat Matrimony and Shaadi.com continuing their fight for the top spot. ICICI Bank spearheaded the online banking websites followed by HDFC Bank and the state-owned SBI, which grew by 90% YOY.
Other interesting facts in the report include:
Indigo emerged as the No.1 website among airline websites, ending the online dominance of Jet Airways.
Automobile category usage doubled year-on-year with Carwale and Cardekho neck-and-neck over the past year for the leadership position.
Moneycontrol maintained its top position over Rediff Money and Yahoo! Finance in stocks and finance.
Nokia has lost considerable market share to Apple and BlackBerry, but is slowly seeing a rise in interest again.
Tata Indicom and Reliance Communications has attained growth in uptake of its data cards, leading to a massive growth in visitors to their website.
The Real Estate category grew by 30%, with Magicbricks still no.1 over the past year.
Justdial recorded a 100% growth year on year within B2C Classifieds and is now closing in over the leader Quikr, along with Sulekha.
Yahoo! Movies had a 50% traffic growth over the past year and remained undisputed leader within the Entertainment category.
As a freelancer, there will be times in your career where time is a lot easier to come by than cash. That means that trading some of your working time for something you need directly — rather than taking the long way around and trying to earn the money first — can make sense. Bartering some of your work for what you need can be a useful way to get it.
Bartering services can be especially useful when you’re just starting your freelancing career: if you need some help with a particular part of your marketing materials, approaching another freelancer and simply offering to trade can get the job done.
Finding Someone to Barter Services With
There’s a reason people use cash, rather than barter exchange, for every day transactions. It can be tough to find someone who not only has what you want, but needs what you have. There can be marketing involved, just like landing a client with cash — but there’s also just as much networking and bargaining.
It’s often useful to start out from the point of view of what you need — rather than waiting until someone offers to barter with you. If you know exactly what you need, approaching someone who offers that service or product directly with an offer can get you a lot closer to a done deal than trying to spread the word that you’re willing to barter.
The Other End of Bartering
If someone comes to you with an offer to barter, give the situation some careful consideration: is the other person offering something you actually want or need? Is there something else you need that the individual in question can offer? Don’t be afraid to negotiate.
It can be worthwhile to keep a list of what you’re willing to barter with, just as you might keep a price list for the different services you can provide. You never want to wind up in a situation where you’re not receiving fair value for your work, whether you’re bartering or looking for cash. It can also be worthwhile to establish a cash value for both ends of your bartering agreement, so that you’re both clear that the arrangement is fair to each participant.
Handle Your Barter Exchange in a Professional Manner
If you do choose to barter your services, it’s important to handle such work just as you would a project for a paying client. It’s easy for either side of a barter arrangement to take the matter a little less than seriously, creating the potential for a problem.
Write up an agreement of what is involved in the project, deadlines and any other expectations and sign it. That way you will at least start out on the right foot when it comes to treating any barter work completely professionally.
In short, you should handle a barter arrangement no differently than you would handle any other client. The only thing that should not be identical to a regular gig is the method of payment.
Keeping Your Barter Clean
In the U.S, as well as some other countries, we’re supposed to report barter on our taxes — not a lot of people actually do it, but I’d never tell you to do otherwise. Because you receive a benefit from bartering, the IRS views it as a type of income and expects you to report it as such. There are specific types of barter that the IRS handles in different ways.
Especially if you handle a significant amount of barter work, it’s worthwhile to speak to a tax professional about what your obligations will be. It’s also important to keep track of barter, just as you would any other type of income.
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