tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78714442011-04-21T19:31:33.329-04:00Thoughts. Gyan. Existential Justification. Then someAstrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06823702326321372360noreply@blogger.comBlogger771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871444.post-30284597927616843592008-01-27T22:35:00.000-05:002008-01-27T22:37:49.315-05:00

One of my friends from school and college and afterlife has actually started a cool market analytics firm in Delhi - you should check him out. www.envigo.co.uk They have some kick ass people and you can be assured of a great customer experience. His team has run multimillion pound campaigns for major European travel sites (including the TravelPort UK subsidiary - EBookers).Cool beans.

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Finally got back to working and indexing my del.icio.us entries - added a lot of great new stuff recently ...There is this venture capital site for young entrepreneurs called Youth Venture Capital Network which I just subscribed too .. got some interesting insights and a lot of senior people who support the cause and can help with insights, direction and (hopefully!) funding...There was an

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Steven Levitt is one of coolest dudes around when it comes to linking real world happenings to microeconomic neo-classical-keynesian-and-whatever-else economics ... I just found his blog and subscribed to it the other day. Its on feedburner.His blog has a lot of good stuff and new topics very similar to what he wrote in his book...

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Been doing a lot of research on travel sites over the last few weeks. There has been a bunch of progress in a lot of areas - especially with regard to internalization of a lot of the US travel firms search results...I am still wondering why GOOG hasn't bought a travel company yet .. ?My friend Saurabh for many years through school college etc etc works for a major UK travel firm - and has some

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What have I been upto for the last 6 months ? I would say pretty much focussed on the Mundane matter of getting employed and settled down in School ...Now that thats out of the way .. .I can get back to making this a regular blog !Being a student AND having a job is like having the most carefree world ever ..1. You don't have much to do2. You can do a bunch of other stuff3. You can travel like

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For a long while !back with a vengence now !All new look - Will have to go change location, what I am doing, the fact that I am married and a bunch of other stuff :-)

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Who got a blog.Writes some good stuff.http:\\saurabh-kumar.blogspot.com

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Visit this - its pretty cool - and I am sure you will like it !Cheerswww.kirtiwedsprashanth.com

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'The Network is the computer' - is being echoed again by Rajesh Jain in this post He spins a different context though - and links this to the emerging market and how it can create mass computer adoption. Could this tie into Nicolas Negroponte's $100 PC ?

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My two bits of spanish - from my ever so nice teacher - Sonya Gupta - This site makes you sit up and think ... open your eyes .. Thanks Screenhead

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Then you have Oogle , Gaggle, Moogle, Frugle, Poogle, Smeagle. One of the best links I have seen on the web yet - Very creative !

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Never thought of how lucky all of you who are reading this are - Warren Buffet sums up this in his advice. We have won a 'lottery' to be in a position where we are. Excellent read. Thanks Darren

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Lifehacker.com is a cool site which indexes a lot of interesting hacks which improve productivity and manage technology better.

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This is one thing which has puzzled me since I have been in America - the number of law suite ! I still remember a line from 'Philadelphia' where Tom Hanks is arguing with a judge and presents his closing line as 'This is an example of how frivalous litigation threatens to damage the ver fabric of American Society'. Jim's entry on 'Loser Pays' this really piqued my interest. It references this

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No one wants to be one - but a lot of folks end up being so - Whats your score on this nerd test ? Thanks again to Joe - I made 54 by the way - middle of the road...

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These scenes in this ad from Nike looks straight out of Russell Crowes fights in gladiator.Thanks to Joe for this one.

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word by word. Fug is my latest one Some nice fotos and a detailed explanation on the verb, adjective, adverb, noun etc form of 'Fug'

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Phenomenal article on the way Ipod Mini may shape the way for a digital revolution. This article targets cable and media companies as significantly at risk in terms of their ability to market and sell movies to consumers. Basically the Mac Mini could function as a 'movie server' to which the movies are downloaded and played via a pre determined queue. This would however

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This one is quite funny ! Its from Business2.0 - Regarding the 101 dumbest moments in business Thanks blogdex.

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This almost made me fall off my feet - Collision Detection reports on a 'Gay Bomb' which the US army thought off a few years back.

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This is food for thought - interesting perspective on what constitutes savings ? Basically the spending on education and R&D can be construed to be future savings . Don't agree with all the views - but its has some interesting points

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Top notch blog which shares a P2P manifesto - some of the principles are quite interesting.Thanks to smartmobs for this one.

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Interesting article in the NYT on product vis-a-vis process patents -and India's role in helping the third world combat AIDS.

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Every second ? Check here !Thanks blogdex

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Mmh - We have all heard by now abt the stuff that apple has bought out - including Mac Mini and iPod ShuffleCheck this rant out though ... quite funny.

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Sue this dude ? Type some stuff into the search and see what happens .. Thanks insideGoogle

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Was cleaning up my bookmark's today - and such a wealth of interesting stuff which I bookmarked but haven't got around to reading.Some beneveolent soul has compiled Sienfeld's stuff here Then there is MovieMadness - the essential 100 Will post a few more as I continue cleaning up ..

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Excellent article on Kuro5hin about Wikipedia and its limitations and how it can growth into something more potent. Read the commentary - its excellent.My views - somewhere in between - where we have some level of moderate Administrators with limited powers. Interesting riposte - from Clay Shirky referenced in BoingBOing , here and here.

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Rohit and the other folks from TsunamiHelp managed to create quite an interesting system for information dissemination. This is called Address Retrieval Cache - and it basically picks an input SMS - which is in a certain format- and sends it out to a set of people who subscribe the particular key word which is parsed. Please try this out by sending SMS's to the site. BoingBoing has

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This is a VERY comprehensive best of 2004 list .. Thanks Rajesh. And what a coincidence - Blog is the #1 word of the year according to websters ! Googles slide show is interesting ... The site is very comprehensive - there must be at least 500 best offs !

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Am a little late in the wiki game - its been around for a few years ... Quite an interesting collaborative software concept concept. Wiki's origins date back to 1995 when Ward Cunnigham created this wiki Portland Pattern Repository The basis summary is that 1. Anyone can post on any topic 2. Anyone can edit anyone's post 2. Its very easy to use 3. Its got a simplified editing structure which

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The events of the last week have shocked all of us and effected millions of people. To contribute and help out at this time of need - please see what avenues are open at TsunamiHelp or the wiki Mirror Couple of good donation points - Amazon for the red cross and save the children.

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Web 2.0 had some of my favourite people from the web - Larry Lessig, craig newmark (craigslist fame) , Brendon Eich (Firefox Architect) It also has interesting presentations from Kim Polese (New open souce IT services company). There were other columns on Search, VOIP , Clustering, Keyhole. To access this - you might want to check weblogsinc site for web2.0.

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BoingBoing has an interesting Firefox hack to speed up the refresh rate - I tried it - think it works ! Need to try it on the high graphics sites - and not ones like this or this :-)

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........for supporting scaled up bandwidth requests for some of the good Tsunami sites. It has really helped the content team to not have to worry abt that issue while handling the traffic spikes.

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......... and I finally put some colors more suited to me on my blog. Thanks to Douglas Bowman at stopdesign whose template this originally is ! Been interesting using CSS - Same old problem of not closing the tag wasted a lot of my time today... ! I used 1st page 2000 from evrsoft - Nice clean and simple editor. Only problem is that the preview parser - seems to be more error correcting than

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Terrible news on the Tsunami in Asia. The Coast is about 100 metres from where I used to stay while working in chennai . Hope there are speedy efforts to help out the people in time of this terrible tragedy. My thoughts are with all the families who lost their loved ones in this disaster. The government could look to putting in early warning systems (like they do for storms) for this one.

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Search seems to be hottest word out there nowadays. IBM has fired its salvo by talking about using natural language processing and trying to build search software which understands the underlying meaning of the the text that is being searched. This is quite interesting - talks abt the Search 1.0 being the not so cool - desktop based search, Search 2.0 - regarding google's web dominence - and (

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Fastcompany has a very interesting post regarding a study from NYT and Frontline on Credit cards. Makes for good reading - some concepts like revolvers and deadbeats are quite interesting. I am the latter and pay my bills the day it lands up !

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Been reading a lot of stuff on google vs microsoft and their search battles. Here is an authoritative in depth analysis of the history of both companies and the path ahead for google. Funnily enough the author Charles H. Ferguson sold his company Vermeer (they made frontpage !!) for quite a tidy sum in microsoft stock ... This has not really 'influenced' the critique though. The author's

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Cool tool designed by yafla which helps remove unnecessary bytes from your jpeg images. Thanks to Joel for this one !

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.... and I thought I only said that to the guy who pumps gas. Check this one from boingboing on efficient usage of bowls in salad bars ? Someone must have done a Phd in physics to predict the balancing algorithm for that one !

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Ok - This one belies the name of this blog - BoingBoing really caught a good one on cell fone rage . This doesn't have stats , facts and the regular boring stuff - Just a few interesting ways to fight back.. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh !

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Bruce Schneier has an interesting article on this one - on the potentials of use (or misuse ?) of Private information by various US corporate and government entities . Thanks to Rebecca for this one .

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The Voyager satellites .... looks like aliens will get a taste of how many languages that India has - there are close to 10 indian languages in this script .. Thanks to Anil again for this one.

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Mmh.... This is a good beta from Google - basically links to predictive search based on what you type - almost feals like gmail's dhtml to autocomplete for your contacts Credit - Anil Dash's post 12/12 - Update from Joel's site - Seems its a XmlHTTPRequest - interesting read on sitepoint

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Found this VERY interesting link on emergic. Tried out these sites with a few search results - and they yield very interesting results. There is Pluck - which is helps you organize Web pages and make them available from any computer. It also has a good RSS reader Blinx USP is that it brings you relevant information before you even ask. Then there is mooter - This presents a search based

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Check this piece on a crystal dragon out from Anil Dash's Blog. Quite an interesting experiment in physics - and a very interesting download to play.

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Mr Newmark has made bangalore one of the three asian cities (toyko and singapore are the other two) on Craigslist! Nice intro message from somone in DC

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Yahoo has some interesting open source mechanisms for email authentication - domain key based authentication - Its quite elegant - just an extension of the RSA public / private key standard. Hope this picks up in popularity !

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Interesting article which compares RSS and Blogs to smtp and email and Http and the web.

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Check out these stats from Boing Boing

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Blogging is right up there ! Quite an interesting article from businessweek

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Sad news on Winamp - Big brother treatment from AOL have caused the founders to depart from winamp. Still remember this as the #1 piece of s/w (along with IrfanView - Irfan you still rock !) which I used to use in School - Been following its evolution for a long time - and its sad that things had to decline this way.

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With the paid ads being allowed after a federal regulation prohibiting bias in central travel systems expires. Don;t be surprised if you have to scroll down and down and down orbitz, expedia and travelocity to notice good deals

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Chimpanzee's flying ? Check this out

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Watch out if best buy classifies you as an angel or devil ! Some things Stores hate 1. Those who apply for rebates 2. Those who return purchases and buy them back at returned-merchandise discounts 3. Those who buy loss leader and then resell them on eBay 4. They slap down rock-bottom price quotes from Web sites and demand that Best Buy make good on its lowest-price pledge. The part II of the

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I don't own an Ipod - But here is an interesting riposte for IPod fans on its benefits. A lot of this argument again ties into the Intellectual property arguments and new formats for revenue sharing that Larry Lessig makes on Alternate Compensation Systems - and why big studios are losing revenue to Apple - and not to an 'overall' benefit for the consumer as such. The Electronic frontier

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.......and then there is none. Adam Bosworth writes in (after a long gap I must add) on how simplified web service based apps are the way to go for the future replacing (thick or thin) desktop based clients. Adam's blog is an excellent read owing to his ability to elucidate concepts in such a easy fashion and relate them to business and real world scenarios which an average joe would

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Article by Mr Epstein on OpenSource non viability and a riposte from Boyle - Diametrically opposite views - Almost like Bush and Kerry on lemme see - ALL possible issues !

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...... is the hindi translation for Changethis has some interesting (easy to read and cool sounding) articles on a host of topics. Here's one on outsourcing. It presents quite a balanced view on the whole issue. Change this has a lot of other interesting stuff.

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Anyone who has used Orkut or other social networking tools will relate to this ! Check Danah's Article on this

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Excellent article on IPR and in grain.org Totally relevant to india's battle for protection of traditional mechanisms for harvesting food and for medicines and cures that have lasted for centuries. When you think abt it - the idea that Food, Energy, Software, Music and (sometimes lifesaving) medicines - All have strong backlash towards 'Openness' - Conceptually seems excellent on how we can

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Interesting article on a new internet radio medium .. by Amy Gahran Almost like Xerox being the english term for photocopying!

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If you really think about it ... all my 1. Walletshare goes to Microsoft 2. Timeshare goes to google 3. Marketshare is pretty high for both these entities I was doing a quick and dirty analysis of what I spend my internet time on ... 1. Google search - 10% 2. Email - 25% 3. Blogging - 5-10% 4. Reading Blogs . news- 30% 5. General useless browsing with no real purpose - 25% So if I really

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Well my shopping is restricted to buying chappatis (indian bread so to speak) and Nans (another indian bread ) from the local store. Google has a few billion more stashed away than I do, so they can go out and buy cool stuff like Keyhole Lemme see now ... 1. I go search for buying chappati's (for the purpose of this example.. ) on google. 2. Then I go and compare chappati prices between stores

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Yeah - Microsoft followed the non downward compatability approach for windows 2000 vis-a-vis 98 . ... but this guy has some other serious 'upgrade issues' too !

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Larry's recent discussion on the Pharma industry and its need for differential pricing is also an interesting read. Jogged my memory on a lot of what we learnt in business school with regard to TRIPS. These concepts Larry discussed seem to be focused on the Afrian continent - A lot of what he said is quite true in the Indian context.

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Been hooked onto Larry Lessig blog following with close attention Granny D's performance culminating in her highly successful debate . What has also caught my attention is Larry's commitment to the creative commons cause. The more and more you think about it - the beauty, simplicity and elegance of the thought comes out. Kudo's to all the folks involved with the project and those good samaritans

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My two bits of malayalam (mean's 'want water') Even in my life back in India have seen how critical water needs have become and how this could pose a significant hindrance to third world growth. In south states of karnataka and Tamil Nadu - there has been decades of disputes regarding cauvary. If population growth rates sustain at the current rate - Fresh Water supplies is going to the be #1

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Christopher Allen traces this - Interesting read..

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Joel's site has a excellent analysis and critique on what Microsoft's real strangehold was - the Windows API and how this may no longer have the influence it had with the lack of backward compatibility ( via avalon, longhorn) and the shift of more and more developers towards thin client internet based technologies. Excellent read. Read joel's other stuff here

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Dave Sifry who also writes for technorati has an interesting piece on the history of blogging. He divides it into four parts with the first part available here Dave interesting trace of blog history for the statistics oriented and also introduces a number of interesting terms used to describe the growth of blogs. The biggest surprise for me was that sites like slashdot are competing in the

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Real interesting post on getting identified by google ! .This is esp true for south asian's with typically unique names ! I mean how many ppl will you have in the world with names like 'Premkumar Kuchi Vishu Sujana' (prem - apologies for using your example if you ever read this) or 'Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman ' Then again on the subject of name changes, I have seen a guy who worked for a

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Finally got into setting up feed reader (www.feedreader.com) onto my machine. Just went on an adding spree of blogs ... my list has really really expanded - wondering how many of these blogs I will actually end up reading on the long run. For people in NYC - www.curbed.com (http://www.curbed.com/index.rdf is the RSS feed) is quite an insightful place on renting and real estate . Right from

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Managed to wrangle out of doing too much work today. And got home and hit google for a heck of a lotta blog searches. Decided to stay on the tried and tested path of viewing the top 100-200 blogs (yeah - I Know - this was driven totally by laziness and the desire to meet a fellow blogger at some point and mention something which both of us have heard about with the faint hope that this would

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So I finally get into the wonderful world of blogging. I finally get a chance to see if I can put my penchant for 1. Talking 2. And talking 3. And Talking 4. And Talking 5. And Talking down to a more papyrustic (ok - I made that word up - who knows , Websters is putting anything and everything into the dictionary nowadays. So I may actually get that one in) format. Although I have

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