May 18, 20051 min read
Google Adsense
Every heard of - A novel idea from Google that can help you earn money. Google Adsense allows you to display relevant ads on the pages of your website. If people browsing your page are interested i...
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May 18, 20051 min read
Problem on XML
Consider 2 XML files: File A: 1 and File B: 1 1 1 The difference between the 2 files is a new branch 1 1 has been inserted. How do you find this out? What is the algorithm? For those who don't know...
May 03, 20051 min read
filetype:xml
Google can be used to search XML files by using their filetype operator. And this can be used to search RDF's, RSS's as well. But it has 2 problems: - It works on file extensions. So if I have a li...
May 03, 20051 min read
OSI : TCP/IP : : Semantic Web : RSS?!
Remember the "Critique of the OSI Model" that Tanenbaum talks about in "Computer Networks". This is just a thought, but is there a possibility that RSS will evolve into a standard that Semantic Web...
Apr 30, 20051 min read
Fed up of XML/XSLT
The job is simple. I need to download the RSS feed of my blog from LJ and then transform it using XSLT on the client side and then display it in a IFRAME. Internet Explorer provides a very simple w...
Apr 28, 20051 min read
Creative Commons - A move towards the Semantic Web
The seems to be an interesting move towards the Semantic Web. What is so special about Creative Commons, you might ask? Just adding that label to your page makes the difference? No, surely not. If...
Apr 16, 20051 min read
Updated my website using XML/XSLT
I updated my website today. I used the " " template from . Initially I had used . But I found that it is very difficult to update the pages since we need to search for the tags where we need to upd...
Apr 12, 20051 min read
Semantic wikipedia
Combine the power of the "Semantic Web" and "Wikipedia" and you get . What would this mean for normal users? Well, probably in the near future you could see a revived search in Wikipedia that is ab...
Apr 05, 20051 min read
Blog categorizing
I had about the feature that I was missing in LJ. It is about categorizing the blogs into different categories. I tried suggesting LJ about this through a moderated suggestions community. Guess wha...
Apr 05, 20051 min read
IMAGINE - the unique event @ Technologix'05
Since the idea was mine, I should take some credits for its success. Most of them (or should I say all) liked the event. The idea: We present a system (software system) to the contestants and ask t...
Apr 05, 20052 min read
Problems with search engines
I somehow feel that search engines still suck (sorry for that word, but no better word to describe what I feel). Consider this: I am new to a domain say, "Autonomic computing" and I need more infor...
Apr 04, 20051 min read
TechnologiX'2005
Whew, what a success we have had! Technologix was organized by us on April 1 and 2 this year. I being the chairman of CSI-SJCE had moments of tension, excitement and relief. :) As usual, we tried t...