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Hats off Google thanks for preventing comment spam
Feb 24, 20051 min read

Hats off Google thanks for preventing comment spam

I had written about some time back. I found many of my friends getting spammed through comments. Well, search leader Google has come up with a technique to prevent this. Interesting read: from Goog...

Semantic Web
Feb 24, 20051 min read

Semantic Web

Found a good article on at Scientific American. A good introduction to Semantic Web I should say. Another good and related article is .

Still using IE?
Feb 24, 20051 min read

Still using IE?

Here are . So should we wait till IE7 (Microsoft has that in news) for these and more things to come?

For those of you who have started RSSing
Jan 30, 20052 min read

For those of you who have started RSSing

I have been using RSS for the last 4 months or so, and I have faced some problems with the way I use it (I use My Yahoo and now My MSN as well. Don't ask me, "Why 2?". Techies always like having mo...

If Google came up with an RSS Reader
Jan 30, 20051 min read

If Google came up with an RSS Reader

What would it be like if Google came up with an RSS Reader? It would first buy the domain "greader" or something similar. It would have an index of more than 8 million different feeds. It would off...

The need for Integrated Work Environments
Jan 30, 20051 min read

The need for Integrated Work Environments

This is in connection with my previous blog entry. The reason why I use Yahoo tools is that all tools are available in one place. I can access my mail, address book, RSS feeds, notes, bookmarks, ph...

A blog entry 50 years from now
Jan 27, 20051 min read

A blog entry 50 years from now

Once upon a time during the beginning of this century man came up with a concept called blogs to convey his ideas and experiences. This concept survived for about 10 years. Now it is no more. (This...

A query language for searching websites
Jan 27, 20052 min read

A query language for searching websites

It does seem stale that you just write a set of words to query for a particular piece of information. For example, consider a query such as: "Were there any video releases in the last one week that...

Tried My-MSN
Jan 21, 20051 min read

Tried My-MSN

I just tried My-MSN today. It rocks!!! (Gana, please don't tell me I am easily excited by anything.) Some features that I liked in My-MSN were: The look and feel: It is really great. The module col...

And now Personalised search from Yahoo!
Jan 18, 20051 min read

And now Personalised search from Yahoo!

Yahoo has come up with yet another idea - Personalized search. (I think it was already there, but this is really cool.) My Yahoo search lets us search for pages, save them, save keywords and also a...

Information is cheap
Jan 16, 20052 min read

Information is cheap

And it is here finally. Yahoo was the last one to take the plunge. Just write "Desktop search" in Google and have a look. You will be surprised. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves all have entered this...

LiveJournal was down
Jan 16, 20051 min read

LiveJournal was down

Although LJ was down on Jan 15th, my My-Yahoo Feed reader was able to show all my LJ friends' blogs without any problems. I click on some interesting article and it doesn't work because LJ is down....