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YQL - Yahoo's query language for the web
Dec 13, 20082 min read

YQL - Yahoo's query language for the web

This post is a part of the series of posts. Post : Originally posted on : 2005-01-27 I blogged about the idea of a query language for websites back in 2005. Today, when I was doing my feed sweep, I...

weRead - what's new?
Nov 09, 20085 min read

weRead - what's new?

Ever since I , a lot has changed. We have introduced tons of new features, and there is really not one place where we have captured all of them. So this is my attempt to describe the features to ou...

It's official - Lulu partners with weRead
Aug 05, 20081 min read

It's official - Lulu partners with weRead

So finally the news has been made official. today with . Lulu is a platform that enables wanna be authors, musicians and other creators to bring their work directly to their audience. Publishing is...

Privacy disasters with aggregation services
Apr 23, 20081 min read

Privacy disasters with aggregation services

Imagine you have a host of aggregation services like , , , connected to each other, such that each one is reading from your various feeds and republishing the content. Now imagine a disaster where...

iRead - a social book discovery revolution
Apr 19, 20085 min read

iRead - a social book discovery revolution

It has been a while since I thought I should write a review of iRead. | | iRead is a social book discovery application. It has been quite successful on Facebook and has a very large userbase. Curre...

Downloading data using Greasemonkey - Part 2
Apr 07, 20082 min read

Downloading data using Greasemonkey - Part 2

So I finally found some time to continue my experiments with the . This time my target was Orkut. I decided that I write a simple script to extract my Orkut profile and then display a sub-set of th...

Downloading your data using Greasemonkey
Mar 16, 20084 min read

Downloading your data using Greasemonkey

Whenever I use some service over the web, I look for several things. Ease of use and customisability are important factors. However, the most important thing I consider is vendor lock-in (or rather...

HTML parsing and Rhino
Mar 07, 20084 min read

HTML parsing and Rhino

About a year back I was working on a personal project in IBM. This was a clone of for the IBM intranet. For those of you who don't know YubNub, it is a simple but powerful tool, which allows you to...

Bulls and cows and the Javascript challenge
Mar 03, 20082 min read

Bulls and cows and the Javascript challenge

About 2 years back, I had conducted an experiment with the Bulls and Cows game[ [1 ]](/2005/12/18/bulls-and-cows-computer-simulation-results/) [ [2 ]](/2005/12/12/my-experiments-with-javascript-the...