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Google and innovation - take 2
Jan 10, 20082 min read

Google and innovation - take 2

About a couple of years back, I . However when I made that entry, Google had very few services and Yahoo had lots of them. In fact, Google was primarily a search company and Gmail and Calendar were...

2007 - a recapitulation
Dec 22, 20071 min read

2007 - a recapitulation

Warning : Some bit of self praise ahead. Nearing the end of yet another successful year. The year 2007 has been one of the 'longest' year in my life. With milestones achieved and several noteworthy...

Prove that you are a human being
Dec 11, 20071 min read

Prove that you are a human being

In continuing with my observations made , I wonder if the following way of preventing someone from spamming a commenting system really helps: Spam protection: Sum of II plus III plus IV ? If I real...

Speed reading by hacking the column count in Firefox
Dec 08, 20071 min read

Speed reading by hacking the column count in Firefox

Recently, I came across a . The script helps us to view Wikipedia articles in multiple columns. I found this to be useful and in fact saw that it improved my reading speed. In the last one week, I...

Microblogging experiences
Nov 13, 20071 min read

Microblogging experiences

I have been looking for the perfect micro-blogging service. In the last one week I tried 3 services: , and . Here is what I liked in each: Twitter The good - Simple and elegant. Gets the job done....

Twittering at twitter.com
Nov 05, 20071 min read

Twittering at twitter.com

Many a times, I feel like blogging about my thoughts on something, but not necessarily composing a whole blog entry around it. It is easier to do this at a site which is meant for . So here goes: I...

Eclifox - the publicity
Oct 16, 20071 min read

Eclifox - the publicity

Wow! Never imagined this would happen so soon. Oct 16th: Eclifox is currently in the front-page of . The number of Google results for 'eclifox' is 12,200. Before Eclifox was released it was around...

Eclifox - bringing Eclipse to the browser
Oct 11, 20072 min read

Eclifox - bringing Eclipse to the browser

We finally made it! is now an technology. So what is Eclifox? In order to understand what Eclifox is, look at the screenshot below: What do you see? If you think that this is the screenshot of the...

ApacheCon US 2007 / OS Summit Asia 2007
Oct 04, 20072 min read

ApacheCon US 2007 / OS Summit Asia 2007

Two of my colleagues and friends Vamsi & Shiva, who are committers on will be conducting training sessions at / . Java EE 5 App Development on Geronimo 2.0 simplified using Eclipse by Shiva Kumar A...

Google Reader finally has search!
Sep 06, 20071 min read

Google Reader finally has search!

This was one feature that I was missing in Google Reader. So, while I tried when I really missed it, I was not quite happy with it, since it was showing up really old posts and there was no obvious...