Aug 14, 20071 min read
My paper on use of annotations in the crawling and indexing process of search engines
Just realized that my paper on has finally been published.
Web
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Jul 25, 20071 min read
Screen real estate optimization in Firefox
So here is a collection of hacks that I have made in my Firefox browser to optimize the usage of real estate and still have control over my browser - Install the extension to replace your menu with...
Jul 21, 20072 min read
Have I stopped blogging?
"Have you stopped blogging?", people ask me. I don't have a definite answer. True, it has been a long time since I blogged. Although I have been quite active in my online activity as is apparent I...
Apr 10, 20071 min read
Search results and relevancy
Search engines suggest alternative keywords when you mistype keywords. I was looking for a Wikipedia article on Liskov substitution principle . I came across this when I was reading about Design By...
Feb 23, 20071 min read
CSI Web 2.0 conference
I delivered a talk today on 'Enterprise application of Web 2.0' in the National level CSI Web 2.0 conference. The conference saw participation from companies like IBM, Yahoo, Google, AOL, Oracle et...
Feb 19, 20071 min read
Wanna reduce email spam?
I was curious about how much a 'abc-at-xyz-dot-com' way of displaying email addresses, helps in reducing spam. So I did this search: and the results did not surprise me. :) I then searched for diff...
Jan 16, 20072 min read
The death of browsers
About a year back in one of the internal 'prediction' wikis of IBM, I had predicted that 'folders' and 'browsers' are going to be a thing of the past in about 2 years' time. I in fact blogged about...
Dec 16, 20061 min read
Here it comes
comes the press release. IBM released an EPCglobal standards compliant product called WebSphere RFID Information Center. Here are some more links: - - - - - -
Nov 27, 20061 min read
Orkut microsummaries
I wrote some simple micro-summary generators for . Here is what each one does: Last visitor: If profile visit is enabled, this micro-summary will tell you who visited your profile last. Karma: This...
Nov 24, 20061 min read
Firefox 2 experiments
Previous related entries: Firefox 2 was released recently. This week I got a chance to dabble with it. Integrated spell-check is a new feature that I liked. I cannot stop talking about Microsummari...
Nov 23, 20062 min read
An attempt to catch up with the world around us
The last 2-3 months has been very busy and I have almost lost touch of what's going on in my interest fields. My reader is filled up and I will surely not be able to catch up with the load. As a co...
Sep 30, 20061 min read
Heard of Mr. Frank Abagnale Jr?
Bruce Schneier said, "In order to become a cryptographer, you need to be a cryptanalyst.[ [1 ]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis)" Now is there a person better than to prove this? I watch...