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Public bookmarks, Private tags
Sep 24, 20061 min read

Public bookmarks, Private tags

Has anyone come across a bookmarking site that allows us to make bookmarks public, but attach private tags to them? Here's the use-case: Tags in my opinion are small bits of information that we att...

Guest lecture in Christ College
Sep 16, 20061 min read

Guest lecture in Christ College

I had been to Christ College today as a guest lecturer. The students were fine arts students, mostly in their final or pre-final year. This was the first time I was giving a talk to such an audienc...

Comments from Sir TimBl and Grady Booch
Aug 31, 20061 min read

Comments from Sir TimBl and Grady Booch

...I hope that we as humanity can learn to use this information space to understand each other, that we can form ourselves into groups in lots of interesting ways so that between us that sort of ju...

Flock - a Web 2.0 browser?
Jul 16, 20062 min read

Flock - a Web 2.0 browser?

I have been trying for about a month now. And I am stuck to it. What I liked: 1. Blogging support - I am making this blog entry from within Flock. Also there is Technorati publishing support and al...

What would a semantic desktop look like?
Jun 11, 20064 min read

What would a semantic desktop look like?

For a moment, let's forget the question and look at a totally different question - what does your desktop look like? Stop reading this for a moment, minimize all windows and have a look at your des...

Google, Google, more Google
Jun 09, 20062 min read

Google, Google, more Google

Google released recently. (Ok, now the world is not quite excited about Google releases). But I am one of those guys who tries out anything that is thrown at us. I registered for the limited test o...

Microsummaries - a new feature in Firefox 2
Jun 05, 20061 min read

Microsummaries - a new feature in Firefox 2

Ever felt that the title of bookmarks should be more lively, just like the pages themselves? are just that. I just hit upon this wonderful feature when I was reading my feeds. The idea behind Micro...

Semantic web and privacy issues
May 27, 20061 min read

Semantic web and privacy issues

Whoa! This is something interesting. On one side are the people who are talking about making interesting analysis from information over the web and on the other side are people who are . Well, I am...

Wikipedia in RDF
May 10, 20063 min read

Wikipedia in RDF

This blog entry is not quite to do with what Wikipedia in RDF is all about, but the kind of problems that I faced in using it. When I initially read about the initiative, I was excited. Imagine bei...

How to write your own bookmarking tool and why
Apr 29, 20065 min read

How to write your own bookmarking tool and why

(NOTE: This is a work-in-progress. Last edited: 02nd May 2006.) I have never been fully satisfied with an available bookmarking tool. Each tool has its own set of cool features to offer. But there...