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Google, Yahoo! and innovation
Apr 17, 20062 min read

Google, Yahoo! and innovation

Google recently released " ". Time and again, Google reminds me of Jeremy Zawodny's blog, - Google trying to re-build what Yahoo and others have built, but provide one killer feature that makes it...

Semantic Crawler - an update
Mar 23, 20062 min read

Semantic Crawler - an update

This is in continuation of . I did some experiments after consultation with . Thanks for the inputs. My intention was to get a set of related words given a single word as input. I wanted to make us...

Happy birthday ∫ /\ /\/ /\ /\/ `/ /\
Mar 10, 20061 min read

Happy birthday ∫ /\ /\/ /\ /\/ `/ /\

Yeah, this is the day I get to speak out and Gautham shuts up. I am 2 years old today. I was born on 10th March 2004 at 12:45 in Mysore. Last year, I . I was called Modus Vivendi then, but now I am...

A semantic grabber
Mar 08, 20062 min read

A semantic grabber

So what's a semantic grabber? If you do a , you get, umm, '0' results (as on 08-March-2006). So this definitely is not the word used in the wild. So what's it then? Well, the story began like this....

I changed my RSS reader
Mar 01, 20062 min read

I changed my RSS reader

In my recent posts [ [Maintaining multiple feed lists ]](/2006/02/21/maintaining-multiple-feed-lists/),[ [The evolution of the pub-sub model on the web ]](/2006/02/11/the-evolution-of-the-pub-sub-m...

Maintaining multiple feed lists
Feb 21, 20061 min read

Maintaining multiple feed lists

said, "Hey, I want to read News in the morning and Hacking in the evening. I have a list of feeds for each. How do I use my reader to do this?" I said, "Create multiple accounts. Simple. :) " I was...

The evolution of the pub-sub model on the web
Feb 11, 20061 min read

The evolution of the pub-sub model on the web

Recently, I have seen a new trend emerging on the web. Until quite recently, we had people publishing their information as RSS feeds and others subscribing to it. This was the first step towards th...

Service integration using YubNub
Jan 16, 20062 min read

Service integration using YubNub

I have never been so excited by 'simple' ideas since the way back in Aug, 2004. When I had first seen , I knew that this idea was here to stay. But then it was quite in its early days and so was no...

Sudoku - Take 1
Jan 16, 20062 min read

Sudoku - Take 1

While the is still incomplete, this weekend I found myself trying out another interesting thing. This time it was . I started off writing a simple problem solver, which, given a problem gives the s...