At PDC 2008, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html] of Windows 7, its next generation operating system. [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_1.png] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_2.png] I’ve been…
With PDC 2008 [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/] coming up, Microsoft’s .NET Framework [http://www.microsoft.com/NET/] gets a refreshing new logo [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PDC2008NewNETLogo.aspx]. Yesterday, Seth Godin also wrote [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/your-brand-is-n.html] about the importance of a…
Now you can also join me on Twitter [http://twitter.com/VoidMonk], a social messaging service. > Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? I’ll be…
As Paras Chopra informed me, the BarCamp Delhi conference [http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com/] is coming up in October. BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences, often focusing on early-stage web apps, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Paras mentions: > BarCamp Delhi – 11th…
Today, most of what we use the Web for on a daily basis aren’t just web pages, they are “applications”. These applications, which run inside our Web browsers, are increasingly becoming more advanced in their functionality and more interactive in their usability. The Web browser acts as the core…
India has reason to celebrate [http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-11-voa21.cfm]. Abhinav Bindra claimed the men’s 10-meter air rifle shooting title at the Beijing Olympics. India’s first-ever Olympic gold medal [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/92A/IND_T.shtml] in an individual event. The…
> What is power? Is it wealth, is it affluence, is it assets, what is it? Philosophers have thought about this, [and] they have found the seat of power — knowledge! “A king is honoured only in his own kingdom, but a man of knowledge is honoured everywhere.” Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker,…
In his recent (and apparently his last before blogging retirement) article, “A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas [http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/brief-history-of-dangerous-ideas.html]“, Reg Braithwaite wrote about the dangers associated with technology (ideas). Reg’ article also draws a reflection on how the Internet has become a dangerous idea…