Sometime back, Cait [http://scientaestubique.wordpress.com/] e-mailed me to participate in a survey centred around Australian Internet-startup’s. The survey results [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pq8tRfjYA9FcbFRttlWsyIw&pli=1] can be viewed online, although I think its still missing responses from a few other participants. There are…
Yawning is an involuntary action that everyone does. It’s also been noticed that yawning seems contagious. However, new research suggests rather than being a precursor to sleep, the purpose of yawning is to cool the brain so it operates more efficiently and keeps you awake. The theory could explain…
It seems like the micro-blogging [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging] trend is heating up. Social-driven micro-blogging services like Twitter [http://www.twitter.com], Jaiku [http://www.jaiku.com], Pownce [http://www.pownce.com] etc., allow users to send small text-based posts via SMS, IM, email or a web form,…
The latest scoop from the social web is that, both Google and Yahoo are working on next generation social networks. Yahoo is working on a service called Mosh [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/mosh-yahoos-new-social-network-initiative/] (certainly to replace 360 [http://360.yahoo.com/]), while Google is working on Socialstream…
There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping) and…
Religion and science, culture and belief. These attributes have a vast influence on each of us. It turns out that we are all in the middle of a podcast from God! So when I can across this far-fetched yet interesting research paper (link below) titled – Are we living in a…
Lately, I’ve been facing a series of problems with my Treo [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=treo] smartphone. It’s been well used for a few years now, and its starting to show signs of wear-off. First, its firmware got flushed, and I had to repatch it.…
Apple has always been the king of hype. It’s no myth that the iPod [http://www.apple.com/ipod] is the best example of a well-marketed product. But when Apple announced a phone device a few months ago, capable of multimedia and Internet, it was seen with as much…