I’ve been looking for a quick and simple way to check a websites Google PageRank [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank] and Alexa Rank [http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?qterm=] in a raw format so that it can be integrated in a web application or even…
Time for some interesting business trivia. Globally, there are a record 946 billionaires, up from 793 last year. Two-thirds of last year’s billionaires are richer. Only 17% are poorer from their last standing. With 36 billionaires, India has overtaken [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6433367.…
This years Oscar’ staged “Water [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(2005_film)] “, a film set in India, but an official nomination from Canada for the Best Foreign Film category. However, it didn’t win, despite the media hype surrounding it. And then there’s this less known short film…
At first, it looks like a pick from a sci-fi show or a Bond movie, but can it possibly be true that the cumbersome desktop, or even a laptop, may someday be replaced by a set of pen-like computing gadgets that fit neatly in your pocket? The innovative folks at…
JavaScript and AJAX are gaining wide-spread audience, and lots of creative applications are emerging from this set of client-side technologies. For instance, checkout this cool SQL Designer [http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/] totally written in DHTML/JavaScript. It has plenty of expert features including schema import & export.…
I’ve been working on an ASP.NET project which requires quite a bit of client interactivity, so I’m leaning towards AJAX, and its turning out quite well so far. During the course of research I stumpled upon this neat collection of design patterns and frameworks for AJAX [http:…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will receive a $1 annual salary for 2007. Yahoo! chairman and CEO Terry Semel is also getting paid an annual salary of just $1, as is Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNN money reports [http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/…
[https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2007/03/2hpod9j.jpg]The world as it is today, as it ever was. Good vs evil, the everlasting rope of judgement and conflict. What a beautiful life!…