Automated email-based password reestablishment (EBPR) is an efficient, cost-effective means to deal with forgotten passwords. Simple Authentication for the Web (SAW) [http://isrl.cs.byu.edu/pubs/pp1001.pdf] [pdf] improves upon this basic approach to user authentication to create an alternative to password-based logins.…
Business travelers are as likely to find themselves in Seoul or Bangalore as they are on Sand Hill Road. But where to meet, eat and check e-mail? Not to worry. CNN Money’ city-by-city list [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0708/gallery.roadwarriorsspecial.biz2//index.html] details the best…
Social networking is big business to say the least. Investors, VC’s and major companies have eyes on these social systems. Millions of people around the world share messages and interact daily with their friends on social utilities like Facebook, MySpace, Orkut etc. Social networking site, Facebook [http://www.facebook.…
Gaurav Bhatnagar writes about the internals of the Indian IT Industry [http://www.newdelhitimes.org/archives/2007/08/who_has_the_tim.html], “for an industry to grow at a healthy pace, an unemployment rate of higher than 7-8% is needed.” The media may paint a rosy picture as it…
Now that Sun has changed their stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, Om Malik suggests ten other companies [http://gigaom.com/2007/08/23/10-companies-that-should-change-their-tickers-too/] that should change their tickers. By the way, Om was just named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans [http://www.rediff.com/…
While I was browsing some national news, I came across an interesting piece on a scientific proposal [http://www.htnext.in/news/7097_2030862,008700010013.htm] made by a group of scientists in India. They have suggested pushing the Indian Standard Time (IST, viz GMT +5:30) by half-an-hour to…
A good list of Contextual Advertising programs [http://netprofitstoday.com/_resources/google-adsense-alternatives.html] which can be used as Google AdSense [http://adsense.google.com] alternatives. I tried Chitika sometime back but it didn’t yield good results. For now, I’m just using Adsense and Pheedo [http://pheedo.com], and…
The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service [http://www.trynt.com/trynt-contextual-term-extraction-api/] provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. Yahoo has a similar Content Analysis Web Service [http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html], which is also available in Yahoo Pipes [http://pipes.…