Recently I came across the Great Bong [http://greatbong.net]‘s review of the latest Bond movie (Casino Royale). A good review, I must say. And the movie IS brilliant, in some aspects, especially in capturing the true Casino Royale spirit. Read it here: The Bond Walks Again [http://greatbong.
> There’s nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause. You just wake up one day and you aren’t a part of your life. You know this. Your life doesn’t belong to you. Your body is not, I don’t know how to make you feel the
Something I wrote in response to Pree [http://wenisaynothing.blogspot.com]‘s post, “Tears [http://wenisaynothing.blogspot.com/2006/12/tears.html]“. The words just flowed out as I began typing, and before I knew it, I had finished it. I get scared at such times. Because, however hard I
A round of gin and tonic for everyone, then! > 1. quirk [http://www.answers.com/topic/quirk] (kwûrk) pronunciation (n.) > 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: “Every man had his own quirks and twists” (Harriet Beecher Stowe). 2. An unpredictable or unaccountable act or event; a vagary:
Until now, the process of consuming content was of a very primitive type – Search and consume. We searched for information using certain keywords and then converted it manually to knowledge. If we wanted to access the information at a later date, we simply printed it out. If we wanted to
Part II – I Seek You, and your meta-data, too… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story until now: Part I was a quick review into understanding Traditional Search Engines and their methods and relating them to human conversation – since the Web 2.0 is all about ‘conversations in the marketplace’. On to the second
Part 1: Search and the Web 1.0: Gorblimey! Those of you who reached here through Google, Yahoo or MSN are probably laughing as you read this. But do go on, there’s more. :-) ** (Un)common Recurring Searches** Often our searches are simple keywords crafted with central themes in
Surprised? Well, read on… Early this morning, someone submitted a story on Netscape.com. And Digg fans all over the world erupted in laughter and glee. Ever since the story was submitted, this is what appears, when Netscape is loaded into your browser: [http://flickr.com/photos/90157280@N00/198733894]
I am pretty sure the guys at Google must be sneakily reading my blog. Remember this [http://corporatespices.blogspot.com/2006/06/crazy-little-thing-called-google-love.html] ? Google has rolled out a special version of Google Maps [http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html] for your mobile phone (via Google Blog [http://googleblog.
How many times have you had people sending you invitational eMails saying, “Try this cool site I found!” or “This is an amazing site!” or “You’ll absolutely love this one!” or lines to that effect? Too many, I suspect. Web 2.0 and the concept of User Generated Content
Strange, isn’t it? All of us hailed the coming of a shareable, collaborative web [http://cluetrain.com/] and ‘lovingly’ named it Web 2.0 [http://wzus.ask.com/r?t=p&d=us&s=a&c=a&l=dir&o=0&sv=0a300527&
This post [http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2006/06/brilliant-love-it-now-could-you-change.html] by Doug (a Xoogler [http://xooglers.blogspot.com]) talks about how different people with different visions read differently into one and the same thing. Well, actually he talks about the Google-Dilbert Logo that almost caused quite an internal scandal in
