All ye couples – the two of you are having a good time with each other! But did you realize that the lady is adding more flesh while the man (poor guy) is losing weight? “Research from Newcastle University over in the U.K. shows that men tend to lose weight when they live with a [...]
Posting a forward mail (modified) celebrating the *great great show* by Indian cricketers in recent times. Email IDs of the great Indian team: 1.LAXMAN: available@home-only.com 2.GANGULY: comebachKid@courage.com 3.KUMBLE: only@test_match.com 4.SACHIN: once_in_a@series.com 5.KAIF: good@for_nothing.com 6.SEHWAG: consistently@out_of_form.com 7.DRAVID: stick@crease_like_fevicol.com 8.PATHAN: takewickets@only_with_kenya.com 9. GREG CHAPPELL only_experiment@noresult.com 10. Munaf Patel only_line&length@nospeed.com 11.Harbhajan Singh no_spinpitch@nowicket.com 12. Suresh Raina why_i_am_there@god_knows.com My [...]
Piracy, we have been told is detrimental to business. But is it really that bad? Infact, I would argue that piracy helps grow an industry and in the long run, nullifies the short term harms. Let me explain my point of view with the following examples. 1. Software Piracy :: Microsoft Windows and Adobe Photoshop [...]
We all know that humans have a unique identification marks such as fingerprints or handwriting style – but did you know that most of us have a unique Clickprint too? Clickprint,or browsing behaviour is a unique pattern of web surfing behavior based on actions such as the number of pages viewed per session, the number [...]
Plagiarism is quite prevalent in Blogosphere – and it doesn’t limit to the professional bloggers content, but impacts others too (my post on Gandhi/Web 2.0 was lifted and posted as-is without my permission). So how do you fight plagiarism? Keep searching for similar texts [can you really do that??] And if you found one, inform [...]
And when you thought internet radio can’t go beyond the present (i.e. the usual/boring Yahoo/MSN/Real radio), Musicovery happened! What makes Musicovery so special? Well, you have got to see it to believe it. Musicovery can play music of different genres, mood etc. You can select your music style, sit back and relax!! So what? Everybody [...]
Drug dealers Software developers Refer to their clients as “users”. Refer to their clients as “users”. “The first one’s free!” “Download a free trial version…” Have important South-East Asianconnections (to help move the stuff). Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code). Strange jargon: “Stick”, “Rock”, “Dime bag,” “E”. Strange jargon: “SCSI”, “ISDN”, [...]
Microsoft and freebies? Sounds like an oxymoron statement, but the good news is that Microsoft is giving away free domain names to everybody (but specifically intended to SMB market i.e. Small and Medium Sized Business). So what this means is that you can have www.whateveryouwant.com domain name and need not pay a single dime for [...]
Well, we all know of different flavors of social networks- right from college friends to professional networking!. But how about a network which uses people power to generate electricity?? I am not kidding – the East Japan Railway Company is testing a system that generates electricity as people pass through the ticket gates. How does [...]
Riya, the face recognition technology company in it’s new avatar (called Like.com) vows to lure the fashion conscious females who want to buy products which look-a-like the one they saw a celebrity with. Like.com leverages Riya’s image recognition platform and it’s interesting to note that Riya paid $100,000 for the Like.com URL!! Infact, a couple [...]
