One of the most favorite (and certainly my personal favorite) RSS readers is Google Reader. In cut-throat competition with Bloglines, Google introduced Search functionality in Google Reader yesterday. Read TechCrunch’s take here. Unfortunately, this has made Google Reader stop working with my favorite browser, Opera. Here’s how it looks in Opera v9.23: Now, despite Opera…
Imagine you buy a car that comes with a 2 year warranty on defective parts and 3 free servicing trips. But what if those were valid only if you filled fuel from a specified provider – say Indian Oil or Shell? Or you buy a DVD player or home theater that can only play movies…
At the start of the day, I was almost sure I was going to write about how the world doesn’t seem like a place that I’m proud to be in. Depressing Scene The Indian Left wanted India to be Left behind. The Indian Right didn’t know what was Right anymore. China, a communist nation, seeks…
Here’s some interesting news stories from the past few days. It’s not 42, like Douglas Adams thought it would be. It’s 26. BBC reports that research has proved that a Rubik’s cube can be returned to its original state in no more than 26 moves. A supercomputer took 63 hours to crank out the proof which goes…
This is the spookiest thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet yet. A revolutionary people-focused search engine, Spock, launched into public beta today. About 30% of all search traffic is people related – about 20 billion search queries per month. How is it different from Google or other mainstream search engines? If you Google “boxer”,…
Photo editing will never be the same again. In what has been described as a Google approach to understanding digital photos, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have come up with a radically innovative idea to add or remove content from digital photos. The idea is that if you have enough information at your hands, you…
Researchers at Xerox’s European R&D Center have developed a new type of search technology, called FactSpotter, which can handle natural human phrases, and search for related results that include synonyms and pronouns within a document. “…typical search engines dig through only 40% of relevant documents in the course of a search query, simply because the…
From the Guardian: Pakistani lawmakers passed a government-backed resolution Monday demanding Britain withdraw the knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, condemning the honor as an insult to the religious sentiments of Muslims. In the eastern city of Multan, hard-line Muslim students burned effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Rushdie. About 100 students carrying banners condemning…
I had found 270 members in Orkut’s “I Hate Shiv Sena” community when I wrote about Cherishing Indian Democracy. Today, the same community has 555 members. In one week, the strength of the community has doubled! This is what’s called the “The Streisand Effect“: “…has become another victim of the “Streisand effect,” an increasingly common backlash that occurs when someone tries…
A comment on my previous post generated so many thoughts in response, that I thought it fit to create another post. Text in italics is from the comment on my earlier post. Orkut is thriving on promotion of obscenity, defamation, anti India sentiments and other illegal activities. Orkut thrived in India much before it was…
An Unquiet Mind 
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