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Last week, I was excited to send a gazillion amount of invites to my email contacts asking them to join me on twitter."Did you develop a new product called twitter" was the question I encounter in a phone conversation in response to my "join me on twitter email". I was shocked into silence. Especially since the person asking me this Q was a MCA and working in Oracle products in the USA, and not an ...

I always believed in the marriage of P2P and web 2.0. Most of the signs were already out there. One obvious use of this combination was of course illegal downloading of movies amongst private web 2.0 networks. But as a system, I believe that if you could pass the rewards, and stimulate participation, one could harness this trend for good as well.Pundits have been yammering away for years about a "celestial jukebox" that will give everyone ...

The underlying principal of a good business is always based on a sound product. [Otherwise what can you sell?] But when I was reading this article, the extent to which the phone companies have become "Mafia" is pretty apparent. It obviously took another Moghul like Steve Jobs, and a in your face "ha ha" product like the i-phone to put back the power to products. But as important as the iPhone has been ...

This morning I was reading Stan Schroeder’s take on Kawasaki’s Alltop. I have to fully agree with Stan’s observation that candywrapping an existing concept will not make it a new concept. He compared Kawasaki’s alltop to popurls. 1.0 Screenshot of the ALLTOP site Alltop is a RSS aggregator. Okay because Guy Kawasaki is behind this, i shall deem the site a visit. ...

This is a cute and funny video of Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft.. The video really has a good sense of humour. I couldnt help but feel sorry for Bill Gates though.. Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

In an ideal web world, all websites should display the same in any media or device.. (screen, printer, mobile, speech synthesiser etc. etc.)  This actually helps a lot of readers recieve the website in a manner that is correct for them.  What do I mean?  The sight impaired can either recieve a site in a braille friendly manner or listen to the site read out to them  in an audio format. (text to speech.).

For a very normal reader,

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I used to drag feed urls into my browser as a method of  bookmarking feeds.  Now the load has gotten so big that its overloading the browser too... So today I went feed reader hunting on the web.  A little bit of googling later, I came across Feedreader 3.0, a very GOOD feed reader for windows XP.

All I had to do was download the software and tada...a lil configuring

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Nothing brings across a point as much as a visual interpretation. heres a couple of my favourites.. [youtube PQbuyKUaKFo RailsVsJava] [youtube p5EIrSM8dCA RubyVsPHP]