Web applications are pretty amazing; amazing enough to convince a company like Google to invest all their money and efforts into developing them exclusively, and start wooing enterprise customers towards using them. They have a lot to offer, least of …

Linked lists are something I considered (past tense. I’ll get to it in a minute) almost a necessity for every weblog to have. After all, directing traffic towards interesting things is what makes the Internet go around. We cannot find things wo …

It’s hard to imagine an Internet without web feeds. While there are people who prefer to keep track of websites the old fashioned way — bookmark and visit the site once every day to see what’s new — feeds are faster and much m …

Having pointed out a while back how reduced my own feed reading had become, I believe that feed readers and reading have reached a rather dismal stage. Blogs remain echo chambers; mindlessly regurgitating what they consume from the most popular blogs …

With the release of Growler and Yip (although with a misleading by-line), there is now an interesting but expected conundrum. Like any other multi-implementation of one idea, and such an awesome idea at that, notifications from web applications can a …

Writing quality content and democratic diversion of web traffic towards that content are two different things. When the average informed netizen goes to look for ‘good’ content to read, stay up-to-date, there are very limited places they …

The last month has seen a couple of big privacy related issues being raised by the people against two of the biggest companies on the Internet today—Facebook, and Google. Facebook’s beacon program, which aims to bring updates on people fr …

Justin Rosenstein had this to say when he was leaving Google for Facebook (June 8th, 2007) A couple of months ago, after three years as a Google product manager, I decided to leave for Facebook. I am writing this note to spread Good News to all t …

Sometime between yesterday and today, Sabeer Bhatia (creator of Hotmail) released Live Documents; a service exclusively for Microsoft Office, which allows you to do all the things you can with Google’s and Zoho’s applications, but now wit …

The past few days have been rather amazing. If you’re not a ‘geek’, then you probably won’t know of all the things happening, but if you are, then I hope you share the same excitement as me! After a rather considerable lean st …

I’ve been looking at various sites the past few days. Sites that keep people like Arrington and Om Malik busy. Sites that keep PostBubble up and running. Sites that we hear about all the time, and just go around to have a look because of all th …

It just so happens to be our favourite browser. With more and more vulnerabilities showing up in IE7, it’s pretty much a no brainer selection. Coders love it, designers love it even more! With such a strong past backing them up, Mozilla plans …

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the concept, and the implementation as well. I am not one of those who is predicting the death of Digg as the behemoth that drives traffic throughout the Internet. I think for what it’s worth, Digg is …

I have been doing my share of the ‘good work’ by introducing people to Firefox, and the world of extensions, themes and more convenient browsing. It’s not ‘as’ exciting as getting people to switch to an Apple :P, but it …

Ning had been out for quite a while the whole of today (26th evening for my eastern readers). Readers in that time would have seen my blog going all whack, because all my scripts are stored externally using Steve’s excellent Jscripts repository …

The Web 2.0 boom was something that stirred everybody and everything that had a remote connection with the Internet. Startups, mashups, networks … you name it! Everything began to appear everywhere you looked. We called it ‘opening the In …

I know one thing that publishers love to do everyday. Check their subscriber count! I take it to an almost feverish level where one tab stays open to the ‘Live hits’ page of FeedBurner, with an auto refresh of about one and a half hours, …

Going through GigOm, I bumped into the article which states that BSNL will be launching a 2Mbps broadband connection in the country this year. If that claim itself isn’t ridiculous, they say that that the price will be Rs. 250. That’s r …

With the launch of Wikiseek, a formidable new player in the field of search engines has shown itself. Wikiseek is probably the best ‘specific’ information search engine we have today, or it atleast has the potential to be soon. Though …

Reading through my feeds, an article about how Microformats might be integrated into the next release of Firefox caught my eye today. If you remember, Microformats is present in the current latest stable release of Firefox, as a means of getting R …

A couple of weeks back, I read an article Cybernet News about a search engine which offers the user the choice of searching ‘with another person’! Now, as expected, this got me a little apprehensive. It’s not like we are searching a …