Anand’s Blog

I am heading off to home for a week where I will be celebrating the festival of Diwali with my parents and friends. I’ll be back on the 5th of November and so, in this period any updates on this blog would only be sporadic, if not completely non-existent.
Wishing you all a very Happy Diwali!

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Just read on Netanel Jacobsson’s blog about Yoono, a collaborative searching, exchanging and information sharing service. The service is employing a unique approach by indexing “web users’ bookmarks to overcome problems of language, synonyms and other syntaq quirks.”

Yoono is a free software application you can download which combines for the first time the management and [...]

If one Scoble wasn’t enough to ‘rule’ the blogosphere, now we have the whole Scoble family Blogging. Robert’s wife Maryam already blogs at MSN Spaces and the blogosphere now witnesses the arrival of Robert’s son Patrick.
Guess what the title of his blog reads. MiniScoblizer. And the tag line: “I’m the son of a 40 year [...]

I have never owned a mobile phone that had the habit of going into a “hang” mode every other moment and that had to be hit with the palm or tapped not-so-gently at the table to get it up running again and do what it is supposed to do. Tales of such a mobile phone:

In [...]

The Guardian has an article by Jonathan Freedland on the “multi-million-pound industry intent on turning teenagers and toddlers alike into avaricious consumers.”
According to the article, an average British child is familiar with up to 400 brand names by the time he has reached the age of 10! “Researchers report that our children are more likely [...]

Google Base is the latest from Google! While the word was floating around the web about the subdomain base.google.com, I wasn’t able to have a look at it as Google had pulled it down showing a 403 Forbidden Error. However, just trying randomly, I could get a peek when the site went live momentarily.
The moment [...]

The last weekend I headed off to attend an entrepreneurship seminar, accompanied by two of my friends. The place was buzzing with activity, with an abundant supply of ideas on just about any topic. I met a bunch of really wonderful people, both management and engineering undergrads like me. Quite a lot of companies, some [...]

You see statistics like these and begin to wonder what really is happening to the web? Is the dominance of the big guns such as Google, Microsoft, and others coming to an end?
Here are the six web properties with the most pages viewed (remember ads run is mostly equal to pages viewed [...]

When the whole web is abuzz with keywords such as Ajax, Web 2.0, Meebo and all, there is some uncertainity about how this new Internet Bubble will shape up.
Mike at Techdirt writes that some of these new startups may be only to actually stand out for the crowd and act as a strong resume.
While the [...]

Here is another AJAXy to-do list manager, not very unlike Ta-da Lists, with a very unusual title – Remember the Milk. I gave it a try and it looks wonderful, especially the interface. What fascinated me the most was their sign-up form which is incredibly user-friendly.
Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way [...]