Author: Aditya

Interesting way to look at things
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_the_internet_can_impede_democracy.php

A nice little benchmark comparing CPUs across the last few generations. Includes the P4 & boy does it get toasted.

Burglary 2.0? The site uses location information from twitter & the like to list "special" opportunities. Another nail in the privacy coffin?
Aim of the site: 'The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.'

'A few weeks ago it occurred to me that there's a very real possibility that the next breakthrough in advertising itself is its convergence with e-commerce. Buying an app from the Android Market, I realized how those of us with smartphones have become accustomed to seamless purchases on our phone. That is, we search for an app, and then we buy it, directly from our search vendor. '

'Daniel Johnson makes remarkably accurate Olympic medal predictions. But he doesn't look at individual athletes or their events. The Colorado College economics professor considers just a handful of economic variables to come up with his prognostications.
The result: Over the past five Olympics, from the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney through the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, Johnson's model demonstrated 94% accuracy between predicted and actual national medal counts. For gold medal wins, the correlation is 87%.'

They say that the medium is the message. A focus group is a medium. And it lacks the magic of commitment. A full-page ad in the Los Angeles times that says, This Is It, is a message in and of itself. And it's loaded with commitment. You'll never find out the existential truth about anything — a product, service, or anything else — by sending the wrong message. It's the difference between "Will you marry me?" and "I'm trying to decide whether or not to marry you on the basis of whether or not you will say yes to me. I'm not really asking you, but what would you say if I did, hypothetically?

'Statistics aren’t evil. They’re just a bit like the weather – hard to really predict.
And as they say about economists and weathermen – they’re the only two jobs you can keep while being wrong nearly 100% of the time.'

Why it's important some kind of tagging so that bots can interpret & classify posts.

I wonder what the radicals would have to say about these

The next few years are going to be pretty interesting. It seems to be heading for another war like the one on the PC platform. Given Apple's closed strategy, it would be good for them to open up or perish like they did last time. Things will get really hot once Google's bets pay off & mature & the pieces start falling in place.

Why flash is important for the web and how Apple's stand is hurting its customers

A handy guide on how to open those winmail.dat files received by mails sent in Outlook. It apparently happens due to the rich text format being used in Outlook.

FSF's point of view of the iPad

A nice commentary on the problems, particularly its closed nature as it aspires to be a true portable computer.

IBM does have a rich internal ecosystem that promotes social interaction through various online platforms, and many of them are being converted into enterprise products.

Starfish vs spider analogy

A handy online tool that lets you upload photos & gives you the printable form to make a kaleidocycle.

A really different look for sure

A real variety of roads ranging from mountain stretches to busy city roads. Quite a bunch of spectacular photos too.

Handy site to keep track of iPhone/iPod apps & special offers

A list of links to useful tips & tricks for wordpress.com blogs

Odd to see Bill Gates, but an interesting list otherwise

Some are going to be really tough to break. It also shows Sampras in good light, esp the 6 consecutive yrs ending as no. 1 – something Federer is unlikely to achieve.

Interesting, but there must surely be more tombs of all the manpower required to build the huge pyramids.

Some really weird ones all right

Ranging from Halo to Half Life with some console games thrown in.

Instructions to make nested cubes. Looks pretty interesting for sure.

A whole camper atop a bicycle. Really innovative design.

Very interesting concept of making a camper out of a shopping cart.

The video is also pretty interesting. Too bad it's part of a podcast & not available for direct online viewing.

Quite a collection from various sources

Really imaginative bunch

Handy extension to make extensions compatible with alpha and beta versions of Firefox, and also report any incompatibilities.
'After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.'

Briefs on some famous science fiction authors and their beliefs

Is this going to replace the Firefox extension system as we know it?

Interesting photo essay covering the evolution of the cell phone

Good thing SMSes in India cost not more than Rs 2

Handy list of tips ranging from the rule of thirds to proper lighting

'Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.'

Interesting game. Combines a puzzle with a door-key platformer.

Interesting way to use the netflix data to visually lay out the area wise popular movies.

Old forgotten ads from various fields