“Paradox of choice” is a book released recently by Barry Schwartz. Check out this interview with him. It is excellent, I want to lay my hands on those books. But is’nt that what Neo says to the architect ” The problem is choice”. — Neo:” There are only two possible explanations, either no one told…More
Innovative stuff
Silverscreen and Razz are absolutely cool.More
Cool service from a9
Stitching together of images was an exercise that was given in the Computer Vision course at IIIT but commercial usage of it here is so cool. There are lot of other cool things about this service from a9, check it out.More
Addition to blogroll
Here are some blogs of my friends, Tux & Bunny.They are geeks to the core. Bunny was also my roommate at college. Some time back I had posted that I would love to check some blogs from some people, I findd that two are already blogging , one my roomie bunny , rajagopal ( he…More
Bump into some people again and again
I was running a search query on technorati and miyamoto, one of the result that came out was a post entry from Rajagopal. I recognized this immediately, he had ( still has ) an excellent website. I was quite impressed by his website back when I saw it first during my college days. I had…More
Don’t engage their services
If you are from bangalore like me then don’t engage these people . Packers & Movers ( here’s why ) and Travel & Tours.More
Mobile Position Locator
Another cool stuff that I was thinking about is up there already But this one was also way too linear thinking like the previous oneMore
Grassroots
I have been hearing about grassroot journalism conceptualized by Dan Gillmour for quite a while now. Here is the first actual working example that I have seen.More
Mobcasting
Just a few days ago I was discussing this idea with a friend of mine, did some searching on the net and found out this has been implemented by blogger and called as audioblogger. I was saying how cool it would be if we can have podcasting with mobiles mobiles + podcasting = mobcasting. The…More
Sting in Blogosphere
Just checked out what is the blogosphere echoing about the upcoming sting concert. The following are couple of links that turned out. – Got the official pic in this post. – Pooh s/he calls ‘Sting’ a pop phenomenon. – Update on other interesting cultural events happening in bang as well in this – This is…More
Move your feet to the beat of your heart
Watched a great movie ‘Good Will Hunting‘ on ZMZ a couple of days ago. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie just like I enjoyed a ‘Beautiful Mind’. Later I realized that this movie was released in 1997 way before ‘Beatiful mind’ and has bagged several academy awards. Brilliant performance given by Robin Williams & Matt Damon…More
Bangalore and Hyderabad bloggers ??
Why there are no bloggers in India’s own silicon valley. Are there any Dan Gillmour/ Om malik here ??The only fewinteresting blogs, that I have seen so far from bangalore. Prof S Sadagopan Anurag Jain. If you know some good blogs covering the city( bangalore/hyderabad) , technology, business etc do let me know. RajanMore
Sting is going to rock bangalore
Yuhuu !!! Read in the paper today that Sting is going to perform in the city.More
A new way of Learning
My Own Bubble Meme. Bubblegeneration is one fantastic blog. There are cool concepts and insights that I learn from this site everyday. This blog has helped me to think about technology in a way I had never thought about before. Importantly it has shattered some of myths that I had. Myth 1 The most important…More
Vocab Enhance
Reading blogs is not like reading any english literature infact it is not even close to reading a well written english article but I have noticed that I have learnt new words or have understood some words through many of the blogs that I read. Entropy – (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty…More
Remote that could switch when Ad comes up
A remote is very akin to a wireless handset , it just offers mobility to control mechanism of the end point ( Phone/TV ). Intelligence at the end points , in a TV network the end point is a remote control and not the TV itself. The only simple request that a TV can handle…More
Understanding Requirements
While understanding requirements never go into solution mode. Just ask questions , basically forget about the solution. Americans have a fantastic way of giving out solution. Suppose a problem is given. They spend so much time just raking problem. Understanding the problem from multiple view points. Before the problem is understood they would never jump…More
Blog rolls
Posting random thoughts on blog rolls and a possible applicn and a possible biz model. Blog roll in a blog has importantance and a lot of relevance. It can be searched and can act as a social link ( and function as a social networking. ). Well that is how I discover people. I almost…More
Clustering based search engine
Clusty(http://clusty.com) , a clustering based engine from a startup calledvivisimo. I am liking Clusty more than google because asearch on my name(http://clusty.com/search?query=thiyagarajan) gives mygdit url as the second entry in result while googledoes not even show it in the first page 🙂 Google ain’t cool any moreMore
P2P Radio
A wonderful concept , why it took so long for this to surface. http://www.mercora.com/download.asp. It is “A P2Pradio ” based on the model of Napster(server centricP2P). This is very much “legal” within the purview of “DMCA” as the songs are only streamed whenshared and not downloaded :):) The search feature in this is quite neat…More