Category: Technology

40-twits app similar to @davewiner’s 0

40-twits app similar to @davewiner’s

After looking at Dave Winer’s Top 40 links on twitter app, I wrote my own version of it called TopLinks It displays the the top links (sorted by number of visits, like digg) shared by me on twitter in last 400 tweets. Its been scheduled to run once every hour.The logic is little...

Nano is the Netbook of Automobile world 2

Nano is the Netbook of Automobile world

Nano is the Netbook of Automobile world. Yes, its the EEEPC of car world.  Both of them have very similar characteristics. 1. They are affordable EEEPC is affordable compared to other laptops available. Nano too is very very affordable. Asus with EEEPC created a new market, I guess the Nano will do the...

How to kill that Digg Bar Frame 4

How to kill that Digg Bar Frame

Digg recently introduced url shortener. This is not your standard url shortener where the shortener does a 302 forward. Digg shortener displays destination site in a frame. Which means the reader still stays on the Digg. Most of the modern web analytics software will be able to record this visit, but it will...

Sita Sings The Blues 3

Sita Sings The Blues

“An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw” Sita, the heroine, reminds me a little of the immortal Betty Boop. But her singing voice is sexier. Paley synchs her life story and singing and dancing with recordings of the American jazz singer...

Technology or Management? 14

Technology or Management?

Engineering until IT came into India was completely *technical*. I have not seen any engineer of my fathers generation doing *only* managerial work. There used to be project managers then too, but they used be part time managers and full time technicians. With IT boom in India, we got a new breed of...

RSS Feed for Aamir Khan’s blog using YQL and Pipes 8

RSS Feed for Aamir Khan’s blog using YQL and Pipes

As you know earlier I had parsed Aamir Khan’s Blog to create a feed. It was custom screen scraping code to generate the feed.Today, after reading Anand’s blog, I did the same using YQL and Pipes. Using YQL/PIPE is much easier than writing custom code and is less buggy. If you have subscribed...