The translation tool http://www.worldlingo.com/ has a feature which enables it to autodetect the language being used for translation. This is useful while translating text from 2 similar languages or text in a font which you are not familiar with.
Apr
21
Living in big cities
http://www.goimonitor.com/story/working-staying-out
While big cities offer job opportunities for some professions and better infrastructure, a lot of time is often spent commuting.
Mar
16
Mutual fund and FII investment trends
The Securities and Exchange Board of India website has interesting graphs indicating the Mutual fund and FII investment trends on a daily basis. Equity and debt investments are tracked separately.
http://www.sebi.gov.in/sebiweb/
If there is a lot of uncertainty, an investor is unlikely to invest time and money.
Feb
16
Change in blog urls
Free blogging platforms like WordPress and Blogger are widely used for driving traffic to bigger websites . However, in recent weeks, there seems to be a major change in the urls of blogspot blogs, with the url getting redirected to a country specific TLD. So visitors to the same blog in different countries will see a different url.
With this change, bloggers with networks of free blogger/blogspot blogs could see a change in their valuation and usage. Many smaller blogs are monetized by selling text link advertising, and country specific TLDs would make it difficult to set a uniform price. Search engines / search engine bots also handle redirects differently.
Jan
9
The joy of living in isolation
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/op-ed/joy-quiet-659
Most people cannot imagine life without family,friends and gadgets, but living alone in isolation, away from the internet and mobile, allows you to think in peace, reflect on human nature, greed, motivation and more.
Dec
15
PIPA, SOPA and the internet firewall
Protect IP Act, Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) could affect the growth of the internet.
Relevant links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16195344
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main51.asp?filename=Op171211proscons.asp
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/12/internet-engineers-dont-like-pipa-and-sopa/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa
Nov
6
Bills introduced in Parliament
Rajya Sabha
http://164.100.47.4/newbios_search/intsessionreport3.aspx
Lok Sabha
http://164.100.47.4/newlsbios_search/sessionreport3.aspx
Some of the bills are very interesting and well researched.
Oct
10
Selling / Buying an internet company
http://allthingsd.com/20110914/yahoo-for-sale-big-bidders-circling-including-marc-andreessen-as-board-pressure-mounts/
An internet company may be very profitable, but when there is a change in the ownership/ management , the profits can plummet as the sale of Myspace and numerous other websites has shown.
Sep
10
Webhosting server types
Of the more popular Indian websites,the web hosting server type is as follows
Indiatimes.com : Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Rediff.com : Apache
In.com : Apache
Snapdeal.com : Apache-Coyote/1.1
Naukri.com : NWS/1.0
Way2SMS.com : Apache-Coyote/1.1
Aug
23
Big Companies offering work at home / telecommuting jobs in India
Some news stories on big companies offering work at home / telecommuting jobs in India
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20080324/technologylife01.shtml
http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/ew/2008/04/21/stories/2008042150020100.htm
http://www.i4donline.net/articles/current-article.asp?articleid=2041&typ=Features
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051011/asp/atleisure/story_5342890.asp
http://www.omamconsultants.com/milestones_detail5.htm