Two of the biggest User information repositories in the web joined Data Portability Workgroup in a attempt to make cross-site information sharing across portals secure and more portable.

OpenID is getting some traction only now ..

Imagine being able to access a scrap in your orkut account from inside or facebook and forwarding to your friends in a yahoo group..

sounds funny ? it might become possible soon .. But will it be secure ?? I dont want to loose my accounts or get banned like Robert Scoble

I had written about this fact on TechQuack Can Search Engines understand flash atleast Google does

Jeff Muendel at news.com has written a nice detailed post about how Search engines like Google read text in Flash sites.

Stephan Spencer had interviewed Top Googler Matt Cutts and its now public that Google is using Adobe’s flash SDK

Now the problem is that Google can understand text and index it .. How will they provide matching results ?

What the context between a zillion flash movies with text.

So better put a lot of relevant text in your flash movies

I want to buy a laptop and Dell XPS M1330 seems to be a model which has almost everything IM looking for.

Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
160 GB Hard Disk
2GB 667 MHz RAM
8X DVD Writer
13 inch screen

3-4 hours of battery life - upto 6hours on a 9 cell battery

Price is about 55k rupees .. purchasing it on EMI might help..

Worth Buying ..

And the weight of this lappy is about 2kilos or less .. so should be really easy to carry around

2007 just flew past ! atleast for me .. Hardly get time to update this blog these days.

Wish you all a very Happy New Year ! Hope to post more often here in 2008.

Somethings I wish I could do in 2008

Travel and Read a lot

Spend lesser time in front of the comp . (Most difficult )

Watch more movies

The drop in hardware prices is something really strange. Today I picked up a 2gb pendrive for 600 rupees which is almost 30 paise per MB..

No wonder no one uses CDs these days

I recollect that the last time i bought a pen drive was in end of 2006 and the price i paid for a 1GB drive was about 1100 rupees.

Now i got double the space for half the price.. The funniest part is whether the folks selling such stuff are making any profit ??

I never withdraw cash in non icici atms. But the other day when I had to buy some medicines , the shopkeeper din accept a debit card. So I went to the nearby SBI ATM. I withdrew 400 rupees but my ICICI bank ac has 467 rupees missing.

ICICI tells me tat they charge a small fee to withdraw cash from other ATM.

67 bucks for 400 bucks is day light robbery .. what do u think ?

Last nite when I had to return from my office by the public transport , I was shocked to see the bus conductor pull out a thermal printer out of his bag.

He asked for my destination and gave me a printed ticket see poor quality pic below

Android is the latest mobile development platform from Google

I have been trying to get my hands on the SDK since the launch

I managed to do a simple hello world inside the SDK

There lot to learn and explore .But whos got the time ??

The Android Platform looks impressive. For a person who is a novice in the Java side of things – Android was really fast to setup and use.

Links

Download Android SDK

You also need the Eclipse IDE

Bala tried this as soon as the SDK was released

Lets take a look at the Indian mobile internet scene

GPRS charges are high but still cheap compared to other markets

Admob who just completed serving 10 billion ads has released a report which shows really big numbers from India.

Also Russell Beattie told me that Mowser get major traffic from India.

Photon got featured in the CNBC Young turks program last week.

Its really nice to see your CTO and CEO on TV

You can check out the video

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