Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
Dan Farber’s report that Flickr will support video in beta next month is welcome news. As I commented on Dan’s blog, it is a big pain to share photos and videos of the same event (example:
vacation photos) using different sites. If Flickr does a good job of
making the user experience so it is context-sensitive according to the
type of media (i.e. photo or video), then I would move my videos...
In late Sept. 2007, I ditched Outlook for good and switched to Zimbra. My experience with Zimbra has been great — exceptionally stable, wonderful user experience and every feature I have ever wanted in a webmail client. That was until v5.0x was released. It had even cooler features and I decided to take the plunge.
Bad move…after spending almost a whole day in aggregate, my smooth running...
Almost exactly a year ago, Sramana Mitra offered a simple equation for Web 3.0: 4C + P + VS. I think she is right on. It’s a neat and concise way to express something quite complex. Of course, since it is only neat and concise if you know what the variables in the equation mean, here’s the long form of the equation:
Context + Commerce + Community + Content + Personalization + Vertical Search
A...
When you go to the Freebase Data page, there is a list of categories. Drilling down into these, you can see the top-level domains and their types. Looking at all the types in a domain is easy enough, but I could not figure out a way to get the categories and top-level domains. The documentation was no help.
I finally found the answer by looking at the mjt source code at this...
Can you imagine creating biological machines just as simply as writing code?
I am guessing your answer is no. Until today, I couldn’t either. Then I watched this amazing video of Drew Endy at the Chaos Communication Congress. It is totally cool stuff. Here’s a synopsis of the talk:
Genetic engineering is now a thirty year old technology. For
reference, over a similar period of time, modern...
One of annoyances on XP and Windows Server 2003 is the appearance delay of the “Send To” menu because it does insane things like look for the presence of a floppy drive. You can eliminate the delay by following the detailed instructions...
Dennis McDonald tagged me in the “8 Things You Didn’t Know About Me” game so here goes:
I love Chai and drink a lot of it (not the Starbucks kind…the regular Indian kind which is way better).
I am a digitalmediaholic. I have over 6 terabytes of ripped movies and 100 GB of music.
I am a dot com bubble survivor. I founded a venture-funded startup called iWidgets.com that created...
Lots of blog buzz about Facebook shutting-down Scoble’s account for running a script against Facebook, thus violating the site’s ToS. It appears that an ill-conceived experimental Plaxo Pulse script that used screen-scraping to retrieve email addresses is the culprit. I empathize with Scoble and given the facts, also think Facebook was justified in suspending his account. This post, however, is... 
DotNetKicks is a Digg-like site focused on .NET development. Thanks for Jon Galloway’s useful tip, I figured out how to add a dynamic Kick image to my posts. He has Javascript code, but I just hard-coded the following into the DasBlog itemTemplate.blogTemplate file for the theme in use:
I have not figured out how to dynamically make the link appear only when a specific category such as .NET is...
It has been a little over a month since my family and I moved to Silicon Valley. Life here is totally different from D.C. and it’s going to take some time getting used to all the changes, but we are up for it.
A new city, a new year, new hopes and new things to learn. 2008 is going to be a great year!
Happy New Year... 
