Monthly Archives: December 2009

Adversity into opportunity, the Shashi Tharoor edition

Posted on December 29, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

Shashi Tharoor has an incredible opportunity to foster quality debate on public policy, and stay out of trouble while he’s at it. He should turn off the tweet tap and blog instead. Pose his opinions as questions and open up … Continue reading →

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Google Impatient

Posted on December 27, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

“Wouldn’t it be great, then, to start from scratch and design something based on the needs of today’s web applications and today’s users?” - the Chrome Comic, Sep 08 In other words, if you can’t build it fast enough, we’ll do … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Blog

Posted on December 26, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

Joshua Schachter of Del.icio.us fame on how the different parts of a blogging system could be decoupled and run off specialized web applications: authoring by desktop apps, storage of raw posts and hosting on Amazon S3, templates by WordPress, feeds … Continue reading →

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Notable recently

Posted on December 26, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

For India and China, a Climate Clash With Their Own Destiny (NYT): “India and China are encouraged to balance their internal duties as developing countries with their external responsibilities as emerging giants. They are told to short-circuit history, to avoid … Continue reading →

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Among the ten worst ideas of the decade is

Posted on December 20, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

the Blackberry (and iPhone and the Treo), a reminder of just how unconnected we were not ten years ago. (via the Washington Post’s list of the ten worst ideas of the decade.)

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Posted on December 19, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

Is the American Dream over?: David Brooks and Gail Collins of the NYT debate if the current crisis is an indication that American Life is inherently unsustainable, or merely another manifestation of the problem of inequality of skills. PayPal Taps … Continue reading →

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"What I think" versus "who I am"

Posted on December 15, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

is the essence of the difference between Facebook-like and Twitter-like networks. People want as many people as possible to hear their opinions, and as few to know more about who they are. Which is why Twitter thrives the more open … Continue reading →

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How do Indians download music to phones without a PC?

Posted on December 7, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

From Nokia’s EVP of services (the guy responsible for Nokia’s push into email, music, apps and the like): In India, for example, Nokia’s music download service is becoming popular mostly because many people don’t have PCs and are using their … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 7, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

A car and a bicycle: John Gruber on Chrome OS – “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary … Continue reading →

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Just speed is enough

Posted on December 3, 2009 by rahulgaitonde

Compared to Chrome (and F’fox and Safari), Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is embarrassingly slow on modern websites. If you’re looking to convert your Mom/Dad/other Net newbie to F’fox/Chrome, you don’t need to talk about security and multi-tabbing and standards-compliance anymore. All you … Continue reading →

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