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Category Archives: internet
Moving to an Online Life
So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, google, HowTos, IM, internet, mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird
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Why Safari won't matter
Apple released Safari 3.1 today, and has claimed that it is “the world’s fastest browser”. “Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, Firefox, IE, IntellectualProperty, internet, Opera, Predictions, Safari
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How the New Web is changing PR
Steve Rubel explains on PBS’ PublicEye: … our practices are becoming more public. All of us who work inside PR agencies recognize that we need to build transparent bond with the public directly and not just serve as corporate intermediaries… … Continue reading
Misguided iPhone/Safari strategy analysis
More iPhone strategy from Bob Cringely. While he’s spot-on with most of his columns, I don’t agree with his line of thought in this week’s column. In a nutshell, Cringely believes that forcing developers to develop Safari-compliant AJAX applications will … Continue reading
Scoble is not an idiot…
… but he doesn’t seem to have gotten things bang-on either, with regard to the supposed “closed” nature of the iPhone. Steve Jobs admitted at the D conference that Apple was rather cagey about allowing developers to write third-party apps … Continue reading
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!
Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment … Continue reading
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry
It means everything. It means a massive opportunity and a massive threat. It means a period of flux in the SEO space for the next six months. Why? Until today, everything – everything – in the SEO industry was to … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, google, internet, Trends, Yahoo
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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 1: Industry Disruption
About a week ago, Google took the lid off a project that had been brewing for several months. The company calls it Universal Search. In a nutshell, it “will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, google, internet, Trends, Yahoo
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When Telecom & IT babus just don't get the Market
For all who go to town declaring that India has an entrepreneur-friendly, liberalized Telecom sector, here’s a dampener. TRAI’s recommendations on “ Review of Internet Services“, a report dated May 10th 2007, show just how much (or little) babus in … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, india, internet, Policy, telecom
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Flash Web Applications and componentization
There was a time when Google released its Desktop Search application (since renamed Google Desktop), and the Google Talk client more or less together. Back then, I wondered why Google was going down the path of Windows desktop applications – … Continue reading