Slashdot runs the “Turning E-Mail into a Social Network” post, which links to this article about Google and Yahoo approach: Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail … Continue reading Social network through the email
Web Worker Daily asks an interesting question – “How do you handle web rudeness?” This is probably a nobrainer for people who have been on the web for some time, but newcomers, especially those to the blogosphere and the world of forums, are often puzzled. It’s very easy to insult someone on the web. Pick … Continue reading How to handle web rudeness?
Via Mark Fletcher’s post came across The Nerd Handbook. This is a really nice post explaining a few things about nerds. While details may vary from person to person, the overall picture is pretty accurate of so many people I’ve seen in the IT industry and in some science related areas (mathematics, physics). Here are … Continue reading The Nerd Handbook – quick guide to the unknown
Blogosphere keeps providing more and more insights into the Google Android story. As I mentioned in my previous post, Android platform has a lot to do with Java. In fact, many people consider the level to which Java is integrated into the platform to be the “big news”, unique and all. Here is a quote … Continue reading Java chapter in Android story
A new version of my favorite Linux distribution has been released recently – Fedora 8. I got my hands on the installation DVD (thanks bro!) and tried it straight away. It didn’t go very well – the installation was hanging up during dependencies check. I thought maybe it was something simple to fix and checked … Continue reading Going for Fedora 8