February 2006
11 posts
History of the databases
Watch How Databases Changed the World [2h @Google Video] by Computer History Museum.Chris Date (though no Ted Codd) is one the members on the panel! One of the members on the panel from Informix had a really interesting answer to the question “what will be the next paradigm shift in the database world just like how relational database was back then?” According to him, with the...
The History of Computer Chess
Watch the History of Chess - An AI perspective [2h Google Video] by Computer History Museum - the video features the who’s who of AI from USA.
Interesting notes from the video (read these and you would definitely want to watch the video after this!)
1) Terrible bugs in chess programs do not seem to affect much the overall intelligence of the program. Why? McCarthy - The...
Y Combinator and its boot camps!
“It’s a way for recruiting for Yahoo where you don’t have the risk and uncertainty of knowing if they can actually do something,” said Joel Spolsky, a technology entrepreneur in New York City who also has a wide readership on the Internet. Running a Hatchery for Replicant Hackers - New York Times
The effect of Salesforce.com and other on-demand...
Web Services Upend Old Ideas About the Little Guy’s Role - New York Times NYTimes had a nice article (click the link above) talking about how the new on-demand (SaaS) software services are helping small companies in the US to use IT in really cool ways like never before and increase their performance. There’s a professional wedding photographer business using Salesforce.com for CRM, a...
BackRub and the new Def.
Nick Gall on Web 2.0 and open architectures:
Beware: this guy is also a lawyer apart from being a geek.
The 3 main characteristics of web 2.0 according to him:
R/W web - web is transforming into a R/W medium from the Read-only format. Eg: wikis Back-linking - web is transforming into a forward-and-backward linking system from the forward-only system. For instance, Google’s entire PageRank...
ASCII interface design?
Places interface design
Originally uploaded by factoryjoe.
CK Prahalad on India
Read CK Prahalad on India @ Sadagopan’s blog
Talks about why India’s current advantages won’t die when Africa comes into the picture a few decades down the road.
Virtual Reality IRCs?
Virtual Reality IRCs?
Originally uploaded by Harish Mallipeddi.
My first time in SL
My first time in SL
Originally uploaded by Harish Mallipeddi.
Voice 2.0
Applications as the value creators
Iotum - “simply relevant”, is another entry at DEMO ‘06 and they’re focusing in the voice industry. They’re basically like a VoIP company but with the added benefit of their propietory relevance engine - it predicts the relevance of the calls, how important the call is, will it disturb the recepient if routed to him right now, and...
DEMO ‘06 kicks off!
It’s interesting how many ideas showcased at this year’s DEMO conference were actually envisioned by me and my friends while brainstorming for a startup business plan competition. The following are some of the ideas we came up with (not essentially the same in all aspects, but more or less similar) :-
Zimini: announces the beta availability of a its online coupon platform. It is based...