taDa

nJoy
shodZ

IndiaTimes sux

i like to proove my claims. just have a look at this n tell me this guys have gotta portal up n runnin.

Why HTML is dead

wtf??? this artikle is dated mar 15, 2005 which is like a kouple of days back. im pretty sure there are more exciting things going on.

French Head-Akes

i have reason to believe(n believe me if ya were in my french klass ya would believe too) that my french instruktor in her last birth was some kindoff a director for theatre plays. n like morgan freeman in Million Dollar Baby wants his 110th fight(fortunately in the same birth); this gal wants her zillionth play or something. why else would she want us to reicte/kreate scenes with expressions n all that?? i mean i kould understand if she asked us to bring in a proper french accent but why the theatriks? n my kolleagues seem to be more than happy to do so. k, it might add a fun komponent to the whole process but then she might as well teach us some french abusive lang or some french pik-up lines!!!

Waking Life

i saw this animation kalled waking life. its filled with ideologies right frm existentialism n post-modernism to dream theories ns tuff like that. talks about a lot of different perspektives.
anyway the point was that somebody had atleast woken up. Benett, Coleman & Company has finally decided that people who want to read some real news(ie, everybody) analysis donot read the TOI. hence they are starting a new daily which shall be kalled the 'Times INdependant'. for a start its a mumbai edition only. nJoy the awakened life.
k, now another point about these newsPapers. i aktuallr read this piece of news in BusinessStandard`s daily edition which i subskribe too. but i thought i did look up their online edition to see if i kan link to the same story. it was there but there was no permalink to it.
this is really foolish, i did say. it would save them some disgrace if googleNewZ was indexing them but nah. so any search for anything on the www will not produce any of BS` artikles. those ppl must undertstand that this is the way things work in the world. everybody knows that different search stratergies are required to look up stuff on the web in general or in the blogosphere or in the news world. butt that doesnt mean that ya klose the kurtain on for other possiblities. i have linked to them. but its a temp link. some days later the results of the url would change n there would broken links. wakeUp ppl.
atleast NYtimes has. with their akusition of about things would definitely look up for them.

GooGle GroupZ

maybe this is the one think that i dint notice about googleGroups but its got a lovely gMailish interface(its even got that stareed thingy)

did ya Know - Intelink

Intelink is Amerika`s own classified, highly sekure internet.
more info here.

BusinessStandard

burried somewhere in my list of newYear objektives was one of improving my kurrentAffairs knowledge n better understanding matters of finance n ekonomiks. hence jan'05 saw the paperWallah throwing in my room BusinessStandard rather than the usual, more komon TOI. i remmember during, when i was small, during the skool days, dad use to bring home a bunch of these yellow kolored papers. i thought they were yellow bcoz they were made ouoof some kindoff waste paper(bcoz they dint have money to buy new paper bcoz no one read tehre paper) n my dad was doin some kindoff charity by buyinig most of them everyday. lol. nice paper i must add. my favorite part though is not the main paper but some of the supplements. same kase with TOI. but for different reasons. TOI supplements are more picturesque so as to say.
anyway, thers 'teh Stratergist' which has this real kooll quiz that even when i try my best, am able to answer a maximum of 1-2 questions. theres also this one kalled 'ice world' which always has something to laugh about for me. i guess its one of those 'tekky stuff for financial geex' kind. they put in so much of bachha stuff n its really behind the turn of events. this time its apparently something about the google/msn search wars. a more intresting artikle on the sekond page talks about a produkt oriented IT base in india. definitely on the right lines. even personally, i would garner greater satisfaktion while workin for a produkt company rather than a services oriented one. sadly, as the artikle points out hte Indian big-wigs are more of BPO oriented.

sonOfABitch

src

GooGle <=> EviL

i always thought that GooGle personified gandhiJi`s 'teen bandar' n ther related evil talk

• Mizaru : See no evil
• Mikazaro : Hear no evil
• Mazaro : Speak no evil

but times change n so do other things. first twas the autolink controversy n now /. has a story that talks of some guy having noticed that GooGle uses kolakin n keyword stuffing to inkrease its own page rank.
shame
Update 12 March, 6:17 am: GooGle responded immediately n removed the partikuar pages frm the index thus punishing itself in a manner it would have punished anyone else.

French Dialogue - I

im learning french n seldom during the sessions we have to recite/create a set of dialogues b/w 2 ppl n enaKt them in front of the Klass. i thought i would start putting them up here.
today i was Koupled(yes, out french instruKtor kouples students in two; always different frm who ur sitting with) with XuM. we were suppose to do a stranger to stranger conVo; but we were admant on conveying to teh publiK in general the problems we faced in life. hence we took on a more or less social approach wherein social refers to the Klass of individuals that personifies us. anyway so here it is. i would have wanted to provide for a direKt GooGle translation but i think my idioKracy with k`s n Z`s would break them.

me : Situaiton - 14 Fevrier, de hors la Klub.
XuM : Excusez-moi, tu`attends quelqu'un?
me : Le Malheur est très mal, et vous?
XuM : Je Dans similar situation, Elle m`a quitte et elle est partie avec un autre garçon
me : Laisse tomber, prends um pot!
Xum : Cest pas grave, de toute farçon les filles sont une bonne raison pour boire.

pretty broken, i know; but dint i say we were learnign. nyway, heres what we wanted to say

me : Situaiton - 14 Feb, outside the Klub.
XuM : Excuse-me, are u waitin for someone?
me : my bad luK is very bad, n u?
XuM : im in a similar situation, my gal kicked me n ranoff with another guy.
me : Leave it, lets get high!
Xum : anyway notta get serious, gals are a great reason to drink

Resume Formats

there was this time (a kouple of months ago)(rather triple that) when i was sKoutin for good, Klean resume formats over the net, but hell only if i had thought of this then i Kould have been at miKrosoft.

'Pee Strip' - Virgin

hors de la boîte

Yahoo`s old NoW

k, so yahoo just celebrated its 10th bDay. that is when they released this, a snapshot of the eVolutiion of the net. inspired by 10x10. btw not many know that yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

UbuntU

i have in my hand 2 diX of UbUntU - linuX for human beingZ. one is a liVe cd which is for ppl like me(i Kannot partition my IBM warrantied hdd). the other is an installation version. lets see if it liVees up to its name.

Centurion

Holy Shit!!!!
that was the 100th post.
Applaud.

Snap

dint i just say that the eKonomiKs behind s/w were changing. just to reiterate.

I met with Tom McGovern from Snap, the search engine by the former Overture team, and I continue to be impressed by these guys. Snap just introduced search advertising, something they call "Cost-Per-Action" advertising. While most everyone else offers pay-per-click, where the advertiser only pays when the ad is clicked, Snap offers the option of only paying out when a specific action (chosen from an appropriate list) occurs. As long as the action earns the company more than the ad cost, this represents the perfect risk-free advertising.

Thing about it this way: Staples buys an ad for 3% on searches for binders. Searcher clicks on ad, buys nothing, Staples pays nothing. Searcher buys a single binder for 75 cents, Staples pays 2 cents. Searcher turns out to be a company, buys 5,000 binders for $3,750, Staples pays Snap about $112.

If Staples wants to be smart about it, they can buy cost-per-action ads at variable prices for regular searches, so they pay a percentage-based comission per sale, and fixed prices for searches on business keywords. This would result in a 2 cent payment on a single 75 cent sale, and if you pick your business keywords properly, sales resulting from those terms could be 40 cents, instead of $112.

See, by mixing variable pricing and fixed pricing, you could pay tiny commissions on small sales, and fixed costs on bigger ones, just by picking the right keywords. The best part? You pay nothing if they buy nothing. And of course, you can always use traditional pay-per-click if you'd like.

One thing that struck me as odd is that I was told the rankings in Snap's search engine are based partially on the ads. While this isn't exactly paid search, their relevancy algorithm takes into account the success of the ads. Snap tracks how many people who click on the ads convert into sales. It not only uses that data for billing, it also uses it to determine relevancy.

In Snap's eyes, an ad with a high conversion rate represents a site with highly relevant data. As a result, that site will rank higher in the unpaid listings, representing a version of paid search that isn't exactly paid for. What Snap's advertisers get is higher search rankings based on ad performance, a major advantage over non-advertisers. It might be highly useful for a company to buy a dollar of advertising on Snap, make sure its highly relevant and cannot possibly not result in a successful action (such as watching a video), just to get the effect of paid search with higher search rankings.

Call it "backdoor paid search".

src

GooGle n WiKi

there are no free lunches.

now who said that???
k, seriously i would say this is more of a GR campaign(now dont ya tell me u aint know what GR is. as PR is for the avg. publiK; GR is for tha GeeX. the idea is simple. if u want ur organiZation/company to be known in the teKKy world u must have a sound GR department. its not really that tough a job. all u gotta do is donate a Kouple of s/w components to the openSource Kommunity; aKtively take part in some open standards developing komitteZ; follow the GooGle invented no eVil route n get all that aKross to the right people(read bloggerZ).)

Simplicity

A compelling argument on simplicity; n withoutt the mention of Occam`s RaZor