I'm working on a new article, you can check it on my new blog
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So I'm moving. No, not cities, but blogs. I've created a new blog on Blogger and have a few posts up there already. Apart from this virtual move, I'm also moving jobs, and will be keeping you updated on my new blog...
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If you are wondering why there are no updates yet, well a few things have happened over the last few months. Firstly, I moved to a new city. Now I'm in Bangalore. Then this site was swamped with spam, and I haven't got myself to update to a later version of a Blogging Engine, and finally there has been a new addition to my family. I hope to be up and running again pretty soon though, will keep you posted.
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Microsoft dispatches anthropologists into the field to study small businesses. Here's why...
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Somebody had recently emailed me if there are openings at Digité and quite accidentally (don't ask me how) I've lost the email and am unable to reply to it. Well, the answer actually is, yes. We are looking for good interaction designers, entry level or otherwise. If you're interested, just drop a line at nnair [ a t ] digite [ d o t ] com...
[PS: Current opening are only at our India Development Center, sorry for missing out on the details...]
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Is Acrylic going to be PhotoShop killer from M$? Acrylic is based on Expression, the graphics application Microsoft acquired with its 2003 purchase of Hong Kong company Creature House. You can download an evaluation version here...
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A neat NY Times article by David Pogueon how you can save time by configuring various cool tech tools like speech recognizers, etc. The only problem is that people do not have enough time to do the configuring
Too bad I don't have enough time to read the whole article, so I'll just file it here for later... ;)
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Nolan K. Bushnell, the creator of the Pong video game and founder of the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain, is innovating again. He is about to open a restaurant where the servers will have novel attributes: triple redundancy and backup batteries... [NY TImes Registration Required]
Interestingly I had the same idea of going on in my mind about a year or so ago. Guess an idea is worth nothing unless you execute it ;)
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An interesting flash tool that compares the search results of Google and Yahoo for a particular term...
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The expanse of white space at the bottom of Google's main Web page, possibly the most valuable undeveloped real estate in cyberspace. Not anymore...
Couple of articles on Google Fusion:
1. NY Times
2. eWeek
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An in-progress collection of AJAX patterns being collected and discovered by Michael Mahemoff
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I.B.M. is increasingly betting that it can build a big business around open-source software. The latest step in that strategy is the purchase of Gluecode Software, an open-source start-up...
[Via NY Times - Free registration Required]
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In March, the Federal Communications Commission took a significant step toward breaking an industry deadlock over setting a single standard for a new wireless technology called ultrawideband, or UWB...
“While traditional radio technologies have transmitted and received analog signals only on specific frequencies, UWB uses inexpensive computing power to send short radio pulses across much of the radio spectrum. Because it does not use a single frequency, UWB offers several advantages, including the capacity to send high volumes of information quickly and the ability to share frequencies and resist interference. It's like breaking a truck's cargo into loads small enough to be carried on bicycles that can weave through a traffic jam.”
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Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. Designers and managers have discussed “standards” as a way to solve this problem but this standards content (often contained only in the memories of designers) has never existed in a commonly accessible format...
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On Monday, Microsoft announced 'Metro', a new document management technology that will be a part of its Longhorn OS. Xerox has also announced support for Metro, which is an open format that allows users to share, print and archive paginated-layout documents and used in document workflows.
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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML combine to enable powerful new capabilities for browser-based UIs
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Been quite busy lately and spammers have pretty much destroyed this blog (so no more comments and trackbacks- not for some time at least, sorry), just checking to see if things are still working...
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Just got back from a vacation, and caught this post on Joel Spolsky's site. The advice is really useful even if you're already a CS grad...
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Boxes and Arrows has announced the winners of its re-design contest. Though the winner looks nice, my personal favorite was the bronze winner from Behavior Design.
You can check out all the entries here in a self running presentation mode...
Laszlo is putting up a introductory training course for the LPS on Dec. 2nd and 3rd in San Francisco. At $1600, it may seem a bit steep for an introductory course, but a look at the agenda suggests this is not one for absolute beginners. Should be worth the price, I reckon...
Just found a link to this document that gives a brief overview to CMMi and some of the differences between CMM and CMMi. A good read for anybody who is interested in process implementation.
By the way, if you're really interested in serious process implementation, you should take a look at the latest version of our tool, Digité Enterprise 4.1. It'll make process implementation a breeze...
Amazon has just started a series of Flash based short films that are being shown on their site
Produced by Fallon the quality is slick and the idea is for people to buy the products placed in the films.
Unfortunately, for me, the credits kept popping before the whole movie was over... annoying...
But interesting...
Looks like Google is planning to take on A9 heads on with its own book search feature called Google Print.
Well, the more the merrier, right?
Interestingly, I just bought a book on Amazon and got π/2% off for using A9. Now that is a cool reason to search using A9...
In back-to-back announcements, Macromedia announced that Flex is available free for non-commercial applications and Laszlo announced that LPS is now open source. So things are becoming pretty difficult to choose between.
Both employers and prospective employees are finding that blogging can be useful in the job search process. Check this NY Times article on it...
I was just going through this post on Jonas' bolg and the InfoWorld article it touches upon has some really interesting statistics. The article is study on what developers are working on these days, and while ActionScript does not figure amongst the top used programming languages (though ECMAScript does), around 45% people mentioned that they will be increasing the use of Flash in their work. Now that is as good a sign as it can get...
The new version of RoboDemo (...sorry Captivate) looks cool. One of my biggest feature request with RoboDemo was the need for a timeline based edit of the screens, looks like Captivate takes care of that. This would be a must have upgrade if you use RoboDemo...
Amazon is taking on Google with a new search site called A9.
While Google concentrates on simplicity and delivering the most relevant search results in the shortest possible time, A9 is adding the experience face to the process of conducting a web search by providing various facets like related movies and books.
While A9 still relies on the Google to provide its basic search results, integrating it with Amazon's 'Search inside Book' feature, has made this into a really powerful search engine. While Google still relies on the Internet for data, A9 is also supported by the written word. Also some of the nice to have features like 'History' and 'Bookmarks' make this an instantly likeable site...
Also read this NY Times article for more insight…
PS: I just noticed that A9 recognizes your Amazon ID...
While developing accessible applications it is a nice practice to provide short-cut keys for key operations. But which key for which operation? This article takes a look at the challenges of using accesskeys.
The fourth edition of Flashtival 2004, the largest Flash and Webdesign conference of the Benelux takes place on Monday 27th September. The program focuses on the international character of the conference and a number of the most well-known Flash professionals from all over the world will be present. Flashtival 2004 takes place at Congress Centre De Doelen in Rotterdam, Holland.
For more info visit the Flashtival site
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