http://blogs.filmyfatte.com web2.0, technology news Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This comparison is unfair to Powerset and to Google. Powerset is a very new company that is trying to solve a subset of search and with a different focus. Google has been in the search space for last 10 years, relentlessly innovating, has a lions share in the search space ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2008/05/12/powerset-vs-google/ I have not really done too much searching for online bus booking website for India. I only knew of www.raj.travel that doesn't work on firefox (Shame on you!). I was googling for some other service and this google ad caught my attention. http://www.redbus.in. Nice clean website. Works on firefox ( <<clapping>> ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2008/02/22/online-bus-booking/ Today (December 11th) was the first day of TiE 2007 summit (http://www.tiesummit.org/). I was there for 3-4 hours. Got to hear Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Uday Challu - founder of iyogi, Pradeep Kar, and various others including panelists from Sierra Ventures, SIDBI, Citibank etc. I particularly liked Uday: he was ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/12/11/tie-2007/ Do we Indians search as much as people from developed countries? I doubt. What are the reasons? I refuse to accept that it is because of absence of search engines in native languages or anything. As one of my colleagues put it, Indians do search a lot but the searches ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/12/11/search-and-internet/ This is just a ridiculously funny post that I got on my company's email account. Just wanted to share the fun ;) Om Jai Google Hare !! Swami Om Jai Google hare Programmers ke sankat, Developers ke Sankat, Click main door kare!! Om Jai Google Hare !!Jo Dhyawe vo pawe, dukh bin se man ka, Swami ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/11/13/google-aarti/ It came to be as a surprise. India is the fifth largest internet users country in the whole world! This is truly astonishing. We are a force to reckon with. The number of unique Internet users 15 years or older rose 33 percent in India to 21.1 million. This is a ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/07/06/india-has-fourth-largest-internet-users-in-the-world/ Google just introduced the coolest feature I have ever seen in any online maps. Street View! What is it? Check it out! San Francisco bay bridge street view Street View allows users to view 360° panoramas of street-level imagery. It almost gets you in the real world. No more virtual experience. ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/05/30/go-go-google/ 78% of the bloggers write blogs to prove their intelligence (Remember, 48.9% of the statistics are made on the spot! ;) ). But I am posting this to prove how big an ass I am. Absolute ignorant good-for-nothing IT guy! Ok, let me cut the chase. Just yesterday (May 28th, ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/05/29/a-virtual-world-the-second-life/ Disclaimer: It is not about web 2.0 or technology. I just found it fascinating enough to blog! My wife bought an expensive Nike shoe for her father without knowing his fit. She told the Nike retail shop that she would exchange or return it if it does not fit her father. ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/05/09/do-you-know-if-you-are-a-natural-runner/ There is an interesting posting that I just read : Google Tech Talks Showcase "One of the great parts of working at Google is that every day there are tech talks that I really want to listen too. More than I can spend the time to actually see. Last week I ... http://blogs.filmyfatte.com/2007/05/04/google-shares-its-tech-talks/