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¶ Published Friday, March 7th at 9:15 pm ∞ In Internet, Technology ∞ No Comments »
Stage6, of the high quality DivX video streaming fame, has shut down. And it’s not even April Fools’ Day. There were feelers sent out by the folks at DivX a few days before but I never really paid heed. This is the worst piece of news I’ve heard in years. Their homepage shows this message:
Stage6.com […]
¶ Published Saturday, June 9th at 2:49 am ∞ In Facebook, Social Networking, Orkut, Internet, Technology ∞ 2 Comments »
I have trashed some of the annoying elements of social networks, and mildly joked about Orkut in an earlier post. Of course, whether the ‘humour’ actually came through is entirely up to the readers. But these days I have seen stuff going on in social networks that are genuinely exciting.
In fact I should be saying […]
¶ Published Thursday, May 31st at 7:08 pm ∞ In Google, Internet, Technology ∞ 2 Comments »
When Scoble gave that now famous interview about managing his 622 feeds a day, he mentioned that one of the few disadvantages of Google Reader was the lack of an offline reading facility.
It now appears that biggies like Google actually listen to comments of A-list bloggers like him. Although I doubt they might have […]
¶ Published Monday, May 21st at 2:02 am ∞ In Open Source Software, Linux, Internet, Technology ∞ 7 Comments »
Now after systematically dismantling the hold of Internet Explorer over the user’s internet browsing experience, comes another threat - this time to proprietary media players. Songbird might not only hurt Microsoft here, but also other biggies who are much more prominent in the post-ipod world.
For the geeks (if they haven’t already heard of it, that […]
¶ Published Tuesday, May 8th at 1:12 am ∞ In Soccer, Internet, Technology ∞ 3 Comments »
The following post, although stems from football, is very much relevant for any other form of entertainment from video hosting sites like Youtube. I had posted this on Soccerlens, but feel it to be fairly general to be posted here too. One doesn’t need to know football to get the point of this post. So […]
¶ Published Friday, April 6th at 10:07 pm ∞ In Joost, Entertainment, Internet, Technology ∞ 6 Comments »
A review of Joost was long time coming. I had posted earlier on how it could revolutionize the way couch potatoes sit on couches and the way it could change the whole ratings system and TV programming in general. Last week I got an invite after a really, really long time to test the beta […]
¶ Published Saturday, March 24th at 12:47 am ∞ In Operating Systems, Linux, Ubuntu, Technology ∞ 9 Comments »
Forgive the clichéd use of a familiar punchline modified for convenience. For a want of a better title, it was all I could come up with.
The past couple of days were spent in installing and tweaking (and more tweaking) a new operating system in my laptop. Ubuntu (meaning ‘towards humanity’ as its Wikipedia entry […]
¶ Published Monday, February 19th at 8:38 am ∞ In Entertainment, General Rubbish, Internet, Technology ∞ 4 Comments »
Yes it is precisely that. Funny this is what some random tag surfing brought me to. I’ve heard jokes about outsourcing where people talk about outsourcing almost any kind of service however insane, but not many about open source stuff. But this one beats it all!
If you’ve been to a computer show in recent months […]
¶ Published Thursday, February 15th at 11:18 pm ∞ In Entertainment, T.V., Internet, Technology ∞ 4 Comments »
The internet has slowly and surely crawled into my psyche and it is little wonder that I can live in peace even if I didn’t have a T.V at home. To be a bit more specific, it is Web 2.0 that has really brought about this change from a couch potato to a ermm… laptop […]
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