The furor behind SiCKO [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/], Michael Moore’s documentary on the US health-care system, has resulted in a debate between Moore and CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/15/moore.gupta/index.html]. Moore’s documentary compares the highly profitable American health…
Let’s take a quick tour. The first-generation web, Web 1.0 (prior to 1998), with its text-only web pages, centered around the “web browser” (application host). Web 2.0 (2002-2007) is centered around interaction (application dynamics and logic). The Web 2.0 trend is bloated with API’s, mashups,…
Internet giants Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com [http://rediff.com], which runs one of India’s most popular Internet portals, for a possible acquisition. Some think that Rediff’s share price is too high for an acquisition, but then we’ll just have to wait and watch. Source:…
We are already half-way through this year, and while there’s nothing interesting on the telly lately, I thought I’d look up what’s cooking in hollywood. Thank goodness we have these films to look forward to. So here are the 10 most anticipated movies to come in 2008:…
As it turns out, the upcoming movie “Cloverfield” or “1-18-08” (website [http://www.1-18-08.com/] / IMDB [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/]) as its formally being called, is creating a lot of buzz on the Internet. It all started through a mysterious trailer [http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/…
Sometime back, Cait [http://scientaestubique.wordpress.com/] e-mailed me to participate in a survey centred around Australian Internet-startup’s. The survey results [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pq8tRfjYA9FcbFRttlWsyIw&pli=1] can be viewed online, although I think its still missing responses from a few other participants. There are…
Yawning is an involuntary action that everyone does. It’s also been noticed that yawning seems contagious. However, new research suggests rather than being a precursor to sleep, the purpose of yawning is to cool the brain so it operates more efficiently and keeps you awake. The theory could explain…
It seems like the micro-blogging [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging] trend is heating up. Social-driven micro-blogging services like Twitter [http://www.twitter.com], Jaiku [http://www.jaiku.com], Pownce [http://www.pownce.com] etc., allow users to send small text-based posts via SMS, IM, email or a web form,…