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,…
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…
Update: I have released the PHP source code for the PayPal donation FeedFlare I wrote. Please feel free to use it (edit as needed, and host on your server). You can find the source code at the end of this blog post. FeedBurner [http://www.feedburner.com/], the processor for…
The article Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php] explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/02/13/yahoo-pipes-as-seen-by-a-ufo/]. The author sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90’s, concluding that…
Since I had some spare time today, I upgraded the blog app (WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org]) to the latest version 2.0.5. Besides, I’ve also been working on a fresh template/theme for the blog, which is also live now. I hope its more usable and cleaner.…
Continuing from my previous article [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/11/08/coolie-valley/] on the need & process of Entrepreneurship, there’s another interesting article titled “How to Moonlight as an Entrepreneur [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/jobs/29advi.html?amp;ei=5088&en=a5bfc5383337ee56&…
“50% Silicon Valley firms are run by Indians” [http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/nov/08inter.htm], tells Raghav Kher, founder and CEO, Seventymm [http://www.seventymm.com/] – India’s first online movie rental service. The term “coolie valley” was coined [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22coolie+valley%22]…
Everything Web 2.0 [http://www.sacredcowdung.com/archives/2006/03/all_things_web.html], a huge list of Web 2.0 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2] apps and resources.…