July 2001

eBiquity has news on pervasive computing (which, as with most good things, started at Xerox.)

I’m fiddling around with Yahoo’s add-ons like guestbook, site stats, etc. Don’t be surprised to see wierd things popping up on my page.

Google Zeitgeist: trends in Google searches. (Zeitgeist means “the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era”). Similar to Buzz and Lycos50. Other sites that offer search profiles are AskJeeves, Search.com, Excite, and Goto.

An excellent tutorial on cosmology from NASA.

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A good collection of Bollywood links.

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

Sony Entertainment’s site has an archive of broadband content, including trailers, Sony TV interviews, etc. Pretty good!

PC World’s Best of the Web uncovers gems like Safeweb (like Anomymizer.com but free), MegaPixel (digital cameras), Betanews, ArtistDirect (music search) and Multimedia Library.

The public preview of IE 6 is out. The revolutionary feature is smart tags. I think the image toolbar is a pretty neat idea too.

Google has an image search with 150 million images. (While on the topic of Google, try this search on dead.long.live.)

Easel is a GUI for Linux written by people from Apple. Hopefully, it will really bring Linux to the masses.

BBC’s study on human faces analyses how beauty can be measured, how we can spot lies, etc. They even have a video that shows Bill Clinton’s testimony – and a furrowed brow.

Yahoo has come up with a ‘conversations’ site. Will it pick up? (BTW, the new version of Yahoo Messenger supports webcams, message archives, and file sharing.)

A bizzarre calculation on the limits of computing power using fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

Among all concepts I have encountered on the Web, this one is the most intruiging. Ideosphere has created a futures market for ideas. You put a claim on this website, and people can buy/sell coupons based on these ideas. When the claim becomes true/false, these coupons increase/decrease in value. Of course, no real money is involved – it’s just a score. Very interesting, nevertheless, to get a feel of what people think. (There’s a similar exchange for Bollywood.)

Google just goes on. They’re working on voice search now.

The new GNU C Compiler GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler.

I listen to radio on Real Jukebox’s Radio Tuner. They offer 2,500 channels, including business talk channels and western classical (my interests).

My friends, Dr. Jani and Dr. Jigs, have written theses on “Local Intelligent Control In Biological Systems And Industrial Processes” and Modified Microporous Aluminosilicates As Novel Solid Acid Catalysts.