S Anand

Spammer ploys. From the Scientific American.

10 best intranets of 2005 according to Jakob Nielsen.

13 things that do not make sense From the New Scientist. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 5:50 pm: Good one

AmazType is a typographic book search based on Amazon. I didn’t understand what that meant either, until I searched for Six Degrees. Try it. Then click on a few of the book images. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 7:56 am: Cool :D

Google Local Business Center. Fill in the address of your business. Google matches with its database, and edit the category, hours, payment terms, etc…. of course it’s not going to do this without some kind of validation. After you’ve submitted your listing Google will send you a letter within two weeks with a PIN and activation instructions for making your edits “live” on Google Local. Your listing won’t be included on the site until this process is gone through. ...

Where is Google X? It used to at labs.google.com/googlex, but there’s a 404 now. More at MetaFilter.

OpenSearch. “We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content.” It’s an RSS interface to search, and is an extremely powerful concept.

I have introduced a “Search” box near the top. It searches for posts that contain the string (regular expression) you type in that box. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 7:51 am: Superb! man you are smart! S Anand 17 Mar 2005 9:29 am: Just Javascript, actually. Jetru 17 Mar 2005 5:48 pm: Whatever.Looks impressive here. ritzkini 24 Mar 2005 5:18 am: tooo much !! too bloody much ! bu the event isnt shown taking place and fasssssssssssst !! good on u ! Deshi 24 Mar 2005 6:19 pm: Like he says, this is quite simple to do. But it makes the page more clutterred. Blogs have to be simple, and easy to read.. Kind of loses the purpose Jetru 26 Mar 2005 5:14 pm: No I like this format, except for the Permalink button S Anand 28 Mar 2005 3:17 am: Yeah, I don’t like the Permalink button either. Any suggestions?

Bruce Schneier on The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication. Two factor authentication replaces passwords with two things: something you have (e.g. a security token that changes numbers every minute) and something you know (e.g. password). Bruce says this won’t help against two new kinds of attacks we’re seeing: Man-in-the-Middle attack. An attacker puts up a fake bank website and entices user to that website. User types in his password, and the attacker in turn uses it to access the bank’s real website. Done right, the user will never realize that he isn’t at the bank’s website. Then the attacker either disconnects the user and makes any fraudulent transactions he wants, or passes along the user’s banking transactions while making his own transactions at the same time. ...

Amul ad hits. Comments BINDU NAIR 8 Dec 2011 12:50 pm: LOVE THE JINGLE OF THE AD UTTERLY BUTTERLY DELICIOUS AMUL

Bollycat: a list of Bollywood films plagiarized from Hollywood.

Cognitive daily. Are rich kids more troubled than poor kids? How do we decide what we’re seeing? What else are we doing when we watch a movie? What are we doing when we watch a movie? etc.

The long tail of software. The most interesting statistic however, was that while the top 10 searches were thousands of times more popular than the average search, these top-10 searches represented only 3% of our total volume. 97% of our traffic came from the long tail: queries asked a little over once a day. Search is a long tail business and that is the source of its power and profit. Read Chris Anderson’s Wired article ...

Telecom Italia’s Gandhi ad.

Which search engine to use? If you want to find websites that you can trust: Pinakes If you want to search the invisible web Lots more…

17-year old Panna Felsen defeats 3 robots in arm-wrestling. The slashdot comments are hilarious.

Harvard rejects applicants using hacker services.

How to find MP3s using Google. Create a montage using Google. Add persistent searches to Gmail. Get credit card numbers using Google. Convert your desktop into a search engine. All using Google. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 10:17 am: Even more using Google: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

Kids with cameras. Give cameras to kids. Train them a bit. See what they see. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 9:02 am: Not relevant to this post, but I see from the fiction collection you read a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. But I did not find the “Song of Fire and Ice” in your list. If you are interested, I have a copy. (Oh, those Russians) Sathish 8 Mar 2005 11:21 am: Dhar, I was also thinking of that.. I am currently reading the last part of it.. It is excellent. and thanx for your list.. I got some links to read from them

Hacking Google Print