S Anand

MIT’s Social Media Group

Excellent intro to social network analysis

About the mad life we have with children. Aniruddha will appreciate this.

Bald actresses. They look nice without the hair too. Comments kesh 27 Feb 2009 8:53 pm: where s d photos ? S Anand 28 Feb 2009 7:55 am: Looks like the original link went bad. Have replaced it with a Google search.

Dan Briklin on software that lasts 200 years.

Interesting idea to use gmail for backup.

Nilesh on the Uncanny valley. The point at which a simulation becomes close enough to reality that it stops matching up. I have seen a lot of this happen in software design too.

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned. Maybe this happens everywhere. Maybe it is for the good. I just wish there were another way. (Don’t watch the clip.)

The Best Google Answers.

Excellent article by Paul Graham on great hackers.

Conversational cheap shots.

A good way to get things done at a call center.

Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.

An animated description of how DNA gets converted to proteins.

Marc’s Outlook on Productivity – a good blog on productivity software.

Apologetic software.

Microsoft bought Lookout. Lookout searches for e-mail in Outlook across .pst files. As soon as they did, Microsoft closed downloads of Lookout. In contrast, when Google bought Picasa, they opened it up for free.

Picasa is good. I incorporated all my photos in it, and I can now search for photos of people by name. (I have catalogued my photos’ file names with peoples’ names.) Now, with Google taking over Picasa, we will soon be able to store/share photos on Google, and search across others’ shared photos, using Google’s image search!

I have 3 gmail invites available. Mail me if you’re interested (and WHY you’re interested in gmail).

I have no gmail invites left. Please wish Rajneesh, Joseph, Kannan, Mark, Mohamed and Naresh all the best with their accounts.