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

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

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

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

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.)

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

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.)

The Ancient History Sourcebook contains many ancient books in full-text (English), such as The Odyssey, The Code of Hammurabi, etc. Also included are the Manusmriti and Chanakya’s Arthashastra. Chanakya has also written a lesser known Niti Shastra.

The University of Virginia computes the Bacon Number for any actor, similar to the Erdos number in mathematics. We trace the acting links of Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and even Prabhu Deva to Kevin Bacon. (BCG did the same for consultants who have worked together, and it turns out that I have a Bruce Henderson number of 3.)

New School’s History of Economic Thought website is an excellent collection of contrasting viewpoints on business and economics.

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.

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

Having seen a bit of it from the inside, I agree with Consulting Central’s ranking of consulting companies.

I’m in Bangkok. Not planning to update this site for a week. Incidentally, it’s almost time for my site’s first anniversary – a year since 28 July 2000, when I started updating it regularly.

Nuke the Hamptons: a very interesting site.

Will OggVorbis beat MP3 Pro? Will Netscape 6.1 beat IE 5.5? Will OpenBSD 2.9 overtake Linux? Unlikely. But should be interesting to watch.

A review of Spielberg’s A.I. with lots of spoilers.

The US Copyright office has come up with a Copyright search engine.

Danny Yee’s micro-advertising experiment indicates that weblogs like Robot Wisdom (which is quite impressive) may be more effective than Google.

Feed is dead. Suck is dead. Thankfully, Plastic is alive. Demise of a Net Magazine.