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Room102 is a search engine that previews websites.

Top 50 e-books in 2000. Actually, lots of eBooks have come out recently. eBookNet is a portal for eBooks. The ebook webring and eBooks Plus webring are other places to look for eBooks.

BCG has been kind enough to employ me.

The home page competition results are out. Congrats to Section C, and to Section A, who were close behind.

A (almost) live update on IIM-B’s placements.

Genome browser.

Some interesting electronic toys have come up at ToyFair.

Celera has released the human genome.

Google bought Deja. I don’t know which is better news – that they have money to buy companies, or that I can now search the Usenet.

Napster must pay.

Take two plates. Bring them very close in a vacuum. They will attract. The Casimir Effect (free subscription required).

Today, we will know if Napster will survive or die. We will also know what our genes are made of. Speaking of genes, biotech reports are the hottest selling at MultexInvestor.

Eric has updated The Cathedral & the Bazaar

Yahoo’s auction listings fell 82% when they started charging for auctions. But the sales apparantly is steady, and quality of listings is going up. Amazon may follow suit. Looks like the pay-model is the one that will survive on the Net.

Fantastic images at the Internet Ray Tracing Contest and at POVRay.

NASSCOM 2001 is on.

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

In Delhi & Mumbai, you can send voice messages, and soon (hopefully) use the telephone to access e-mail. Through Indivoice. They have a long way to go, though, to get on par with Yahoo! by Phone.

Fucked company reports that X-Drive.com is likely to lay off people. Given their accuracy, I’d recommend anyone having files on X-Drive make backups in the near future.

The Annals of Improbable Research have sent all kinds of things by post. Almost two-thirds were delivered. I doubt if it would happen in India.