S Anand

Whose sites are the most popular on this server? Last month, the top 10 sites were admissions, placement, Prof. Srinivasan’s, and Prof. Bandi’s. I ran http-analyze to get these results.

A paper at eLab talks about how CDNow prices its online advertisements. It argues that CPM is an archaic model, and measuring advertisement performance is more important.

Apps.com is a directory of Internet applications.

An behind-the-scenes report on a hacking attempt. These guys set up a trap and waited for it to get hacked. Once it did, they recorded the conversations of the hackers. If you’re UNIX savvy, it’s a must read.

The Internet Law Journal has a lot of stuff on legal issues on the Net. It’s going to come in handy for our dot-com project. So is dotcomfailures.com, which has details on failing dot-coms.

I bought Built to Last, Archer’s To Cut a Long Story Short, Crichton’s Timeline, Best Practices, and Handy’s The Age of Unreason at Fabmart. It was delivered in 5 days as promised.

Prof. Apte mentioned that the currency forward is not an unbiased estimator of the future spot rate, but is the certainty equivalent of it. The Kelly FAQ gives a good description of what certainty equivalence means.

Clinton signed the e-signature law. To be implemented in October, it’s an interesting contrast to our IT Bill.

The Humane Genome Project maps what each of our genes do. You could spend hours exploring genes. It’s implications are quite interesting.

The new Emerging Digital Economy report is out. I found the second and first extremely informative.