Monthly Archives: January 2007

OpenID via Yahoo!

Posted on January 30, 2007 by

This is exciting…Idproxy.net enables users to use use Yahoo! login to create an OpenID. Check it out (its kinda techie but cool)…

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How do I know you are who you say you are?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by

There have been some new identity verification services trying to bring some order to the wild world of Internet.   You can read my take over on the Read/WriteWeb (Thanks Richard, for the great job editing and laying out the … Continue reading →

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ROI of blogging

Posted on January 25, 2007 by

Charlene Li of Forrester has an interesting report in which she tries to calculate the ROI (return on investment) for business blogging. Unfortunately the report is only available to paying customers but she lays out the model in a blog … Continue reading →

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Citizendium

Posted on January 23, 2007 by

Citizendium, is the new Wiki project, started by Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia. They define the project as follows: The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by … Continue reading →

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How many identities do you have?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by

I have been thinking about the differences in teenage and adult behavior in the sphere or creating and managing identities. You can read my take over on the Read/WriteWeb (Thanks Richard, for the great job editing and laying out the … Continue reading →

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Agent Smith Effect

Posted on January 17, 2007 by

(For those of you, who haven’t seen the “Matrix” movies, Agent Smith was one of the protagonists of Neo. His special ability, after a mutation, was that he could create as many copies of himself as he liked. Also, you … Continue reading →

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PowerReviews Takes On Amazon.com With Distributed Model

Posted on January 12, 2007 by

This Tuesday, I was at the NewTechMeetup, where I saw a presentation from Robert Chea, Founder and COO of PowerReviews. You can read my review of the startup over on the Read/WriteWeb (Thanks, Richard MacManus, for the opportunity!).

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Blogging in India – Part Deux

Posted on January 10, 2007 by

After all the adventure setting up the network in Mysore, we moved on to Pilani – a small town in Rajasthan, where I grew up – to spend the last leg of our India trip. Needless to say, after the … Continue reading →

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The Tipping Point

Posted on January 8, 2007 by

I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s wonderful book – The Tipping Point. The book talks about how and why, word-of-mouth epidemics, spread. There are lot of interesting studies and data points, related to human behavior, referred to in the book. … Continue reading →

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Attributor

Posted on January 5, 2007 by

Interesting piece in the WSJ about a start-up in redwood city, called Attributor. Attributor analyzes the content of clients, who could range from individuals to big media companies, using a technique known as “digital fingerprinting,” which determines unique and identifying … Continue reading →

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