February 16th, 2008 | by sameer | published in Around the web, Opinions, SNS, Web 2.0
A few days back, I stumbled onto this TEDTalk by Lawrence Lessig. It’s by far the most convincing description that I’ve come across of the state that our culture and law finds itself in today. Watch it and decide if you’d like to vote for drafting him into the Congress.
February 10th, 2008 | by sameer | published in PHP, Play, Web 2.0
For a couple of weeks now I’ve been monitoring what I do on my Mac using two tracker tools: Wakoopa and RescueTime. Both have unique approaches to the theme of tracking. Wakoopa builds a social network around the applications that you use. It lets you build ‘teams’ of people and see what your friends have […]
April 29th, 2007 | by sameer | published in Usability, Web 2.0
We’re very much in the middle of the Syndication revolution - Everything out there on the web can be syndicated - Be it the latest news, your friends’ photos and videos, your favorite TV Show episodes, and so on. Even sites lacking any technological platform for publishing can be subscribed to using online tools. […]
April 21st, 2007 | by sameer | published in Tips and tricks, Web 2.0
Ever asked yourself the question - “What was that awesome hit-the-boss game I played yesterday lunch break?” Well, Google just stepped forward to help you answer that very question. Google just upgraded their Search History feature to Web history, allowing people to have a look at all the pages they’ve browsed in a timeline based format. […]
April 20th, 2007 | by sameer | published in Interactivity, Web 2.0
Adobe’s recent announcement of the Apollo framework has had me excited for a while. This weekend, I plan to get my hands dirty with the SDK and see if I can build something. The really exciting thing about Apollo is that it’s going to bring Hybrid web applications into the limelight. Already, Adobe has announced a […]