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Bye Bye Bloglet!

By debashish • Oct 6th, 2005 • Category: Technology

I was not quite aware of how many readers have subscribed to this blog through Email. Today I checked Bloglet and found that there are 50+ readers who have subscribed, but as usual, Bloglet indicated that the emails were not being sent lately.
Bloglet’s has been one of the most unique and pioneering service, but apart [...]



Google introduces Blog search

By debashish • Sep 14th, 2005 • Category: Technology

We should have seen this coming after Technorati brought in their Blog Search feature. Now Google has “Blog Search” tool for the blogger.com blogs, without the pain of tagging your blog. As always, you can notice the detail to which they go. The “search options” lets you search a particular blog (or multiple blogs), even [...]



Better than Google?

By debashish • Sep 9th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Now this may not be too geeky but Google Total gives you what it promises, all Google services at one place, sort of wrapper for the real Google if you will. No need to click on various tabs, all Google goodies are available in the drop-down list. Probably, Pune based Anil hated toolbars as much [...]



Technorati's Blog Finder

By debashish • Sep 2nd, 2005 • Category: Technology

Technorati has come up with another good service called Blog Finder that can let you search for blogs as per categories or subjects, as tagged by the blog-owners. IMHO the tagging part should have been a moderated affair, current system will have all the drawbacks of tagging. This could do well for blogs that do [...]



Hindi in that Cloud

By debashish • Aug 30th, 2005 • Category: Technology

In my previous post I had discussed that Tagcloud was unable to generate the Tagcloud for Hindi blogdom since the Yahoo term extraction API doesn't recognize non-English characters yet. I then decided on implementing it myself. This is how I do it:

Parse the Hindi blog group RSS Feed
Get the Words ignoring the very commonly used [...]



TagCloud, if it could work with Hindi

By debashish • Aug 6th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Tagcloud seems interesting; tells you the crux of the conversations in blogdom pretty much like Technorati tags. There are 80+ Hindi blogs now and I thought why not sport one such cloud for these blogs at Chittha Vishwa, alas the effort failed. The onus fell on the Yahoo Term Extraction API that as of now [...]



Cheese on the Moon

By debashish • Jul 20th, 2005 • Category: Technology

I really envy these guys having fun at work. Based on the Google Maps they have a funsite called Google Moon featuring the NASA pictures of Man's 1969 landing on the Moon. As for the “cheese” in the title of this post, look closer



Free Sun Certified Java Associate exam

By debashish • Jun 1st, 2005 • Category: Technology

Just heard about this new Sun certification exam. The beta version of the exam, with a whopping 122 questions to be answered in 3 hours, is being offered free from June 20 for a month.
I am not sure why Sun went for this, an exam for entry level programmers and IT managers with just 6 [...]



Here now, gone tomorrow?

By debashish • Mar 29th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Atleast this is what Google groups (beta) opines. Once you make a post, the resulting page makes you unsure whether the post will make it to the archives. Or am I sounding too British



Blog strolling - 2

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Java's friendly mascot Duke has got a blog too.
Indic threads has a 3 part skinny on J2SE 5.0
Bus Service to Pakistan. Oh no not again! I am sick and tired of these gimmicks.
“some countries“..so sweet Patil saheb! India ki diplomacy da jawab nahin!