jugad2 - Vasudev Ram on software innovation

IBM cloud office, like Google Docs

2012-02-02T18:52:00.001+05:30

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wpsgh/wcm/connect/lotus+greenhouse/lotus+greenhouse+next+site/home/labs/ibm+docs

--- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

MobilePress, mobile plugin for WordPress

2012-02-02T18:38:00.001+05:30

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mobilepress/

--- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Air-powered car!

2012-02-02T18:29:00.001+05:30

http://www.livinglabs-global.com/blog/?p=2090

Living Labs Global, interesting initiative

2012-02-02T18:27:00.001+05:30

http://livinglabs-global.com/About-LivingLabs-Global.aspx

Vasudev Ram
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Google not testing apps enough?

2012-02-02T03:49:00.001+05:30

Seeing more bugs / other issues nowadays with Google web apps and Android, than earlier.

E.g. An Android app just crashed seemingly due to an accidental wrong keypress or two on my phone. That should not crash an app IMO.

Cool Twitter recruiting video

2012-01-31T19:12:00.001+05:30

http://mashable.com/2012/01/30/twitter-recruiting-video/

Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Gmail Android app bug? missing some mails

2012-01-31T02:59:00.001+05:30

The Gmail app on Android 2.2 seems to have a bug.

I saw an email from Twitter (about a person following me on Twitter), in my Gmail account via the web version of Gmail (using Opera Mini mobile browser), but the same email did not show in the Gmail Android app. Both checks were done on my Android phone, within seconds of each other, and there were newer emails that showed in both, so the issue may not be due to a delayed refresh in the app.

Also, lately, I've seen that many emails take longer to show up in the app versus the browser.

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

New Google privacy policy

2012-01-28T06:37:00.001+05:30

http://www.google.com/policies/

Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Test post from Blogger Android app

2012-01-22T18:00:00.001+05:30

Testing 1 2 3...
Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com

Hubcast, cloud printing provider

2012-01-20T00:14:00.001+05:30

www.hubcast.com/

www.hubcast.com/index.php/about

Vasudev Ram
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Postmark, programmable email services for startups

2012-01-18T04:16:00.001+05:30

http://postmarkapp.com/

Looks interesting.

Vasudev Ram
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Python on the Pi

2012-01-13T03:56:00.000+05:30

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/26/05/2011/51140/in-depth-raspberry-pi-the-computer-on-a-stick.htm

via Steve Holden, PSF Chairman

Vasudev Ram

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Mendeley looks interesting

2012-01-13T00:34:00.001+05:30

http://www.mendeley.com/review/

Vasudev Ram

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No time to know time (and life)

2012-01-07T03:03:00.001+05:30

Via Tim O'Reilly:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.xml

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The story of Gorilla Glass

2011-12-30T05:08:00.001+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Read this for the story of how Gorilla Glass was first manufactured (*):

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/27/walter-isaacson-steve-jobs/

About 1/3rd of the way through the article.

(*) Manufactured, not invented.

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Your Black Swan is showing

2011-12-29T04:30:00.000+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | jugad2.blogspot.com | @vasudevram

"His black swan is showing."

Great comment by Seth Godin. I don't necessarily like or agree with
all of his posts, though he is a cult figure of sorts - according to
some. But I think he got it right on this one - where he made a
comment on a post quoted in another post - if you get what I mean :-)
. Here is the post that refers to his comment:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/19/the-end-of-the-web-dont-bet-on-it-heres-why/

If you don't get the Seth comment or the term Black Swan, go figure -
or Google ...

IMO, "your black swan is showing" is all too common in the world, with
a lot of people, in many areas of life - I'm saying this based on
observation and experience

Finally, and I think important, though I am linking to the Wikipedia
article about the black swan theory, I should mention that I don't
think it describes it correctly (as per my understanding).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

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Program or be programmed - Not!

2011-12-29T02:27:00.000+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

This is in response to a post a while ago by "A VC" Fred Wilson (@fredwilson).

Here is his post:

Program or be programmed:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/10/program-or-be-programmed.html

I like and agree with a lot of the points in many of Fred's posts, but I don't agree fully (or even much) with this one. While I think he is right in that everyone, in this highly technological and digital age, should develop some understanding of technology (for their own benefit, and so as not to be on the wrong side of the "digital divide"), including, particularly, but not only, digital technology (a.k.a. computers and related stuff), I don't think that everyone should _necessarily_ learn how to program a computer. If they wish to, of course, they should, and are free to do so. My point is that one should not say that everyone in the world should learn to program a computer. Plenty of people have other skills and inclinations, and everyone should feel free (and is, unless they are a slave in some way) to do what they want to do. Also, variety is the spice of life :-)

My two cents ...

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Ho hum, Tweedledum it's that time of year again :-)

2011-12-29T01:02:00.000+05:30

By Vasudev Ram

The time of year I refer to is the year end, when, typically, Internet access slows down (sometimes to a crawl), for email and browsing; at least it has been that way for me.

Been experiencing it some this year too, though seemingly a bit less than some previous years, thankfully. Obviously, it's due, at least in part, to a lot more Net traffic happening around this time, including everybody and their aunt sending large greetings images as attachments to their friends :-)

One interesting thing I noticed about this trend, a few years back, was that in a particular year, Yahoo Mail slowed down a lot, at this time of year, but the next year, it did not - it worked at pretty much the same speed as the rest of the year. I guess they beefed up their infrastructure that year to handle the extra load. I liked that.

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Happy Holidays to all

2011-12-23T01:12:00.001+05:30

Dear Readers,

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The Slow Movement

2011-12-22T03:52:00.001+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

The Slow Movement is a set of concepts that make some sense, when
applied/used appropriately.

I had read about it some time back, and found the concepts interesting.

Today I saw an article about and decided to blog about it.
The article is linked in the tweet below.

Read more (slowly :-) about the movement, at some of these links:

https://www.google.com/search?q=slow%20movement

https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/149607090686660608

Inspired by nature.
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Google does it algorithmically :-)

2011-12-20T01:31:00.001+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Even without reading this TechCrunch post fully (Circles Volume Slider Differentiates Google+ ... ), I can say: Google does it algorithmically :-)

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On building 10x teams vs. hiring 10x developers

2011-12-19T04:15:00.001+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Saw this post by Avichal (founder of Spool - getspool.com) via @dharmesh on Google+:

"Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers":

http://avichal.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers/

Many interesting / good points in it. However there can be some counterpoints, depending on the situation.

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A Big List of Interesting Programming Books Released in 2011

2011-12-19T03:31:00.000+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Seen on programming.reddit.com:

A Big List of Interesting Programming Books Released in 2011

http://programmingzen.com/2011/12/16/interesting-programming-books-2011/

On a quick scan, I have to say that many of them seem interesting.

Related rant: Why the hell does a simple task like selecting text (ONLY the text you want) have to be so difficult at times, particularly from web pages or emails? As I've said elsewhere,
software is still too hard to use a lot of the time, even for experienced software people. Too much focus on cool (to the developers) technical stuff, and not enough on the end user's needs.

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New Google Analytics can show Referral Paths

2011-12-19T01:10:00.000+05:30

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Just saw this. Had not used Google Analytics for a while. They have upgraded it to a new version with more features. One of these is the ability to show Referral Paths. Go, in the left pane, to TRAFFIC SOURCES -> Sources -> Referrals. In that screen I could see, for example, that there were some referrals (to this blog of mine) via http://t.co/ (which is Twitter's built-in URL shortener). Under that it showed individual referral links starting with t.co, such as http://t.co/PuAnxir, which is a shortened URL that redirects to this blog post by me:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2011/09/digmydata-analytics-starts-free-trial.html

For each such referral path, it shows data such as the number of visits, pages/visit, average time on site, etc.

There also seem to be many other new / enhanced in this new version of Google Analytics.

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Jana, interesting mobile company

2011-12-17T04:34:00.001+05:30

"Jana provides consumers in emerging markets with free talk time on
their mobile phones to incentivize surveys and purchasing."

Team, advisers and investors include some "names" :-)

http://jana.com/about-us/team/

http://jana.com/about-us/advisors-investors/

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