Archive for May, 2007

 

Ritesh on May 28th, 2007Personalization - we are still getting there

Inspiration for this post : How much textual information we consume everyday
Text makes the web. Those characters that are 1s and 0s in their stripped down version form the basis of what we call information. Right from websites to search, feeds to news, wikis to chat they are all text. Its unquestionable that people [...]

Ritesh on May 25th, 2007Javascript Frameworks - the complete which, what and why

For years people have been asking me a ton of questions about Javascript libraries - whats that ? why should I use one ? Do you think Im a fool ? Which library do I use , if I have to ..yada yada yada. Well I was more than happy to find the ultimatum [...]

Ritesh on May 18th, 2007Is universal search the right answer ?

Google unveiled their universal search page for their search results, basically a page where you get more than just web pages, you get blogs, pics and videos even.  But  this is my question  - is  the concept of universal search even possible ?
Penetration of user generated data into spaces like technology and entertainment have been [...]

Ritesh on May 16th, 2007in10 my latest foray

For long I have been amused about the concept of the most simple to use libraries, services and code that can be used to our advantage. Some are so simple that it takes less than a couple of minutes to actually get a result that would have probably taken days to achieve. Since I was [...]

Ritesh on May 14th, 2007Silverlight - Expectations and more

I read some wonderful articles about possibilities with Silverlight and trust me they are tremendous. The CLR integration, the browser independent mode, the seamless brilliance in video delivery and also easy to build tools will probably make silverlight a leader in its own right. I shall not blabber anymore and quote from some other articles [...]