Ritesh on Apr 1st, 2007Im at Barcamp Bangalore
I am spending this weekend at Barcamp Bangalore, an unconference, a gathering of people who share and discuss technology. I myself gave a talk on the evolution of social networks. You can find the the presentation at my home page or just click here. The next couple of articles will basically center around things I [...]
Ritesh on Mar 20th, 2007Computer Storage – some interesting facts
I found this amazing article on Om Maliks blog which highlights some interesting and fun facts about computer storage. I will just give you the highlights, if you need to read the full article, click here. The magnetic HDD is 50 years old (#). In 1956 IBM introduced 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting [...]
Ritesh on Mar 14th, 2007OpenId – what and why
I have been hearing a lot of questions regarding the design, use and intent of OpenId and thought, I must write about it. In the past two years or so, there have been about 100+ services that I have signed up for, to see what they have to offer and maintaining those accounts info’s are [...]
Ritesh on Feb 2nd, 2007Web Trends in 2007 – betting is another addi(c)tion
[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Web_Trends_in_2007_Betting_is_another_addi_c_tion]Last year was the year of social networks, mashups and video or pod startups. This year was predicted to be the year of widgets and more. But I see another kind of concept growing in popularity – Online betting, predictions, gambling etc. It figures perfectly, people need to spend more time on the internet and [...]
Ritesh on Jan 31st, 2007Enterprise Search and the Google Mini
[digg=http://digg.com/hardware/Google_Mini_and_Enterprise_Search]Well Google Mini has been around for two years now and its official. Google mini is hardware with built in firmware that acts like a mini google server in your own enterprise. Picture this, you own a job consultancy firm with over 30 employees and each of these employees have reumes of hundreds on candidates [...]
