Ritesh on May 30th, 2007Implications of OpenId
OpenId is becoming bigger and more widely accepted as a worthwhile solution for the multiple account -multiple signon mess. Many services are accepting OpenId authentication for their sites. Even popular portals like Digg have moved in support of OpenId. I found thi great presentation by Simon Willison on Implications of OpenId which I think should [...]
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 in [...]
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 [...]
Ritesh on May 2nd, 2007Dawn of the Dashboards – Start Pages what and why ?
Its a classic case of enterprise level aesthetics penetrating into the consumer space – remember business dashboards ? Those simple looking overviews of businesses that important folk look at during their busy working days. The same concept of a dashboard is what we know today as a startpage. Given the multitude of services that we [...]

