Today I was caught by the traffic police for taking a U turn at the North Bridge. Why dont the buggers put a sign there saying that U turns are not allowed. I could have crossed the road from where I started, but I drove up to the bridge and took the U turn so that I dont obstruct any traffic. These fellows were hiding somewhere and they showed up the instant I took the turn. Really sick police. My good nature cost me 100 bucks....

For the last few weeks Ive been reading a lot about the semantic web and web 3.0. Stuff looks complicated and there are many opinions and ideas. This is what I could make out of it. When the microformats become more and more popular specialized search will be there for such items. Everyone will publish contact information in their websites are a Vcard. So Search engines can crawl and index them. Google might add a “Contact...

Web 2.0 is all about participation and sharing. P2p is also exactly about participation and sharing. Every user gets to become a  server and contribute to the community. Every user can simply share his files across everyone on the internet very easily. P2p trackers are now capable to tracking usage data and then rating users. Leechers will be banned, seeders gets rewarded automatically, users who maintain higher ratios can download...

Wibree has been renamed to ULP Bluetooth, ie Ultra Low Power Bluetooth. This change in name happened after the adoption of the technology by Bluetooth SIG. From now on this short range wireless communication protocol will be a part of the bluetooth specifications. The advantage of this adoption is the faster integration with existing bluetooth specs and products. We are expecting to see the first wibree products in an year.

A microformat is a data formating approach that allows a developer make information that is intended for an end user to be read by software also. An example would be a contact information found in a web page. A developer can use a contact microformat to put that information on the page so that humans and softwares can read it. <div class="vcard"> <div class="fn">Kenney Jacob</div> <div class="org">Mobme...

Semantic web is considered the next big thing on the internet and its also called Web 3.0. Its an extension of the WWW where the web content can be expressed not only in natural language but also in formats that can be read and understood by machines. This will allow better search crawls and organization of information. Tagging which is an essential part of web 2.0 can be considered as a light weight form of Web 3.0 Tags allows...

This is an sentence that is found in every presentation of Tim O’Reilly (founder of O’Reilly Media and the person who coined the term Web 2.0). Windows as a platform Windows became a success because Microsoft opened up its win32 API to developers and developers created millions of applications that required windows to run. Facebook as a platform Facebook grew from being ‘just another social network” by opening...