As you might be knowing, Web 2.0 is about user participation. All the web 2.0 businesses have two common strategies. This was discussed in the Web 2.0 summit in 2006. The strategies are 1. User Self Service 2. Harnessing Collective intelligence User self service was a part of the the old web also. But...

The quality of engineering education in Kerala has become really bad. The private engineering colleges, which I thought would do more to make the students good techies have failed miserably. They are over focused on the syllabus and the university rules. The students are not getting much room to experiment...

  Amazon recently announced a competition for developers using their web services. Developers can submit various business ideas that use amazon services and after the best entry will get a prize of 100,000 $ My idea is to use Amazon Ec2 services to create a load testing application for websites and...

Shafi’s Chocolate tells the story of a boy, who comes to study in a women’s college. Prithviraj plays the lead Shyam Balagopal and Roma is the heroine Ann mathew. The movie starts with the PTA meeting happening in the St.Mary’s women’s college (Secret Heart College, Thevara) to...

Mobshare, our multimedia sharing network, will start using DNS rotation soon. With the current user growth and traffic, the server loads are expected to shoot up in 2 months time. By that time we will be setting up 5  servers. 3 servers are to serve http requests, 1 server will be database server and...

Mobshare is now using Amazon S3 storage for serving all the media uploaded by the users.  The decision to move to Amazon happened after a server performance issue. A local daily featured Mobshare and our server couldn’t handle the load and the performance degraded. We lost a lot of new registrations...

The building that you see is park center. The round thing in middle of the cross roads is the water tank. The three green spots are the three routers. All the three and connected to each other, thats why there is a faded line between them. These three routers can provide high speed broadband wireless...