Parkinson’s Law of Multiplication of Subordinates
Let’s picture a civil servant called A who finds himself overworked. Whether this overwork is real or imaginary is immaterial; but we should observe, in passing, that A’s sensation (or {ld:illusion})...
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Google danced again and the page ranks of websites all over the world is changed. I am happy because our Bee English Dictionary reached a PR of 4 from 0 in just 3 weeks. Earlier this Web 2.0 dictionary...
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While analyzing the search log of our Bee English Dictionary I realized that people are also looking for meaning of their (or their friend’s) names. The list is topped in boys by John followed by...
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Every weak we analyze search logs to find out what are the popular words people are searching. We need to automate this process but somehow it is slipping in priority. I am told that dictionary.com and...
View ArticleWhy eCommerce startups will fail in India
eCommerce looks like a promising space and most of my friends are bullish about the future of e-commerce businesses in India. Many companies are funded and many more will be funded in the next 2 years....
View ArticleJobs and Gates: Personality Types
Excerpts from TechCrunch Article http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/23/steve-jobs-admire-mark-zuckerberg-not-selling-out/ Jobs’ relationship with Bill Gates goes back the furthest and is the most...
View ArticleMainbhi, Tubhi aur Yebhi.com.. you can goof up only once
eCommerce in India is booming and so are e-commerce companies. In the last 6 months more than 100 new e-commerce commerce companies have come up, fighting for a small set of online users. It is the...
View ArticleAutomated Trading with IB and Amazon EC2
I took Interactive Brokers (IB) account for trading in NSE (India) around 18 months back. My idea was to use IB API and make an automated trading system to run small scalping and market making...
View ArticleHow to secure your wordpress blog in 5 steps
There are over 70 million sites depending on wordpress platform to provide beautiful, customizable, fast and secure website. Unfortunately there are 70k hackers depending on the same platform to gain...
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