Journey through the internet archives

A ride on the Wayback Machine at Internet Archives is a bit of fun, and a lot about understanding business strategy. It can reveal a depth of information about the challenges a business had, the decisions it took, and the results that were achieved. Take the health insurance portal vimo.com for example

Enjoy Google and Wolfram Alpha together

Now, one can enjoy the coverage and ranking of google with the preciseness of Wolfram Alpha at the same time, for the queries that Wolfram Alpha answers very well.

All one has to do is to download this excellent firefox add on available here.

The addon, throws the same search to Wolfram Alpha as well in addition [...]

Wolfram Alpha disappoints

Had a first look at Wolfram Alpha and got disappointed. The search engine which had so much of euphoria built around it did not deliver to my expectations. Here are the results of the test drive.

Search 1:Number of internet users in India. 

Wolfram gives a number (80m) which seems higher than the number that we had [...]

Information Technology Act (Cyberlaws) 2000 Simplified – Part 2

Continued from part 1 …
Regulation of Certifying Authorities

Central government may appoint a controller of certifying authorities, and also deputy controllers and assistant controllers
Lays down the functions of the controllers, especially certifying the public keys of the certifying authorities themselves and the form and content of the digitial signature certificate and the keys
Lays down procedure for [...]

Information Technology Act (Cyberlaws) 2000 Simplified – Part 1

Part 1 of my attempt to put the Indian Information Technology Act of 2000 in simple words, without legaleseDigital Signature

Recognizes digital signature and approves that electronic records can be authenticated with digital signatures. Also empowers the government to decide and modify rules around digital signatures

Electronic Governance

Allows for exisitng laws to recognize electronic documents at par [...]

What do people blog about?

The number of bloggers and blogs is growing at a fantastic pace. According to a report by Universal McCann (March 2008) there are 184m internet users who write a blog, with China emerging as a leader, with 42m users, more than USA and western Europe combined. Individuals, and organizations are both adopting blogging as a [...]

Now, Google shows ads based on behavioral targeting

Recently got an email from google about a new ad targeting mechanism that they are launching shortly. We all know that the ads that we see on google are either content targeted or placement targeted. The ones on search result pages and in the content network are based on the content that the user has [...]