Looking back at 2008
In a few days, another year will be over. This has been one hell of a year. So much learning, so many changes in life and so many new people I have met and interacted with. I wanted to write down a few things here just to record them somewhere and look back at them [...]
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Insurance Ads on TV
I have started watching TV again and one thing I find funny is the number and kind of insurance ads. There are ads by HDFC Life insurance, HDFC Retirement plans, ICICI Health insurance and many more. I find the retirement plan ads pretty funny because they almost always oversimplify life. They make it look as [...]
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Adsense Ads Open in New Window in Youtube - A Violation of Adsense Terms?
One of the feature that most people find missing in adsense is the ability to open google adsense ads in a new window (on click). This would help publishers make revenues without losing their visitors. However adsense terms and conditions document clearly prohibits that. In particular it says
Any AdSense code must be pasted directly into [...]
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Speeding up the linksys Wireless Router WRT 54G
We have a BSNL Dataone connection and a linksys wireless router for internet sharing and LAN. However lately the router had been extremely slow and would hang somtimes, forcing us to reboot it every now and then. I installed the DD-WRT firmware on it but that did not help much either (although it helped in [...]
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Testing Minefield browser on Gentoo
I recently got to know on twitter about minefield. Its basically Firefox 3.1 beta release and its awesome. I use gentoo linux 2008.0 (AMD 64 bit version) and I had been using a 32 bit firefox (2.0.0.14) on it so I can use flash. I had also installed a flock 2.0 beta to use firefox [...]
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Benchmarking your website’s performance using Google Analytics
One of the hardest thing when doing a startup is to know how well you are doing in an absolute sense. You can look at your stats, your metrics (signups/day etc) but its generally hard to find how you are doing compared to other people in your industry vertical.
Google Analytics offers a benchmarking service that [...]
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Can Free Live Forever?
One of the tools that I use everyday to stay productive while working out of home is assembla. Its a svn+trac hosting provider and they had a very generous free plan till about a day or two back. However recently they decided to shut down the free plan and have only paid plans. They have [...]
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Mom and Pop Stores
I recently lost my glasses and had to go out and get a new pair done. I had almost the similar experience that I have had many times before at stores in Bangalore (and I think elsewhere). You walk into a chain (like GKB opticians) and you can see the disinterested look in the sellers [...]
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Google Developer Day October 2008 Bangalore
Today was google’s first developer day in India at Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. I had registered a couple of weeks back and could get into the otherwise sold out event. Here is a brief of the event.
Keynote
The keynote by Dr. Prasad talked about how google’s mission is about improving the Client, Cloud and Connectivity. There were [...]
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Provide Statistics to make a service compelling
I use a lot of web based softwares everyday and I can almost see a pattern in the services I am in love with. They all provide very detailed statistics. Services such as Google Analytics and Gigya. Google Analytics is very well know. Gigya is a widget distribution service and you can see it in [...]
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