Farthest flyer all at sea for 46,000 miles
posted by phani (188) 28 months ago (www.timesonline.co.uk)
A DIMINUTIVE bird that weighs less than a bag of sugar has completed the longest migration on record.
The sooty shearwater travels the Pacific Ocean in a figure-of-eight pattern each year, flying up to 46,000 miles on its migration route.
The distance puts it far ahead of the Arctic tern, which until now was thought to have the longest annual ..... more »
Which Sources Does Google News Index?
posted by nikhil (150) 28 months ago (blog.outer-court.com)
Google Blogoscoped does some poking and prodding and tries to figure out how many sources Google News REALLY has. "To find out how much (and what) they really index, for the past days I polled roughly 1,4 million news stories per day by searching Google News for semi-random words every few minutes. I found over 8,600 unique news sources in Google ..... more »
Bangalore’s Wireless Broadband Dreams
posted by kjohn (224) 28 months ago (gigaom.com)
Bangalore, often viewed as the hub of India’s Silicon Valley, is looking to join a growing list of cities with wireless broadband everywhere... more »
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006
posted by kjohn (224) 28 months ago (www.sifry.com)
Some very cool stats about the state of the blogosphere. Among the stats: no. of blogs is doubling every 200 days... more »
Book: A New Kind of Science ( free online)
posted by spcwlkr (130) 28 months ago (www.wolframscience.com)
Dramatic discoveries from one of the world's most respected scientists Stephen Wolfram, "This book is the culmination of nearly twenty years of work that I have done to develop that new kind of science. I had never expected it would take anything like as long, but I have discovered vastly more than I ever thought possible" Interesting read... more »
Waterproof cell phone takes calls underwater
posted by phani (188) 28 months ago (blog.scifi.com)
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Web Page Benchmarking Tool
posted by raja (81) 28 months ago (www.blog.businessknowhow.com)
How does your website stack up on the web? Here's a tool that scores your search engine rankings... more »
Can You Turn Your Great Idea into a Hot New Business?
posted by raja (81) 28 months ago (www.businessknowhow.com)
Think your brilliant idea will make you a million bucks if you could just turn it into a business? Before you sink your life's savings into launching that business, consider these points... more »
Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (www.readwriteweb.com)
Article about what could be the next generation of search technologies: "Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many ..... more »
How can I find out if I'm really underpaid?
posted by ruchir (1089) 28 months ago (ask.yahoo.com)
Ask Yahoo! advises on how to compare your salary to the general range for your position in your geographical area... more »
Why you shouldn't email Microsoft Word documents
posted by ruchir (1089) 28 months ago (www.nothingisreal.com)
Research scientist Tristan Miller set up a page begging his email correspondents not to send him Microsoft Word attachments. Why no Word, you ask? Miller's got a whole long list of reasons. A sample: Microsoft Word documents are not guaranteed to look and print the same way on every computer and printer. Microsoft Word documents are extremely large ..... more »
Interview tips from an experienced recruiter
posted by buster (356) 28 months ago (www.membox.com)
Read these tips, before going for job hunting again... more »
Why News Papers Score over Internet News
posted by buster (356) 28 months ago (www.pbs.org)
Cringley writes in his column, that online news last longer on the net. So by reading a news-paper you know more on different things, compared to online readers. I guess, he is right. The Mob effect is very much visible on the net. That's both the strength and weakness of internet... more »
Readers don't trust bloggers ?
posted by buster (356) 28 months ago (news.bbc.co.uk)
A Commom conception on blogs has now been proved true. BBC reports that, Readers did not trust the information from bloggers. Only 4% saw blog entries as a "totally impartial form, of information" and nearly two-thirds said they took what they read "with a pinch of salt". A long way to go... more »
Sify's Former CEO Ramaraj To Turn To Venture Capital
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (www.vccircle.com)
R Ramaraj has quit as the CEO and the MD of Sify Ltd (its chairman Raju Vegesna of Infinity Capital has taken over as the CEO and MD). Ramaraj is joining the growing list of corporate honchos who are moving out of operations and joining the venture capital/private equity world... more »
Tharsis India - Bringing Mars to India
posted by sunil (135) 28 months ago (www.tharsisindia.com)
Tharsisindia.com is a website focussed on promoting space science in India. It is an effort by Dr Ghosh and the NASA team... more »
Mumbai Blast : Enough is enough!
posted by buster (356) 29 months ago (in.rediff.com)
When somebody directs terror at you, nation-States are expected to hit back with maximum force, carry the fight into the enemy camp. It is not enough to possess unrelenting, unremitting muscle power -- it also becomes necessary, once in a while, to display that power. And not merely through caparisoned missiles parading down Janpath once a year, ..... more »
The US Trade Deficit: How bad is it? (Full graphical analysis)
posted by nikhil (150) 29 months ago (www.marktaw.com)
Mark Wieczorek has put together some graphs of US federal revenue and spending and the US trade deficit.He says,"The dollar is weakening. We're entering into a massive trade deficit with China. The sky is falling. What does it all mean? Here are some nice graphs to help you make sense of it all.".. more »
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Market Experience of a Naïve Stock Operator
posted by sunil (135) 29 months ago (www.stock-article.com)
If you are thinking of investing in stocks, read it! "I wrote this article based on my real life experience with the stock market. I wrote it with a humorous slant, but still hope you can learn a few things about how stock market works.".. more »
What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore
posted by sunil (135) 29 months ago (www.reason.com)
A booming city’s lessons for a town in decline. Interesting read... more »
Cringely : On, Why WiMax /3G Won't work
posted by prashant (299) 29 months ago (www.pbs.org)
Cringely says WiMax/3G is all hype. He adds "So we have two communication giants fighting over our data service, overbuilding infrastructure with no failover except for whackos like me with both cable and DSL connected through twin-WAN routers. Now WiMax will enter the fray and 3G cellular, too, though 3G will never even try to compete on price and ..... more »
Paul Graham: Interview About Web 2.0
posted by sams (94) 29 months ago (www.paulgraham.com)
Interview About Web 2.0 with Paul Graham, the the creator of the first web application... more »
15 Ways to Keep More of Your Money
posted by sunil (135) 29 months ago (www.readersdigest.ca)
Readers Digest on personal finance. Though the examples are American, this very well applies to the Software guys in Bangalore... more »
Paymate: SMS payment for India?
posted by sunil (135) 29 months ago (www.paymate.co.in)
New kid on the block!.. more »
activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool.
posted by mblaster (217) 29 months ago (www.activecollab.com)
A Basecamp clone - but with a difference. Its free & you can install it on your server... more »
Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with PHP
posted by mblaster (217) 29 months ago (www.devsource.com)
If you are a PHP coder, most likely you don't know these 5 features. Good one!.. more »
Save money on eBay!
posted by dinesh (30) 29 months ago (www.sunny-bajaj.com)
"The truth is if you search eBay carefully, you will find tons of misspelled items listed for auctions/sales etc.".. more »
Does Anyone Get Rich on eBay?
posted by sams (94) 29 months ago (www.newsfactor.com)
"There are those who get rich on eBay, but there is also more smoke than fire," says Joe Kennedy, author of "The Small Business Owner's Manual." "There are a lot of people working really hard and not making much money. The kicker is that they don't really realize it.".. more »
Time for Coders to Get Political?
posted by spcwlkr (130) 29 months ago (www.linuxjournal.com)
Glyn Moody looks back at a 1999 interview with Richard Stallman to see how times have changed. "RMS may have felt back then that the best way for him to contribute to freedom was to code, or to encourage others to code, rather than trying to change the world directly, but things have moved on: today, Stallman is becoming something of a political ..... more »
Opera v9 is now available: Excellent but not Perfect
posted by dinesh (30) 29 months ago (www.pallab.net)
"The much awaited Opera v 9.0 is here" >> lot of struggle needed to catch up the BIG times (IE & Firefox).. more »
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