Zdnet has good article on the new web trend. "Enter the do-it-yourself Web. A growing number of start-ups, like Calbucci's Sampa, are trying to bring Web application creation to the masses, letting mere mortals share spreadsheets online or "mash up" information from different Web sites. The idea is to empower non-programmers to make sites that are .. more »

Somewhat advanced cheatsheet! I learned some new stuff.. nJ is good... more »

Forbes has published 'India's 40 Richest'. Here are the top three: 1. Lakshmi Mittal; 2. Azim Premji; 3. Mukesh Ambani.. more »

NDTV Blogs, NDTV’s response to CNN-IBN’s IBN Blogs went live today. While CNN-IBN selects its bloggers, NDTV Blogs allows anyone to register and post... more »

Troubling news for startups who want to make its mark on online video services: Two Time Warner sites are making serious moves into online video. CNN is expected to formally launch today a system for collecting user generated content, with video at the center of its strategy. AOL will launch a video service on Friday... more »

Some sober analysis of what could lie ahead and why the next 50 years won't be like the past 100... more »

Looks like someone's finally made a robotic hand that can do almost everything the human original can...pics and video available... more »

A nice primer on BigBang Theory. The frequent picture people seem to have is matter flying outwards from a single point (like an explosion). However, the matter is all actually standing still while space itself expands dragging the matter with it... more »

O V Vijayan is without a doubt one of India's finest novelists; his work is noted for its lyrical beauty and distinguished by its many layers of meaning. His debut novel, The Legends Of Khasak, created a sensation in Malayalam, marking the arrival of modernity in a literature that had hitherto been dominated by romanticism. Khasak is arguably the .. more »

Interesting news! "Nearly 31 per cent of eBay sellers – or 12,800 Indian entrepreneurs, including several businesses – use eBay India as a primary or secondary source of income by selling on India’s leading online marketplace, according to a new research released by eBay India.".. more »

As part of their Google Code initiative, Google released a new service for the open source community called Project Hosting. Project Hosting allows developers to search for open source projects of others, browse labels (like “Python” or “Database”), or upload their own projects... provided you have a Google Account, of course. Google says, .. more »

Zaptxt is a free service for feeds. As your feeds come in, you’re notified of important posts (based on your keyword criteria) via SMS (most major providers in the US and Canada are available), IM, and/or email. Enter a feed URL, Determine Frequency of Alerts (Hourly, Daily, Immediate, as they are posted), Determine Delivery Method (SMS, IM .. more »

Subbiah Arunachalam's paper on Science research in india. Abstract: "India is struggling to keep pace with the West in science and technology. Although there are about 300 universities, and about the same number of government funded research laboratories under agencies such as the Departments of Atomic Energy and Space and the 1 Ministries of .. more »

A collection of science jokes... more »

Indians listening to FM radio on their mobile phones can now watch visuals while listening to their favorite Bollywood songs, as Nokia, Hewlett Packard, local station Radio Mirchi and mobile operator Hutch have launched a new service called ‘Visual Radio.’.. more »