The Google Social Search
With a host of products to Google's credit, it's time for the web giant to add yet another feather to its cap - the social search.
Category Archives: Sci-Tech
Swine Flu: World Is Going To The Pigs
It is official now, WHO has declared swine flu a pandemic. So it is a time to be afraid; be very afraid.
Originating in the central America, the flu has flown to Europe, Australia and even Asia. This means you, me and Dupree all should be abstaining from indulging in pork. Also, since human to human [...]
Pune TweetUp 2: Tweeple, Tweets and Rain
Pune’s Twitter users meet fell short this time for breaking their own record for India’s Largest Tweetup due to the rains playing villain. With 45 people [out of the 100+ registrations, damn you rains said the tweeple] attending the meet with a lot of newbies, Dhananjay started off with crowd sourcing his sessions.
The group started [...]
Cyber Media Conclave with its Evangelists
“Change of Behaviour doesn’t come over night”, said Navnit Bimbhat [SwitchMedia] at the first ever National Cyber Media Conclave held at Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, which keeps adding a feather to its cap.
Names like Atul Chitnis [FOSS.IN], Rajesh Lalwani [BlogWorks], Kiruba Shankar [Sulekha.com, PodWorks], J.Madhavan[ VP, Products, Bharat Matrimony]; people behind the campaigns [...]
Marsupials Pooping Paper
Incredible as it may seem, there actually is a bloke who encountering upon Kangaroo droppings exclaimed, "This should make for some fine paper, mate!", to which his pal replied, "honestly, no shit!". This incident certainly has much similarity to the Archimedes' nude insight. More so, since both incidents may actually be figments of some pervert's imagination. [...]
Popular Blog Covering Pune Technology Becomes A Year Old
The startup and technology environment in India is gearing up fast. A lot of sites and blogs are covering the new enterprises that are sprouting up across the Indian landscape, apart from the news headlines that they make.
But there is one from Pune, which silently started covering and reviewing each stone in this technology driven [...]
Pune sees Largest Twitter Meet in India
@bhavis I wanted to meet my followers and the ones I follow personally because they’ve helped me a lot.
60+ Twitter users had gotten together to network, to throw ideas at each other and have fun (including the advanced Valentine’s Day menu) at Café Coffee Day on Fergusson Road. With people joining the community from Mumbai, [...]
Drupal '09 with 250+ Techies
Last Saturday saw 200+ techies coming together for the 2nd Drupal Camp in India at SICSR, Pune. Just like other camps in Pune, even this one had free walk-ins and no sponsors, unlike the previous Drupal Camp in Ahmedabad. Speaking in front of a highly attentive audience, two guys working at the Gravitech Company presented [...]
Microsoft Gives Free Software
The technology world can see that Microsoft is feeling threatened by other OS and software alternatives, especially by the open source community. Last year saw the software giant announcing two programs- DreamSpark and BizSpark, in an effort to get people comfortable using their platforms (read: trapped and helpless in the later years).
The Human-Pig Connection
Experiments are being conducted by Robert Winston of Imperial College, London, and his collaborator, Carol Readhead, of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena to transplant pigs’ organs to humans.
Organs that could be transplantable would be ready in another two to three years and they would be tested and fully licensed within a decade, if [...]
