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August 22, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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How Google can still become the greatest company ever?

While offering these amazing products, Google offered some real bloopers on the way. Wave, Buzz, Knol,Lively,Orkut, SideWiki, OpenSocial are a few. There is no doubt that any company which would venture into so many fields will come up with some bad one’s too but that is not my problem. Google is still a great company but it can be still greater by prioritizing better, by doing what they are good at. No company can be good at everything. Trying to be good at everything is the Microsoft-mania and it sucks. Continue reading →

July 30, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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How LinkedIn can become more relevant- The importance of relevance -Part 2

LinkedIn needs to become better by digging out the person with authority on Java(probably even looking for a job) on the top. So, how does LinkedIn accomplish this?

By making group discussions a basis of people rank
Create a point system like Stackoverflow
Get a relevance algorithm like Quora
Import Quora and Stackoverflow points Continue reading →

March 27, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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Why Microsoft should concentrate on the post touch devices?

When Microsoft came out with the Kinect late last year, it was just a motion-sensing accessory added on top of its XBOX. So, How was it different from the many add-ons that Apple comes out along with its products? For me it was the technology and the approach that Microsoft took towards the product. The hacker community usually never looks at Microsoft products with excitement. It is always the Apple devices and the Google innovations which attract developer as well as hacker attention. This time around it was different. Kinect was hacked top, down and center. And, Oh yes!! Microsoft was appreciating it all. Microsoft knew that the hacking community was going to drive the future of Motion sensing as well as Kinect. Continue reading →

March 20, 2011
by Vikash
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Greplin : Search your cloud data

Update : Greplin support got back to me on couple of issues I’d raised. While they say, work is ongoing on duplicate search instances of a query, and should be fixed soon, they also said in order to index multiple … Continue reading →