March 18, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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My bet this time round is on Microsoft. Microsoft with its huge lead in motion sensing can bring in the next paradigm shift. Kinect is awesome. Let us all agree to this bit. It is the most thrilling gaming technology (although the more I see Kinect getting hacked, the more I feel it is much more than a gaming technology). My bet would be Motion sensing based OS from Microsoft for tablets (Tablets are more suited) and smartphones. Continue reading
March 15, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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Google and then Twitter were best positioned to leverage the location cake. Google with its Dodgeball acquisition in 2005 had the biggest head start amongst them all but as is true for most small companies which Google acquires these days, they screwed up. By 2007, Dennis Crowley left Google after a frustrating experience and founded Foursquare. Incredible, how Google is able to not figure out the way inspite of acquiring the most promising startups along with their founders. Dodgeball, Aardvark, Jaiku, Picnik are just some examples of Google screwing up with their acquisitions in a big way. Continue reading
March 12, 2011
by Vikash
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While the furore of Net Neutrality might not have caught up full swing, here in India (yet), it is a topic under debate in US nonetheless. First off, Net Neutrality is not a technical term. Its a general embodiment of … Continue reading
March 10, 2011
by ArchieIndian
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Internet was always about organizing all the information in the world. Google was the first company which thought of a viable solution for the same. Over the last few months, there has been a lot of criticism about the Google Search Results losing their quality. People have gone all out against companies like DemandMedia for creating what we now call content farming. There have been people who have asked me to try out Blekko or DuckDuckGo. There has been the Google-Microsoft Episode where Matt Cutts calls Micrsoft a cheater. There has been a lot of buzz about real-time search as well as social search. Continue reading
August 22, 2010
by ArchieIndian
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Basic steps for setting up multiple websites and subdomains on a host
Pointing the website to a particular location: Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available and create a file microreviews
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August 22, 2010
by ArchieIndian
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Our movement to Rackspace and why we chose them.
We have completed our movement to Rackspace and now all our projects including our blog is hosted on the cloud. We must say Railsplayground was superb for us and the movement is solely because of the dynamic memory need which we foresee right now.
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July 27, 2010
by ArchieIndian
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Openstack – An Open Cloud?
OpenStack is an opensource project supported by some major players like Rackspace, NASA, Dell and many others which are working towards building a open platform for Cloud. Continue reading
June 29, 2010
by ArchieIndian
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Features of Cloud Computing: 1. Consumption based billing 2. Rapid Elasticity 3. Self Service Based Model 4. Location and Device Independence 5. Multi-tenancy 6. reliability. 7. Ease of Maintenance Continue reading
June 27, 2010
by ArchieIndian
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Difference between PAAS, IAAS ans SAAS. With IAAS you get computing power. With PAAS you get computing power and application framework but lesser flexibility. With SAAS, you get even lesser flexibility but a business logic implemented.All these are billed on demand. Continue reading
June 24, 2010
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Performance Improvement Tips. Yahoo Principal Front end Engineer tells us all how Yahoo! did it. Continue reading