There’s nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause. You just wake up one day and you aren’t a part of your life. You know this. Your life doesn’t belong to you. Your body is not, I don’t know how to make you feel the force of this, yours. There’s just life, living itself. You [...]

Until now, the process of consuming content was of a very primitive type – Search and consume. We searched for information using certain keywords and then converted it manually to knowledge. If we wanted to access the information at a later date, we simply printed it out. If we wanted to re-search it (pun unintended) [...]

Part II – I Seek You, and your meta-data, too… The story until now: Part I was a quick review into understanding Traditional Search Engines and their methods and relating them to human conversation – since the Web 2.0 is all about ‘conversations in the marketplace’. On to the second part. What does making sense out of data [...]

Part 1: Search and the Web 1.0: Gorblimey! Those of you who reached here through Google, Yahoo or MSN are probably laughing as you read this. But do go on, there’s more. (Un)common Recurring Searches Often our searches are simple keywords crafted with central themes in mind: A name (e.g. Shrikant Joshi or Performancing) A topic (e.g. Corporate Communications) A [...]

I am pretty sure the guys at Google must be sneakily reading my blog. Remember this? Google has rolled out a special version of Google Maps for your mobile phone (via Google Blog). Well, well, well… So is it really true, then? Is Google silently creating a presence in all possible verticals? How long will it be [...]

Dina Mehta and other Indian Bloggers are reporting the apparent clampdown of the Indian Government on 12 ‘radical’ websites. Notable among these being Blogger – the popular blog provider for India. Yes, you read the last one right. Blogger can no longer be accessed through certain Indian ISPs. The Indian Govt. has painstakingly put together a [...]