Category — Buzzwatch

I have used Microsoft software through out my computing career and am no fan of it. In fact my expectation for software had been pretty low. I would be happy if it crashed only once a month. With marketing factoids like how many millions of lines of code Windows has, I was lead to believe that software design is rocket science, no even more complex and its just not possible to build good software. Things changed dramatically in the last few years thanks to amazing software like Google search, ajaxwhois, backpackit, etc. Its as if someone lead me out of a bubble, except this bubble was filled with crappy software. That is when I started building a resentment against Microsoft. All along they could have built good software but for whatever reasons they shoved junk (like Windows 9x, Windows 2000, XP, etc) down our throats. It was made especially worse considering Microsoft employs the best computer scientists and programmers in the world.

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Today TechCrunch is reporting about a German social networking service for mobile phones called Aka Aki. Aka Aki has two components - a web and mobile phone component. First you sign up on the Aka Aki website and enter relevant information. You will find the usual social networking features like friending, messaging, profiles, etc.

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There’s been a lot of talk about the semantic web recently and not too many of them make sense. So I am going to take a hack at it and try to make sense of the semantic web. Essentially the idea behind the semantic web is to make the web meaningful to machines. Webpages, the building blocks of the web are mostly text that is intelligent to humans, but not to machines. Sure, a computer is able to parse thru and look for words in a web page - but not much else.

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So far hyperconnectivity is a business turnaround strategy, a marketing campaign and a vision for the future of connectivity. Of the three, it is most compelling as a vision put forth by beleaguered Canadian telecom giant Nortel.

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I am in a “New York Post” sort of mood - and hence the headline. Check out this great article from Computerworld.com - about lessons learned when tiny but broadband-loaded Estonia got hacked earlier this year for moving a statue of a Russian soldier to a less honorable spot.

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