Can the concept of wikis can be easily extended to other media – photos, video, audio, and any other medium? Suppose I post a photo. By providing suitable editing tools, it may be possible for people to edit this photo…
New media and face-to-face interactions
Many people feel that with new media making video and telepresence easy, people will move away from face-to-face meetings. As demonstrated by the meeting of YouTube bloggers (see report from News.com here) that does not seem to be the case:…
Steering Wheel and Search as a conversation
I had a chance to hear a presentation by John Battelle at Fast Forward on the last Thu, Feb 8 in San Diego. He argued that we need a steering wheel for search (Thanks, John for continuing to talk about…
India’s Education System
Amartya Sen has some interesting things to say (pointed out to me by Neil Jain) about education system in India. It is common for us Indians to brag about our education system, without realizing that we are taking less than…
Jim Gray
Jim Gray has been a very respected name not only in databases but in whole computer science. In addition to his technical competence, he has always been a very enthusiastic researcher eager to address challenging problem and a very friendly…