The Virginia tech incidence is raising many questions. One of them — a very important one — is why can we not have an infra structure to propagate information more rapidly in such situation and warn people about the potential…
EventWeb and saving lives
Hawaii Vacation — photos
I squezzed out a mini vacation (a weekend +) in Hawaii during my trip to serve on a panel at ICASSP. Here are several photos in Seraja. http://www.seraja.com/event/639597  By the way, Seraja has much improved tools for uploading photos and…
Start-up in Social Networking: Interesting insights
Here is an interesting piece for people in social netwroking space. Here is the best advice: The other bit of advice that everyone in the room was eager to hear was how to build a user base, when users join…
On efficacy and distraction of tags
During my trip to ICASSP for participating on a panel related to the future directions of Internet, I had discussions with panelists (from Yahoo, Google, and Micrsoft) and also had a chance to discuss with some other researchers abot the…
Virginia Tech Massacre
It is shocking to see and hear what happened at Virginia Tech. This is the worst campus incidence ever. I am shocked. One can not wonder but think how to prevent such things happening. Experts are pointing out to violence…