It is always good to come back to India. Particularly after spending some time in Singapore. This is a relatively long visit to India — will be here until Jan 2. First 9 days in Bangalore than in Nagpur with…
Government in India
Live Video on CNN — Glimpse into the Future
CNN has launched a premium service, Pipeline, that has live video of developing News. This is an interesting glimpse into the nature of things that are likely to happen in the future. The killer app for Pipeline is four live…
Microsoft Vs Netscape and Microsoft VS Google
In a story on Microsoft, Steve Lohr describes an interesting anecdote: The familiar pattern of a decade ago begs the question that Bill Gates was asked when he met last month with a group of executives and journalists from The…
Academia and Visual Maps
Cyrus Shahabi at USC is doing a project that shows the future of how maps will be used in information systems. He showed me the demo of this system about a month ago in Singapore at the ACM Multimedia conference.…
Social Search
Last Sunday I spent with Bradley Horowitz and had many interesting discussions. One of the most interesting points that he was emphasizing was the importance of social search. Bradley has been interviewed by several media people for and has been…