Ghost showed up on Kickstarter yesterday and like any good blogging platform, it’ll be judged, commented on, loved and hated. So let me start early. I don’t like it. I love the idea, I loved the beginning, I just don’t like the execution. Here are the two reasons why – 1. NodeJS? Really? NodeJS is… Read more »
Posts Categorized: tech
How the Common Man will pay for the Internet soon
If there’s one buzz word that’s promised to solve all the monetary problems of every Internet-based startup in the past two years, its “Big Data”. Everyone’s collecting it, everyone’s recording it and everyone’s saving it for tomorrow. From Twitter’s Billions(of tweets) to your Netflix queue and even your Google Search history, everyone’s looking to figure… Read more »
Title tells all
Take a look at the following tweet – Why You Should Be Excited About the New Record for the Largest Prime Number erics.ws/11smVrb — Eric Wilson (@peripateric) February 7, 2013 Interesting isn’t it? The tweet tells you the title of the article and there a link present with it! How wonderful is that?! Frankly, that’s… Read more »
A response to Marco Arment about ADN Freemium
I respond to Marco Arment’s commentary on ADN’s freemium option announcement.
It is 1984.
Big Brother is watching. This is the ominous note that strikes me whenever I think about George Orwell’s amazing book. It makes sense in a senseless world. We are aware of our governments watching us. But I’m not going to talk about intrusive governments. I’m going to talk about something else. Ever since I joined… Read more »
DotIt!
A bookmarklet for importing to DotDotDot – A few days ago I posted about an up and coming service called DotDotDot that is a great replacement for Instapaper. That day someone posted a link to my blog on HackerNews and my site got 280 hits in a day, a record for my blog… Incoming search… Read more »
DotDotDot.me: Instapaper finally has a replacement
All those of you who still remember reading paper based books, think about one thing – did you ever keep a separate notebook to make notes about your comments on certain sections of the book or to mark sections you really liked? Wasn’t it just better to just mark the sections in the book itself,… Read more »
Are you getting hammed on your social network?
We all hate spam. Spam is useless, it fills up too much of our email space and it takes a lot of time to get rid of. That’s why email providers invented filters. They wanted everyone to be rid of everything associated to spam. In today’s age, we’re not restricted to email. Most of our… Read more »
The guy in the rain
About two years ago, when not one month had passed since I had entered the US, I once got a free bike from CU Boulder’s Bike Station. It’s a great service where any student or faculty member can rent a bike for forty-eight hours, for free. Since it was time to return it, I cycled… Read more »
The Decreasing Value of Physical Goods
Today, most of us are spending so much time online and on our smart devices that I feel that the value of physical items in our lives has decreased a lot. A few days ago, a friend took me to a store in the 29th street mall. It was a toy store that opened just… Read more »