Has the envisioned growth started to happen in e-learning space?
This article Technology reshapes America's classrooms seems to indicate the trend.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Movie Guru's impact on Dhirubhai's wiki entry
With, Mani Ratnam and Ambanis refusing that Guru is based on Dhirubhai's life, lets hunt for the truth by finding what Netizen are thinking.
Post movie Guru's release the activity in Wikipedia has increased significantly. Check this small analysis on the number of entries happening in Dhirubhai's wikipedia entry. You will find small dips after 20th Jan, this is because most entries happen on Saturday/Sunday than weekdays. Weekend free time! Is this is a general trend, that most entries in Wikipedia happens on weekends? Will leave that analysis to others.
Post movie Guru's release the activity in Wikipedia has increased significantly. Check this small analysis on the number of entries happening in Dhirubhai's wikipedia entry. You will find small dips after 20th Jan, this is because most entries happen on Saturday/Sunday than weekdays. Weekend free time! Is this is a general trend, that most entries in Wikipedia happens on weekends? Will leave that analysis to others.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
J!NX Forums - The math behind subnetting
J!NX Forums - The math behind subnetting:
Very useful. Don't underestimate the knowledge harnessed by understanding TCP/IP.
Very useful. Don't underestimate the knowledge harnessed by understanding TCP/IP.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR : So much to know about fonts. Good fonts can improve readability and differentiate the presentation.
Hibernate - Persistence Architecture
hibernate
is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service.
Hibernate does not hide the power of SQL from you and guarantees that your investment in relational technology and knowledge is as valid as always.
is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service.
Hibernate does not hide the power of SQL from you and guarantees that your investment in relational technology and knowledge is as valid as always.
Choice of Architecture
Java Pro - J2EE Persistence from JDBC to CMP
There are basically two architecture - Data driven and Object driven. The above article gives a good explanation for choosing the right architecture and especially persistence architecture.
"Data driven architeture: Are window-on data with little or no business logic maintained in the middle tier. ften, these applications are data-centric based on their origins—for instance, they were previously accessed through a Rapid Application Development tool or similar technology—and developer skill sets. Applications that are data-centric should focus on implementations based on JDBC and frameworks that maintain the relational model all the way through to the presentation layer.
Object driven: In this development style, application logic is usually built and maintained within the J2EE middle tier and involves introducing a persistence layer into the application that will convert between the object model of the application and the relational schema of the database or database"
There are basically two architecture - Data driven and Object driven. The above article gives a good explanation for choosing the right architecture and especially persistence architecture.
"Data driven architeture: Are window-on data with little or no business logic maintained in the middle tier. ften, these applications are data-centric based on their origins—for instance, they were previously accessed through a Rapid Application Development tool or similar technology—and developer skill sets. Applications that are data-centric should focus on implementations based on JDBC and frameworks that maintain the relational model all the way through to the presentation layer.
Object driven: In this development style, application logic is usually built and maintained within the J2EE middle tier and involves introducing a persistence layer into the application that will convert between the object model of the application and the relational schema of the database or database"
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Top 20 Web development links of 2005
Web Graphic's (WG) Top 20 of 2005
These kind of list is good and should be shared. Essential resource for WEB 2.0 enthusiasts.
These kind of list is good and should be shared. Essential resource for WEB 2.0 enthusiasts.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right?
Kirkville - Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right?
Kirk, I liked your point "serendipity of discovering".
Another main concern is "Newsworthiness". Sometime "News" is news only because it is printed in the newspaper. Newspapers have build that perception and trustworthiness over a period of time. However even new online media (Blogs) are able to create ripples in the society with their news.
Asking newspaper to get online right is like asking the good thearterical team to make a movie. Just videotaping a play and projecting is on the screen doesn't make it a movie. The movie has its own rules/tricks/grammar.
Kirk, I liked your point "serendipity of discovering".
Another main concern is "Newsworthiness". Sometime "News" is news only because it is printed in the newspaper. Newspapers have build that perception and trustworthiness over a period of time. However even new online media (Blogs) are able to create ripples in the society with their news.
Asking newspaper to get online right is like asking the good thearterical team to make a movie. Just videotaping a play and projecting is on the screen doesn't make it a movie. The movie has its own rules/tricks/grammar.
Exploratory testing
Good article by Jonathan Kohl on Exploratory testing for Agile Teams.
Take aways from the article:
Keep the test data central and up to date.
Testers involvement and analysis is critical.
Automation combined with testers manual testing based on analysis will lead to efficient testing.
If your looking for Software testing courses, check the following.
Rapid software testing
Michael Bolton's course
Take aways from the article:
Keep the test data central and up to date.
Testers involvement and analysis is critical.
Automation combined with testers manual testing based on analysis will lead to efficient testing.
If your looking for Software testing courses, check the following.
Rapid software testing
Michael Bolton's course
Monday, October 17, 2005
List of technical books that I want to read
This is the list of technical books culled out from slashdot over the years.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
About Me
I'm, what I do.
I'm, partly also what I was
I'm, what I want to be?
- Head of Technology (a.k.a CTO)for an e-learning company.
- Hanging around with awesome technology team, which is pure fun.
- Young Indian (YI - CII).
- YI Mentor for Bhavan and Jeppiaar College
- Active in Adobe Flex user community. One of the community leaders in India.
- Advisor for 4 empirical projects at Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM)
- Active in Rich Internet Application and Rich User Interface
- Project guide for CEG com-sci students
- Couple of secret/underground projects done in stealth mode.
I'm, partly also what I was
- Worked at Cognizant as business analyst, project management but mostly known for decent work done under Srivatsan/Subbu as part of Test Consulting projects and creating the product design for first ever workflow/pega based system. Unexpected opportunity to give a talk as Linux Asia star at Linux Asia '05 along with open source biggies.
- Times of India, honed many roles from EA (to CEO), handling online properties, Business analyst and managing the Ad serving technology.
- NIT BE e&p. Mixed bag
- IIM -Bangalore. Made me a Man.
I'm, what I want to be?
- Contribute to make India a healthy, happy and proud country.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Learning System
Behavior predicting can be surprisingly easy. Its eerie, are we leading a pre-defined life!? Ok, I can reason out the science of probability and all, but still , to be able to predict correctly 90% of the time what you will eat by what car you drive in to the restaurant, is completely surprising!!
Read about this amazing predicting system at : Hyperactive Bob
Amazon with its wealth of customer buying information can go to greater length in predicting your complete online behavior without touching any privacy concerns. Read the Amazon story at New Scientist
Read about this amazing predicting system at : Hyperactive Bob
Amazon with its wealth of customer buying information can go to greater length in predicting your complete online behavior without touching any privacy concerns. Read the Amazon story at New Scientist
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Web as the distribution for movies.
"The official Web site will document the production process and encourage audience interaction, which will be used to shape the series as it progresses"
BitPass provides micropayment model that is essential for making this niche movie making a viable model.
"The official Web site will document the production process and encourage audience interaction, which will be used to shape the series as it progresses"
BitPass provides micropayment model that is essential for making this niche movie making a viable model.
Profile of Media Business in Chennai
Chennai is the unsung hub for online business success story. Following leading online properties functions out of Chennai.
Sulkeha: Online classifieds that work
Sify: Own's the indiaworld properties, Samachar.com, Khel.com, Khoj etc.
Bharatmatrimony: Leading matrimony business online
numtv: A division of pentamedia, this is TV over internet and my friends in US actually subscribe to this and they are happy. Blazeway is the technology solution provider for numtv.
Penta-media: Movies, distribution.
Why chennai is the hub? I believe skilled talent pool is one of the main reason.
Sulkeha: Online classifieds that work
Sify: Own's the indiaworld properties, Samachar.com, Khel.com, Khoj etc.
Bharatmatrimony: Leading matrimony business online
numtv: A division of pentamedia, this is TV over internet and my friends in US actually subscribe to this and they are happy. Blazeway is the technology solution provider for numtv.
Penta-media: Movies, distribution.
Why chennai is the hub? I believe skilled talent pool is one of the main reason.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
On line Business: A Thought paper
Being part of the Google (Yahoo- Scale players) Ecosystem
With time, even Google's simple self serving service like Adsense will grow in complexity. With many additional Google service offerings in brewing; Google will rely on partners for servicing last mile- there in lies the good opportunity to grow along with Google (Yahoo other large web scale players)
Adsense:
–Nurturing Google certified Adsense professional talent and skill. Building and managing this pool of recourse is an innovation in itself that can be leveraged for Gobal Market
–Build resource pool that could harness all the power of Google API. The API working knowledge harnessed will be a valuable IP worth pursuing
– GMail will be soon provided to Very Small, Small and Medium enterprise. It will make lot of sense for these companies to lap up the Enterprise Gmail service as it will free them from poor in-house maintenance and support. I needn't say more about the power and beauty of Gmail – use it to believe what I'm saying
Blogs will become more professional and organized – atleast will “look” like it
Why I'm saying “look” because blogs will not loose its flexibility, freedom or the characteristic of grass root phenomenon but the sheer explosion of blogs across all categories will call for some organization. Organizing (Collection, Editor's Pick...which is an innovation in itself) blogs and one who can do it will be the next media mogul.
Organizational Structure
Every online business is structured around three teams:
1- Content
2- Marketing
3- Technology
In the nascent stage of the industry the technology will rule (thus the differentiator) the content and then as the technology is mastered the content will be the differentiator. If the market is competitive with similar standards of technology and content, the marketing team will be the key for growth. The marketing team should be well versed with technology in the nascent stage and as the technology matures marketers should be content savvy in order to market the products better. Even the content team should be well versed with the technology in the nascent stage and as the technology matures content team should be market savvy.
The culture and management of each team is different. Companies takes pride in building and nurturing these teams e.g , Certain companies are know for the editorial value, take for the instance Newspaper, how many of us buy the news paper for the quality of the ink or the paper? Exactly as Newspaper is more than 100 years old and the technology is mastered by most, it is the content and marketing that will make the difference.
Internet is still in the nascent stage and technology is the king (not the content as people believed in dot com boom). Developing and Managing (Program management, Project management) the technology team and its culture will be the key to organization growth and innovation in the market.
Content creation is yet be mastered – Structure is the Key
Very few companies have got the following right mixture of skills and required project management capability to create online content. This task is increasingly difficult because the grammar of online content is evolving and most of the current rules are set by technology.
Online content creation consists of following team/process. Nurturing, Structuring and program management of following team will be the key to success.
-UI – Usability
-Visualizer / Conceptualizer
-Designer
-Web programmer HTML/CSS/XML/JavaScript
-WebDeveloper:ASP/.NET/JAVA/PHP/Python/Perl/Database/Content Management System
-Content Writer
With time, even Google's simple self serving service like Adsense will grow in complexity. With many additional Google service offerings in brewing; Google will rely on partners for servicing last mile- there in lies the good opportunity to grow along with Google (Yahoo other large web scale players)
Adsense:
–Nurturing Google certified Adsense professional talent and skill. Building and managing this pool of recourse is an innovation in itself that can be leveraged for Gobal Market
–Build resource pool that could harness all the power of Google API. The API working knowledge harnessed will be a valuable IP worth pursuing
– GMail will be soon provided to Very Small, Small and Medium enterprise. It will make lot of sense for these companies to lap up the Enterprise Gmail service as it will free them from poor in-house maintenance and support. I needn't say more about the power and beauty of Gmail – use it to believe what I'm saying
Blogs will become more professional and organized – atleast will “look” like it
Why I'm saying “look” because blogs will not loose its flexibility, freedom or the characteristic of grass root phenomenon but the sheer explosion of blogs across all categories will call for some organization. Organizing (Collection, Editor's Pick...which is an innovation in itself) blogs and one who can do it will be the next media mogul.
Organizational Structure
Every online business is structured around three teams:
1- Content
2- Marketing
3- Technology
In the nascent stage of the industry the technology will rule (thus the differentiator) the content and then as the technology is mastered the content will be the differentiator. If the market is competitive with similar standards of technology and content, the marketing team will be the key for growth. The marketing team should be well versed with technology in the nascent stage and as the technology matures marketers should be content savvy in order to market the products better. Even the content team should be well versed with the technology in the nascent stage and as the technology matures content team should be market savvy.
The culture and management of each team is different. Companies takes pride in building and nurturing these teams e.g , Certain companies are know for the editorial value, take for the instance Newspaper, how many of us buy the news paper for the quality of the ink or the paper? Exactly as Newspaper is more than 100 years old and the technology is mastered by most, it is the content and marketing that will make the difference.
Internet is still in the nascent stage and technology is the king (not the content as people believed in dot com boom). Developing and Managing (Program management, Project management) the technology team and its culture will be the key to organization growth and innovation in the market.
Content creation is yet be mastered – Structure is the Key
Very few companies have got the following right mixture of skills and required project management capability to create online content. This task is increasingly difficult because the grammar of online content is evolving and most of the current rules are set by technology.
Online content creation consists of following team/process. Nurturing, Structuring and program management of following team will be the key to success.
-UI – Usability
-Visualizer / Conceptualizer
-Designer
-Web programmer HTML/CSS/XML/JavaScript
-WebDeveloper:ASP/.NET/JAVA/PHP/Python/Perl/Database/Content Management System
-Content Writer
Click Fraud - Competing on the Internet
"In this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place" as said by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" well in cyber place the running has to be really quick.
Article: Click fraud
Resources
Click Defense: Tracking optimization and click fraud detection company
ClickLab: Web Analytics service
Article: Click fraud
Resources
Click Defense: Tracking optimization and click fraud detection company
ClickLab: Web Analytics service
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Future of TV: The battle is fought now
Read the article: Built your TV.
The battle of "future of TV" is fought now. Government, media giants and electronics manufactures are bringing in policy/law- Broadcast flag to shape the future of TV. Myth TV initiative is however making open and free platform that will hamper the broadcast flag ruling.
Also to be watch for is Brightcove: A start-up that promised new way to distribute content (Video) over the Internet.
Insight: Media consuming and distribution is changing completely.
The battle of "future of TV" is fought now. Government, media giants and electronics manufactures are bringing in policy/law- Broadcast flag to shape the future of TV. Myth TV initiative is however making open and free platform that will hamper the broadcast flag ruling.
Also to be watch for is Brightcove: A start-up that promised new way to distribute content (Video) over the Internet.
Insight: Media consuming and distribution is changing completely.
Secret of Google - Dealing with crashes
Urs Hoelzle shares Google's data center operations
Glimpses of nightmare in operating a large scale online service. Any large scale online media needs to master these nuances.
There is still lot of engineering innovation that needs to be mastered in computing system. Well that is the topic for my next thought paper.
Glimpses of nightmare in operating a large scale online service. Any large scale online media needs to master these nuances.
There is still lot of engineering innovation that needs to be mastered in computing system. Well that is the topic for my next thought paper.
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