Tech Chords

So I've been using Facebook email service since morning today (geekybodhi@facebook.com). It allows you to send attachments, take a picture or video if you have a webcam, and even text the message to a mobile. But all said and done, despite the hyperbolic headlines leading up to its release, it certainly isn't a Gmail killer. Not ...

So you're fresh out of college with a degree in computer science. As you gleefully wait for that one phone call, you discover the computer isn't just what you were taught it'd be. It has metamorphosed into the pervasive social web. Standalone apps have made way for those that reside on the cloud. Data isn't centralized ...

Every country has a particular format in which they specify dates. On the web, the dates format us. I just congratulated a friend on his wedding, while mourning the passing of another's partner. Sent my best wishes to a friend on her 28th birthday, and to another on her 1st (if you're wondering her parents maintain ...

Back in 2008 there was a lot of noise and excitement around the contextual web. Two years later, we aren't where we should have been, partly because the idea of the contextual web was to limit the time we spent on a search engine, but we've come quite far, despite Mozilla abandoning Ubiquity, and Google dragging ...

This is an email I just wrote to Facebook. Dear Facebook, Thank you for hosting the worlds biggest party and inviting everyone I know. They are all here. From people I took the school bus with, to people that took me places. I might have never met all of them IRL, but we have popped into ...