veetrag on December 10th, 2009

Part II of The Unfinished Internet. Here Vint Cerf discusses the new challenge, how to extend Internet to different planets and what are the issues associated with TCP/IP that does now allow that.

Interplanetary Internet – Vint Cerf from Kumar Veetrag on Vimeo.

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veetrag on December 7th, 2009

10:51 AM – Vint Cerf is already here, presentation is up and hall is almost full.
11:01 AM – Introduced by someone from Computer Science department. Widely recognized as father of internet because of his contribution to TCP/IP. Currently holds position of Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Pioneering work in packeting technology and won many [...]

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veetrag on November 27th, 2009

Earlier this year I did a podcast on Facebook platform and why it is attractive. But since then I am losing interest in Facebook’s capabilities and thus this blog post. In that podcast we discussed how Facebook connect/Google connect are going to be used as openIDs and would help build communities around  external sites. Those [...]

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veetrag on October 24th, 2008

Today we had a chance to be with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and former Gov Mark Warner. This was a live blog (but could not be updated that time).
11:31 AM: Mark Warner (MW) and Eric Schmidt (ES) walk into the hall, crowd stand up and applaud.
MW talking about Schmidt/Google, setting up the context for today’s [...]

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veetrag on September 14th, 2008

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Participants : Thej and Veetrag
Podcast Notes

Thej @ Nokia Open Lab, Helsinki
Yammer wins TC50 – Deserving Winner? How different is it from Twitter?
Google Launches Satellite – what benefits will we have?
Call Graph – free skype recording utility.
Motorola MOTO Z9 – first hand experience

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veetrag on November 1st, 2007

Just saw this ‘Click to Call’ feature on Google search. As always I was amazed to see that companies are breaking all limits, in spending money and privacy, to attract more and more customers. Hopefully after this there won’t be increase in spam phone calls.
Twitter SMS alerts are not proper since they moved [...]

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For last few months one question has been bugging me, how Digging any items affects the search results. The doubt came when I first started using Digg, I submitted one URL from my blog to see if I get some more traffic. And in two days I realized THE link was appearing in top 10 [...]

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veetrag on June 19th, 2007

Background: eBay uses PayPal as one of the medium of money transaction. Google started with ‘Google Checkout’. Google wants eBay to move to Checkout from PayPal.

eBay live is set to start in Boston.
Google announces ‘Let Freedom Ring’ same place same [...]

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veetrag on May 24th, 2007

Was reading about SEO ( Search Engine Optimizers) and found this on Google’s Help page :
Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:
“Dear google.com, I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories…”
Source : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291&ctx=sibling
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veetrag on May 9th, 2007

WOW!
Perfect example
(Encountered in Picasa)
PS : 200th post
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