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 June 16th, 2009

A set of tweets in a language I don’t understand made me think of about the problem of twitter groups. Many a when I tweet I face the problem that I am going to annoy my followers who are not interested in certain topics such as F1, Cricket or Web2 technologies. Since we have [...]

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veetrag on May 4th, 2009

Twitter suspended the account ‘F1‘ 3 weeks back and after I lodged a complaint I got a auto-generated response 2 weeks later. I filed my request again today like this:

I own the Twitter account @f1 for more than 2 years and have 4000+ followers. I have been using it for broadcasting Formula1 related news and [...]

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veetrag on April 20th, 2009

This post is in response to the questions asked by Mr. Tweet on his blog:
I have been using twitter for almost 2 years now and was expecting some popularity but not of this level. My opinion about Aston Kutcher Vs CNN, I do not like what is going on. It is just a publicity stunt [...]

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veetrag on January 9th, 2009

Twitter, the best service that I am aware of. OK, I won’t get into my love for Twitter, but this post if about Tweetdeck, twitter client, that changed the way I use twitter.
These were my main issues that I was facing

There were a set of people I wanted to follow, but didn’t want to read [...]

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veetrag on November 28th, 2008

It is not 40 hours since series of terrorists attacks in Mumbai, it is one of the most horrible things I have seen in my life. My heart goes out to all those effected, policeman who gave their life and people still struggling stuck surrounded by terrorists. Great work by Indian soldiers, Good luck.
One disappointing [...]

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veetrag on October 27th, 2008

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Participants : Thej and Veetrag
Podcast Notes

Chandrayaan – impact on common man [1], Thej’s interview at BBC.
Facebook Scribe to go opensource
Yahoo Application Platform, part of Open Strategy
Twitter stops IM service and its impact – part of business plan or they are getting out of business?
Google App Engine to support [...]

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veetrag on July 15th, 2008

The deal is done; Twitter has acquired Summize and most of its employees. I would say this is the perfect move by Twitter. Most important thing that twitter was lacking (other than stability) was a search functionality and Summize will fill the gap.
Now only thing that twitter needs to do is provide a search API [...]

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veetrag on April 21st, 2008

List of twitterits present: @adese @labsji @gbot @adityamishra @hnprashanth @jerrymannel @kv @f1 @2s @netra @sanjukta, @privarma @ujj @swaroopch @kaargocult @mayankdhingra @cruisemaniac @anant @holydevil @mataal @bhuwan @scorpion032, @hephail @neogarfield @thej @prsn and @shailen, @eventsbangalore
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