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Watching the Grammys last evening, brought this wonderful print ad to my attention.  Throughout the evening various artists lent their faces to a group of words to form this style of picture during pre ad break fade outs.  Branding at its sheer best.

Pic Courtesy: Radiohead at/ease

I have been a regular reader of http://www.deccanchronicle.com/ [DC in short], a hyderabad based english paper for the past 4 years now, as a weak connection to anything hyderabad.  The only reason I used to tolerate reading the online version and badly designed site was that it was the only english newspaper.  Yes we had Telugu papers, but the presentation and technology improved only in recent times. [earlier readers had to look at scanned images folks not the cool present day UTF fonts..] So sometime early Jan 2009, DC got a facelift.  It now emulates certain CMS based news sites, and a vast improvement from the old version. Me being me, I had to look under the hood! I saw the site was composed of a gazillion divs, instead of tables and cells. [Look up the source of timesofindia, and you can see a host of tables over there!] I was impressed.  [W3c standards? Atleast an attempt?  Yes yes yes! Hallelujah!]

This is probably one of the coolest ways to go!  Dr. pepper is paying gamers to do what they love doing the most, keep playing video games! Now my son has a career option too! Tom Tsquared Taylor must be on cloud 9!

The whole of last week I was amused to see Bill Gates and Seinfeld share their lives with common folk on TV. Then via stuff.co.nz I came to know that

No no this is not a title for a new Schwarzenegger movie, but an interesting trend coming up in the software industry. Im talking about the Larabee project from Intel. The possibilities are endless, so to speak.

Last week, I was excited to send a gazillion amount of invites to my email contacts asking them to join me on twitter. "Did you develop a new product called twitter" was the question I encounter in a phone conversation in response to my "join me on twitter email". I was shocked into silence. Especially since the person asking me this Q was a MCA and working in Oracle products in the USA, and not an average dude by any standards. I immediately switch to Telugu. "Kaadu, adi social networking site." [no its a ...] I get a "Ardham ayyindi, nuvvu edo chesavemo ani" [I figured it out (that it was a social...), but thought that you developed the site.] I stop this disgusting conversation with "Antha scene ledamma naaku.." [I dont have that kind of scene.] Naturally I was hopping mad, as I didnt expect this dumbness to emerge from a facebook generation. But I'm trying to come to grips with dealing with "people who dont get it.." After reading Matt Balara's article on Stowe Boyd's site "Why aren't you talking to me", I realize I am not alone.

Update as on 22 June 08: I accidentally

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I always believed in the marriage of P2P and web 2.0. Most of the signs were already out there. One obvious use of this combination was of course illegal downloading of movies amongst private web 2.0 networks. But as a system, I believe that if you could pass the rewards, and stimulate participation, one could harness this trend for good as well.

Pundits have been yammering away for years about a "celestial jukebox" that will give everyone the ability to access all content ever created, from anywhere, at any time. This long-discussed concept is finally becoming a reality, at least as far as music goes.via Celestial Jukebox falls to earth 'Hey, making applications for the iPhone shouldn't be that hard'.... [I] thought how useful it would be to have a P2P client (first for me, then for the people) so I started learning and developing it myself." - Wired

I therefore was pretty excited when I was reading Wired's article on Eric Castro's "iSlsk". Eric is a 19 year old student of Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (UTN) (System’s Engineering career) located in Buenos Aires, Argentina and quite a geek with ...