Digg Down…

June 26th, 2006 Digg, the popular technology news site, appears to crumble under its own popularity. For quite sometime I am unable to access digg site.

November 14th, 2008 Digg was down. And that is about it.

July 13th, 2007 This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects.

July 31st, 2008 Pligg is a popular Digg clone. This week has been a stressful week for many Pliggers due to a security vulnerability discovered and exploited by a few hackers.

September 3rd, 2007 Social Bookmarking is back on Simple Thoughts blog. I have added Alex King's Share This plugin along with a modified version of Digg It plugin.

January 20th, 2009 We all knew this is gonna happen some day, but not so soon! Twitter has actually reached and overwhelmed Facebook in case of market shares. Hitwise reported that as of Tuesday, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had for the first time surpassed the market share of visits of the hit content aggregation site, Digg.

February 27th, 2006 Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?). It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc.

May 21st, 2009 Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost.  Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone.

May 6th, 2009 Webby awards from IDG are out and there are some really popular names this year. Names that are going to make you happy coz it may be a case that you are attached to them someway.

February 17th, 2006 For the music lovers and learners. Learn all about music theory and also train your ears in an awesome (free) offline package.

August 21st, 2006 Times has compiled a list of 50 coolest websites for 2006 with some ridiculous entries like human clock, which shows a different photo for each minute of the day, being categorized under News & Information, instead of Time Wasters. The only information it provides is photos with specific time of the day.

June 3rd, 2008 Now you can vote for articles on Simple Thoughts blog. Let us know what articles you like most through your vote.

August 8th, 2006 Cancelling an AOL account can become a royal pain. As easy as it is to get an AOL account, they make it extremely hard to get out of it.

October 5th, 2007 I wrote an article on a Google interview question in June, 2006 describing the problem and offering a simple solution. What makes this article interesting is that several people came up with better ideas and very thought provoking comments.

February 28th, 2007 You can access any blog / site under heavy load / attach / DNS resolution error by following one of the following four methods. For example here are four url's by which you can easily access this blog at any time: http://blog.taragana.com.nyud.net:8080/ - Coral Proxy will display the original page without any changes.