Only 15 Days Left Before the Contest for Best Commenter Award from Simple Thoughts Ends. Hurry!

April 7th, 2009 Simple Thoughts have always let you and us to interact and share knowledge with each other on a very healthy and fulfilling terms. In the recent past, we have started achieving and surpassing small milestones conveniently.

April 7th, 2009 One of the most popular backup systems, Carbonite online back up, has come up with a subscription plan that gives you 20% discount on purchasing 1 year's subscription from them. Carbonite offer that used to come for $ 54.95 is now only $ 43.99.

September 16th, 2008 For several years Simple Thoughts has been authored solely by me. This ensured that we maintained the quality I am proud of.

March 24th, 2009 Well this news is significant. Simple Thoughts today started featuring in Guy Kawsaki's ( the guy with over 100, 000 followers in Twitter and Founder of Garage.com and an accomplished VC) latest venture Alltop.

September 23rd, 2008 As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are: Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline Hot Topics - Most popular news in the last 24 hours (from Google Analytics via free Gadging service) Most Voted - Most popular news ever based on your votes Most discussed - Most commented news in last 30 days Would you like more such tabs? What should they be? Do you find them informative? Would you like any changes?

September 11th, 2006 Simple Thoughts blog's viewership is male oriented (63% male) with the majority in the 18-24 age group according to Microsoft adCenter Labs. The interesting thing is that my viewership percentage is significantly larger in under 24 age group.

August 3rd, 2008 Have you noticed the somewhat obscure in this blog? It is in the menu. It is designed to take you to a random article on this blog.

April 19th, 2006 Google added a new product to their referrals feature - Google AdWords. You will earn $20 when an advertiser you refer spends at least $100 within 90 days of signing up.

January 31st, 2009 As you may be aware, if you are following my tweets, that we are testing a highly scalable WordPress delivery platform, which can serve over 10000 requests per second from a single server and handle over 20000 concurrent requests without failure. Sounds amazing? then read on...

April 22nd, 2006 An educational and entertaining video on Java. Enjoy!

December 1st, 2008 I am sure you are looking forward to this Christmas. What is better than me introducing you to a list of gadgets which will help you in gifting your friends and others that too cheaply.

January 25th, 2006 I have tried both BriteAds as well as BlogAds. Both allow advertisers to purchase ad space on your site for fixed duration.

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.

July 21st, 2008 Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish and Latin. We provide unlimited free updates and upgrades and 6 months of free support.

November 8th, 2008 Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First Growth these days) you will have to opt for consumer grade hardware (instead of big iron which more companies opted during the dotcom era ) and use them in a distributed computing framework like hadoop or GridGain or older (more mature) high throughput computing systems like OpenPBS (ignore the marketing talk to download the free version) or Condor.