Short Review: Yahoo Pipes versus Google Mashup Editor

July 25th, 2008 Much has been written about Yahoo Pipes and lots of how-to tutorial. I was pleasantly surprised to see the ease of use of Yahoo Pipes and how easily I could create a simple pipe to get data in RSS feed format.

April 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.

July 27th, 2008 Many like Darren Rowse suggest that you should create a stack of ideas to blog about and then use them in lean periods to tide you over. Now Darren is an amazing blogger.

June 24th, 2006 Yahoo Mail sucked (pardon my French). However their new version (beta as is the norm these days) is getting rave reviews.

May 23rd, 2006 They say a picture is worth thousand words. Let the picture speak for itself.

November 5th, 2007 Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.

November 12th, 2007 I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam).

June 24th, 2006 Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a "significant amount" to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads.

October 23rd, 2005 After my ill-fated attempt to use latest version of Yahoo Instant Messenger (The Malware), I manually removed all traces of Yahoo Instant Messenger from my system. One thing however persisted - their search engine plugin for Firefox.

June 28th, 2006 This week, possibly as soon as Wednesday, Google is expected by many to unveil a new Internet payment system. It may start out as an online wallet but could become a PayPal-like infrastructure for payments across the Web, handling everything from skis to music and videos, analysts said Tuesday.

August 17th, 2006 6 steps to setup your free online store using Google Base & Google Checkout. Click on the "Sign In" link on the Google Base homepage.

July 24th, 2006 Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Microsoft days, finally? It may be too soon to say but YouOS looks pretty functional to me. "YouOS strives to bring the web and traditional operating systems together to form a shared virtual computer." It is a wonderful concept.

January 30th, 2008 Type the following as a WordPress comment and see the fun: <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">This is www.yahoo.com link</a> This should ideally cause the whole phrase (This is www.yahoo.com link) to be hyperlinked and pointing to google.com. Unfortunately WordPress sees it as two links and a plain word: "This is" is hyperlinked to www.google.com "www.yahoo.com" is hyperlinked to www.yahoo.com "link" is not hyperlinked at all Did you read about the other hyperlinking defect?

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.

July 1st, 2007 I use both YPN & AdSense. Read below for a summary of my experience with both Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN).