From this day, Simple Thoughts is starting up a series of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs from India and all over the world. In our first endeavor, we managed to do a tête-à-tête with Khushnood Naqvi, co-founder of a very useful online travel search service, 90di. (Get more information for 90di). The main USP of 90di is, it combines the train and flight routes to show numerous traveling route possibilities to the user which is unique in its own way and very efficient too. It also gives you some more interesting options to work upon and select the best means of transportation possible (as is claimed). So without further ado, let's get on with the excerpts. Full article (1704 words) »

Before people feel obnoxious about the rather ambitious title this article ventures through, I must put you to peace by this self-quote:

Behind every successful machine, there is a human, always watching.

I know you are lost in the mazes of correlating it to the title but, a well researched article from Wired may help you realize what seems to be less convincing unless you see the real objective in the future. Long entry short: Facebook can actually creep into the empire of Google by denying them what they do the best, show your project to the world and profit.

Let's just think for a second, Mark Zuckerberg says

Google is a top-down way of organizing the Web that results in an impersonal experience that stifles online activity. You have a bunch of machines and algorithms going out and crawling the Web and bringing information back, That only gets stuff that is publicly available to everyone. And it doesn't give people the control that they need to be really comfortable.

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Search is at the heart of everything we do. Our engineers work every day to solve the hardest search problems, and thus improve your online experience. Here's a glimpse at what they do, the features they've built and the remarkable user stories that inspire our work

When you get such quotes right up, you know that only Google can be that dedicated and that passionate about what they do the best, Search. As you can see in the picture over there, Google has brought out all the existing feature under one roof by the concept of Discovering the Web. So what is it actually? It is nothing but prime features of Google search under one place.

So why now? Bing.
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The word is out. We broke it just when it came out of the horse's mouth. Windows 7 has always been one of our primary targets in feeding you with all the news, views and releases. This time too, we won't let you speculate what to do between June to October. Of course Microsoft has concrete plans before final release. and PCWorld has shared them with us. So let me share it with you. Full article (256 words) »

The concept of internet plagiarism is a matter of concern and we all know that. While we had brought this issue into limelight almost a year before (Code of conducts for bloggers), a new and far more serious issue has stirred this debate once again. This time the person under allegation is none other than Jason Calacanis. blog.fluther.com/blog (blog of a Q/A community, fluther) wrote an open letter to Jason about content stealing and hijacking them to his own concern, mahalo.com.

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Google is constantly upgrading and improving itself looking at the future of web with their kinds. In their endeavour of doing so, the latest innovation they showed us on Google Developers' conference at San Fransisco, is Google Wave. According to them,

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

In other words, its a communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, multimedia management, document sharing and wiki. It is indeed, though I shouldn't sound as a G-fanboy, one of the most ambitious and just-at-the-edge projects Google has put his hands on, ever. I will try to justify my assumptions below. Let's get to know the Wave first.

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At times you need to reuse the table with tabulated data from PDF format. Simply, you can't work on the PDF tables as you can do with Microsoft Excel. Now, it is an up hill task to edit the data manually to get it in excel format. What if you could get the PDF tables to Excel format with just a few clicks? There is a free online conversion tool that offers a simple, hassle free way to convert the PDF tables to Excel format without loosing the original quality. The converted file can be used to work more efficiently.

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Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data on a remote server which you can access securely (must-have feature) over the internet. Most hosted subversion service has a minimal free plan followed by a paid subscription.

We have previously posted comprehensive review of hosted subversion services. Today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of hosted subversion services in details.

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After covering Windows 7 extensively, the quest to find what else is happening obviously took us to the question, Is Microsoft gonna rest now? But for what reason? May be the next version of Windows 7 will be a completely cloud based OS. But as it seems for now that Midori (Windows 8 codename) will be another Microsoft operating system with some more special features than Windows 7. Better cluster support, support for one way replication and also a significant performance improvement are in the cards. What remains as the crux is that we may have a complete make over of File system (better security?) and the Kernel redesign.
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Ubuntu community has been graphically the richest distro in the entire Linux community. When we actually talked about Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, people went ga ga over the desktop theme above anything else. This time too, after the announcement of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope due for today), the community is buzzing up with the talks of the newest version of Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. If we are to start in one line then, the desktop side will focus on beautification and an improved boot-up experience; the server side will target cloud computing.

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