Just come across a recent web startup using quite a few “dummy” sites (that only have a blog) to create inbound links for their main site. Am sure it would have improved their pagerank - but wondering how “ethical” is this SEO practice? While one may call it as a part of marketing - is [...]

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Came across this really cool technology - ScreenR.
This is a online screen casting tool - one can record screens directly thru web browser with out installing any sort of software. One can record a screencast of up to 5 minutes. The resulting video can be tweeted, uplaoded to youtube, downloaded on to hard disk in [...]

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Wordpress announced url shortening - wp.me. This is absolutely brilliant stuff. The awsesome part is that every wordpress post will now have a permanent short url. Simple idea, brilliantly executed.
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Google did the most expected - announce an OS to compete with Microsoft. After all, if Microsoft announces Bing which reportedly scared Google, what else can Google do other than this? May be Google will launch a “internet” database soon stating current databases are created when internet was not there. 
Is Google forgetting its own philosophy? The [...]

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Just came across this cool website - http://txt2re.com/ thru Venkat’s tweet. It is basically regular expression generator in several languages - Perl, PHP, Python, Javascript, ColdFusion , C /C++ , Java, Ruby , VB , VBScript,  J#.net , C#.net , C++.net , VB.net.
Its  really useful and reduces lots and lots of effort, time & headache when writing scripts where we typically parse for specific fields [...]

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Finally, I got a chance to look at the Google Wave key note video. I just could not get my eyes off the video from start to end. This is heavenly stuff. It is simply mind blowing.
In simple words, Wave is a ultimate communication platform where you can have convergence of email, instant messenger, blogs, [...]

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A sad day - Oracle buys Sun.
I, like many others, only hopethat Oracle will continue all the open source initiatives of Sun and most importantly the Java platform - wishful thinking indeed.
The future of Java / J2EE app servers  suddenly looks very bleak. God knows how fast/slowly will Oracle kill Java, MySQL for its benefits. [...]

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