Information Technology
How to install IntenseDebate on wordpress 2.7.1
IntenseDebate – super charge your commenting system I installed IntenseDebate to offer highly interactive commenting system to the readers of GigaThoughts. As always it started with a lot of research, which led to final two competitors to choose from – IntenseDebate and Disqus. After testing both commenting system on local machine for a week, I [...]
RBI makes it mandatory for banks to provide additional authentication for online shopping
According to a new ruling, the Reserve bank of India -RBI has made it mandatory for all banks issuing credit and debit cards to provide additional authentication information over and above what is visible on the card. To prevent fraud and to make online shopping safer, the RBI has made it mandatory, from 1st August [...]
Microsoft Bing – search and decision engine
This week has been excellent for social media enthusiasts. The second big news in of the week is the pre-launch of Microsoft Bing, its redefined version of search. The search engine will be launch officially on June 3rd. I have been using it for a week and as heavily as i use Google search and [...]
Digital Sky Technologies invests $200M in Facebook
Facebook has announced that Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading internet investment groups globally with significant stakes in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has made a $200 million investment in Facebook in exchange for preferred stock, representing a 1.96 percent equity stake at a $10 billion valuation. In addition, DST has indicated [...]
Google Wave – web based real time communication platform
During the Google I/O keynote, Google utilized the opportunity to launch its new communication platform called Google Wave. We all know that Google likes to surprise the world by developing application that changes the rules of the game. This time around they have raised the bar further by launching Google Wave as an open source [...]
Outsourcing to India – Is outsourcing recession proof
India has always been the first choice for outsourcing due it its geographical advantage, high level education, its capability to work hard and smart and lower cost of operations. Being a co-founder of an IT services company, I am certain that the most critical question for Indian IT and BPO industry would be “Is outsourcing [...]
How to Upgrade WordPress version 2.6.5 to 2.7.1
Matt Mullenweg and a whole lot of creative and highly competent technology professionals came up with the most talked about upgrade for WordPress called Coltrane commonly known as 2.7.1 this version is named after legendary Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane . As the wordpress team puts it “The real reason Coltrane is such a huge leap [...]
6 part series – Topic 2 – Twitter
You can read topic 1 on LinkedIn here. Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing ? Source – Twitter.com – Please feel free to follow me http://twitter.com/amitdesai Twitter is a micro blogging platform [...]
1474 megapixel image of Obama’s inaugural address
Here is a photo taken using a a panaroma image capturing device called gigapan created by the carnegie mellon university and a canon g10 camera. The photographer had to click 220 snaps from that camera to get this complete view of the Obama’s inaugural address. It took a macbook pro around 7hrs to process the [...]
Satyam: Full text of Raju’s letter to the Board
To the Board of Directors Satyam Computers Services Ltd. From B. Ramalinga Raju Chairman, Satyam Computer Servcies Ltd Dear Board Members, It is with deep regret, and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience, that I would like to bring the following facts to your notice: 1. The balance sheet carries as of [...]
