These days, it looks like every few days there has to be a news item about Facebook and privacy. Here's the latest one.

Here's a summary of what happened: A (supposedly) security researcher crawled Facebook for public profile information, and put up the dataset that he collected, with about 100 million users, on torrents for people to download.

The ( Read more... )

Lately, everyone and a few more seem to be having opinions on how to fix soccer refereeing. This is not comething new, but happens during every world cup. FIFA, and soccer apologists are not defending the incorrect decisions of the referees. But if you are one of these supposed experts who want an overhaul of rules and live replay and referrals, ( Read more... )

I just read a very moving article on Soccernet. The article shows how people in the different countries across the globe are reacting to the ongoing soccer World Cup fever.This article is meant for those who say that its after all "just a game".

Soccer, beyond being an exciting game to play/watch, has this amazing ability to unite people and ( Read more... )

1. Chennai '99 - Sachin and Indian lower order (Kumble, Joshi, Srinath)
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63828.html

2. Edgbaston '99 - Lance Klusener and Allan Donald



3. Johannesburg '07 - Misbah ul Haq

Most people have heard of the famous paper in Nature 2001 that said that papers that are available online are way more likely to be cited than the ones that are not. (Yes, apparently we do need papers to state obvious facts).

What's ironic is that none of the links to the paper, or to the author's homepage, from this citeseer url work. Maybe ( Read more... )

I was there at the Apple Store in 5th Avenue yesterday both to check out the device itself, as well as to experience first-hand the hype and buzz surrounding an Apple product launch ( Read more... )

I started thinking lately that traditional blogging is too intensive an activity, too time-consuming.

Twitter/Facebook style microblogging, on the other hand, is too limiting more often than not.

Recently I tried out microblogging (tumblr/posterous style). I created a posterous account where I thought I will post short tidbits, about diverse ( Read more... )

• I was hoping, based on Google's past reputation, that it would be more than a mere facebook clone, but so far I'm disappointed.
  
• Email integration was a good idea for GTalk, but is not a good idea for Social networking IMO. For starters, email/IM is personal communication, whereas browsing social networks for anything of interest is like searching ( Read more... )

Content Providers (eg. Google, Hulu) want net neutrality ( Read more... )

• I missed the big knock in the last Test. I didn't want to miss out this time. I just wanted to hit the bad balls (seriously?!)
  
• Cricket is a non-contact sport, but watching Virender Sehwag bat is as visceral an experience as watching Muhammad Ali dominate the ring in his prime.
  
• Virender Sehwag batted like the nearby Arabian Sea in high tide - and ( Read more... )