Friday, September 26, 2008

If We had Nensha!

Roots of sense copying goes to beginning of this century. This is better known as thoughtography. In simple terms, thoughtography, aka nengraphy is the ability to physically "burn" images from one's mind into surfaces or even into the minds of others.[Source - Wikipedia]

Actually I felt the need for this supernatural ability in human beings after attending a session on Axis2 transports done by Asankha C. Perera of WSO2 today. It was quite informative and very well presented. But if we had thoughtographic capabilities in us, we all would be better off as it was a torrent of information I would say! :).

Has Google Redefined Beta?

It is ironic that four-year-old Gmail is still in beta?.Actually not only Gmail, but also couple of other Google products like Google Docs, Orkut, Google Finance, which are really good enough to come out of beta are yet to get rid of the BETA label next to their names.

But Google believes that beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web as oppose to conventional off-the-shelf software products.

Read the full story here.