Vishwas on December 7th, 2008

Hulu introduced a new recommendations tool (still in beta) recently. I usually do not visit my profile page very often and totally missed out on this feature. It recommended some nice sci-fi and action shows/movies based on my viewing history. Pretty impressive.
For the un-initiated, Hulu is a poor man’s TiVo, offering free full length episodes [...]

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Vishwas on May 25th, 2008

I just discussed a few days ago, what it means to an end user, when social networking sites start opening up and issue API’s to 3rd party developers for developing applications. My major concern at that time was privacy and still is. There are other annoying aspects of the social, to which I’ve been exposed [...]

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Vishwas on May 10th, 2008

The last fortnight has seen many developments in the online social communities.
Microsoft Zune upgraded its social feature to a new level with the ability to see what your friends are listening and even download their Zune cards onto the devices. It is a very nice feature to discover new music since you do not [...]

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