November 20, 2010

Google Launches Fashion Search Site

Posted by Niks


Google on Wednesday unveiled Boutiques.com, a Web site that combines computing power with fashion savvy in an effort to keep users informed about trends and provide shopping recommendations.
"Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like," Munjal Shah, Google product management director, wrote in a blog post.

 

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November 18, 2010

Facebook Places in India Launched

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Facebook Places, a Foursquare like service that lets you broadcast your current location to your other Facebook friends, may have just gone live in India.
The service has been available since day one to all employees of Facebook who are based in India but looks like they are now slowly rolling it out to external users as well.
The service will automatically determine your current location and show you a list of nearby places – if your “place” is not listed in the Facebook Places database, you may create it using the mobile app itself.

 

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November 13, 2010

The Pros and Cons of Moving Back to India From US

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After having stayed in the US for nearly 15 years, Peeyush Ranjan and Mallika recently decided to shift base to Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, along with their two kids.
Peeyush is now the head of engineering (R&D) at Google India while Mallika continues to work with Microsoft. Read their experiences after moving back home:
Peeyush and Mallika Ranjan
Why did we return to India?

 

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Facebook Initiates Project Titan Against Gmail???

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Emails were sent out to users with @facebook.com id’s and within those emails were invites to a special event on Monday.There are strong hints that Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client.
Project Titan has huge potential since Facebook is a very popular in the online space, rest assured this wont be the Facebook messaging UI with a email tacked on, but will be a proper well crafted webmail service.

 

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November 5, 2010

Print Files on Linux Remotely using Dropbox

Posted by Niks

If you have a printer attached to a Linux machine, you can easily send print jobs to that printer from another remote computer using Dropbox (see similar solutions for Windows and Mac).
The idea is that you create a shell script to monitor a local Dropbox folder. As soon as a new file is added to that folder from a remote computer (or mobile phone), the script will send the file to the attached printer. Once the the printing job is completed, the file is removed from the incoming queue.
The implementation is easy. Kurt Granroth sent me this improved* shell script that you can use in any Linux environment. You only have to setup a cron job against this script such that it runs after every ‘n’ seconds (or minutes).

 

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