Ravi’s Blog

The latest move in the war for user’s email box comes from Micrsoft. Last week, Microsoft announced custom domains, through a blog hosted by the custom domains team. To summarize
- You can register your domains anywhere
- You can host your domains anywhere
- You can have your email@ your domain hosted on […]

http://manjunathshanmugam.blogspot.com/
I would like to post more of my collected thoughts on this matter at a later time. The story is too shocking.
The story of manjunath shows us how barbaric parts of our society are. We have a rich culture of 5000 years. Sometimes, it feels that we still are in a society that hasn’t […]

Charlene Li of Forrester research had this interesting page about “3rd page of search”.
Her primary observation was about intermediaries. Folks who aggregate content on the web and SEO it to rank high in google results. Her hypothesis is that businesses will be built around become the 3rd page of search. That is, vertical search […]

Want to work for yahoo! in our team? We are the team that built Events Browser and some of the cool technologies that powered it. We have one more opening in our team.
Chad Dickerson has the job description on his site. Basically, we are looking for senior web technologists. If you have been working […]

I was looking at the awstats output for my website (www.dronamraju.com). Interestingly, visitors to my site tend to use firefox and mozilla. Those browsers command ~50% of the share, with firefox accounting for 38.5%.
I wonder if this is because my blog is read predominantly by firefox friendly folks? What does that say about me?
In […]

NOTE:Geopress 2.0 is now available. Please use that instead of this plugin.
Much has been said about how awesome the new maps is. I personally think that the maps launch is awesome for what is enables in the future. Tons of apis were released along with the new maps product. Rasmus has a cool tutorial that […]

There has been a lot of talk about web 2.0 - “web as a platform”. Enough has been said about what web 2.0 means, what being platform is. Quite of few us here in our immediate team(s) have been talking about web being a platform for development. As luck would have it, some of us […]