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Reading, Writing, and Reflecting. Apurva Desai’s musings and observations. Archive for the ‘Silicon Valley’ Category. Would we want this future Internet of Things Linkedin use case? Linkedin Interent of Things Use Case. On March 23, 2014 1 Comment. Terms like Wearable Technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) have forced itself into the mainstream. In this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, IoT was all the rage. Walking the other direction. (more…). Read Full Post ». But the good, edu...

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Reading, Writing, and Reflecting. Apurva Desai’s musings and observations. Would we want this future Internet of Things Linkedin use case? A School in the Cloud among the mangrove trees: Sugata Mitra opens his first independent learning lab in India. The Indian Head Wiggle Explained? How to Discover, Read, and Organize Web Content on the Wild, Wild Internet. Aziz Ansari and the evolution of Indian Americans in American society. The Majestic Cranes and Ships of the Port of Oakland. Which startups in the W...

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A Social Experiment: Listening to music or drinking coffee- What’s more common for the daily San Francisco pedestrian commuter? | Reading, Writing, and Reflecting

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Reading, Writing, and Reflecting. Apurva Desai’s musings and observations. Laquo; The World Cup or the Olympics – which one to attend? A Renewed look at Nadal’s future case for Greatest of all Time (GOAT). A Social Experiment: Listening to music or drinking coffee- What’s more common for the daily San Francisco pedestrian commuter? July 2, 2010 by apurvadesai. Now, given my analytical inclination and my iPhone obsession. Here’s what I did. I used the Iphone apps TallyCounter. I only counted people who I ...

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Distributed Search: August 2009

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. This is the third post in a series on Real-Time Search. The previous ones were introduction to Real-Time Search. In case you are also interested in a good article on some recent insights about search take a look at a discussion with SurfCanyon CEO. Sunday, August 16, 2009. This is the second installment of a four-part post that I'm doing on the general topic of Real-Time Search. The first post was on introduction to Real-Time search. The need for efficient use of disk resource...

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Distributed Search: October 2008

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Sunday, October 12, 2008. First let me say a few words about the long hiatus since the last post - the main reason is that a lot happened since then, in particular a lot related to my vision of distributed search :). I am working on a new startup with a clear mission of advancing distributed search as well as leveraging user inputs as much as possible, but in a massively scalable way. Today, let us start with some facts about the scope of computing resources on (hundreds of) millions of user desktops and...

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Distributed Search: September 2009

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Monday, September 28, 2009. As promised we have another white paper on the topic of Distributed Clouds. Clouds have become a fascinating topic. Of course, as with most very popular subjects, there is no clear definition what they really are and the concept is very broad. On the other hand, some things are starting to solidify. I am posting the preceding part of our white paper as a preview, if you like it, you can read the rest at Wowd Distributed Cloud. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. It is actually quit...

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Distributed Search: March 2010

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Monday, March 22, 2010. Twitter has been the leader in this field and they have been quite accomodative with developers and other parties using their service. However, even they have clearly defined rate limits e.g. the number of parties using full twitter API (so called "firehose") is very limited. A natural question arises - does it make sense to even think of an open search API with only a few, or no, resource limitations? The nature of Wowd. System is very different from BitTorrent as. Furthermore, i...

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Distributed Search: October 2009

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009. It is a great, great pleasure for me to announce that Wowd has publicly launched today, you can go to wowd.com. To download and check it out. There are no passwords or restrictions of any kind. Of course, this is just the first stage. The real journey is only beginning now, with getting users to use Wowd and show what it can do. Stay tuned, should be great fun :). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Distributed Search: Human Premium

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Sunday, December 13, 2009. I have just read an excellent article on rise of fast and cheap content. It starts with the current commotion over the decline of traditional media, a trend I very much agree with. But then he goes further by pointing out that the next phase , already upon is, is the rise of vast amount of largely worthless content that is produced very cheaply. In addition to content, online commerce too has been overrun with SEO. Plays, indeed SEO. That leverages human-based discovery. I ...

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Distributed Search: May 2009

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The search industry has been relying on crawling since its inception. The crawlers themselves have hardly changed since the very beginning, which is really amazing. One surely might expect a bit of progress since, say, 1994? So what, one might say. Crawling has been working just fine, why rock the boat? Consider modern-day spammers, black-hat SEOs and the like; what is their most effective weapon? There are ways of expanding the Attention Frontier in an automated, or semi-automated...