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pycassaon You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

"meanwhile in Africa.." thing might be a joke.. come on, you can't possibly think that the guy posted that comment is jealous..

pycassaon Nokia faked the still photos too

actually, i read some where regarding tips in food photography.. where they dont actually use ice cream.. let me find you the link.. it is more of an advertising thing..

pycassaon Nokia Launches Lumia 920: 8MP PureView, NFC, Wireless Charging, Windows Phone 8

i hope they sell millions

pycassaon Nokia’s Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple

can you tell me why you think it is less well thought out than ios or android in practice?

pycassaon Practicing Programming

sorry off topic.. but can some one please explain this "It's(American football) more like playing chess than playing soccer."

pycassaon India To Biometrically Identify All Of Its 1.2 Billion Citizens

good.. if they start planning now.. we, indians would get these at the end of this decade...

pycassaon Stanford to host more online classes

Thank you so much, you guys are awesome..really well organized unlike aiclass

pycassaon This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years

someone should do the same with programming

pycassaon Facebook Timeline

honestly, i was worried too. but after setting up my timeline, it looks quite nice. one of the unused assets of facebook and twitter are our past activities on them, it is more profound in case of twitter, where consuming our past tweets is really a bad experience, honestly i dont know it would add much to the twitter experience. the other end of this spectrum is the photos experience in facebook. no matter at what time you added a photo in facebook, there is this photos app to make it easier to consume it all at a time, and checking out the albums of a friend/stalkee/victim is one of the things i would do most of the time when i am in their profile. now with timelines, you will be knowing more about the person, and i think i will be spending quite some time checking out friends timelines similar to albums. even though some what skeptical at first, after using it, i quite like it. it is not clumsy at all.

pycassaon Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet

lol, i just realized myspace used to do this? anyway i hope the music experience wont effect fb negatively. i can also see fb coming on top of all the current cloud based music services if done right

pycassaon Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet

this can really be a killer app if done right. this increases the average time spent on fb further. currently fb and twitter are not doing anything about the users past activities like, likes/tweets/status updates etc., except for images in Facebook. if i wanted to look up an interesting thing i tweeted or shared in the past it is really not that intuitive and most of the time i give up. this music thing can be really huge similar to the images app, not just the live listing feature, currently there is no way to have all my liked music from various apps to be in one place.they may introduce a music tab, they also have my favourite artists, so they may fill my music tab with their songs if available. if done right this can be really huge, the most used app next to images. i hope they can deliver.

pycassaon Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

when bing alone can challenge google's core business, isn't putting the whole microsoft after twitter and paypal as a consumer tech company silly?

pycassaon Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

at D9: According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies 1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook) 5-6(paypal,twitter) Schmidt said he believes Microsoft is “not driving the consumer revolution.” He doesn’t count Microsoft’s Xbox business because it’s “not a platform at the computational level.”

today before congress: Microsoft's Bing has continued to gain in popularity, perhaps because it comes pre-installed as the search default on over 70 percent of new computers sold. Microsoft's Bing is the exclusive search provider for Yahoo! and Facebook. Microsoft recently signed a deal for Bing to power English language search on the fast-rising Chinese search engine Baidu, which Baidu has acknowledged will help it become more competitive in markets outside of China. In addition to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has integrated Bing into its popular gaming console, the Xbox 360, which it is in talks with cable companies to convert into the set-top box of the future. Microsoft?s Bing launched in June 2009 and has grown so rapidly that some commentators have speculated that it could overtake Google as early as 2012.

pycassaon Microsoft employee's phone tweet leads to ouster

i think he actually tweeted thrice about the phone, and one of them was his rating of the camera quality/phone as 8/10

pycassaon Google+ Opens to All

google plus is like the bing of social networks