It is a week since I switched to Linux. It has been a pleasurable experience but I will keep these experiences for later. Last week, my article on switching to Ubuntu got dugg and the biggest complaint people had about Ubuntu was that games cannot work on Linux. Now, come on, if you are big [...]
Entries from November 2006
November 13, 2006
Morgan Stanley’s latest presentation: The State of the Internet
I was just surfing blogs and I found the presentation made by Morgan Stanley at the Web 2.0 summit recently. A fascinating read with a lot of numbers. These are probably the best statistics available on the state of Web 2.0 currently.
Here it is, State of the Internet or you can download it from [...]
November 13, 2006
Cool and clean online photo editor
I just found an exciting new site, Pixer.us. It is an online AJAX photo editor. I only know one other online photo editor which is phixr.com and it is better than that. So, how good is this? It is extremely fast and highly intuitive (because they were sensible enough to use text buttons rather than [...]
November 12, 2006
Six Reasons Why Linux isn’t Mainstream yet
In brief,
#1 Installing Apps is a painful experience for the average Joe
#2 Sound Sharing is screwed up
# 3 Lack of device drivers, games and applications
#4 It is free. But so is a pirated copy of Windows.
#5 Where to Begin? How to Begin?
#6 No business model
Now, let’s go through the [...]
