OpenSocial (Google’s reply to Facebook apps), which was launched with much fanfare in late 2007 finally launched for the general users on Orkut in India last week. The initial launch hype watered down considerably over the last 6 months due to a rather long ’sandbox’ testing phase consisting of a limited number of users.
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This was the very first time I put a story for inclusion in Slashdot home page, and it actually ended up on the Slashdot home page!
I first learnt about the Netflix prize in this book, which I was reading while researching on how to develop recommendation algorithm by correlating behaviour patterns of users (still on […]

In the last few days, I have become addicted to Twitter! I knew about it for a long time, but I never bothered making an account and actively twittering.. I mean, its just a stupid application that lets you set a status message, right?
No, like most other social applications, Twitter may seem completely pointless unless […]