AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) is an XML-compliant language that's easy to learn, and makes it possible for you to begin customizing an Alicebot or creating one from scratch within minutes. Its goal is to enable pattern-based, stimulus-response knowledge content…
The number of Web 2.0 applications are exploding. Several mashups are being built. Components for Google, Live.com arw on the rise. While keeping track of all these innovative products is pretty tough, we have help. del.icio.us, technorati, slashdot let you…
One of the important aspects of building successful products is an extreme sense of awareness. Awareness about your product(s), your customers, your customer's customers, your competition, your segment of the industry and many others. In addition, you may also want…
A good list of books on Innovation from Innovation Book Club. Out of a list of 90 books related to innovation, the following were chosen by a group of avid readers and innovation practitioners as the reading list for 2006.…
In 1985, we wrote a small relational engine using Lattice C 2.0 on MS-DOS. It was a small team (about 4 of us) in Bangalore, India. We had no background on designing an SQL engine and the only source available…
This is a topic of special interest to me. I have been fascinated by several aspects of using Internet as a Reseach Tool. Tracking information, ideas, trends is what we do as a company. So when I found this article…
Finally Microformats are getting the visibility they deserve. I found an excellent presentation about Microformats. Here are some thoughts about Microformats from Dave Orchard. Dave looks at the current state of Microformats and raises some interesting questions about tools, integration…
Can't believe that Python has 0 bugs from this static analysis. Take a look at this table. Coverity along with Stanford is focused on identifying bugs in some of the popular open source projects.
One of the most remarkable and fascinating articles on Why and What If Why do we need to have employees? Why do we need people to sell the product, if it is so good? Why do we measure performance by…
This has been a recurring theme I heard about in the past couple of years. First from Clark Quinn who was working on a way to teach using games. Then from Werner Schaer, a friend of mine, who brought to…
