Web services are for business intelligence, too. The second part of this article talks about the SOAPification of business intelligence(BI).

Check out the smallest website in the world, Guimp, and while there don't forget to play the amazing games they offer. I wonder, what the usability gurus must be thinking after looking at such a site. Jakob, Norman ?? :)

Well, I am blogging after a long period of time. In between we were off to a very refreshing weekend at Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg and Cherokee. Whitewater rafting was fun.

Check the June 2002 issue of Business 2.0 magazine. The feature article is on How to beat Bill Gates and Microsoft. Makes me wonder how many journalists make their living off Microsoft. If this article catches on, the next thing we know is that the same journalists are featured on some tv/radio show where they again bash microsoft and in the process generate some cool pocket money, not to mention the fame and the name they will get by featuring in such shows.

Google: Glossary, Sets, Voice Search, Keyboard Shortcuts. [Scripting News]

Once again Google Rocks. Apart from Keyboard Shortcuts, I don't know if I will use others but then again Google provides the option and that is where it is different from other search engines.

Dilbert and the Google Doodle

Throughout this week, Google will be featuring sketches of Dilbert. Finally on Friday they will be coming out with their new logo although the current Google logo will remain unchanged.

Spider-Man Rocks!!

Atlast we saw Spider-Man. Cool visual effects and some great words of wisdom:

"With great power comes great responsibility."

Some cool .Net Resources

Are you building web services using VB.Net. Well then you must read this online book, Real World Web Services for VB Developers by Yasser Shohoud. Yasser has also written quite some cool articles on web services fundamentals.

Well, now that I am pointing to .Net resources, here are some more:

DotNetExtreme

.NET Remoting

DotNetBips

and last but not the least Sam Gentile's website. Sam also maintains a radio weblog where he blogs about everything related to .Net. Here you can find links to other gurus in the .Net space. Enjoy !!

Congratulations

Our Heartiest Congrats to Pawan and Amita on becoming proud parents of a baby girl. Welcome Shruti !!

Titanic Failures

Discussion on HP/Compaq merger and why this merger has very little chance of success.

Going Offshore

Global Services Jobs Migrate to India Via Internet. We will be seeing more articles/news item similar to this one since the telecom deregulation has happened in India. For effective coordination of offshore projects, communication was one hindrance(not that till now companies could not communicate, only that it will be cheaper now). This takes care of this issue. Now once VoIP services are in place and functioning, more and more companies will try to reap benefits of offshore development/support/maintenance. Way to go.

Watch out this space for an article on Offshore Development and its challenges.

Kobe Bryant = Magician

Wanna contribute to the next NASA Space shuttle project, run to ebay/yahoo with any 8086 chips you might have in your possession...:)

Say no to “printer-friendly” versions and yes to printer-specific style sheets. Eric Meyer, CSS expert, has come up with an article on designing print style sheets using CSS. Time to make WebJives use print specific styles.

Joel is out with few observations on software development process, Five Worlds. This time again, he has stirred quite some discussion (in the .Net world).

Another Google API Implementation

David Watson is out with another Google API implementation. This time using VBA. Works great although it opens a maximum of 10 browser windows (depending upon search results). Thanks again David for mentioning us in your post.