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I ran across this article... It is surprising that how little we know about this here. This report is primarily driven by Private industry. This self same industry is calling for Canada's inclusion on this list of worst offenders... A Foreign office rep told the Canadian House of Commons "In regard to the watch list, Canada does not recognize the 301 watch list process. It basically lacks reliable and objective analysis. It's driven entirely by U.S. industry." The industry body that drives this report is IIPA. We would be well advised to also recall a statement by William Patry, a copyright expert and Google's copyright attorney. "the sheer arrogance and affront to the sovereignty of foreign governments by the IIPA's annual reports and effort to penalize those governments that do not toe the IIPA's line is breathtaking." It is best to ignore such ramblings and if push comes to shove, throw the ball back by linking demands for more access to the...

I had bought a Canon S1 IS (the first generation ultra zoom camera) way back in Mar of 2004 from Amazon. Four years later the LCD screen and EVF went on the blink. I was in denial for  a few months, when I finally handed it over to Canon India (through my cousin who works there).  She called a few days later to tell me that they can't fix the camera, but they will replace it with the latest generation Canon S5 IS . Awesome... This is customer service, not the usual bit of thievery , most companies in India Indulge in. I was out to lunch this sunday, so I took it out the camera to take some pics... Bougainvillea at the Defence Colony Market. This was in the Macro mode. I feel that the focus is a bit soft. I need to get the hang of the camera. A sign at the entrance of the garden A forlorn looking Fountain I plan to run the much famed CHDK custom firmware for  DIGIC II & III processors... The stuff you can add to the cameras functionality is mindbogg...

This is awesome... I ran across this today at PressTalk . Very nice... Sends a tingle down your spine... This is part of the Imagine! series of videos for Pangea Day on May 10... The others: Japan sings for Turkey! France Sings for USA Australia sings for Lebanon Read more here... See Pangea's YouTube channel here

I just bought (rented?) another domain. marlinspike.in This adds to the 3 I already own... patnaiks.in patnaik.in chiragpatnaik.com   Another cost head... these four domains cost me around 3000 bucks a year... No end to spending money...

So... it finally launches... Nearly, a year after I quit Indiatimes, the social networking (the specs of which was one of the things (along with Indiatimes Mail ) on my plate) platform has finally gone live. It took a year of work on the PeopleAggregator platform to finally reach an acceptable state of launch, and as is fashionable these days, it is in Beta. Is it too little too late? In a world dominated by Facebook, Myspace and Orkut (dominating different geographies), this is the most obvious question... After all sites like Rediff Iland did not gain much traction either, and lets not forget numerous sites like yaari.com, which have fallen by the wayside... Another catch all Social Network, hohum. The answer. Depends. Depends on whether, the product will remain a social network in the mould of Facebook or will evolve to something more. The potential exists to do much more, ofcourse... The direction it will take totally depends on the team handling the product. No one from...

So much is said about social networks and how catch all social networks are all the rage right now. But look back a few years and you see all a landscape littered with yesterday's stars. Friendster Hi5 and to some extent Orkut (Some may argue that Orkut is alive and kicking in India, but I beg to differ. Orkut isn't hip any mre, which means that over time it will slide into nothingness. After all which woman, wants 100 friend requests from absolute strangers) And not to mention that the hundreds of new social networks that pop up every other day. Clearly a gold rush is on. The acquisition of Desimartini by HT 's Firefly eVenture is a symptom of this gold rush. With the reported difficulties of Google & MS to monetise their respective ad properties of MySpace and Facebook, it is clear that we have seen all the hypergrowth we had to see, It will grow, there are after all several billion people on this planet but not necessarily to the po...

Since I'm planning to buy a PS3 and some other stuff, I've been frequenting a lot of gadget blogs. Engadget Gizmodo Crave