Cholan features

Features that might be interesting for customers

1. Gold price
2. Currency exchange value http://www.x-rates.com/
   
3. News (Bay Area, Tamilnadu; Politics/entertainment/sports)
4. Technology updates
5. Google Search bar
6. flight schedules and possibly current flight status
7. Weather info for Chennai and one bay area city
8. Tamil Day calender info including raghu kalam etc
9. Local Events
10. Map
11. Job from your company and your target/dream position
12. http://www.chennaiiq.com/astrology/english_date_to_tamil_date_conversion.asp
13. http://www.tamildailycalendar.com/ has physical daily calendar leafs as image
    
14. http://www.chennaiiq.com/astrology/tamil_panchangam.asp

URL Shortenning Space

URL Shortening space:

1. http://www.longurlplease.com/ - has json api
2. http://snurl.com/& http://snipurl.com/ - drag to browser toolbar, API, multiple ; stats: users, clicks & links
3. http://snipurl.com/ - 2M in March 09
4. http://bit.ly/ search capability, bookmarklets, preview plugin, mobile, google spreadsheet/gadget integration, track amazon affiliates clicking
5. http://urlborg.com/a/ provides stats
6. http://buk.me/ firefox tool, reverse lookup
7. http://cli.gs/ - you can use 2 diff cligs to track the same info from different sources, geotagging (target different info for different geographical locations)
8. http://budurl.com/
9. http://burnurl.com/
10. http://href.in/
11. http://www.ponyurl.com/
12. http://1url.tw/
13. http://lnk.by/
14. http://ow.ly/
15. http://www.bit.ly/
16. http://u.mavrev.com/ - urlshort released as open source
17. http://post.ly/
18. http://tcrn.ch/
19. http://awe.sm/
20. http://unhub.com/

Web 2.0 revenue stream

Revenue Streams:

1. subscription
2. advertisement
3. transaction fees
4. volume and unit selling
5. syndication and franchise
6. sponsorship and co-marketing

Affiliate Networks:

1. Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com/ )
2. Link Share (http://www.linkshare.com/ )
3. Google Affiliate network (http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/ )
4. ShareASale (http://www.shareasale.com/ )
5. ClixGalore (http://www.clixgalore.com/ )
   

cool Web2.0 free technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype.js
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script.aculo.us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jquery
http://livepipe.net/
http://www.phpflickr.com/
http://www.fpdf.org/
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
http://keithdevens.com/software/phpxml
http://www.phpcaptcha.org
http://www.openx.org/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
http://openinviter.com/

Browser Home Page Hosting Companies

_service	Start	Location	Funds	Features
allyve	Septi 07	Hamburg, Deu		auto login email, social networks
DevHD	Novi 6	Atherton, CA		profiles, bookmarks, and accounts from sites like Twitter, Yahoo, GMail and Friendfeed,
igoogle	Mayi 2005	Mountain View, CA	100M	Framed Photo, GoogleGram, Daily Me, Free Form, YouTube Channel, Personal List, Countdown, 1Club.FM Free Internet Radio Player, chat
Netvibes	septi 5	Paris, Fra	16M	RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, calendar, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, searches, POP3, IMAP4 (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail), Box.net, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast
Pageflakes	Jani 6	SFO	4.1M	RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email
Pageonce	Mayi 7	Palo Alto	1.5M	consumers manage their online lives and marketers
start.io	Aprii 8	LA, CA		Really what I am looking for here
Skyspine
Sthrt	Mayi 8	Orlando, FL		email, games, news, weather, RSS
Webwag
Yahoo.com

Homepage managers

Company allyve	Sept 07	Hamburg, Deu		auto login email, social networks
DevHD	Nov 06	Atherton, CA		profiles, bookmarks, and accounts from sites like Twitter, Yahoo, GMail and Friendfeed,
igoogle	May 05	Mountain View, CA	100M	Framed Photo, GoogleGram, Daily Me, Free Form, YouTube Channel, Personal List, Countdown, 1Club.FM Free Internet Radio Player, chat
Netvibes	sept 05	Paris, Fra	16M	RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, calendar, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, searches, POP3, IMAP4 (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail), Box.net, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast
Pageflakes	Jan 06	SFO	4.1M	RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email
Pageonce	May 07	Palo Alto	1.5M	consumers manage their online lives and marketers
start.io	Apr 08	LA, CA		Really what I am looking for here
Skyspine
Sthrt	May 08	Orlando, FL		email, games, news, weather, RSS

test credit card numbers

http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/

Mastercard

5319102646488048
5554045695790927
5420785565098057
535062919819 1489
5364910660550103
5266885983175565
5127777973679285
5134390185169342
53 52939626094017
5246447622892145

VISA 16 digit

4716199183296349
4532403205442598
4532250279599237
4916155288242768
4 916812073252853
4556856972591320
4916157249446876
4556682778375621
4716855 350718544
4024007113770027

VISA 13 digit

4024007138692
4556993857876
4539171318010
4716131052059
4916288396420

American Express

373916861716856
371906407786184
346109491188258
348456375430415
377 920540490509

Discover

6011433427081739
6011141225017066
6011000161904358

Di ners Club

30154328942171
36825836097004
30035751184078

enRoute

214995752390545
21 4900870983569
214977085904481

JCB 15 digit

180018863853838
210092038614494
180044389176363

JCB 16 digit

3096945339422458
3088174569704085
3158536520063915

Voyager

8699260277 62364
869941024295722
869935132433050

some websites

http://younoodle.com/
http://www.tradevibes.com/
http://www.ycombinator.com/
http://www.heyzap.com/
http://www.lunch20.com/
http://www.clickpass.com/
http://www.synthasite.com/
https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en

Proximity info sharing

If I tell the train/bus conductor that I need to get down at a specific stop, can the conductor wake me and ensure that I get down at the right place.

Can we replace the 'conductor' in the above example by a smart device using bluetooth technology that can talk to my cell phone with bluetooth.

Update: Feb 21, 2011
Using Android aGPS, we currently have this available. yourehere

C printf debug

printf("__LINE__=%d __FILE__=%s\n", __LINE__, __FILE__);

Standard Predefined Macros

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.3/cpp/Standard-Predefined-Macros.html

__FILE__

This macro expands to the name of the current input file, in the form of a C string constant. This is the path by which the preprocessor opened the file, not the short name specified in #include or as the input file name argument. For example, "/usr/local/include/myheader.h" is a possible expansion of this macro.

__LINE__

This macro expands to the current input line number, in the form of a decimal integer constant. While we call it a predefined macro, it's a pretty strange macro, since its "definition" changes with each new line of source code.

__FILE__ and __LINE__ are useful in generating an error message to report an inconsistency detected by the program; the message can state the source line at which the inconsistency was detected. For example,

     fprintf (stderr, "Internal error: "
                    "negative string length "
                    "%d at %s, line %d.",
            length, __FILE__, __LINE__);
   

wubi

wubi - Windows-based Ubuntu Installer creates a 'loop device' -

In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loopback file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a file accessible as a block device.

unetbootin

unetbootin is Universal Netboot Installer
UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.

QEMU

qemu.exe -L . linux.img
http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~kazuw/qemu-win/qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip -the package is ~6MB and is small. This emulated version can live side by side with Windows like vmware fusion for Mac

selenium core : Technologies used

cssQuery - http://dean.edwards.name/
cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors.

scriptaculous - http://script.aculo.us/
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls
DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to the fantastic Prototype framework.

xpath - http://code.google.com/p/ajaxslt/

xpath is part of ajaxslt: Pure javascript implementation of XSLT and XPath

AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSLT in JavaScript. Because XSLT uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSLT. This implementation has the advantange that it makes XSLT uniformly available on more browsers than natively provide it, and that it can be extended to yet more browsers if necessary.

AJAXSLT is interesting for developers who strive aggressively for cross browser compatibility of their advanced web applications.

This implementation of XSLT operates at the DOM level on its input documents. It internally uses a DOM implementation to create the output document, but usually returns the output document as text stream. The DOM to construct the output document can be supplied by the application, or else an internal minimal DOM implementation is used. This DOM comes with a minimal XML parser that can be used to generate a suitable DOM representation of the input documents if they are present as text.

jsunit - http://www.jsunit.net/

JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. Also included is a platform for automating the execution of tests on multiple browsers and multiple machines running different OSs.

strands - http://www.xucia.com/strands-doc/overview.html

Strands adds coroutine and cooperative threading support to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous event callbacks. This makes asynchronous code refreshingly readable and comprehensible.

Dojo toolkit - http://dojotoolkit.org/

The Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform, JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites.

Prototype: http://www.prototypejs.org/

http://prototype.conio.net/ ??

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

dropbox list

3lotusmedia
AccuLink
ADS
alg
AlphaPhiFoundation
amazinggrace
artisticphotocanvas
BarnesMcInerneyDropbox
BiggyPix
bizmonitoring
blazefiletransfer
Breuckmann459571
burningdervish
cabe
caledlaw
canvasone
chadgreenlee1113963
cleanrun
Clitho
digitalsilverimaging
Documents
Donman
dpd
dtSearch
ebscomedia
ECB
epc
ESNMFTP
everydaylivesdeliveries
FinePrintImaging
freqmastering
globallt
halvorbodin
HawkArtDropBox
hotdishadvertising
HotelTravelCheck
ICDLGraduateSchool
ImperialPrinting
ImprintDigital
IndependentWomensVoice
inition
inquirerbox
JaysonNoftle569037
Jive
joshKelleytoremember
kubu
LazyMask
mainehomedesign
MajorProductionFund
MGIPERTH
morganjames
Mumbian
ndkdenver
nerepro
newvision
OLP2008
patrickmediagroup
plan
polishyourimage
polkadotpotato
PostUp
pravda
predisc
Printingmethods
Protograph
pvp
RiverviewSystems
selfbuild/
SendUsYourStory
sftfactory
SIGNSbySaenz
spectre
stingraytacklecompany
STLHE
sydac
teamdropbox
Texcast
thehonigcompany
TheModernFirm
tigerfish
tlac
ToolStudiosDrop
UKlocations
unitedgraphics
UploadBox
vincentpress
vivid
WowStuff706654
ZSpotlight

GPS stuff

1. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
2. .osm is in contrast .gpx format
3. Indian company selling gps tracking http://gps-tracking.gpsintegrated.com/
4. Uses Rover9 from Stars Navigation Tech Ltd
5. uses chipset SiRFstarIII from SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc in San Jose
   

crawler built along with webtest tool

WebTest tool combined with a WebCrawler can be very powerful like "static code analysis" tool.

SaaS & multi-tenant

SaaS and Multi-Tenant are under utilized powerful words in people's resume.

Library privilage in San Jose, CA

The city of San Jose, CA library system has the possibility of Inter Library Loan free of charge to it's members. Some of the libraries participating in the system are some of the international libraries including from Germany.

Buy Home

Couple of data pointers while buying home.

1. Ultimately after purchasing home, will you, your spouce and family members be HAPPY. Have this as the key guidance during the entire purchase process.
2. I wouldn't recommend not even putting a 5% down payment.
3. Buying agent and selling agent take 3% each. So, asking for 94% of the asking/listing price is not irrelevant. - Or if this property is not your dream home, you SHOULD ask for less than 94% of the asking price.
4. Try to by pass the agents - for example, in new homes, try to deal with the seller directly.
5. Loans (First Mortgage and second Home Equity Line of Credit) are again products and YOU ARE the customer. So, don't hesitate to look for bargain and negotiations.
6. Don't ever buy more than your means. It is no win scenario gamble - especially if this is your first home where you plan on living.
7. Buying home on the last few days of making offer / contract is purely 'mind game'. Numbers are just numbers. Stay focused on the final target and see what makes you HAPPY.
8. Buying home is like buying a stock. It goes up and down. Some one thinks they want to sfel because there are other uses for that money - while the buyer thinks his money will do better in this stock.
9. When you are in the market, the prices are set also by the personal feelings of the buyers/sellers currently in the market. If you feel better about venturing, go for it. If not, stay back.
10. Make sure the reccuring income is relatively stable - not much change/impact negatively.
11. Have some reserve on purchase of home. You might need incidental expenses.