Krishna Kumar
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Played
Bioshock
FarCry
GTA 4
Super Mario Galaxy
World of Goo
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crysis
Diver
Doom 3
Prince of Persia
Passage
Marriage
Drop7
Tomb Raider: Underworld
NFS: Undercover
Fifa 2009
medal of honor 2
call of duty
closure
- so far in 2009. Keeping good on the promise. Also, Want xbox. Just to play street fighter.
And some pete sampras tennis from 96. Cricket games havent changed one bit. Go play brian lara cricket (from 96 too) and tell me.
FarCry
GTA 4
Super Mario Galaxy
World of Goo
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crysis
Diver
Doom 3
Prince of Persia
Passage
Marriage
Drop7
Tomb Raider: Underworld
NFS: Undercover
Fifa 2009
medal of honor 2
call of duty
closure
- so far in 2009. Keeping good on the promise. Also, Want xbox. Just to play street fighter.
And some pete sampras tennis from 96. Cricket games havent changed one bit. Go play brian lara cricket (from 96 too) and tell me.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Interchange Foo
At work, data serialization between internal servers used to be a big pain until last year. We used something entirely built out of XML to solve this problem. Though they weren't optimized-enough to affect scalability/performance greatly, it did let us make that wonderful single method call to load them all. We weren't cool enough to open up its source like its being done with protobuf though.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Cricket Scores
These days, I like checking cricket scores this way. Nifty, eh?
Not so nifty for cricbuzz/cricinfo/willow. I mean look at all the people so not clicking on those links once they get the score. This in a medium where attention is everything!
This reeks of Porter's 'forward integration'. And the funny part is everyone is desperate to give content way for free (SEO anyone?). So is this, in Porter-ish terms, the same as hawking of others' goods and giving absolutely nothing to the original supplier? Given sufficiently advanced web applications, maybe.
Looking around, this looks like a common pattern with information whose 'time to assimilate' is very low. Typically numerical information. Like - What time is it in San Jose? Whats the temperature outside? Whats apple's stock price today?
Not so nifty for cricbuzz/cricinfo/willow. I mean look at all the people so not clicking on those links once they get the score. This in a medium where attention is everything!This reeks of Porter's 'forward integration'. And the funny part is everyone is desperate to give content way for free (SEO anyone?). So is this, in Porter-ish terms, the same as hawking of others' goods and giving absolutely nothing to the original supplier? Given sufficiently advanced web applications, maybe.
Looking around, this looks like a common pattern with information whose 'time to assimilate' is very low. Typically numerical information. Like - What time is it in San Jose? Whats the temperature outside? Whats apple's stock price today?
