Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-03-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 16 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html Heard on #emacs: [12:49] Advantage to folksonomies: Idiots can put them together. Disadvantages: an idiot put together your taxonomy. -- Alok One ca

Re: [silk] expat in india...

2007-03-16 Thread Sriram Karra
On 3/9/07, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a) It needs white people for doing business b) It's cheaper to have someone locally than fly them from India c) They can't find enough intelligent people in India who would care to work for them All that might well be history real soon,

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-16 Thread Sriram Karra
On 3/14/07, Neha Viswanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about jaangri? Maybe batter constituents should be mentioned. Plus a little more attention to details of the shape, perhaps? :) -Karra

Re: [silk] AdSense Mailman templates

2007-03-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:53:45PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Btw, does anyone here have a Mailman template to do AdSense > stuff a la xent.com FoRK archives? I'd rather not reinvent the wheel, > but steal one ;) No need, stolen already. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.

Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-03-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:48:11PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Will one of the 5 silklisters who used Udhay's invite please invite me? Invitation Manager You have no unused invitations. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org ___

Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-03-16 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Will one of the 5 silklisters who used Udhay's invite please invite me? Thanks, Venkat Udhay Shankar N wrote: Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:13 AM 3/16/2007 ] This is a VERY interesting (note that it is still in alpha) attempt to leverage "folksonomies" on a grander scale than has yet been at

Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-03-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:13 AM 3/16/2007 ] This is a VERY interesting (note that it is still in alpha) attempt to leverage "folksonomies" on a grander scale than has yet been attempted. For those of you who want to explore -- I have 5 invites to give away. The first 5 silklisters who ask

[silk] AdSense Mailman templates

2007-03-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
Btw, does anyone here have a Mailman template to do AdSense stuff a la xent.com FoRK archives? I'd rather not reinvent the wheel, but steal one ;) -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820

Re: [silk] Eureka!

2007-03-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:00:14PM +0530, Gautam John wrote: > And this just in: > > "Osram has developed a small light-emitting diode spotlight that > achieves an output of more than 1,000 lumens for the first time. > That's brighter than a 50-watt halogen lamp, thereby making the device > suitab

Re: [silk] Eureka!

2007-03-16 Thread Gautam John
And this just in: "Osram has developed a small light-emitting diode spotlight that achieves an output of more than 1,000 lumens for the first time. That's brighter than a 50-watt halogen lamp, thereby making the device suitable for a broad range of general lighting applications. The Ostar Lightin

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Long
Symantec bought [Turntide]. If I'm not mistaken, they quietly killed it off a while back. As far as I know, they made it really expensive. It isn't dead. It's odd that they'd make it more expensive -- when I'd proposed it on FoRK (2001?) I'd imagined it'd be the sort of thing that people