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Re: Geeks’ private hells

Yuvi Panda — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:51:34 -0000

Does an annoying brother who keeps interrupting you while writing code count ? But I guess my stuff doesn't count, I'm after all just a small kid writing code....

You taught me a lot, and it's paying me off : I've been able to persuade my school Principal into reviving our School Magazine, and I've completed two interviews as Editor... .Thanks dude, and one day, I hope that podcasting and Videoblogging would really reach India....

Thanks dude, and do come down to India sometime.... There are plenty of opportunities for Vlogging and Podcasting here, driven out of reach only by the cost factor....

Re: Geeks’ private hells

Yuvi Panda — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:22:50 -0000

Sorry. I didn't read all those comments.... Compared to what all those people had undergone, I'm in heaven. Just knowing about that makes me grateful... Sorry if I sounded insensitive.....

Re: The Zeitgeist of Scoble

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:20:44 -0000

Thanks a lot scoble:D

BTW, that one wasn't big at all! The one I'm goanna post in a few hours time is the big one. It took me some 4 hours to write, and includes 22 charts, 3 tables and the prediction that if you hadn't joined podtech, they would've gotten only 17 links now:D

@TAG: He invented atleast one word: brreereport:D Though not sure if it's entered any dictionary...

People, the Shakespeare jab was supposed to be a joke at how bloggers write so much. That's it. :D

Re: Chuck uploads his video of Edwards

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:47:40 -0000

About the software they use to design the chips. And, their IT, the software they use in everyday workings.

Re: The Zeitgeist of Scoble

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:34:14 -0000

Happy new year, and the real Zeitgeist is up now:)

http://blog.yuvisense.net/2...

Re: The 40 things I link to the most

Yuvi Panda — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:06:37 -0000

Now, they beat me to it! I never expected it, but maybe, my analysis might be a bit more indepth... For example, I have a suggestion for PodTech...

I really, never expected this to turn up:) Atleast, I don't do only the last 30 days:)

Re: The 40 things I link to the most

Yuvi Panda — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:08:35 -0000

Is that because some dev at Google was listening or just a fluke?

Re: If you had $10,000 to spend at CES…

Yuvi Panda — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:52:57 -0000

Spend that to *get* there:D

Re: Egotistical bastard on way to CES

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:32:47 -0000

@Don: My actual First name, Yuvaraj, has no I, but a single U:D

Re: My first videos from CES

Yuvi Panda — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:33:26 -0000

This is the *first* video that I am watching right when I saw it. The rest just go into my Queue to be watched later. And, the bandwidth was well spent:D

Thanks Robert! You rock! And, yes, Audio quality could've been a bit better, but still, this's cool!

Hopefully, I could be able to watch all the CES videos before going away to the village;)

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:43:34 -0000

Just for your reference:

Number of times you've linked to:
Engadget :34
Gizmodo: 14
Slashdot: 10
Digg: 26
TechMeme:104

This is as of today. And, the Snap preview, in addition to being annoying and useless, broke my scrapper:D

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:11:33 -0000

Here are the numbers for the linkblog, the feeds you've posted from:
Engadget: 160
EngadgetHD: 50
Gizmodo: 65
Digg:216
SlashDot:25

And, if I were to consider only those from Jan,
Engadget: 80
EngadgetHD: 16
Gizmodo:39
Digg: 68
Slashdot:14

And, If I were to consider the links in the posts themselves,
Engadget: 478
EngadgetHD: 64
Gizmodo: 67
Digg: 77
Slashdot: 50

For January?
Engadget: 265
EngadgetHD: 17
Gizmodo: 50
Digg: 19
Slashdot: 21

My Conclusion?
1. You prefer engadget to gizmodo
2. Almost half the links to engadget are during the CES Run, during Jan.

So, yes, you've definitely linked a lot to engadget, and gizmodo.

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:12:28 -0000

I would have drawn some pretty graphs, but that would mean I'd have to make it a post rather than a comment. So, no graphs now. Sorry about that...

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:14:34 -0000

Hope that helps.

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:56:40 -0000

@Scoble: Thanks! It's in the cards, and I hope to complete them before I lose the sexiness of being 15(which isn't long, btw), and I'll be working on it once I finish wikipedia. Any thoughts on specifics? I am pretty stuck, thinking of how to do the comparison...

And, the vid rocks!

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:30:08 -0000

@Scoble: Anyway, it is going to be the same engine, only slightly modified and enhanced. And, thank you once again:D

Re: Pissing off the blogosphere…

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:43:30 -0000

@gwhiz: I certainly didn't codename my app Thin Air:D

But anyway, despite that post being more of a leg-pull than a rant, here are your stats:
After 8th August, he's linked 5 times to Guy Kawasaki, 8 times to Jason and 6 times to Seth.

But, the really hot to-links?
Dave Winer: 26
Hugh MacLeod(GapingVoid): 20
Maryam: 18
Thomas Hawk: 17
Ze Frank: 17

Yuvi: 4 :D

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:03:43 -0000

Do you know me?:-?:D

Before you linked to me? I had a total of 300 hits in the 3 months before, and some 3k hits in the one and a half year before that...

After? I get 300 hits a day, in addition to a 2k spike when you link to me. Thanks.

But, more important than the traffic, is the friends. I got to know you, David Willson, Guy, Rob, lots of people. Thanks for that! And, I couldn't have gotten that shiny new cam without your links. Thanks again!

Re: I removed Snap’s previews from here

Yuvi Panda — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:52:35 -0000

Now I have to modify my scrapper again! Atleast, I have only one user to push the build to(myself:D), so I can make changes as I pleae. Thankfully I haven't released this thing:D

Got my email?

Re: The most expensive pocket digital camera?

Yuvi Panda — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:20:13 -0000

Speaking of PhotoWalking, thanks to you, I've forked it off to create PhotoCommuting, and my world is already more richer. Thanks!

http://blog.yuvisense.net/2...

And, sorry about the delay in the Engadget vs Gizmodo post: I learnt a valuble lesson that Joel's been advocating for a long time("Never rewrite working code"). So, I'm starting off with the same base I used for your blog's analysis, and I expect to publish it by next week....

Re: Google Dev: the Next Big programming Language

Yuvi Panda — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:59:46 -0000

@peter:

Yep, the best image editing software is free software, the best video editing software is free software, the best IDE is free software, the best office app is free software, the best media player is free software, aint it?

>>Look at the most successful languages of the last thirt y years: C, Perl, Python, Lisp

I can't believe nobody's nitpicked that line before me. Out of the four, except C, I can't call anything else successful. Useful? Yes. Cool? Yes. More Elegant/Aesthetic? Yes. Productive to Code in? Yes. Successfuly? Nope.

I seriously think, Peter, that your time would be better spent if you *actually* (gasp) spend your time (gasp) making linux not suck on the Desktop (gasp) rather than troll around? Because, afterall, after reading your comment, who would be running that damn Windows evah? See ya from linux!

Re: Google Dev: the Next Big programming Language

Yuvi Panda — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:27:19 -0000

Funny how a post about Programming Languages can turn into people posting about OpenSource and Evil:D

Re: I was wrong about “NoFollow”

Yuvi Panda — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:50:04 -0000

From a WebBot/Crawler Design point of view, nofollow was a good idea. If anyone were to sit down and try to find a solution for the problem of comment spam done for the purpose of increasing pagerank, then the simplest to implement solution would be nofollow.

Did it succeed? I *think* the question is pointless. Akismet, to me, has solved the problem pretty much for now, and I am happy with it.

But then again, I also use the DoFollow plugin for Wordpress to override the nofollow that wp adds automatically for comments...

Re: I was wrong about “NoFollow”

Yuvi Panda — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:09:47 -0000

Let's take an example.

For example, I am commenting here to point to you of my latest StatBot post analysing the blog of Raymond Chen. I could post a link here, like this: http://blog.yuvisense.net/2...

Theoretically, you are not endorsing what I am posting here. Sure, if you find it interesting enough, you would post about it, and then I'd get the Google Juice. Nothing wrong with this model, I'd guess....

But still, I'd like you to link to it:D

Re: Yuvi analyzes Raymond Chen’s blog

Yuvi Panda — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:35:28 -0000

7'oclock: I too know that Robert. I did that because, he mentions here[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldne...] that "one reasearcher IM'd him, saying *most* of his posts come out at 7:00 am."

I just wanted to quantify how much of it.:D

Thanks for the link!