http://ritintandon.com Personal ramblings of Ritin Tandon - on technology, business, economy and life. A celebration of a neural synapse that I feel is worth sharing with the world. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:54:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spotted and removed an evil popup from this site today. the symptom: popups from ilead.itrack.it were showing up on my homepage - never spotted this myself when surfing from my laptop for some reason! the cure: got rid of the webstats4u site counter which was the evil force behind the popup. switched ... http://ritintandon.com/2007/01/19/update-an-ode-to-popup-free-surfing/ A {blurred} visionary posted this interesting list of sites speculate, bet upon and dream about the future. The Future Monitor The Long Now Foundation Long Bets SpringWise Trend Watching Reveries Magazine Cool Hunting Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal There's 8 places to look for inspiration and being a visionary! http://ritintandon.com/2006/10/02/betting-on-the-future/ TubeJP is a mashup of Google Maps with TFL Journey Planner which shows you where all those tube lines go over the ground. http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/24/london-see-the-underground-overground/ First we saw everything move to the internet. Now we want everything on the internet to go behind the scenes of all that we are used to. This is happening with Phones and Videos in particular. VoIP on your normal phone Many market players are working on providing us VoIP through normal telephony ... http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/24/on-phones-and-tvs-in-world-20/ Not long ago did The Economist state something which appeared to be a truism: "If this is a race, India has already been lapped" Cait Murphy, Fortune assistant managing editor argues that this is not necessarily the case. Makes me smile. Makes me think. He sites two interesting arguments in favour ... http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/20/feel-good-news-fortune-editor-argues-why-india-will-overtake-china/ As you probably noticed, my last few blogs have a leitmotif called "infosthetics". Infosthetics stands for Information Aesthetics and their website is an amazing conglomeration of information depicted in a creative and eye catching format. Check out their concept and goals. Here's my last few crawls through their pages that ... http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/16/another-dose-of-infosthetics/ BBC featured this interesting visualization of the changes in USA since 9/11 Airline travel has recovered from the 2001 fall, and the presidential rating is at its lowest in the last 10 years. http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/16/america-since-911/ create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/15/visited-countries-map-of-countries-ive-been-to/ another eye catching tshirt from tantra the fine print.. http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/15/absolut-mumbai-tshirt-design-from-tantra/ interesting depiction of shops opening hours.. see more on flickr [infosthetics spotted this on his blog] http://ritintandon.com/2006/09/15/opening-hours/