Don’t have much time for a full post, so a small roundup:
Man sues Yahoo and Google for taking their names from the tribes he has descended from.
A man currently being detained by immigration in Houston, TX has filed a lawsuit claiming Yahoo and Google stole their names from Tanzanian tribes. As luck would have it, the man is a descendant of both tribes – what are the odds?
The lawsuit states that Google was taken from the Gogo tribe, and Yahoo from the Yao tribe. The claim is asking for $10,000 be paid to each tribe member for the past three generations.
Yeah right!
A whitepaper on filing strategy published by my company has been covered by Information Week and has been dugg enough to reach the frontpage on Digg Tech.
Yeah, I am proud.
I was trying out this new service by Aaron Swartz (man, he is younger than I am) call Jottit. It offers a person a simple and easy way of getting a page online with a customized subdomain. For example, check out my page.
It took me no time to get it up and running and adding a resume page. It features a simple wiki like formatting with the help of Markdown. Some missing features according to me are:
Though I agree that this might destroy the simplicity of the whole thing, but I can still wish 😉
On a side note, happy 25th Anniversary of the 🙂
The snap (click for full size) below is from Yahoo! Mash, the new social networking site. Pretty cool, huh!
Meanwhile, if you do want invites to it, mail me at goyal [dot] blog [at] gmail [dot] com