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Pandora: Identifying music

Learnt about a few interesting sites recently. They are quite unique and show excellent opportunities. They will shoot into the limelight very soon! The first is Pandora. Pandora is a music discovery service that is based on the “Music Genome” project. Music Genome project was started about five years back to analyze the various types […]

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Funny characters, Webservices and UTF8

I was importing the Foss.In speakers and talks data into Glancer, and it started giving me some strange errors. This is what I got in OpenLaszlo: error: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. And when I tried using PHP, this was the string: SOAP-ENV:Server SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘some string here’ is not a […]

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Glancer Update – Talk Schedules etc

Long night on Glancer yesterday. Got the talk pagination to work and fixed a few other things. Just when I was winding up, saw Atul’s announcement about the Foss.In schedules being put up! Have added the same track color codes to Glancer now. BTW, all these features are not yet uploaded. We are working with […]

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Sunday Evening for Graduates

Hello! I attended the Sunday evening session for Graduates in the Landmark Forum yesterday. Ferdi was leading it, and I got a lot out of it. I have had earlier sessions with Praveen Puri, and Ferdi’s was different. I liked yesterday more than other Sunday Evenings I have attended. Simply because of the content covered. […]

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Doodle 4 Google, Imagine the Magic

Google opened their UK headquarters recently. (Alright, it’s not headquarters, it’s Googleplex!). To celebrate, they ran a contest for kids. Doodle 4 Google! Kids sent in their interpretations and creations for the Google Doodle – the Google logo that you see on their website. The Google Doodle changes every now and then – according to […]

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