Yesterday eBay announced its acquisition of StumbleUpon, a young company that enables people to discover serendipitously “discover” websites of interest to them.
The $75 million acquisition earns eBay exposure to a community of 2.3 million users, drawn mainly to the site-stumbling service by word-of-mouth.
StumbleUpon has grown 150 percent year over year since its inception in 2001, providing
This one is kinda related to what I posted yesterday and what appears to be a sudden increase of new bloggers on kottu (maybe I’m imagining – Indi could no doubt confirm). This must surely be a ‘good’ thing – for a variety of reasons. The range or diversity of the subject matter and content […]
Pun-based jokesThere are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who get laid. This joke relies on the fact that mathematical expressions, just as expressions in natural languages, may have multiple meanings. Whe…
I don’t understand why it is so difficult to get into India. Clearly, the Tata Group thinking is that your papers are in order and there’s something wrong with the diplomatic process between the two countries. Is there some problem with the diplomats…
වින්ඩෝස් සඳහා පමණි: නොමිලේ ලබාදෙන ගොනු පිටපත් කිරීමේ උපාංගයකි.විශේෂතා: වේගවත් ගොනු පිටපත් කිරී…
Four hours of US-Iran talks produce more questions At last the ice was broken in the US-Iran relations. On Monday, the tw…
A comment by Kusal in this forum about linking education and development prompted me to write this. He is right on target. We often hear about the 20,000 who qualify for university every year and how few actually get in. Now the latest furor is about only 48% passing the O/L when the pass rate […]
Abandoned Chairs by Little Opal
Somebody has stolen my chair.
Hmm.. yes. This doesn’t feel anyway like my chair. Atleast the one I used to be on. When I came in this morning it wasn’t there actually. So I picked one up, hopefully the least used. But it’s gonna give me a backache. I wonder what happened […]
Malaysia cinemas use night goggles to nab pirates | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com
For the past couple of months I was unable to spend much time with my parents. So this weekend I came to Kandy and spending four days with them. So I won’t blog much till next Monday.
My eye caught the following yahoo photo news. Sri Lankan students carry a giant dummy of a cigarette as they stage a street drama on the eve of Anti-Tobacco Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. In the background is the Colombo Town Hall …
Full Moon on Poson Adhi Poya (31 May 2007)… This is a JPEG of an HDR (sorta) image which I created off Photoshop CS2… I managed to take three shots with 1/250, 1/350 and 1/500 shutter speeds… The pictures were taken off a Canon EOS 350D mounted to a Meade telescope (which is borrowed from dr ray)… Focal Length: 1250m
The Sunday Times is my favourite newspaper but its front page stories which are usually something about political scandals and war news seldom interest me. But this week’s paper had a welcome change. This graphical illustration coupled with the heading…
Student editors of ChEMUNIQUE magazine got together and discussed about future plans to realize our dream on 10th volume of our ChEMUNIQUE magazine. We discussed about cost & revenue making methods. We decided to put ads on front-inner, back-inner &…
Most of electronic media & newspapers give priority to telecast, broadcast & print crime news. Some of televisions & radio channels have been gone beyond that level. They produce documentary tele dramas or radio dramas about crimes. They show how those…
Boring is about right.W H o o p e e soMeONe saId “wHt” a zilLiOn times and someone said wtf . Amazing stuff this. The kind blogs are made of.Well is there any point in trying to make tHiNgs interesting? I mean we aRe leading our sEperAte LiveS aren’t…
So this is what we spoke about today (the last bit of it)…M says:wht?wht?wht?wht?wht?wht?wht?wht?M winks:Play “Laugh”M says:lolD says:wtf wtf wtfMsays:hehehM says:whaaaaaatMsays:whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatMsays:huhD says:wots wrong with youMsays:wh…
SLA commando units spearheading the eastern offensive advanced further into the dense jungles of Thoppigala reaching another milestone today. Advancing commandos have captured several strategic points in the region with the help of SLA&n…
Have you ever seen the movie Big Fish? Well, you should.Sometimes I feel I might be a little crazy. But don’t we all? What I love about my life right now is that I’m not too young to be ignored, but not too old to forget what it was like to be a kid.Wh…
Okay in last post we got to know how to backup the site using stsadm.exe tool. But we cannot do this manually all the time, it needs to be scheduled so that it will be done automatically by the system.As always I’m using the easiest way of doing things…
My name is Kasun Harshalal. I am 16 years old. I faced the GCE O/L exam in last term. I have a brother and a sister. My brother’s name is Jeewantha Priyasad. My sister is Shashikala Deshanjali. My father is a farmer. His name is Wijesinghe Banda. I help my father to do his farming. […]
Once in a Blue MoonOriginally uploaded by Kalamakia Well it seems my postings have become so rare lately, that I post ‘Once In a Blue Moon’. Well today is a such day, that we are going to have a Blue Moon.Blue Moon, has nothing to do with it’s colo…
The increase of new blogs on kottu has, unsurprisingly, resulted in a few posts about the quality of the content of blogs, as well as the phenomenon of the ‘anonymous’ commentor. As usual, and obviously, the views expressed are based on the writers’ values and prejudices. However, I did find myself in agreement with some […]
Architecture is a funny business. It’s a business of deception. There’s nothing funny in that. Architecture is not about realisation of marvellous ideas for greater good as it is often said. Now it’s more and more about the realisation of maximum…
I’m don’t know if it comes across in this blog but I’m a very childlike and simple sort of bloke. I get excited by small things and struggle with deep stuff like the meaning of life and cooking. Having said that I am learning lots about the meaning of …
Whoa! How can I explain the adrenaline pumping going inside me ! Damn, just another 7 days more to catch a thumping 100+ bands live in UK at the Download Festival. This is crazy, ridiculous, awesome shit as it can ever be !!! Ever since this trip was p…
Backing up and restoring your sharepoint site is not a huge task, you can simply use stsadm.exe tool. However there are several ways of doing this, but I’m going to explain the way I prefer and for me this is the easiest way of doing.For the sake of si…
hey!
icarus would very much like to expand their already growing fanbase and we would like
your help. it would be great if you could tell your friends about this website and if you have profile pages (for example myspace, hi5, facebook) you could provide a link to this website. we would really appreciate it! thank u so much for all your support, and we will be recording some of our songs […]
This message is from the organisers of the festival. Shilpasarura is an education software package that will be disseminated through the Nenasala network of the ICT Agency, Sri Lanka.
Dear All,
As we have reached completion milestone in implementing Shilpa
Sayura, and launching its phase II, we are organising a public and
media event on June 14 and 15th.
We […]
This message is from the organisers of the festival. Shilpasarura is an education software package that will be disseminated through the Nenasala network of the ICT Agency, Sri Lanka.
Dear All,
As we have reached completion milestone in implementing Shilpa
Sayura, and launching its phase II, we are organising a public and
media event on June 14 and 15th.
We […]
“I have a feeling it’s likely to be longer haul. The relatively better exploration would be to try and seek an employment opportunity outside India, which we are also trying.”– Manoj Chakravarti
The world’s first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors.The Air Car uses compressed air to…
The much awaited re-run of Chatroom will be staged pretty soon. here are the details.dates: 27 - 29 june venue: punchi theatre, borella time: 8pm tickets: 350/- all seats. tickets not on sale yet.check this site for more details and updates.
Let’s see if I can finally step back into the blogosphere for a little while… Several of my friends and I were born in 1982. This means that the time has finally come for us to turn 25 and my turn is coming up in less than 2 days… This is somewhat…
Therese Rein is the wife of the Australian Opposition leader Kevin Rudd and she made headlines over the past few days about her business engagements. Rudd is new to the position of the opposition leader; he replaced the pretty unpopular Kim Beazley. Th…
Just had a conversation with a good friend after a long silence of just chilling out and sitting around saying nothing but enjoying each other’s company.
And as usual I got the urge to express myself. Of how different my friends and I are and how that’s ok.
All of us at feel the need to express ourselves. To whatever gender; for us, its ok to say I love you, I think of you, I miss you, and I
transportTrends - Diamond studded Mercedes
Had lots of time over Bank Holiday weekend and went through some of my old CD’s and found these pix. This was a time in my life I basically thought the whole world belonged to me.
I used to party every single night. Nice memories all though if I had continued I am sure I would have ended up having a heart attack.
However it was fun while it lasted and I was one mean MF.
On my frequent
seems like the story has stopped. kaboom. zapped. finished.
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