July 5, 2006 by Gautam.

Finally the one read paper clip guy has a house. He got it in exchange for a one small red paper clip. What? Yes, it is true. I wonder if the original paper clip is still available and what would it sell for now? Would I start doing something like that? How about this website? Would anyone trade it for a barbeque grill? I am all for it. Bring it on. If that’s too pricey for it, how about a dvd player?

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June 22, 2006 by Gautam.

As a surfer, I spend lot of time on digg and indianpad. Indianpad can be called a clone of digg and is very similar to digg in terms of functionalities. But there are differences as well. I try to list the the most important differences below.

• Digg is a four letter word, while indianpad is not.
• Digg was started by Kevin Rose who is now quite a celebrity and sitting on a good fortune, while indianpad was started by some Mr. Srinivas with no further details available.
• Digg is always vibrant with thousands of visitors online, while indianpad is visited frequently by only few people with ids, avaksi, garamvideos, djakeel, amiable_indian, beachbong, millvartan etc.
• For many items in digg, there are quite a few comments, on indianpad comments are very few and far in between.
• Speaking of comments, digg allows users to vote on the comments as well where as indianpad does not.
• When promoted to the front page of digg, stories literally catch on fire gaining diggs rapidly; on indianpad showing up on the front page usually makes no difference.
• Digg shows some ads and the revenues are earned solely by Kevin; in indianpad ad revenue goes to the user who posted the story. Just by posting a link to other people’s stories you can be a millionaire on indianpad. Talk about get rich quick!
• Digg is primarily for technology related stuff where non-technology related material are posted quite frequently; Indianpad is mostly for hot and sexy videos where non hot and sexy video material appear sometimes.

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June 18, 2006 by Gautam.

Looks like google’s machines are just full, according to this article . Well really? Web is becoming too full of spam. It is true I get so much spam everyday, but I keep deleting them! Google seems to have indexed lot of spam sites, and not legitimate sites. According to Eric Schmidt : “Those machines are full”! If Google can not buy another thousand machines, then I have some ideas: ask their employees to remember some of the web pages, or hire cheap labor in India or China to do so. But coming back to more serious issue, I immediately got to thinking, how I can use it to my favour! So I obtained a trial version of mass blogging software (I only obtain trial versions or free softwares) and created a whole bunch of spam sites. Well, where are they? I could have put links to those sites from here, but why bother? They have better chance of appearing on search results than this site. So I simply put link to this site on those web pages. There is no need to do the other way around. Now let’s see if I get a few visitors and get rich from the ads!

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