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   by dskhatri 19y ago

   Not really. Words from such languages are commonly found in the West. Microsoft named their Silverlight search front end Tafiti which is also derived from Kiswahili (tafuta - to search). Kiswahili is a widely spoken language in East Africa.
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   by dskhatri 19y ago

   Some of the names are thought out! Kijiji means village/small town in Kiswahili and gives a sense of locality.
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   by dskhatri 19y ago

   Since we are talking about "bubbles", here's an interesting read on possibly the first bubble recorded: the Tulip bubble ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania ). Substituting hackers for 'tulip traders' and web companies for 'tulips'
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   Google 700MHz Spectrum Bid a Bluff?(bloomberg.com)

   1 points by dskhatri 19y ago|0 comments
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   A little striptease for your Web password? - Security(msnbc.msn.com)

   1 points by dskhatri 19y ago|0 comments
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   by dskhatri 19y ago

   The technology is quite old.. seems to be born out of a pre-2001 project called ASSIST ( http://rationale.csail.mit.edu/project_assist.shtml ). Microsoft has a Power Tool for Tablet PC's called Physics Illustrator that does something sim
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   by dskhatri 19y ago

   Jaiku makes good sense in the mobile world where written (thumbed) communication needs to be short. It can offer Google a good user-base from which they can launch other mobices (1). Great for embedding ads, and for the multi-lingual user-b