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  • Daniel Finnigan, President and CEO, Knight Ridder Digital

    Dan Finnigan shared this recommendation for Rajiv on April 24, 2005 via LinkedIn: Rajiv is very bright, hard-working, creative and passionate about his enginerring and development work on the internet. Rajiv never wants to do things the way they have already been done, Rajiv has always been top engineer in non-tech companies, requiring him to…

  • Snow and Ice in Atlanta

    When I moved to Atlanta, GA, I didn’t realize I’d get photo opportunities featuring snow and ice in the city known as Hotlanta. It only snows on one or two days per year here. Almost all my neighbors were staying cozy indoors. I headed out with my camera and took photographs, including some of leaves,…

  • Suggestions to Nikon for future DSLR cameras

    [amazon-product align=”right”]B001ENOZY4[/amazon-product]At present, Canon is dominating the digital SLR-type (DSLR) camera market. We need strong competitors to keep innovation high and prices economical. Since I use a Nikon D70 DSLR , I suggest a few features Nikon should consider in their upcoming DSLR cameras: Enable the photographer to compose the image using a flip out…

  • Please Help the Tsunami Disaster Relief Efforts in South Asia

    If you are able, please help the tsunami disaster relief efforts in South Asia: http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html Good companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo and others are doing a great service by featuring a request for help on their home pages. Here are some screenshots: http://photos.rajiv.com/gallery/337743 If you know of other companies doing this, please email me.

  • Ches Wajda, Design Director, Philly.com and Knight Ridder Digital

    Ches Wajda shared this recommendation for Rajiv on September 27, 2004 via LinkedIn: Rajiv already was at legendary status when I arrived at Philly.com (while still a full-time student at Temple, he wrote the application that converted ATEX to HTML — something thought near-impossible). In my own experience with him, I found Rajiv to be…

  • On content sites requiring user registration

    I wish I didn’t have to register at and maintain my profile for each web site that I use that requires me to log in. A shared (not necessarily centralized) registration/login system would be a big convenience and time-saver. The Liberty Alliance has been talking about one for a while, but don’t know when, if…

  • Searching Instead Of Browsing: Organizing Information Using Labels as Meta-Data

    Being able to assign labels to content to organize information for searching is superior to placing content in folders for manual browsing. The folder concept may be suitable to physical documents on paper, but does not lend itself well to digital information. The labels concept combined with an effective search capability is a faster way…

  • Preserving URLs of Evergreen Content

    Changing the URLs of pages containing narrative content like articles has several disadvantages, especially for a content site: Readers’ bookmarks to the site’s pages break Links archived in electronic mediums (e.g. emails, documents) & print mediums (e.g. books, magazines, newspapers) to evergreen content1 like articles or news stories break Incoming links from other sites break…

  • Craigslist & eBay: Community sites founded by programmers

    Great businesses are often started by people without a formal business background but with passion, vision and the ability to execute. Neither Craigslist nor [founder and chairman Craig] Newmark benefits financially from the deal. EBay and Craigslist both were started in 1995 by pocket-protector-type programmers; each became wildly successful in its own way, attracting fervent…

  • Java Progammer? Use BeanShell

    BeanShell is a fully Java compatible scripting language, capable of interpreting ordinary Java source files. You can also use it for working with Java interactively like an interpreted Unix Shell or Perl. You can try out Java’s object features, APIs, GUI widgets and other libraries hands on. BeanShell is free and also ships bundled with…

  • Other Web Search Engines

    Can’t find what you are looking for using Google? There are other search engines too. For specific searches, some of these may have their own unique advantages over Google. Google is still great too, but isn’t the only option around anymore. [blogroll-links categoryslug=”search-engines”] Update: 2008-Feb-02: The above list is now managed as WordPress blogroll links…

  • Moving to Atlanta

    I look forward to living in Atlanta, a major city in the southeastern state of Georgia. I will, however, miss being around my friends in the the Philadelphia and San Francisco areas where I previously lived. On June 1st, I start work at COXnet as Chief Technology Officer. COXnet is part of the Cox Newspapers…