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Yes, it was first snow for me today. As I said in the last post, I moved from coasts of India, a warm humid place, to Denver, USA, a dry and cold place.

I had almost adjusted to the place, and in the morning I woke up to find that nature had painted a quite different picture for me. It had snowed and everything was padded white.

It seemed so surreal to me - like the scene outside my balcony was put there taken right out of some National Geographic program. In spite of my dislike towards cold, I could not help but walk out into the balcony, not minding the chill the thin snow covered wooden floor sent up my sandal adorned feet.

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As you would have noticed, Splat and KalaaLog was inactive for more than a week now. The reason? I moved from India to US.

Last week, I moved to Denver, Colorado, as I got deputed here by my employer for a project. That meant, I had a lot to learn - both in terms of technology and business processes. And that meant, I was real busy.

Settling down in a new place is more cumbersome than I thought. There are a lot of things like papers to submit, back accounts to open and similar ones that I had to do. I did few of them and few more are pending.

In view of this, I have been just able to do work on Udantak other than my day job, and that meant, I had to leave Splat and KalaaLog without any updates. The case would be similar for a month or so.

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Talk about Online Auction and the multi colored eBay logo pops up in our mind. Since it’s introduction in 1995, Online auction has become a popular business model. But the concept I would say, is not something very innovative or radical.

Think of a bazaar in some remote countryside, may be a century ago, where people from all nearby places come with their goods to sell, and to buy the stuff they do not grow in their fields, or they do not make with their own hands. Online auction business model is the same, just a lot more advanced version of this basic principle; facilitating people a convenient platform to buy and sell their goods.

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Well, I had promised I would post the photos I took at Wikicamp. Delayed it might be due to several reasons, but I found some time to post them here.

Here are some snaps of Jimmy Whales, founder of Wikipedia.
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We looked at what feeds are in a previous post (Feeds - RSS). Now we will look at softwares and services that let you subscribe to these feeds.

There are two different type of feed readers (or aggregators) that will let you subscribe to feeds, and give you a list of updated articles that they can find.

There are many feed readers or feed aggregators that let you do this, and they fall under two categories:

• Client side readers
• Web based readers

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In the last post on feeds (Feeds - RSS), we discussed about the brief history and the use of Feeds. This post, we will look into the little (and sometimes rather large), feed icons themselves.

As the Feed technology caught on, people started using different icons to provide the link to these Feed files. And apart from the RSS feeds (discussed in the previous post), there were other feed formats like the Atom format, and that caused a lot of confusion.

To counter this, the Mozzilla Foundation, around the end of 2005, proposed the common feed icons for RSS and Atom feeds, and the guidelines for its usage was published by the mid of 2006.

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