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Launching www.PlanetChild.org

During the past 1.5 years that I have been working for Microsoft India Development Center I have had the opportunity to visit India and China a number of times. Each time I go there on a business trip I try to visit some schools over the weekends and Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 3:32 PM by DavidDehghan | 4 Comments
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My notes from the night I was homeless

This is a 3 part story on how I spent a night on the street in Seattle as an experiment to better understand the life of homeless people that I pass by every day: Part 1: What it means to be homeless, a personal experience Part 2: My notes from the night Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:24 AM by DavidDehghan | 7 Comments

What it means to be homeless, a personal experience

This is a 3 part story on how I spent a night on the street in Seattle as an experiment to better understand the life of homeless people that I pass by every day: Part 1: What it means to be homeless, a personal experience Part 2: My notes from the night Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:56 AM by DavidDehghan | 24 Comments

Shortening URLs on MSWiki for better search engine ranking

There is extensive documentation on Mediawiki on how to shorten the urls from www.yoursite.com/index.php?title=testpage to www.yoursite.com/testpage . After a few hours of research I was able to do just that on my Windows Server 2003 and IIS. It is probably Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:17 AM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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An interview with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder

The interview on C-span. Some interesting points that I can very much relate to based on my experiences with http://www.wsuswiki.com and http://www.mswiki.com Contributors to Wikipedia: 3000 authors that contribute more that 100 edits a month. There are Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:28 AM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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Amazon introduces Product Wiki

A good move by amazon . They have created a wiki page for each of the items in their catalog. Research has shown that anything mentioned by independent sources about an item will increase customer confidence in that item. Even if the comment is negative. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:27 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments
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Meeting the RFID team in Amsterdam airport

I was hanging out at the Amsterdam airport and suddenly I ran into Abhishek and 2 of his teammates. They way on their way to Redmond to participate in the customer advisory panel on RFID. It was nice to hear that RFID project was moving along nicely. Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:47 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments

Little oasis in airports

Last time I bloged about the Shower in Narita airport a few people asked about the exact detail whereabouts. I will keep a list of these little oasis so you can break up your 20hr flight nicely. Tokyo - Narita: 5$ showers for 30 min. The place is incredibly Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:41 AM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments

Importance of a mission statement for the success of a wiki

One the biggest drivers of user contribution to Wikipedia is clear mission statement they have. I have actually not read it and I am writing this blog in a airplane, but as a user and contributor to Wikipedia I have somehow got the message. "Create a Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:33 AM by DavidDehghan | 1 Comments

A cool way of extending google map

I was just listening to Tim OReilly's talk at MySQL conference. Here some cool sites he mentioned. Google Map Craig's list http://www.housingmaps.com/ New visualization model Baby name: http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:43 PM by DavidDehghan | 5 Comments
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Golden rules of building Wiki community trust

Here are some of my key leanings from the past few years of working with wiki communities. I will write more about each of these points in the future posts. Use a license that maximizes content use. Give copyrights of the content back to the user. Promote Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:01 PM by DavidDehghan | 0 Comments
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My first SMS messages in China

One sad thing is that here in Beijing I can’t find any Windows Mobile smartphone. Nokia and Samsung are everywhere ;-( I got a China Mobile SIM card and unfortunately I see some ‘••••••’ on the home page of my phone. I also received some SMS messages Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 7:36 PM by DavidDehghan | 32 Comments
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Effects of high oil prices on global economy

This months issue of The Economist has a special report on crud oil prices. I have been reading it veraciously in the past few hours in the plane to Tokyo. Back in 1998 crude oil prices declined to near all time low of $10 per barrel. Since then the crude Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:29 PM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments
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Finally, it is vacation time

I have not gone anywhere special on vacation for a long time so I finally decided to stop by China for a personal trip before I head out to India to meet my team at Microsoft India Development center. I am flying from Seattle to Tokyo to Hong Kong to Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:39 PM by DavidDehghan | 2 Comments
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How not to miss your favorite radio show

I listen to NPR religiously but sometimes I miss the shows that really like to listen to: Democracy Now, Alternative Radio, This American Life, etc. I spent hours today looking for "TiVO for radio" to record shows for offline listening. Eventually I found Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:56 AM by DavidDehghan | 6 Comments
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