Following demo illustrates one of the applications of TalkValley:
Rohit Aggarwal
April 25, 2010
January 6, 2010
What Paypal doesn’t tell you?
This post is to explain the pseudo assurance that eBay or Paypal gives you.
“Pay with 
and your full purchase price is covered |See terms”
You see the above assurance on ebay and felt safe to purchase an item. You wait for many days but your item never arrives. Getting apprehensive you try reaching out to the seller. He never responds to your messages. After getting frustrated you test the above statement and later gets pointed to the following policy.
What if PayPal makes a final decision in my favor?
If PayPal makes a final decision in your favor, we will collect any available funds in the seller’s PayPal balance at that time. However, recovery is not guaranteed and is limited only to the amounts that PayPal can recover from the seller’s Account. Any amounts collected from the seller will be placed in your Account.
The point is that in case a seller commits fraud and never sends you the item, you can not do much about it. Fraudulent sellers are not going to leave any money in their Paypal account. So ebay and Paypal will only apologize to you and you will not get any dime back. 😦
I don’t recommend using debit card for paying an eBay purchase. With credit card hopefully you can still file a chargeback against Paypal and get your money back.
Best
August 5, 2009
TalkValley Celebrity Demo
Following demo illustrates one of the applications of TalkValley:
February 5, 2009
PHP Functions for parsing data
function html2text($document){
$search = array(‘@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si’, // Strip out javascript
‘@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si’, // Strip out HTML tags
‘@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU’, // Strip style tags properly
‘@<![\s\S]*?–[ \t\n\r]*>@’ // Strip multi-line comments including CDATA
);
$text = preg_replace($search, ”, $document);
return $text;
}
function getrequired($iugl,$csn,$csen){
if ($csn!=”){
if (preg_match(“/$csn/”,$iugl)){
list($r,$iulast)=explode($csn,$iugl);
if ($csen!=”){
list($iulast,$r)=explode($csen,$iulast);
}
return trim($iulast);
}else {return “XX”;}
}else{
if ($csen!=”){
list($iulast)=explode($csen,$iugl);
return trim($iulast);
}else {return “XX”;}
}
}
September 30, 2008
Venture Capitalists’ (VCs’) visits
I am very excited that I was able to get the following VCs as guest speakers:
Feb 12, Thursday – Wayne Cantwell
March 4, Wednesday- Ashmeet Sidana
March 31, Tuesday- David Hornik
April 15, Wednesday- Anurag Chandra
April 29, Wednesday- Tim Draper
I have scheduled all the talks between 4.45-5.45PM as there are no classes at this time. I initially approached these VCs for guest lectures in my MBA class. Realizing that other students would also be interested, I have organized these talks at the school level.
These VCs fund IT related ventures and it would be interesting to know their perspectives on emerging technologies. I believe it is a great opportunity for students to bridge the gap between class room teaching and the real world of private equity financing.
August 14, 2008
Setting Outlook Exchange on iphone or Blackberry
If you would like to sync your outlook exchange server of University of Utah, with your iphone or blackberry then you require the following three information:
1) incoming host server: imap.umail.utah.edu
2) username: unid@umail.utah.edu
3) password: <your password>
Enjoy!
March 5, 2008
Office Live vs Google Docs
Nice comparison by ReadWriteWeb. I wish they had included Zoho also.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison — Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others.
via Techmeme
Lifehacker has a comparison of Google Docs and Zoho.
Rohit
February 1, 2008
Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo
via Techmeme
Ina Fried / CNET News.com: Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
DealBook:Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Associated Press: Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo
DealBook: Microsoft’s Letter to Yahoo
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mathew Ingram / The Globe and Mail: MSFT and YHOO: Who’s holding the shotgun?
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Discussion: Electronista: MS/Yahoo deal: conference call, Yahoo responds
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: BREAKING: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
January 24, 2008
Interesting Videos
This is an amazing video showing fights between crocodile and lions, and lions and buffaloes for a calf.
This one is a funny indian ad.
November 16, 2007
Just for fun- Hardwork, Knowledge, Attitude, Bullshit & Ass kissing from mathematical point of view
Mathematical Point of view is posted by Dr. Zvi Goldstein on his website. This is an interesting read. To summarize:
Hardwork= 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
Knowledge= 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
Attitude= 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
Bullshit= 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
Ass kissing= 1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%
“So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.”
Rohit Aggarwal 