making readable urls

urls should be readable, sharable, memorable, ...

A site best feature would be recall ability. i.e. u navigate, and go thru all the site and u locate an resource or link, then again u losing it is pain.

Most of the site url which shows a catalog for example, will have an url like

catalog.jsp?pageno=5

What you see in page no 5 won't be there when you visit again. This kind of url is not sharable.

A longer url is also tough to share with others, or remember then even.

REST (Representational State Transfer) is a kind of architecture, which has stress on simple url schemes, which takes actions as part of url than part of request parameter. REST has various other aspects to it, so its simply wrong to just mentioning abt its url scheme here.

http://countme.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/affordability-pricing/

This above url speaks for itself, and most could understand when it was written, and how its organised.

Affordability pricing

Many times I was wondered, why most foreign books, softwares, etc., were sold at such high prices in India. Many great technical books cost around 50-100$ when they are released in USA. It takes very long time to get those books in India. They can be bought from there Indian counterpart publisher or reseller, but at the same price as sold in US. Whereas in US it’s affordable for them to get a book for 100$, but its bites our hands hard to spend 5000 Rupees to get a newly released book. Instead I would like cheaper edition available in other countries too, at the time of publishing itself.

Sometimes the cost of softwares, in Indian rupees is even higher that the converted rate from USD. :(

With increased internet presence, and high cost of original books, and very late publishing of Indian reprint (even takes 3-4 years or never after that) most of us are forced to get a pirated PDF version.

There should be some measures to make books available at cheaper rates only would avoid the loss by the pirated copies.

Availability and affordability is the key to success of any product.

Often working out the spending ability of the targeted audience and pricing them will lead to higher number of purchases, more profit and product visibility.

Google TechTalks, where are they?

For the past few months, I was watching the tech talk videos of presentations happening at Google. It’s a great thing for a company to share its privileged video on talks by various scholars of our time around the world. Google has done that.

Till then, watching them is my favorite past time for me in office.

But since August 25, 2006 there were no updates in the tech talk section in Google videos.

I had waited over month now; still there aren’t any signs of new videos... :( It’s quite a loss.

Hoping to see them back soon...

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Extensive list of google tech videos...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Google+engEDU

http://video.google.com/googleplex.html