Monthly Archives: March 2010

That Was It, Microsoft Research India

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Finally my 3-month internship at Microsoft Research India has come to an end. It has been a super duper 3 months with the privilege to work on 2 projects, priceless experiences and best of all, lots of fun!

Happy family: Microsoft Research India TEM Group

I’ve derived an equation to calculate MSRI as follows:

MSRI = Exceptional people + fantastic workspace + amazing projects + lots of fun!

I’ll definitely miss my regular MSRI breakfast (Nutella + bread + cornflakes + milk) and will dearly miss those exceptional people in the TEM group. There are really a few places in this world that you can find such people, and MSRI is one of them. I’m really honored, really.

So long and take care guys!

Rapportive Messing Up User’s Info?

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I’ve been using Rapportive (a super Firefox/Chrome plugin that replaces the ads in your Gmail with the sender’s social media info) for over few days now and enjoying it thus far till…

Repportive showing wrong user profile

Can you spot-the-not?

How on earth service@youtube.com is a guy (or gal) named Boe Schrik from Bahamas? And oh best of all, his Friendster, hi5, MySpace and beboaccounts link to nonsense, spammy profile, which is clearly NOT Boe Schrik!

According to ReadWriteWeb, Rapportive gets the sender’s social media information from Rapleaf and does some caching on their own side. From the picture above, clearly there is something funny going on.

Well, well, well… something has screwed up for sure and most likely at Rapleaf side but might as well Rapportive.