Recently everywhere, and by everywhere I mean on internet, people are talking about Google Wave. Its just a surge of people tweeting about "Google Wave"; facebook and myspace users are asking each other if they have a Google Wave invite. So, it made me curious to find out what all fuss is about Google Wave.
Google is generally a recognized term . It is also officially added in dictionaries like Oxford and Webster as the synonym for search. Google was started with a very basic idea: an algorithm which can search the internet for query words. It started as a small company in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, and now it is one of the fortune 500 companies.
So, now the question is: how does a company with only one application ,"search engine" get so big? The answer to this question is entrepreneurial brilliance and I will explain this in detail. When Google started back in '98 there were other companies, i.e. Yahoo and Hotmail around. These companies were huge. They had so many services such as: email, photos, news etc. plus most people were using Yahoo and Hotmail to do all sorts of searches. Moreover, it is one portal where one can go and get access to so many applications at once. However, there was one issue- these portals have so many applications on the main page which made it very bulky . This added with the very slow internet speed back in the 98s resulted in yahoo and MSN home pages to take forever to load. On the other hand, Google just had a text field along with the search button which which took one-fourth of the time to load the page. So when people have the option of going to something which will take less time to load and give result with the accuracy of 90%, they started using it. Since then Google has made a fortune. They introduced the concept of Pay Per Click and Pay Per Impressions. There are so many Google applications around, Gmail, Google Maps, Google finance, Google Documents and Google photos are to name a few. Google has launched new application,"Google Wave" on May 27 2009.
Recently, Google has released the beta version* of Google Wave. Only 100,000 people were sent invitation to test the Google wave. Google Wave is personal communicator and online collaboration tool as termed by Google. Google Wave is a web-based service, it is a platform which allows users to communicate with each other in multiple ways such as: instant messenger chatting, video chatting , short message texting, emails and social-networking. Moreover , for the online collaboration tool part , people will be able to share documents, pictures and videos along with their desktops in real-time scenario. These days all these above mentioned features are available, but in differerent platforms. So, Google wave will be the place to where you can do all the possible things by just logging into one platform. Google has also released a 1 hour 20 minutes video just as an introduction for Google Wave, if you certainly interested just check it out.
Google Wave have potential to impact all the majors online collaboration companies such as Cisco's webex , Citrix and Teamviewer etc. By making these online collaboration utility easily accessible , common users and small businesses will be more inclined to use Google Wave. However, corporation might stick with the old vendors, but I think it is too early to make any conclusion. Since the Google Wave was out it has created a lot of news. Once the final version will launch then it will be available not only on web but also on mobile phones especially Android(G-phone) .
Now, some juicy facts:
1) Since the Google wave is out it has become such a sensation that people are still twittering all about it.
2) People are selling Google Wave invites on ebay ranging from 99 cents to 80 dollars. Allegedly people have already bid in three figures on ebay.
*Once software is ready and functional the developer has to test those in order to find the bugs and discrepancies so that it can be made bug free and completely effective. So beta testing is one type of testing when they released a beta version to selected public and ask them to use. Now when these people find any errors they report these back to the developers to fix it. Developers follow the feed back fix the errors and release the software.
cheers
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Nomads: Aren't we all
The nomads are people who wander from place to place. It doesn't mean they are crazy. That is why they are called "no mads." Most civilizations in history were originally nomads, however they started settling after industrialization took place . They wander from place to place in the search of food, water and shelter. There are still many nomadic tribes in today's world-no joke.
However, I am not going to focus on that aspect of nomads today. I would like to discuss more about how people in established civilizations have started to live like nomads. Yes, it is kind of a new concept, or say a lifestyle, which people are choosing to live these days. I personally have no problems with this type of lifestyle and this is just a new perspective.
Since the old days one aspect of us human beings that is not stable is "the mind". It wanders and wanders to the new dimensions of knowledge and exploration. Due to this instability of the human mind the whole world ends up with the most structured civilization. Now, the funny thing with humans is every generation calls itself "the prefect generation". People have always claimed this, even since the Roman empire and one thing which always remained constant is development. This wandering mind of humans has given birth to so many discoveries and inventions. Moreover, generation after generation, humans became more intelligent. I mean look at us! How much we have developed since the age of barbarians to the age of embezzlers.
During this development each generation has discovered what they want for their world and what they want to pass on to the next generations. One aspect of life which all the generations have in common is pursuit of happiness and the definition of happiness changes from generation to generation.
What do people want in today's world? Independence and freedom.
All the people have one dream to have a good life and a safe future where they don't have to worry about old age. If these two fields are covered people feel so happy. However, this is what's making today's generation act like nomads. People wander form place to place; first, to get education so that they can build their skill sets and then they start moving from place to place to look for jobs. Yes, people in a industrialized world are not nomads because we live in concrete houses. However, if we examine closely we are no different then nomads . We both(i.e our self and nomads ) are on infinite journey to find the things which matter to us most.
Cheers
MS
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However, I am not going to focus on that aspect of nomads today. I would like to discuss more about how people in established civilizations have started to live like nomads. Yes, it is kind of a new concept, or say a lifestyle, which people are choosing to live these days. I personally have no problems with this type of lifestyle and this is just a new perspective.
Since the old days one aspect of us human beings that is not stable is "the mind". It wanders and wanders to the new dimensions of knowledge and exploration. Due to this instability of the human mind the whole world ends up with the most structured civilization. Now, the funny thing with humans is every generation calls itself "the prefect generation". People have always claimed this, even since the Roman empire and one thing which always remained constant is development. This wandering mind of humans has given birth to so many discoveries and inventions. Moreover, generation after generation, humans became more intelligent. I mean look at us! How much we have developed since the age of barbarians to the age of embezzlers.
During this development each generation has discovered what they want for their world and what they want to pass on to the next generations. One aspect of life which all the generations have in common is pursuit of happiness and the definition of happiness changes from generation to generation.
What do people want in today's world? Independence and freedom.
All the people have one dream to have a good life and a safe future where they don't have to worry about old age. If these two fields are covered people feel so happy. However, this is what's making today's generation act like nomads. People wander form place to place; first, to get education so that they can build their skill sets and then they start moving from place to place to look for jobs. Yes, people in a industrialized world are not nomads because we live in concrete houses. However, if we examine closely we are no different then nomads . We both(i.e our self and nomads ) are on infinite journey to find the things which matter to us most.
Cheers
MS
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Emotions: A Mystery
Aren't they crazy?I mean emotions. They can make you do all sorts of things. The worst thing is they don't even listen to any rational thoughts. It is so fascinating how people know that emotions are unreasonable but do it anyways. Some one once said "Emotions are only things which makes us different from animal" yeah sure that is why there lives are not that much screwed. Can you imagine animals having all sorts of emotions. Wow that will be so f%^&ing hilarious. Deers and Zebras can always play the compassion card and all the carnivorous animals will die of hunger with the satisfaction in heart that they did the right thing. PETA people will all loose there jobs because animal know there rights. There will be inter species cheating among different animals plus we will also see all kind of different species evolving. Ok its is going a little out of hand, but we got the point.
So the world is divided in two categories Emotional and Non-emotional people. It is a cool thing to say in today's world "I am not that emotional types" and reality these are the actual sissies. I have seen all the people who are so emotionally strong are the people who are very emotional. This is fact I am not kidding. Let see how? These emotionally strong people are very cautious about there surroundings. Yes, it is good to be aware about your surroundings but not cautious. Because when you start being cautious that means you are not only know about who are the people around you but also you are very much interested in what they might think of you. So, by doing it unconsciously you are trying to hold of your emotional self. Just to look cool and strong. And that remind me of one particular species of Homo Sapiens called straight man. They are very good in being "Non-Emotional" person. One more fact about straight men generally they are filthy as hell. They don't like to be clean it against the rules of being straight especially when you are man and clutter is must in the house.
Emotional people are very strong that what I feel.they are not afraid of what other people might think . If they feel like crying they cry if they feel like laughing they laugh if they are grumpy don't go near them. Trust me they will cut you off in two pieces. I think it need balls to cry in the movies . It need balls to laugh out loud when you are happy in the train, where thousand other people are sitting. But honestly, I think people who are emotional have more chances of living long because they express them whenever they have them.
One thing which is very infamous about the the emotion is the action taken in the high wave of emotion, in other words we call it "impulse". This is a very fascinated topic. I will like to explain how our mind and matter work in coherence on an impulse. We all know brain two part left brain and right brain let call the LB and RB respectively. So, LB has all the logical stuff. I the mathematical calculations, all the logic for puzzle solving , all the functions which we can perform logically , The structure oriented approach comes from this part of the brain. Now RB is not like his brother he likes to be free as a wanderer. He doesn't like boundaries , he loves the beauty , he loves the creativity. This is the super source of innovation in ones head. So by this I was trying got explain that our brain is capable of doing all sorts of works. Now there is also one important part there which also need recognition. We have heard it so many times.Yes you are right the subconscious mind. And subconscious mind is govern by emotions . So if we see some thing for instance a flower , logical mind will give the statistical details about that flower as per in terms of name and characteristics. Now RB will tell you the aesthetics and Subconscious mind will makes you feel the happiness.
Isn't it amazing? Now how does impulse work? So, When we go to a store or say when we go the a clothing store. I know a lot of people will be able to co-relate with this example. Coming back, you go to a store and you know you don't want to buy any more clothes because either you have too many clothes or may be its not in this months budget. So, you are looking around and what did you see. A sale 25% sale sign on a $50 set of trousers. Now it is tempting you. Now, in the brain it is a battle between you two halves. One part will be giving you all the reasons not to buy it and the other part will play the devil here.It will give you all the reason to buy it. So LB and RB will aiding both of your halves. Now your subconscious will step in. I am not saying subconscious is all god and mighty in the situation.He is prejudiced by the impulse which has initiated the whole battle in the first place. Now, subconscious makes the decision as per impulse and now LB is requires to provide with the all reasons to buy it. So , that you don't feel bad about it. This was just an example but don't underestimate it. This is some real efffing S%^t. Most crimes are done in impulse. People still have hard time figuring out what is the cause of impulse.
Lastly one emotion which is valued more in the world is compassion. With compassion people can do wonders and at this day and age we need more compassionate people who can help the society to be a better place to live. Many generations have passed by and many more generations have to come. And compassion is the only way which will help the coming generations to see what is it like to be alive.
Cheers
P.S. If you loved this or you hated it to the core or you are in middle somewhere please leave a comment and let me know how you feel about it.
So the world is divided in two categories Emotional and Non-emotional people. It is a cool thing to say in today's world "I am not that emotional types" and reality these are the actual sissies. I have seen all the people who are so emotionally strong are the people who are very emotional. This is fact I am not kidding. Let see how? These emotionally strong people are very cautious about there surroundings. Yes, it is good to be aware about your surroundings but not cautious. Because when you start being cautious that means you are not only know about who are the people around you but also you are very much interested in what they might think of you. So, by doing it unconsciously you are trying to hold of your emotional self. Just to look cool and strong. And that remind me of one particular species of Homo Sapiens called straight man. They are very good in being "Non-Emotional" person. One more fact about straight men generally they are filthy as hell. They don't like to be clean it against the rules of being straight especially when you are man and clutter is must in the house.
Emotional people are very strong that what I feel.they are not afraid of what other people might think . If they feel like crying they cry if they feel like laughing they laugh if they are grumpy don't go near them. Trust me they will cut you off in two pieces. I think it need balls to cry in the movies . It need balls to laugh out loud when you are happy in the train, where thousand other people are sitting. But honestly, I think people who are emotional have more chances of living long because they express them whenever they have them.
One thing which is very infamous about the the emotion is the action taken in the high wave of emotion, in other words we call it "impulse". This is a very fascinated topic. I will like to explain how our mind and matter work in coherence on an impulse. We all know brain two part left brain and right brain let call the LB and RB respectively. So, LB has all the logical stuff. I the mathematical calculations, all the logic for puzzle solving , all the functions which we can perform logically , The structure oriented approach comes from this part of the brain. Now RB is not like his brother he likes to be free as a wanderer. He doesn't like boundaries , he loves the beauty , he loves the creativity. This is the super source of innovation in ones head. So by this I was trying got explain that our brain is capable of doing all sorts of works. Now there is also one important part there which also need recognition. We have heard it so many times.Yes you are right the subconscious mind. And subconscious mind is govern by emotions . So if we see some thing for instance a flower , logical mind will give the statistical details about that flower as per in terms of name and characteristics. Now RB will tell you the aesthetics and Subconscious mind will makes you feel the happiness.
Isn't it amazing? Now how does impulse work? So, When we go to a store or say when we go the a clothing store. I know a lot of people will be able to co-relate with this example. Coming back, you go to a store and you know you don't want to buy any more clothes because either you have too many clothes or may be its not in this months budget. So, you are looking around and what did you see. A sale 25% sale sign on a $50 set of trousers. Now it is tempting you. Now, in the brain it is a battle between you two halves. One part will be giving you all the reasons not to buy it and the other part will play the devil here.It will give you all the reason to buy it. So LB and RB will aiding both of your halves. Now your subconscious will step in. I am not saying subconscious is all god and mighty in the situation.He is prejudiced by the impulse which has initiated the whole battle in the first place. Now, subconscious makes the decision as per impulse and now LB is requires to provide with the all reasons to buy it. So , that you don't feel bad about it. This was just an example but don't underestimate it. This is some real efffing S%^t. Most crimes are done in impulse. People still have hard time figuring out what is the cause of impulse.
Lastly one emotion which is valued more in the world is compassion. With compassion people can do wonders and at this day and age we need more compassionate people who can help the society to be a better place to live. Many generations have passed by and many more generations have to come. And compassion is the only way which will help the coming generations to see what is it like to be alive.
Cheers
P.S. If you loved this or you hated it to the core or you are in middle somewhere please leave a comment and let me know how you feel about it.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wave about the Google Wave
What is GoogleWave?
What? another application by Google. What is Google up to?I think they are working hard to make things easy for common people. Coming back to Google Wave. It is allegedly a "Personal communicator and collaboration tool"(as termed by Google) through which people will be able to have all the things they need from internet on the finger tips,that what they are saying. For my understanding it is the google version of Webex or Citrix online meeting tools, which are very predominant in corporate world.
Now if you ask me if it is good or bad. I will say no comments because I still have to watch the 1hour 20 minute long video about Google Wave. However, for all the research I have done it "so far" seems like it is going to give good competition to all the big wigs like Webex and Citrix. Also I feel sad for poor Yahoo. However, 70% of internet users in Japan still use Yahoo web tools. Which is not too bad.
I tried to log into Google Wave but still unavailable. Is Google Wave the Tsunami wave for all the other companies in the same arena which will sweep the whole market or is it just a high tide. I guess we have to wait and watch.
What do you think abt the Google Wave? Please share your views through comments.
Now if you ask me if it is good or bad. I will say no comments because I still have to watch the 1hour 20 minute long video about Google Wave. However, for all the research I have done it "so far" seems like it is going to give good competition to all the big wigs like Webex and Citrix. Also I feel sad for poor Yahoo. However, 70% of internet users in Japan still use Yahoo web tools. Which is not too bad.
I tried to log into Google Wave but still unavailable. Is Google Wave the Tsunami wave for all the other companies in the same arena which will sweep the whole market or is it just a high tide. I guess we have to wait and watch.
What do you think abt the Google Wave? Please share your views through comments.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Analyze This
I really have nothing much going on other then LIFE...as Caitlin always says we are high on LIFE. As far as motivation is concerned ...we are... motivated to get the better life.
Now lets think about the following:
What is the biggest fear people have??
Of loosing someone they desire. Desire gives birth to the need and then the question comes up.
What we need??
ALL You is need is LOVE.
Now lets think about the following:
What is the biggest fear people have??
Of loosing someone they desire. Desire gives birth to the need and then the question comes up.
What we need??
ALL You is need is LOVE.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Tweet Twwet its the Twitter
What do people do first thing in the morning?? I don't know about everybody but I just go to my laptop and see what are the trending topics on twitter. Trust me, it is the best way to find out what are the top headlines of the moment. I was the first one to find out about the Michael Jackson's death in my whole friend circle. Isn't it feel amazing to have the feeling of "I knew first".
Twitter is amazing I have to say just find out about the coupons find out about most recent celebrity gossips, it the best way to keep you abreast with all the new happenings. It was like 2 months ago I have to go to different news websites to find out what is happening where. It was so hard to remember URLs of all the different website like CNN.com, BBC.com. But now nothing to worry about our Twitter is here with the consolidated information.
*Please comment on this let me know what and how you feel about twitter*
Twitter is amazing I have to say just find out about the coupons find out about most recent celebrity gossips, it the best way to keep you abreast with all the new happenings. It was like 2 months ago I have to go to different news websites to find out what is happening where. It was so hard to remember URLs of all the different website like CNN.com, BBC.com. But now nothing to worry about our Twitter is here with the consolidated information.
*Please comment on this let me know what and how you feel about twitter*
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Apprentice UK III
So, I don't have much to say about what happened. There are few things which I think could be done in other way.However, it is the game show and I am not Sir Alan Sugar.
Instead of reporting what happened I will like to talk about what I thought about the finale.
First of all I was shocked when Sugar fired James. It just doesn't make any sense at all. However, people were saying James was there just for the TV. Despite the fact that he is the one who have won most tasks in the whole competition, he was fired. I don't know what Sir Alan sugar was cooking in his head. And I was shocked more when he fired Paul, leaving Saira and Tim as the finalist.
However, it starting to make sense when he gave the final task to both the remaining contestants. And it was evident that its too hard to teach new tricks to old dog. He asked both Saira and Tim to create an event. Which will be judged on the basis of creativity as well as the success of the event. Profit will not be "the Criteria" for this challenge. Which meant he wanted some event which doesn't have the short term profits but have long term benefits. He also want to see who listens to him as well.
So, Tim had a fashion show which was a simple and great idea and Saira had the wine tasting which is more lucrative as well as more fun. She had a great business plan but she didnt get one part and that to listen to the requirement, or say listen to Sir Alan Sugar.
She was more focused on making profit and selling the idea. Tim, on the other hand was hiring the prospective customers.
Saira made profit of 800 pounds and Tim was left with 2500 pounds in loss. But what he did is to make sure to listen to the Master. And that is the first duty or the apprentice or aspiring to be apprentice. That is why Sir Alan sugar said " you are hired" to Tim Campbell.
* if you liked it or if you hated it or if you are in the middle of like and hating please leave a comment and let me know what you feel about it*
Cheers
Instead of reporting what happened I will like to talk about what I thought about the finale.
First of all I was shocked when Sugar fired James. It just doesn't make any sense at all. However, people were saying James was there just for the TV. Despite the fact that he is the one who have won most tasks in the whole competition, he was fired. I don't know what Sir Alan sugar was cooking in his head. And I was shocked more when he fired Paul, leaving Saira and Tim as the finalist.
However, it starting to make sense when he gave the final task to both the remaining contestants. And it was evident that its too hard to teach new tricks to old dog. He asked both Saira and Tim to create an event. Which will be judged on the basis of creativity as well as the success of the event. Profit will not be "the Criteria" for this challenge. Which meant he wanted some event which doesn't have the short term profits but have long term benefits. He also want to see who listens to him as well.
So, Tim had a fashion show which was a simple and great idea and Saira had the wine tasting which is more lucrative as well as more fun. She had a great business plan but she didnt get one part and that to listen to the requirement, or say listen to Sir Alan Sugar.
She was more focused on making profit and selling the idea. Tim, on the other hand was hiring the prospective customers.
Saira made profit of 800 pounds and Tim was left with 2500 pounds in loss. But what he did is to make sure to listen to the Master. And that is the first duty or the apprentice or aspiring to be apprentice. That is why Sir Alan sugar said " you are hired" to Tim Campbell.
* if you liked it or if you hated it or if you are in the middle of like and hating please leave a comment and let me know what you feel about it*
Cheers
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