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the future of the internet comes form east
2008-01-19 01:23:00
below is the total internet users by continent…  - Asia 400M users (total population ~ 3.7B)  - Europe 300M users (total population ~ 800M)  - N.America 200M users (300M)    etc note the users from Asia, it is only 10% of the population of 3.7B        It is obvious that the greatest potential for further growth is in Asia. (Especially in China and India) and the main bottleneck in these countries are connectivity and access. and also they heavily need utilities like electric, gas/petrol etc. they can solve partial demand by improving the infrastructure(connectivity, access) in another perspective, the convergence of IT, Telecommunication and media is bringing a revolution in the way information is collected, stored, distributed/accessed. this will reduce direct/indirect cost, increase quality, availability etc.  the result of convergence is the death of - classic media - telecommunication - and classic IT (mono &a...
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One more correction in Google?s mission
2008-01-12 00:51:00
From the Google ’s mission statement "we always distinguish ads from the search results or other content on a page. We don't sell placement in the search results themselves, or allow people to pay for a higher ranking there" for a long time, google is self promoting their products in SERP, as long as it is distinguished from Ads then fine. Recently, I was searching about ‘user research’ articles at various sites, there is a link which is always displayed as 2nd rank in the SERP. The link is leading me to Google survey. Even I have filter to look at only microsoft.com. The filter doesn’t work! You can try with any domain. The Google site is always the second :)  Google breaks the rules, when it comes to self promotion?
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Fun - Can cell phone replace dish washing, printer, climate control, thermo
2008-01-11 16:43:00
first there was a brick like cell phones, able to make phone calls, then we are able to send/receive text message then the ability to connect with internet - we are able to send/receive emails, music, video, etc whats next?  it may use hybrid technology, wireless charging etc.. watch this fun video :) I guess, in long run cell phones would become a default user interface for the "outsourced mental functions" when we are in the move.
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knol - three mangos from a throw of just one stone
2008-01-09 21:07:00
in reponse to post: Yikes. Old School Media Is Hurting Google prediction comes true, welcome to knol, high quality knol contents published in google times! saran more analysis on this.... When google closed “Google Answers”, every was saying that due to the yahoo had better service/crowd. But this is not true. My thought was, google did not make any mistake at that time, the answers business model is a very slow adoption and google NOT able to add advertisement (and advertisement is the soul of google). It was working as commission based model. as far as I know, google wants to organize world information, media content is part of it. media has their own distribution channel (and they also want traffic).  Knol has answer for both, how? Subject/domain experts write articles/post, people ask questions in comments section, it is closely follows google answer model. Media people can create contents(close to real time,google may offer more tools), hence it c...
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crawling from images, scanning robots - google
2008-01-09 15:10:00
Google implementing my dream A month ago when I was shopping in a store, I was telling to my wife that, it is really hard to search products in big stores and its expiration date, so we need a software solutions to find the location, stock, expiration date, deal etc and all meta data about the product. She asked me how it can be implemented, I was telling that a cheap “intelligent sticker” should be attached in each product, when we scan it, it has to tell the meta data. So that we can scan the entire store and get the details of all products, let the customer to search it. Recently I have read the recent Google patent, looks like Google has answer with different implementation. There would be shopping robots to scan (photo) products, Google search technology then read the texts from those images "In one implementation, a store (e.g., a grocery store or hardware store) is indexed. Images of items within the store are captured, for example, using a small motorized ve...
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Apple share can reach to 600?
2007-12-29 21:19:00
in response to post: How High Can Apple Go? $600 a Share ? How they can reach $600? I don’t know why these people creating hype on Apple, whenever a company becomes successful in short time (ex: Google), its nature to fascinating about it and assuming the same success with other companies. Apple not equal to Google. Google got huge success in short time with some innovation (ex:viral marketing) and more a result of favorable economics, taking a market leadership position at the right time. Apple still doesn’t know about ‘partnership’. How they reach $600? This is possible only when more than 15% PC users switch to Apple. I guess, MS would rule the current PC market share at least for next 5 years, right now they are sleeping King Kong. Let’s see whether Apple can reach to $250. I would invest on companies who build products which connect rich clients with Cloud services, allow the user to move their data around clouds, among devices. They are the one co...
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privacy 2.0
2007-12-28 21:23:00
in response to post: Could Google Reader team have done a better PR job? #21 No. its not their decision, pls don’t assume as a Free Product. This is an exchange between users and a company by a “Free relationship”, you give your data free, they give free services and making money on it. It doesn’t mean they can do anything they want. They have more than 90% control on your data, how much control you have? If communities don’t demand for control then the companies decision is the final one, eventually would become a law. privacy is a dynamic and rapidly changing in 21 century. no one has clear definition, people want to make money, hence privacy being defined by trial and error basis. Google using this as a chance for viral marketing and outsourcing their privacy related concerns to users and understanding their reactions/emotions. welcome to privacy 2.0. to me, privacy is something that has to allow ME to determine to whom and when my information is to...
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Is India growing up too quickly? NO
2007-12-28 21:22:00
in response to post: Is India adapting to the Night Shift? Is India growing up too quickly? NO  Rich people in india are growing so quickly. AP has asked only to high profile people. But the reality is...Recently, I met my childhood friend, when we were talking about lot of matters, He told that his neighbor sold his kidney for $300. I was shocked, people are willing to sale their body parts. I guess, at least for next 10 years, India would lead in the "organ bazaar". I don't thing poverty ends soon in India (~ 30% of population is living below poverty line vs Indians are keep increasing in the worlds richest list), hence rest of the world get better human bodies till poverty line goes below 10%. Kind rgrds Saran
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Google means advertisement ? Google reader
2007-12-26 23:34:00
Here is a one more Google advertisement without spending a single cent, Google recently announced a new feature. To me this is a purposefully “planned” advertisement targeted for people who do not know about Google reader. How many people know Google reader? To my knowledge media and tech people are using it, Gmail got popularity by means of word of mouth, they gave 100 tickets and the network of people started to spread the word, now Google automated that process in Google reader. Slowly Google would release GPC once they reached targeted numbers on Reader crowd and they are the leaders in this space, they know how to initiate, control and finish their “networked marketing”. I guess, roughly they would have targeted for few million new users for G’reader by enabling this feature. Scoble said “Google MEANS Public”, I have to agree. Google means Advertisement , Advertisement targeted for public, and hence Google means Public. But I do no...
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Google means advertisement ? Google reader
2007-12-26 20:03:00
Here is a one more Google advertisement without spending a single cent, Google recently announced a new feature . To me this is a purposefully ?planned? advertisement targeted for people who do not know about Google reader. How many people know Google...(read more)
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Web Science - memento
2007-12-20 23:46:00
I believe every living thing in the word has ability to store information outside the brain to communicate, remember etc. Humans store/convey information by drawing, talk, writing, recently by digital form. By default, human brain is an imperfect object (problem 1) – the information may lost over time, limitation in remembering things etc. The way brain stores/retrieves information is so complex process. Recently web is a powerful medium to store/communicate idea/thought etc. A person can communicate himself, for example a thought/idea is communicated within one self. It may be within the brain boundary (Ex: a dream) or may extended to one’s mouth (ex; self talk), Or may be outside the physical body (Writing in diary, personal note etc). Or A person/group of people communicate to other person or group. In either case, when the information stored/communicated outside the physical body, technologies comes into play to solve the brains limitation or to “outsource men...
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Web Science - memento
2007-12-20 19:56:00
I believe every living thing in the word has ability to store information outside the brain to communicate, remember etc. Humans store/convey information by drawing, talk, writing, recently by digital form. By default, human brain is an imperfect object...(read more)
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Thread Programming III
2007-11-13 22:52:00
Threads consume resources, applications that spawn new threads do not scale well especially on server side applications. Rather than creating threads manually, runtime system/OS supports thread pool. What happens when we create new thread? Thread object...(read more)
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Thread programming II
2007-10-21 19:00:00
In my previous post, I was talking about threads, this is a continuation? The trend toward multi-core processors is expected to continue into the future, and software should be threaded to take full advantage of it. Meaning multi thread and multi-core...(read more)
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Thread programming
2007-10-20 21:09:00
Now a day?s multi processors machines are becoming common and in couple years there might be end of Moore's law (?). so understanding of concurrency is an important thing for any developer. I would like to start from what is multi threading? In simple...(read more)
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I got married
2007-08-07 18:59:00
A lot have happened lately, Three weeks ago I got married to my Pattu. Our families and relatives/friends came in from all over and had a really nice time. We went to couple of places in India on our honeymoon. Now am back to US. Now that my new life...(read more)
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Beat Google!
2007-05-23 21:21:00
Recently when I searched, I got to read one post by Mr. Yihong, I agree with him in the ways that you should pray pray pray the God father to get the rank higher! New companies may beat Googl e , but not by the Google way I also partially agree that new...(read more)
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web science: web is a network of people
2007-05-21 04:28:00
In this post, I like to discuss my most favorite topic ?Web Science ?. There is always some technology/idea that changes our life from bottom to top. I find ?web science? fascinating and also like to admit that I am not an expert on this subject. A year...(read more)
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My shared items ? data is water
2007-05-16 18:55:00
I use Google reader, I am sharing shared items with my friends, if any one interested to read my link blog this is the link , I also made short url - http://saran945.notlong.com I am reading 150+ feeds daily, 700+ feeds in the week ends. Even though I...(read more)
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Yahoo messenger for web arrives
2007-05-03 06:22:00
Today yahoo released a new version of messenger for web after a long delay. url : http://webmessenger.yahoo.com or http://web.im Well, what it offers? - Current version allows ONLY text chat. meaning, you won?t be able to conference, chat, transfer files...(read more)
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Silverlight Complete reference
2007-05-01 21:51:00
Consumer home - http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight Developer home - http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight Community - http://silverlight.net Developer reference - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb188743.aspx Silverlight Downloads - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/silverli ght/bb187452.aspx...(read more)
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Videos from Microsoft Research
2007-04-21 20:54:00
Video: Microsoft Robotics Studio [Go to the site to view embedded SoapBox video] Video: Robit [Go to the site to view embedded SoapBox video] Video: Microsoft Research Mediabrowser Internal Demo [Go to the site to view embedded SoapBox video] Video: Playanywhere...(read more)
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CEO video's
2007-04-21 20:09:00
Couple of videos from top IT CEO's Gates vs. Jobs 1983 Apple Keynote-The "1984" Ad Introduction Ballmer's four words Ballmer's - DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS Windows $99 - Steve Ballmer (1986) Eric Schmidt-1986 Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 Microsoft...(read more)
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Microsoft plans to sell DRM-free tracks to Zune users
2007-04-08 02:33:00
few days ago apple released DRM-free tracks from EMI, With DRM-free music from the EMI catalog, iTunes customers will have the ability to download tracks from their favorite EMI artists without any usage restrictions that limit the types of devices or...(read more)
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Better way to see statistics of The World
2007-04-06 04:46:00
Technorati tags: social When I read world?s statistics such as population, economy etc, I got bored, but if it is showed graphically or interactively its little encouraging to read/analyze, when it showed in enjoyable interactive animations, it is exiting....(read more)
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Cricket - 2007 world cup, widgets, streaming links
2007-03-13 16:28:00
Cricket is my favorite Game, I played around 500+ local matches in almost every ground in my district. Cricket exist in so early days around 13th century, typically played by farmers and very similar to baseball . The modern cricket started in 1965 and...(read more)
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Vote On America's best small business idea
2007-03-07 14:24:01
previously I posted about Microsoft's Ultimate Challenge contest, now anyone can participate in the selection process, The submission period is over, but voting begins March 3rd - 9th, Visit ideawins.com starting March 3rd @ 12AM - March 9th to vote on...(read more)
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Real Time Services: Pricing models and Grid computing
2007-03-07 14:24:01
If we see the history, in 19th century there were two utilities that changed our life ie: electric and telephone. As Grids already proved in simulations, exploring universe, etc. and I believe on demand access to computing, data and services would become...(read more)
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Zune image collection
2007-02-20 14:17:03
Video : Zune Walkthrough , Sharing Songs and Pictures with the Zune Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)
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The $1 Million Netflix Challenge
2007-02-20 14:17:03
Netflix, the online movie rental service, announced it will award $1 million to anyone who can come up with an algorithm that improves the accuracy of its movie recommendation service. Netflix' star rating system helps determine personalized movie recommendations....(read more)
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