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My Apologies If I hurt anyone
2008-04-29 02:04:00
I think, I have hurt lot of people, one of my recent comments was harsh, I usually speak English in harsh way (I have to learn more). Also Google doesn’t like my comments, No one asked me to remove anything, But Myself realizing that I made mistake. I am removing Google related contents. If you see any of my post/comments hurts you please tell me.
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I am removing flattening world posts...
2008-04-28 18:20:00
I asked my wife to read and tell her openion, she has misunderstood.... hence I am removing the blog posts, and read the below book, it has details with examples.... bottom line is that 21th century  = Education, Education, Education. The competition is at world level, no more city, state, coutry level http://www.amazon.com/World -Flat-History- Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884
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Third world war begins - part 1
2008-04-26 08:17:00
Damm, I did not notice it, finally I got it, whats going on... War I mean, economic war. No blood, no weapons, but there is a war going on, I have seen it. Where is the war happening? On The web. How long the war will be? may be around 15 to 20 years. What is the result of the war? A Flat world. Which countries are winners (or more benefitial countries) and lead the world for next 50+ years? USA, China and India. (I only lived in India and US, both coutires have very similar people, law.. I do not see much difference, I don’t know about china). Who are the loosers? I don't know. How did I find this? I read 150+ feeds in week days, 600+ feeds on week ends. Two months ago I also started trading, I also studied couple of statistic reports. All these gave me a good picture about whats going on. You can see this war by business category, for example Oil vs Gold vs IT vs Platinum etc. This is going to be very interesting, because the war is actually going to innovate many th...
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Microsoft restarts LiveServer
2008-04-24 15:13:00
Microsoft installed a new software in Liveserver and restarted. As I have already told that Microsoft doing very good job in Live services. Rather than talking about Mesh features, I like to talk what it doesn't do, How MS could improve it. * iPod/iPhone: How many iPods/iPhones sold in the past few years? more than 120M. How many songs has been purchased and used in iPods? It should more than one Billion. These users can't get full fledged features of Mesh. I think, MS should have partnership with Apple. * No Linux support: ok. It make sense, Linux desktop has 1% market share. But Google will be supporting/promoting it (I like you google in this matter). * The most important things are trust, privacy and copyright. How much a user trusts Microsoft?. If I compare with other internet companies like yahoo,Google, Amazon etc. Microsoft has 1000% more trust. why? 30 years of history. Secondly Privacy, I am not sure how Microsoft follows pr...
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10+ Microhoo Search url?s
2008-04-21 20:14:00
I have listed out hectic user experience of live advanced search a year ago at Hive.net (the forum is closed now), they fixed few. Now there is an another problem with live search.  which url user has to go if they want to search something? 10+ url’s, http://search.live.com/ http://www.live.com/ http://home.live.com http://www.msn.com/ http://search.msn.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://search.yahoo.com/ http://search.yahoo.com/instant and few virals http://www.leftvsright.com http://www.msdewey.com/  no web search at http://www.microsoft.com and there is a search url - http://search.microsoft.com which has web search option again country specific url's .uk, .in, .cn In addition Live search has MSN tab which describes "MSN search helps you find the latest in news, entertainment, finances and shopping" I am so confused Microsoft. Do you have search strategy?  
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my comments on - aol browser, google clicks, UN data, china firewall and A-
2008-03-29 18:31:00
here are my recent comments… AOL new browser is a mistake. This is a good example of how AT&T gets the web in a wrong way. At least they would have done some vertical browser. Do they ever reach 1% market share? Do they know Dev community around IE and FF? The Google wow begins!, below are new patterns Google recently coined, “Using open standards to get others data and organizing all the world information in their cloud” “Using privacy to defend click fraud” “Outsource protocol design for free” Google wants Facebook data, their recent attempt is open social. Click fraud is a crime Google agreed finally! Google’s recent defending theme was “open social open social open social”, How to outsource protocol design for free? How to crawl other SN data? Social Workgroups working hard for them! Google’s new theme “Privacy Privacy Privacy” It is good to see that Google changed their motto. Google previ...
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online security is dead?
2008-03-21 22:34:00
Are we secure in online world? After reading some of the statics reports, I think, Online security is dead. below are few the sample data that I gathered from those reports... The number of information security incidents reported by federal agencies jumped from 5,146 in fiscal 2006 to 12,986 last year, with a 70 percent increase in unauthorized access to federal networks alone  Ref: nextgov Researchers with the applications security testing specialist estimate that 71 percent of all the vulnerabilities reported worldwide during Q4 2007 were related to Web apps Ninety-five percent of personal computers are vulnerable to attack by hackers due to unpatched flaws in their software applications, according to data released by Secunia In a recent study David Rice, director of the Monterey Group who has just published a new book called “Geekonomics: The Real cost of Insecure Software” has estimated the actual cost of insecure software to the U.S. to be at leas...
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Web, a water world
2008-03-13 00:50:00
Sometime in late 80's or early 90's, Mr. Lee helped to melt Iceland’s the virtual Earth surface is almost covered with water web. Now we have two worlds - dry and water the people in the water world forgotten the real life in dry world or the past, living in myth, Shouters  collecting things from and to floors...offers clicks, banners...new cookies are mapped. last two IP's and unique id's, privacy in question… developers joining on open source water communities...later new license, closed source..and thats business... IP's are shared, merged, from ISP to ad network to .... engines Policy makers learning, learning forever...delay delay in years bad people watching closely closely…than ever to do anything they want... physical borders are secured by 80% in trillions or billions..., but the water world secured only 20%.... money making machines want to be in rich lists, or want more food from investors..and or at the end they want to do social work User...
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open standards for advertisement business - part1
2008-03-10 19:14:00
As long as google doesn’t open click logs to advertisers, they can’t maintain their current marketshare. in other words, Google should do something to standardize advertisement business on the web. For ex: Google may try to bind search queries, reviews, ad clicks, Google maps, etc etc to checkout. This is a purchasing life cycle, show the advertiser what is happening at real time, build real time click fraud detection system. They really need to show some breakthrough innovation in Ad business. My dream is that they may develop a platform to meet seller/purchaser on real time, engagement/ interactive, rich advertisements are few that can convert into dollars. Click is not a sale, everyone knows it. Google has lot of powerful assets than others, for ex: search queries, viral patterns (ex: a high degree node gets declined per recommend when it past a certain number) and much more in Ad business. At the same time, they should provide more privacy to users, for ex: their emp...
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Microsoft missed the(web) boat? NO
2008-03-10 18:46:00
in response to post: Mix’08 Review: How Microsoft Is Fighting a War on Three Fronts “I will give Redmond credit for turning faster than most big companies. When it became clear that the Internet was a big deal and they’d missed the boat, the company urged its coders to put hyperlinks everywhere, across every application” IMO, * Sun Microsystem missed the boat, I can remember the days in 90’s “java means internet”, Whats their revenue now? * Yahoo missed the boat many times, they are the first one showed me search, directory, email , messenger etc. what is their revenue ? * Google missed the boat, still they are showing 99% revenue in Advertisement. Microsoft actually pushed internet services so early (2000), for example - .Net myservices (if I remember correctly its around 14+ services). If I see the history, Mr.Gates prediction has mixed results, few times they released in wrong time (so early or late). I believe that they are doing good jo...
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my web dream part 1
2008-03-07 23:37:00
classic OS is dead We have been seeing lot of innovation in recent days   Especially in the web side. I like to see some innovation in PC world. It is my dream for more than 10 years. I DO NOT want OS in my computer. So what I would want it? I want a bootstrap loader and a browser. That’s all. I don’t want hard disk, I don’t want mouse/touch pad, I don’t want cd/dvd drive, I don’t want to double click, I don’t want to boot in safe mode (who want technical boot?). I like keyboard, touch screen. I want solid state drives, I want to speak with my PC. I want to boot to check my emails, see movies, play my games in less than 5 seconds. In other perspective, I want to boot for web, I like to see my browser in less than 5 seconds, I want to chat, search, and check emails. I want Plug-ins for almost every web 2.0/semantic applications. modern OS: in the past - OS means to manage devices/drivers, memory etc. but modern perspecti...
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mix 2008: Steve ballmer "web developers, web developers, web developer
2008-03-07 02:01:00
Mr.Steve Ballmer’s answers at Mix 2008. “yahoo seems to be accelerating the advertisement business”. Previously I said, buying yahoo is so dangerous...But I am not sure why MS much interested in this deal, they are very best at marathon. “online advertising is going to be super big, …may be the last of my breath of MS… we are going to be there..” this is what I am looking for Microsoft, show some innovation in search space… cloud service "great interest for us..." I believe that MS may bind the browser only OS with cloud services... ‘Apple is not welcoming runtime on iPhone”  we need innovation in battery life…I said "Processor speed defines PC world, Network bandwidth defines web world. Battery life defines mobile world" Looks like MS working towards..."Browser only OS"  this is where MS did a huge mistake in 2000....I think they are in the right path now….I wan...
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wow eventually Goverment waked up - Pentagon bans Google teams from bases
2008-03-06 23:46:00
I have been talking talking talking....that online companies are not even considering the consequences of the data they collect, manage, etc. I am so happy to see that eventually, people has started to look into it…. “The Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases.” Read more…Pentagon bans Google teams from bases  
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Fire Eagle - ACID is missing
2008-03-06 22:49:00
recently yahoo released Fire Eagle (beta) and the privacy policy link not yet been updated ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a fundamental principle of Database, but its missing in the web 2.0 distributed data. the location information is shared with third parties. If user deletes his/her location information in yahoo servers, is it also deleted in third party servers? NO. Users have to ask every third party to delete their Geo data. anyways, asusual "Money making" machines never worried...
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Social network for DNA begins
2008-03-02 23:19:00
Michael Arrington today shared his 23andMe DNA Results - "23andMe started allowing users to create free demo accounts. if you create one, add my username, TechCrunch, as a friend and I can share the data with you directly" Viral officially begins by google? what it means for users? people don't care about what they are sharing? hmmm anyways, google is digitally cloning users, i said it previously. Mr. Arrington  what you got for $1000?? nothing. Lets see whats going to happen in the future...when a child born, its DNA would be collected and all other medical records would be kept in google servers. latter childrens would join into children’s social network (yeah thats google's next buy!), latter in myspace... from birth to death, all his/her activities  (from search queries to medical records)are recorded, monetized etc. is it ethical ? Mr Brin when are you going to stop this non sense? until you get #1 into this list? or tell us y...
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Msft a solid x axis but msr showing our heaven
2008-03-01 02:14:00
Trillions of $ invested on astronomy, its enough. and Microsoft you are not showing innovation at regular interval. Investors are crying when the stock will up? in response to post: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope “As a taxpayer who’s helped pay for some of these telescopes it’s the first time I’ve seen the results of my and your, investments in our scientific research” the land we are standing is burning, shaking, melting, oceans are getting angry and so on. So many things have higher priority………..but we are trying to catch stars. Priorities are disordered? to microsoft, i want to check my emails in 5 seconds…..vista is loading loading and loadinggggg….fix this first then you show the heaven…anyways its an one time excitement. and Robert, We have “well known” local problems. Just see the death records all over the world year over year, the rate is doubling. Yes I un...
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Google's recent cry - "Its Unnerving"
2008-03-01 01:57:00
in response to post: its unnerving laughing laughing… that’s honest response but Google talks about Open Standards? Open means not only making common agreement that enable communication. open means freedom open means transparency open means respect others open means maximum choice etc Are you following any of the above? Can user download ALL their data from Google cloud? Could Google publish their algorithm? How the organic works? Do users have wider choice when it comes to Search? Google, are you really serious about click fraud? It is going to reach 28% by end of 2009. Users are allowed to make comments in Google blogs? Why are you interested in DNA data? Are you not spying each and every company in the world? “they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways” This is a true statement, we need lot of innovation and competition, if Google really worries then they should innovate, invest in R&D.
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cloning officially started by Google
2008-03-01 01:54:00
in response to post: First Look at Google Health I guess eventually, Google and MS going to collect all US citizen medical records. Google/MS must provide separate userid’s for the login (random id like – 1243et4323e1). They should not use same google/live id’s. and must have to enforce strict password policy. All the medical records must be encrypted. https is NOT enough.  beta apps for medical records? hmmmmm  anyways, if they don't provide best possible security. One way or other, bad people can get more powerful weapons. 10x powerful than nuclear…. how? Either they try to bribe, or force MS/G employees to get the medical records…what they can do with it? here is the one possibility…they could sort it out all heart patients and kill them by making phone calls… there are more better and easier ways than this, but I don’t like to disclose. JG, IMO, I would like to see the final health application to users, no...
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Google says we are not trapping
2008-03-01 01:46:00
Anything that is relating to an individual is considered personal. Even though people say that privacy is dead. Not for many people! Privacy is different for each country, culture and individual in many layers. So policy makers should consider the future technologies that will possibly break the current understanding of the personal data. Why it is so important? One word answer is “freedom” that is to secure fundamental right to process the personal data. in response to post: Google Responds to Privacy Fears On Searchblog Erik, "I figured through encryption or other security measures, Google employees would not be able to access this type of data" Google's 99% income comes from ad, they can't display targeted ads if the data is encrypted Johnny Fry, “Anyone have other solutions?” Google could provide a scanning tool, users should have the ability to run it in his machine to get a list of keywords. Then user can encrypt the data and send the encr...

AOL day dream
2008-03-01 01:41:00
in response to post: MSFT Is Making a Mistake AOL is in classic age, the fight b/w Google vs Microsoft is more than what you people think!! they innovate and dominate. "Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when they're in the middle of making a mistake." History says - software dominates hardware. Ex: Micsoroft vs IBM AOL Day dream - “I'm hoping the two of them will beat each others brains out over search and leave the display market to us” Yeah they fight each other…the result? They innovate! and dominate the hardware (network).
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idea to google
2008-03-01 01:38:00
in response to post : Google & Its 99 Broadband Balloons Google may try to train birds instead of ballons, just a thought :) saran
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Gigaom - "Vote for Apple"
2008-03-01 01:31:00
in response to post: Which Mac Notebook Is For You? Take Our Poll my vote is for windows, later to linux! why you did not include Linux? Is it dead? I am using Win PC (addicted for long time), I don’t see any big reason to move Mac but planning to buy one (for my wife, just a try). 10 years ago, I thought Linux would dominate in both desktop/server/Mobile market….hmmm anyway I still strongly hope that WILL happen thanks.
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My thoughts on MicroHoo
2008-02-14 23:28:00
In response to post : Is Yahoo Really Worth More Than What Microsoft Offered Probably yahoo do not accept ANY offer, they try to be independent. IMO, in the current recession Yahoo does not worth for more than $25 a share. I guess, MS already know that Yahoo do not accept the offer at $30, if the talk goes for long time(10+ months) that is not good for GOOG (MS initiated a proxy war?). MS may try to build a better search engine instead. I like to see that Yahoo should buy BIDU, MS should buy CMCSA, Google should buy a mobile operator. If it happens, there would be a heavy competition and lot of innovations. that’s good for everyone. thanks saran at least, for the next 20 years MS going to burn wire/wireless networks more than anyone else. MS needs a smooth transition (operators not even allowing bit torrent, they invested lot of money so they are right to claim) from desktop OS/Games/Office to live OS/Games. Comcast is a good choice because they are close to reaching th...
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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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