DO you feel the BUZZ - GOOGLE BUZZ

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well , it was yesterday when i opened my gmail inbox , i was introduced to a new box in my inbox , a small but powerful name : Google buzz..

for the starters its Google's attempt to break in into Facebook and twitter's battlefield , making it a three way fight considering orkut (another Google owned site : has lost its face to Facebook and cannot follow twitter- if u know what i mean).  

SO WHATS THE BUZZ all about...

this  new media tool allows users to share messages, web links, photos and videos with friends and colleagues directly within the popular email  Gmail, so there's nothing to set up - you're automatically following the people you email and chat with the most,Each time you posts a message, photo or link they can choose to share it publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends.

five key features that define Google Buzz:

- Key feature #1: Auto-following

- Key feature #2: Rich, fast sharing experience

- Key feature #3: Public and private sharing

- Key feature #4: Inbox integration

- Key feature #5: Just the good stuff

Responses are sent to the user's inbox, unlike static email messages, buzz messages in your inbox are live conversations where comments appear in real time.Content from Twitter can also be shared, but users can only see tweets within Buzz and cannot publish new messages to Twitter's service.Buzz is unable to display messages that originated on Facebook which is serious problem...

SO WHY SECOND ATTEMPT at SOCIAL NETWORKING - why moving away from the core expertise , WHY , WHY WHY- answer is one word - FACEBOOK.........

           With more than 400 million users, Facebook is the world’s largest social network; Twitter by contrast has only18 million or so. Gmail’s unique (i again say unique ) visitors numbered around 36 million as of last year. Clearly, Facebook is dominating. Google is attempting to challenge that dominance with Buzz, but Facebook is at the same time planning to move just as aggressively into Google’s territory.

It was recently discovered that Facebook will eventually launch its own webmail service. You can already send messages to e-mail addresses from Facebook, but the execution isn’t as smooth as it needs to be. The new e-mail plan would address that.

Codenamed Project Titan, the service would offer users e-mail addresses ending in @facebook.com. Facebook would become the largest webmail provider overnight. If the service is functional enough, it could threaten Google’s Gmail. People will be able to comfortably make the switch because they won’t lose the ability to e-mail their Gmail contacts — even if they move to another mail provider.

I predicted at the end of last year that Facebook is well-poised to try to pry web dominance away from Google in 2010. Buzz doesn’t change my mind. Facebook is threatening Google, but Google isn’t threatening Facebook because it doesn’t offer any features so great that they incentivize people to leave behind their existing networks or spend their time updating and following yet another one when their friends are already all on Facebook or Twitter.

Facebook now dominates the social web so completely that it’s difficult to imagine an exodus to a competing service, unless that service offered some revolutionary new features that Facebook couldn’t possibly match — Buzz doesn’t.

I can picture one other success scenario, though: a service that aggregates other services’ features and content, and then offers up its own set of unique perks (like Buzz’s noise-control algorithms) that make the social web experience better. People would feel comfortable switching for the extra perks, because they wouldn’t have to leave their existing connections behind.

The outlook could change if Buzz integrates with Facebook the way it does with Twitter. Unless that happens, though, you’re better off keeping your bets on Facebook in the coming year or two — at least if your standard of success is something greater than niche appeal.

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love

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Love is like an hour glass.
For she is just a lonely lass.
You try to resist but to no avail.
The tears refuse to fail.

She walks away without one word.
You sit there quietly reveling in what you heard.
You tell yourself you don't need her.
Then you realize she was all you had.

You lose it all.
Then you hear her call.
You try to find her.
But, she is no where to be found.








We all disappoint someone, sometime... right? We do our best and yet sometimes we find ourselves just being thoughtless and perhaps selfish. The problem is that sometimes we hurt other people without thinking how deep the repercussions that fall on the ones we love the most might become. Sometimes we don't even realize the hurt we have caused until months later.

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Courier: Microsoft's warrior which can make iPAD sweat .

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let me begin with saying that i am a staunch Apple Inc supporter and not impressed by behemoths like Microsoft , so when iPAD came i had my own reasons to cheer up, but may be for the first time (at least for me) i see Microsoft has got something on their hand which has left me HIGH and wanting , and trust me only Microsoft product i have ever like is Zune music player (software). BUT BUT BUT
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3e5bgj7Ofs

Image via Wikipedia

THIS is what Courier looks like , just like your other notebook but totally digital , split screen baby with stylus  interface , if you have had a look at the video you will fairly understand why i Love it and why i think that it has the potential to change the way we work ,

Image via Wikipedia

Using multi-touch, objects (like addresses) can be moved back and forth between the two screens, while a stylus pen lets you jot down notes and keep various journals.

There’s a “home” button, much like iPhone, that lets you get back to the device’s applications, or set a journal as the device’s homepage.

 there’s also a camera on the back cover of the device.

Essentially, what we’re looking at is an Internet connected, touch screen device that takes the form of a traditional notebook. And looking at the presentation, that interface makes a lot of sense, as objects from one side of the device are moved easily to the other, almost like the note-taking type applications we’ve grown familiar with on the Web, but on a tablet-like computer.

THOUGH both APPLE and MICROSOFT are known to mess up wid first gen product , I still see a new war between these two legends quiet eminent on the horizon , maybe its already time for APPLE to spruce iPAD .

as from my side - MAY THE BEST DEVICE WIN..

P.S.- special thanks to Sanchita sogani for enlightening me to courier.

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APPLE does it again ....make way for iPAD

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ONE really needs to give this techno junkie "Mr. Setephen "steve" Jobs" a hell lota credit , he has made it a habit to come up wid products which top the charts of our aspirational wanna have product list .... mac's, airbook, iphone,ipod. and now please make way for his latest iPAD widout doubt this neww baby from apples stable is all set to rock the world and like it's tech bros it will rock it hard very hard. 

"So far it really looks like an oversized iPod Touch, which is great"


"iPad" is for consumers who want to take their movies, TV shows, music, games and reading with them, be it around the house or on the go.
 The iPad weighs about 1.5 pounds, is 0.5 inch thin, has a 9.7-inch display and should have a battery life of 10 hours, Jobs said. It uses what he called Apple's own 1GHz A4 chip The tablet has the company's online iTunes Store built into it, as well as YouTube in high-definition.

The tablet uses multi-touch finger gestures and swipes like the iPhone, but the iPad's "larger screen requires less swiping to navigate,"

While many of the tablet's functions — Web surfing, movie watching, music listening — can be handled on netbooks, lighter and relatively inexpensive laptops, Apple isn't viewing its tablet as a laptop without a keyboard. "Apple sees this as a personal media experience that they can create."

The tablet's "most revolutionary impact is on the way people consume media in the home," he said. "You take it from room to room, you dock it next to your bed, it becomes your alarm clock. You dock in the living room, it’s a photo frame and a video server for your TV; you dock it in the kitchen, and it displays your recipes for you."

wid a price band of about 700$ it can be a bit steep for us here in India but sure for people in states and Europe who are lukng fr a product such as kindle it can open new vistas , though coming back to us here in India 700$ might not be the very affordable considering the value for money proposition we expect  it might not be for everyone, maybe it wud sell only in metros BUT then when did Apple signified masses ---- it definitely has never been for everyone, so for mere mortals keep dreaming on , keep on iDREAMING.

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Cadbury goes American. Is this healthy for British manufacturing?

 

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On January 19th, after a four-month battle, Roger Carr, chairman of Cadbury, said his board was recommending to shareholders a £11.9 billion ($19.5 billion) takeover bid by Kraft Foods, of Northfield, Illinois. Somehow, despite the blustering of politicians and the protests of organised labour, great companies like this one have been slipping out of British control.

In business terms, Kraft’s acquisition (which will go through unless rivals top the bid by January 23rd) may be a good deal for both companies. They have complementary markets across the globe in which to cross-sell their products: Cadbury is strong in India and various Commonwealth countries; Kraft is solid in continental Europe, Russia and China. Greater scale may help the two develop in the emerging markets that probably hold the key to future fortune. 

the whole point behind the obvious bid and take over is WHY can’t Britain hang on to ownership of iconic brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, the Mini, Rowntree, the Times and now Cadbury, purveyor of chocolate to children of the British empire?

is it because of the sterling or is that the whole British manufacturing sector is loosing edge ........

only FUTURE will tell , though what implications it has for the Indian corporate sector is already in process...

HAPPY HUNTING INDIAN inc's.

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global warming is here to stay

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we thought global warming is just some fad , just some stupid nosies made by those good for nothing activists , well then click on the link below.

Rapid Sea Ice Breakup along the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf : Natural Hazards

hey guys picture in the link are directly form NASA's website , if u have taken the pain to go through the link u will realize how such huge mass of ice just broke n dissolved itself in sea just within 24 hours yes 24 HOURS..

our problem is that we do not realize how bad it can get "IT WONT HAPPEN TO ME" attitude blinds our vision

what we need to understand is nature has given us enough warnings , and may be next act will not be just a warning ( bless the souls of Haiti disaster) , it really is time to wake up and take action , dont do something very big do small things everyday and that will be enough to avert the eminent peril.

every small step such as turning engine off at red lights or avoiding plastic bags can lead to a big change .

soon we will run out of natural gas, oil etc what will happen forget about the time when they finish think of the time when they will become so scarce that their price will be 100 times of what it is now ( not a comforting thought , is it?)

all i am asking from everyone who reads are just two actions-

a) make small tweaks in ur lifestyle , to protect nature and it will go long way.

b) educate about dangers and steps to other , one who dont knw tell them , one who dont believe - convince them .

AFTER ALL IT IS OUR PLANET & WE NEED TO PROTECT IT .

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thoughts 4 life

"Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter."

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"Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem" 


"Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely." 




"Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that." 

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