Google started its first move against facebook after last week's “Facebook/Microsoft lovefest.”
Google is expected to announce a social networking platform later this week. Called OpenSocial, it will include tools to allow developers to create applications that utilize personal and social data contained in participating social networks.
“It is the first step toward putting you back in control of your online relationships!.”OpenSocial is designed to enable developers to access three specific pools of data: users' profile information, friends info (the social graph), and activities.How this is going to affect the social networking arena. Why some one has to get access to users' profile information, friends info (the social graph), and activities?
According to google “ So far, the big draw is OpenSocial's rumored simplicity and inherent openness. Whereas Facebook keeps its data behind closed doors and requires developers to use its own markup language, OpenSocial is poised to flip the script by allowing developers to work with a simple set of tools consisting of HTML, javascript, and elements of Flash.
Here's how it comes together: First, there are the "hosts," who are essentially a group of participating social networks. Google wisely dipped into Facebook's pool of competitors by nabbing Hi5, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Orkut, Ning, Salesforce, Friendster, Viadeo, and Oracle right out the gate. As the backbone of OpenSocial these hosts are tasked with accepting the API calls and sendnig back the requested data.
Will google open up their proprietary search and index?. The answer will be a NO!. And by the way what is oracle doing in this?..just giving support to google to fight against microsoft?
We all know google lost its war against facebook and myspace. Even with the marketing muscle their orkut didn’t pickup as expected- they lost the war against the "kids"!. But why google is so upset and intolerable to other companies. Where are our tech journalists and tech evangelists the technocrats who always find their pleasure and money in criticizing microsoft for its monopoly.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Sunday, May 6, 2007
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Ivan, the protagonist, followed a well-traveled road, adhering to "comme il faut" (as is expected) or doing what one was supposed to do in career matters, selection of clothes, choosing a wife, raising children.
‘‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’’ perfectly demonstrates this introspection as it magnifies a man’s struggle with how to live his life.
It is significant for its universally powerful portrayal of a man’s physical deterioration and subsequent spiritual rejuvenation at the moment of death..
"Ivan Ilych’s life was most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
‘‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’’ perfectly demonstrates this introspection as it magnifies a man’s struggle with how to live his life.
It is significant for its universally powerful portrayal of a man’s physical deterioration and subsequent spiritual rejuvenation at the moment of death..
"Ivan Ilych’s life was most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Folksonomy and social classification
Have you ever tagged?
Tagging is not mere book marking. A powerful yet decentralized data classification is emerging around the simple act of tagging in the Internet-mediated social environments.Also called folksonomy.
A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system(social classification) . It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text.
A well organized? folksonomy can save us form all the junk we get on internet search ( i didnt say google).
Since folksonomies are user-generated and therefore inexpensive to implement, and it provides a useful low-cost alternative to more traditional, institutionally supported taxonomies or controlled vocabularies. Can it be implemented with in user communities like scientists, teachers etc to provide better information sharing?
Tagging is not mere book marking. A powerful yet decentralized data classification is emerging around the simple act of tagging in the Internet-mediated social environments.Also called folksonomy.
A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system(social classification) . It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text.
A well organized? folksonomy can save us form all the junk we get on internet search ( i didnt say google).
Since folksonomies are user-generated and therefore inexpensive to implement, and it provides a useful low-cost alternative to more traditional, institutionally supported taxonomies or controlled vocabularies. Can it be implemented with in user communities like scientists, teachers etc to provide better information sharing?
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
One Laptop per child- The hundred dollar laptop has a working prototype.
One Laptop per child- The hundred dollar laptop has a working prototype.- how it is going to change India, if we implement it?
As I read more about this project I am getting more interested. Having a Laptop for every child which can act as a node of a mesh network (The design of the motherboard enable this laptop to work as a node/router even if it is switched off. It creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router.
Here’s the point- A state like Kerala can run their own VoIP telecommunication network through this mesh network. How cool is that?
Children in the most remote regions of the globe—as well as their teachers and families—will be connected both to one another and to the Internet.
More about XO
XO has no hard drive to crash and only two internal cables.(To reduce the failure rate)
The laptop has about 512 MB of internal Flash memory similar to the inexpensive thumb drives sold at many computer stores. Operating systems can be installed and/or files can be saved on this memory. The laptop also has USB ports for external hard drives; so internal Flash storage can be used for the OS and some file storage, and common external USB drives can take up the slack if needed.
It features a 7.5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI) than 95 percent of the laptops on the market today. Two display modes are available: a transmissive, full-color mode, and a reflective, high-resolution mode that is sunlight readable. Both consume very little power: the transmissive mode consumes one watt—about one seventh of the average LCD power consumption in a laptop; the reflective mode consumes a miserly 0.2 watts.
The laptop selectively suspends operation of its CPU, which makes possible even more remarkable power savings. The laptop nominally consumes less than two watts—less than one tenth of what a standard laptop consumes—so little that XO can be recharged by human power. This is a critical advance for the half-billion children who have no access to electricity.
XO is about the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox. Thanks to its flexible design and “transformer" hinge, the laptop easily assumes any of several configurations: standard laptop use, e-book reading, and gaming.(gaming?)
The laptop has rounded edges. The integrated handle is kid-sized, as is the sealed, rubber-membrane keyboard. The novel, dual-mode, extra-wide touchpad supports pointing, as well as drawing and writing.
In addition, —for use at home and where power is not available—the XO can be hand powered. It will come with at least two of three options: a crank, a pedal, or a pull-cord.
END NOTE
MIT Technology review is reporting that India's Secretary of education (who is that?) icily rejected the proposal for the study of effect of this laptop in economy!.
As I read more about this project I am getting more interested. Having a Laptop for every child which can act as a node of a mesh network (The design of the motherboard enable this laptop to work as a node/router even if it is switched off. It creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router.
Here’s the point- A state like Kerala can run their own VoIP telecommunication network through this mesh network. How cool is that?
Children in the most remote regions of the globe—as well as their teachers and families—will be connected both to one another and to the Internet.
More about XO
XO has no hard drive to crash and only two internal cables.(To reduce the failure rate)
The laptop has about 512 MB of internal Flash memory similar to the inexpensive thumb drives sold at many computer stores. Operating systems can be installed and/or files can be saved on this memory. The laptop also has USB ports for external hard drives; so internal Flash storage can be used for the OS and some file storage, and common external USB drives can take up the slack if needed.
It features a 7.5 inch, 1200×900 pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI) than 95 percent of the laptops on the market today. Two display modes are available: a transmissive, full-color mode, and a reflective, high-resolution mode that is sunlight readable. Both consume very little power: the transmissive mode consumes one watt—about one seventh of the average LCD power consumption in a laptop; the reflective mode consumes a miserly 0.2 watts.
The laptop selectively suspends operation of its CPU, which makes possible even more remarkable power savings. The laptop nominally consumes less than two watts—less than one tenth of what a standard laptop consumes—so little that XO can be recharged by human power. This is a critical advance for the half-billion children who have no access to electricity.
XO is about the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox. Thanks to its flexible design and “transformer" hinge, the laptop easily assumes any of several configurations: standard laptop use, e-book reading, and gaming.(gaming?)
The laptop has rounded edges. The integrated handle is kid-sized, as is the sealed, rubber-membrane keyboard. The novel, dual-mode, extra-wide touchpad supports pointing, as well as drawing and writing.
In addition, —for use at home and where power is not available—the XO can be hand powered. It will come with at least two of three options: a crank, a pedal, or a pull-cord.
END NOTE
MIT Technology review is reporting that India's Secretary of education (who is that?) icily rejected the proposal for the study of effect of this laptop in economy!.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
A Little sugar- Will that save the world?
They say-
a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
The XO Laptop will bring children technology as a means to freedom and empowerment. The success of the project in the face of overwhelming global diversity will only be possible by embracing openness and by providing the laptop's users and developers a profound level of freedom.
As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software and the tools need to be able to grow with them and provide a gateway to other technology.
They assume-
the creation and widespread distribution of a single type of computer will solve the problem of the “digital divide” in the developing world. By creating a laptop computer priced at $100 each (when sold in quantities of millions), the thinking goes, schoolchildren throughout the developing world will all be equipped with powerful tools for learning and exploration.
They call the interface "SUGAR"- the light weight version of fedora linux.
..and they think that this will save the world?
a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
The XO Laptop will bring children technology as a means to freedom and empowerment. The success of the project in the face of overwhelming global diversity will only be possible by embracing openness and by providing the laptop's users and developers a profound level of freedom.
As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software and the tools need to be able to grow with them and provide a gateway to other technology.
They assume-
the creation and widespread distribution of a single type of computer will solve the problem of the “digital divide” in the developing world. By creating a laptop computer priced at $100 each (when sold in quantities of millions), the thinking goes, schoolchildren throughout the developing world will all be equipped with powerful tools for learning and exploration.
They call the interface "SUGAR"- the light weight version of fedora linux.
..and they think that this will save the world?
I was a 91-year-old man with so much love to give and so much life to live
After a long struggle to get back in to reading, when i found this book in the library,it was easy to make the decision to select the book. When i started reading I felt like the the main character in the book - a 91-year-old man with so much love to give and so much life to live. I felt the book like Delgadina.
"I preferred her asleep," he admits, and further confesses that "seeing and touching her in the flesh, she seemed less real to me than in my memory." Yes, the young virgin - whom the old man calls Delgadina, after a girl in a song - is an abstraction.
"the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty".
At the end of the story when he try to sell his mother's jewels(for this girl?) and he discovers that years ago his own mother replaced the precious stones with imitations.
Delgadina leaves something pure and very human.She is a frightened child. I can see her eyes.
The simplicity of the book demands re reading
"I preferred her asleep," he admits, and further confesses that "seeing and touching her in the flesh, she seemed less real to me than in my memory." Yes, the young virgin - whom the old man calls Delgadina, after a girl in a song - is an abstraction.
"the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty".
At the end of the story when he try to sell his mother's jewels(for this girl?) and he discovers that years ago his own mother replaced the precious stones with imitations.
Delgadina leaves something pure and very human.She is a frightened child. I can see her eyes.
The simplicity of the book demands re reading
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