5 years back I had no idea what the whole deal about the Internet was and now I have reached a point that an hour without it makes me sick. I have come from a point where these things didn’t matter to me, to a point that I like to (need to) keep a track of all the happenings.
It’s really nice and exciting to see the future shape up in-front of my eyes. As everyone knows, last few weeks have been very exciting for the Internet community as a lot of new softwares, applications and web services were launched. Every major company has been coming up with new products, updates to existing products and new start-ups have also come up with good products.
Microsoft has introduced new version of it’s messenger and updated it’s search engine. It’s coming up with Vista and newer versions of MS Studio. Latest are the talks of Microsoft’s plans to invest big time into VOIP. Well… there must be much more it is up to….
Yahoo! came up with Yahoo! 360 and a newer version of it’s messenger which enabled voice calls over the Internet. Also, Yahoo has been busy buying start-ups like Konfabulator and Flickr. They have lost the popularity they enjoyed 4–5 years back because of Google.
Google… it is on fire…. red hot…. Google Earth, Blogspot, Google Talk, Google Desktop, Picasa, Hello etc…. I mean like…. u name it and they are there….
Then there are some other companies like the new startup Slide.com for sharing photos in a real innovative manner. del.icio.us and Digg are changing the way people bookmark links.
On the whole, it’s just a kewl experience to see all these new developments take place now, knowing that these are going to have major impact on the world as a whole in the coming decade.
A lot of new updates are coming out one after another… The two product releases by Google last week have led a lot of frenzied activities online. Microsoft don’t want to stay behind and neither does Yahoo!. I don’t know when, but both the companies have made the beta releases of their messengers into full release.
The MSN Messenger v7.0 is now MSN Messenger v7.5 and the Yahoo Messenger v7.0 BETA is now Yahoo Messenger with Voice.
I just happened to notice this as I was re-installing a friend’s computer. Google, has really brought good times with it’s rise. I am sure we are going to see a lot of good competition between these companies in the coming years.
I sent the following mail to the dude who was maintaining the website for the Consulate General of India at Chicago. I dont know why desis have to be so lax. A website represents the organization and this website speaks volumes about it.
From: Nalin Makar <nalin.makar@….com> Mailed-By: gmail.com
To: tsasokan@….net
Date: Aug 26, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: Indian Consulate Website..
SUCKS !!!
Being an Indian, I feel ashamed to see such a website representing an indian office in US. Please update it and if you cant, tell me. I will do it for free…
–Nalin
Tattool Brand Consulting is a low profile company from San Francisco that works with big names in the industry. They have a very sparse website with just their contact information on it. When I got a mail from them, I was very intrigued by the whole thing. They sounded very credible in the mail, but when I went to their website, I was kind of freaked. Just a plain page with black background and a simple flash on top of it….
Well, I as usual googled it and I found this article on them by Inc.com. The article paints a real good picture of the firm and I decided to go ahead and talk to them. I got a call from them today and we had a talk for an hour which was compensated for… well… more than compensated for…. 
They are working currently for Yahoo! and the consultant I talked to asked me a lot of questions related to Yahoo and it’s major competitors; Google, Microsoft etc… I guess, Yahoo! feels that it’s high time it starts doing something about the market share it has lost to Google in the last 4–5 years.
Talking to them, made me realize that the only reason that I see Yahoo! on the web nowadays is for the one account I still keep getting mails in and the messenger that I have to use. But I think I need to start researching a bit more into Yahoo!’s activities and find out more about what it is up to.
Why did google have to release Google Talk when it was not ready ? Why not wait for sometime longer and wait for other features to be added ? why not make the release for Mac and Linux also available at the same time ?
There has been much talk about Google Talk being unimpressive. I do agree to the point that it lacks a lot of basic features that are now considered necessary for any IM Client, but I still like it. It has a nice and simple interface. Unlike other clients, I don’t have to sit and configure it all to feel that everything is just like i want it. Here, it all seems right already.
I am waiting for the extra features to be added as I have become used to it. But one must agree, it serves the basic purpose of a IM Client, which is to enable two people to exchange messages amongst themselves, instantly.
I am sure the programmers working on this product will soon roll out newer updates to this product and make it comparable to other IM Clients. One just has to wait and watch….
It’s finally out… the much awaited and much speculated service by google is finally out… and out before time. I myself had been thinking sometime back that this was the next step that google had to take.
There was speculation that this service was going to be out tommorrow but the news can out today itself. They still dont have a client of their own and hence one needs to use other open source clients to run the Jabber protocol and come online on Google Talk.(When I posted this first, there was no announcement of a client for Google Talk. Google gave a link to download the software, for WinXP only, late Tuesday night.)
I used Gaim to connect to google talk. I have put up some images to show how to configure the gaim client to run for MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.
Google Talk: Just select Jabber in the protocol and then make sure to change Server from jabber.org to gmail.com and to set the Connect Server as talk.google.com.
MSN: Nothing much here to do, except to make sure to add @hotmail.com after the Screen Name.
Yahoo: Here also, there isn’t much that has to be worried about. The difference between this and MSN is that here one doesn’t add the @yahoo.com at the end of the Screen Name.
Update 06/01/06: Due to my screw up during synchronizing process of this blog, the images abouve have been lost. Hence a tag screwed up has been added to this post.
Opened an account with Google Adsense a few days back and added the scripts into my site today. It’s a nice system. More the ppl that visit this site, the more are the chances of them clicking on the ads and hence higher is going to be my earning. Currently, i am not expecting to earn anything, as I don’t have so many ppl coming here onto my site. But, then there is nothing wrong in starting an adsense account and then trying to get some extra money. Maybe someday it will be enuf to pay for my hosting.
It’s a nice funda. U get to select the kind of advertisement you want to display on the website and then select and totally customize it. The best part is that the contents of the advertisement are tailored to the contents of the webpage they are being displayed on.
Nice movie…. nothing great though… I liked the whole story except the ending, which I for some reason found dumb. Maybe I was expecting too much after seeing that 20000+ voters had voted this movie an avg of 7.3/10 at IMDB.com.
I give the movie a 6/10.
Kewl tool…. these guys are not going to stop at anything. it’s a highly customizable application. A lot more feature have been brought into it as compared to v1.0. The best part is the support for plugins that are can be installed into the software just like extensions can be added to Firefox.
The software doesn’t really hog a lot of memory and provides a lot of information. The fact that it can be kept in three different forms makes it easy for use on any computer screen with any resolution. But, best option is to display it as a sidebar on a wide screen laptop. It provides features as News, Scratch Pad, Web Clips (RSS feed), Weather and plugins such as To Do list, System Monitor etc.
Worth having it installed on your computer. Get it here.
HARD DISK GIRLS:
She remembers everything, FOREVER…
RAM GIRLS:
She forget about you, the moment you turn her off
WINDOW GIRLS:
Everyone know that she can’t do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
SCREENSAVER GIRLS:
She is good for nothing but at least she is fun
INTERNET GIRLS:
Difficult to access
SERVER GIRLS:
Always busy when you need her
MULTIMEDIA GIRLS:
She make horrible thing look beautiful
CD-ROM GIRLS:
She is always faster and faster
EMAIL GIRLS:
Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense
VIRUS GIRLS:
Also known as “wife” when you are not expecting her, she comes, install herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if don’t try you uninstall her you will lose everything…
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