Swastiastu ! (its in Indonesian lingo...figure it out, meaning is beautiful)
Here are some IT facts to digest, for people who are religious abut technology fads...something like being part of the 'revolution'...or maybe savingt he world from obsolence by being part of the latest buzzwords..(and of course I m proud to b on blogspot, the best blogging site !)
Nielsen//NetRatings
TOP blogging sites in September 2007
AudienceGrowth
September 2006 September 2007 YTY
Blogger 19,751 ---- 29,596------ 50%
Six Apart TypePad 7,525------10,992 --------46%
WordPress.com 2,673 10,424 290%
tmz.com 6,000 10,293 72%
LiveJournal 3,685 4,160 13%
Xanga.com 5,528 3,008 -46%
Perezhilton.com 1,234 2,203 79%
Engadget 1,503 2,021 34%
Gizmodo 763* 1,891 148%
Thatsfit N/A 1,726
TOP search engines in September 2007
Engine-- Searches-- Growth-- YTY Share
Google ---3,994,158--- 41.3%---- 54.0%
Yahoo! ---1,443,244--- 9.3%---- 19.5%
MSN -----890,685 --- 71.5%---- 12.0%
AOL ---- 444,493 --- 24.0%--- 6.0%
Ask.com--158,969 --- 4.5% --- 2.2%
TOP social networking sites in September 2007
Site ---------------------Audience Growth(Sep 2007) YTY
Myspace.com------------58,581 --------------------------24%
Facebook ----------------18,090 ------------------------133%
Classmates Online-------13,313 ---------------------------0%
Windows Live Spaces----10,275-------------------------- 32%
AOL Hometown ----------7,685------------------------ -23%
Reunion.com -------------4,845------------------------ 3%
LinkedIn -----------------4,075------------------------ 131%
AOL People Connection--- 4,017------------------------ -34%
(ahem...my blogger.com still reigns....mmmmm)
Quoting Steve Ballmer, "MS Search capabilities are goung to dunk the other guys" !!
....goodness gracious !where are we headed mates?? Maybe I dont have the legendary expertise and experience as Stevie, but perhaps being in a desert too long can be illusioning as one's focus gets blurred in terms of the difference between a "blurred being in the zone"guy and a "fresh outsider's view of the larger picture"guy ..so as far as I perceive it...certain startegies at MS have become an ill-boding, just the oxymoron way certain other strategies have enhanced the Company's adoptability( like a base ecosystem of Windows based GUI's to market and grip the zillions of people around, and then to deploy marketing strategies and eye-candies heavily on these old cash cows...the same way as wine does...(but again Software != Wine), and of course sharing code (Windows XP code, .NET, etc))...plummeting back to strategies that look like the silence before a storm , I see Steve's strategies in pushing MS into minds and souls of people, rather too aggressive and pushy, that also in 2 risky scenarios
>> more and more number of bugs and patches that bog down the acceptability of newer MS products in a fight by users who insist old is better (the same way that Vista SP2 has been postponed, and support for XP2 has been retained)
>>2nd scenario, overly diverging the previously efforts of the teams across the world, causing a pattern I would classify as "concave lens diverging parallel rays of a light beam"...Steve you are the lens , dont you see it ?? The effect shall be the opposite of what a convex lens like other competent search engine giants(their biggest competitors) are doing, "convex lens converges parallel beam" ...the over all effect, the efforts are not being focussed, the upto-an-extent-justified-but-not-effective-in-long-run strategy of diversifying should also be folllowed with a laser focus on the divesified products, and more importantly, not just retaining the value of an array of relatively-older product arsenals, but to actually improve them aggressively...andthe golden rule to learn is to LISTEN . Listen to the loud noises blogs are making from people in startups, analysts who care to write about your Organisation, your products. Listen. And then strategize, it WILL go a long way and save much last-minute bug fixes, and patches which we are so unpopular about. And here I emphasize upon the gem of our evolution...our ability to "create". And creation happens only when we are inspired, or in more gross terms, when neccesity knocks on the door...so let your teams INNOVATE and thats where a see a silver lining in this new directionof efforts MS is headed towards..MS is listening, through the ears of their Evangelists..and thats a good sign. Tomorrow is a day when consumers drive "user-geerated.editor-less.useful.neccesity-driven.scalable" technologies loudly, and dont you want to make sure you are basking in the glory then Mr. Ballmer , because you listened. And because your focus had shifted from only "dunking" competitors in a dodge ball game, into an alternative parallel strategy , just as stronglt focussed on letting your best developers run free to play amidst the ecosystem of infrastructure you have created, and to be "inspired" to create, instead of JUST COMPETING to stay even. Its not just about staying even. And maybe someone rightly said too.."A good software is not when you have no features left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Remember Joel Spolsky's blog on USABILITY http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html and its cardinality moral.
Now that I have driven a few points home(at the expense of constraining my urge to nature's call, until I am done!), I feel like I could do with a short break until I get to sharing my DIGGS about an insightful blog born somewhere, or a beautiful thought born in my unpredictable mind that can change the world ;-) ...maybe who knows ?
Meaning of Life
I have a only one question for today :
"What is the purpose you were created and manifested in this body, in this lifetime ?"
?
interesting view
This post makes sense
http://ubshreenath.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6447FDAF06658642!503.entry
m waiting for the rest of the story.
http://ubshreenath.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6447FDAF06658642!503.entry
m waiting for the rest of the story.
Faith moves mountains..faith shall protect heritage Bridge
This is what I dug up just now...http://www.indolink.com/Religion/r091702-130924.php
It says :
Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The bridge currently named as Adam´s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long. The bridge´s unique curvature and composition by age suggests that it may be man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ago. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in Tredha Yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. This information may not be of much importance to the archeologists who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.
Hang on to your mouse, as you follow this link into another discovery:(thats a bit of our mythology..how many proofs do you need to validate the oldest culture, Karunanidhi...we vest you power with our votes, we shall take it away too! Exercise your power for more demanding problems plaguing this country, dont dissipate your energies in opportunities that also have alternate solutions. Perhaps we under-estimate or overlook some facts in the incessant noisy commentary that has diseased our distracted minds...calm your mind and ask one question Karunanidhi : Where did technology originate in this world ? Was it in hard disks in Silicon valley, or CERN's picturesque Geneva, or did it flourish in India !!! long before America was discovered, even longer before the Japanese adapted their martial arts from Kalaripayattu (in Kerala, India) or the Chinese borrowed umbrella concept from India...when was this ? I see the answer in an era..when some of the geratest epics were documented as 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata'......AND THE TECHNOLOGY ? Kunti mothered her 100 Kaurava sons via a technology boon that we use today to create "test tube babies" ..and that was technology long before anyone else imagined it in any other country or continent. Karunanidhi will overlook it I know, because he is "pressurised" by his colleagues and superiors, infact he will also overlook the facts so sublimely documented in Bhagavad Gita each of them with NEVER-ENDING knowledge value. And what of when Hanuman wished to reach the other end of Ocean to Lanka...how did Hanuman make the leap ? He was skilled in practical aspect of what we term now as "Projectile Motion" . And how do we validate He really crossed the ocean? Because Hanuman noticed the star clusters in a fixed sequence across the Heavens during the journey...the same fixed sequence as is observed when you make an arial journey across India to Sri Lanka today by your favourite airline . And you seek validation of the Ram Setu, do you ? Go visit one of the miracle rocks, infact go visit the Patna Jain Temple where news reports recently revealed one of the miracle rocks that floated on water with SRI RAM's name at the time the Bridge was being constructed by the thousands Sri Ram's soldiers ! Do you need more proofs ? I know you know...because you want just an EXCUSE, to proceed the Setu Samudran Project, not REASONS, but EXCUSES.
And religions asides, here is what Sri Sri has to say about India and Spirituality:
"
SPIRITUAL INDIA: People ask me how can India have so much spirituality and yet be so poor. I have my own explanation to this. India has one-third the land of America and thrice its population. It has six major religions, many dialects and over a thousand years of foreign rule.
That India is still existing as a country is a miracle. We could have gone the Yugoslavia way a long ago. Yet, it’s because of spirituality that India still exists.
Tell me, today there are more hospitals, how come there are more diseases? The health of society has gone down in the last 40 years. Are the hospitals responsible for this? No, it is because of the lifestyle. You still feel the villages in this country have lots of ethics, human values are greater there. Do you know 27% of the European population suffers from depression? In another eight years they expect the figure to reach 48%. Do you know 50% of the students in Washington DC drop out of school? The crime rate in the US is unbelievable. 33% of college students there have gone to jail or done some crime one time or the other. In face of these statistics India seems a much better place. It could be much better I agree. But there is an air of spirituality in India. Even in the freedom movement Mahatma Gandhi could do what he did because he was such a spiritual person. There were many more intelligent people than him around. Motilal Nehru and others were more well-read people. I agree moral degradation is happening, but it is because of no spirituality. Nobody taught us in school how to manage our mind when we are upset. Nobody taught us that your breath and your emotions are connected. That we are surviving is a miracle, let’s accept that. Then we are progressing economically - it’s only you people who tell us this, that GDP is growing. On the happiness front I would say we can do better. If we do better in the moral plane we could do even better.
SUPERSTITION: There’s nothing wrong in chaos. Many times creativity, bliss comes out of chaos. We need to learn to live with chaos. You should not dismiss something as superstition without probing into it. We should accept that there are many things in the world we do not know, have no explanation for. Whether a phenomenon is valid, whetherit could be explained, we need to probe into it before we can pronounce judgement on it.
You should accept the possibility of something you don’t understand. We can’t view everything with a communal prism, something like sea water tasting sweet. As for me there are many things which have no logical explanation. So you have to accept there are things beyond logical explanation. You go to Kulu, Manali and there are these devtas (deities) who answer people’s questions. You think about something and they’ll come and touch you on the left or right. In Karnataka there’s this devi’s panchloha statue that bends down and writes on a table that is covered in flour. A Japanese came and thedevi wrote in Japanese for him - a multilingual devi! Instead of brushing away such incidents as superstition a scientific mind should probe into them. You should keep your mind open.
"
This is an excerpt from his address to Indian Express reporters
I like your blog Anoop :-)
ALIVE with ideas
My blog is alive now...because
today I shall link more neurons to my blog that will take you onto links you will be addicted to !! and it will create a farm of ideas in your heads, as you follow each of these links...given that you are an inquisitive person who thrives on intellectual orgasms...do you ? You do , I know that , and thats why you are reading my blog, because like me, you know the value of information, you adapt the value of knowledge in multiple domains of your unpredictable life...and because you know....WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK (well, I have a video to share on this concept, which will spark your untouched mental faculties...I can vouch on that) ....so lets think knowledge and lets share ideas... How do you know what my blog is saying...you read it with eyes, isnt it? and the brain maps it ...and how do you interpret it...the brain of course..and how do you leverage the information for your use..the brain again (adaptation and survival instincts) !! so now, here's a link to FOOD FOR THE BRAIN... http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/08/22/10-habits-of-highly-effective-brains/
Lets play a small game here :
that was just a teaser...here are the nuclear bombs :-) http://www.sharpbrains.com
http://intelligencetesting.blogspot.com/
ok brain games apart, lets get to other hierarchies...occupation, right ? :-) gone are the offline pre-internet job hunting days...now is the time you checked out 2 blessed sites to cool your heels... http://www.blogswithjobs.com/ and http://beginnersguide.com/careers/
infact why dont we cool off much more than just heels :-) there you go..
On a technology front there are openings here... http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoogroupsjobs/
I liked the tone of it..
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/management-and-militarism-just-who-are-we-fighting.html
..well lets play on the turfs of some of my favourite sites now
http://jasonhaley.com/Blog/default.aspx (good technical listings)
http://www.selfgrowth.com/socialnetworkingwebsites.html (social sites which made it to the finsh line...for now)
http://altsearchengines.com/ (a new trend of search engine technology...that focus on an old paradigm "BE THE FIRST IN THE INDUSTRY , OR BE THE BEST"..they just focussed on the latter o:-)
www.geekipedia.com (good technical articles)
http://archanaraghuram.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/vedic-mathematics-and-sulbasutras/ (Archana Raghuram delves into Vedic Maths..besides that, she has an insightful blog)
http://www.go2web20.net/ (a great repository for Web2.0 explorers, my personal favourite :-) :-))
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/miscellaneous/the-ten-videos-to-change-how-you-view-the-world.html (you will love this !)
Hoping we are stimulated and shall keep coming back to these useful posts asap..We will share knowledge , just as we share the air we breathe and the Earth that we belong to (are we conscious to realise , WE BELONG TO THE EARTH, THE EARTH DOES NOT BELONG TO US . http://www.thepetitionsite.com/).
BUT "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein.
I3 2007 Snaps
atlast I received few snaps from the I3 Convention, taken with other MSP's ...do check them out..and the panel looks as lively as it really sounded there :-)
Navratri at Ashram
Hey beautiful people,
I'm back again after a transformation over the weekend of Navratri...and its been a fulfilling experience in many many aspects...not to do injustice to the mystery, I shall reveal a little but certainly cannot express the experience completely, because just like we cannot describe electricity(unless yu would like to savor the experience of answering nature's call in public next to an electric transformer :-D ...a typical Indian scene) , or love (unless yu are yourself smitten) or even joy (no comparisons), so also certain things can only be experienced ....
In short, I had a blessed experience on Friday at Ashram during the Chandi Homa, organised by GuruJi for all of creation, with so much love and efforts, that I know why it happens to be the biggest festival around the Ashram...people flocked in multitudes of 20-50 thousands...and the entire panorama was awashed with rain , music , singing, dancing, serving and seva, and of people of all age groups from the smallest villages in Karnataka to the largest cities in other countries, gathered together to receive the blessings of the holy calendar of Navratri when GuruJi himself blessed all with his Presence and unconditional Love. In fact , he played the Veena and the Sarang on Thursday evening...just like a beautiful mystical angel speaks to us through music....and Vikram bhaiya enthralled us with a flute performance...crowds swayed to the tune of his charming notes as he played us along with the flute...
The Chandi Homa on Friday was an experience that not only the people who were present there, were lucky to have experienced, but definitely wall others who had the luck to view the telecast.....and as it concluded , people were bathed in the holy water via sprinklers at the ceiling of the Yagnashala...and soon before the rains drizzled upon us , in indication that the offerings of prayers were accepted and the God were pleased...towards evening after much seva and a youth meeting to focus young energies towards meaningful projects for the underprivileged, we all congregated at the Yagnashla again, and this time when GuruJi arrived with the Dandiya (after a lot of coaxing all those days that GuruJi didn't join us for Dandiya), and the moment his gliterring dandiya sticks struck, the clouds broke up in an out pour of celebration too....it was an immensely divine moment as bhajan (devotional song) after bhajan poured out of the lips of noteworthy devotees like pearls, and as we danced in bliss...just as Gopi's did when Sri Krishna played his heart out on His flute, in Vrindavan....the entire crowd was lost in a continual moment of "coming back to the Source" (that's what Navratri is all about)...the entire gathering resonated with claps and songs.....and then we meditated when GuruJi led us through a short meditation experience...
I can only say this to those who haven't experienced the joy of being at Ashram ....only after I joined Art Of Living, I smiled first time like never before, danced like never before, sang like never before, and my heart flowered like never before.
The bhajans sung at Ashram are now more rocking than any rock concert I have experienced, and the commitment and loving attitude I see among the people there is exceptional...I would strongly recommend anyone who is blue or dejected with life or job or bogged down with stress, must rekindle the Chaithanya of life with a visit, unconditionally. Its like a place beyond Earth, on Earth...a very very individual experience for anyone...an experience of a journey from the ever-changing external play of joy and sorrow, to the unchanging divine love that resides deep within at peace with every atom and every molecule in this Universe.
do check out this interview excerpts...its goooood !
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/gurujis-address-at-financial-express/
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/navratri-going-back-to-the-source/
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/effortless-meditation/
I'm back again after a transformation over the weekend of Navratri...and its been a fulfilling experience in many many aspects...not to do injustice to the mystery, I shall reveal a little but certainly cannot express the experience completely, because just like we cannot describe electricity(unless yu would like to savor the experience of answering nature's call in public next to an electric transformer :-D ...a typical Indian scene) , or love (unless yu are yourself smitten) or even joy (no comparisons), so also certain things can only be experienced ....
In short, I had a blessed experience on Friday at Ashram during the Chandi Homa, organised by GuruJi for all of creation, with so much love and efforts, that I know why it happens to be the biggest festival around the Ashram...people flocked in multitudes of 20-50 thousands...and the entire panorama was awashed with rain , music , singing, dancing, serving and seva, and of people of all age groups from the smallest villages in Karnataka to the largest cities in other countries, gathered together to receive the blessings of the holy calendar of Navratri when GuruJi himself blessed all with his Presence and unconditional Love. In fact , he played the Veena and the Sarang on Thursday evening...just like a beautiful mystical angel speaks to us through music....and Vikram bhaiya enthralled us with a flute performance...crowds swayed to the tune of his charming notes as he played us along with the flute...
The Chandi Homa on Friday was an experience that not only the people who were present there, were lucky to have experienced, but definitely wall others who had the luck to view the telecast.....and as it concluded , people were bathed in the holy water via sprinklers at the ceiling of the Yagnashala...and soon before the rains drizzled upon us , in indication that the offerings of prayers were accepted and the God were pleased...towards evening after much seva and a youth meeting to focus young energies towards meaningful projects for the underprivileged, we all congregated at the Yagnashla again, and this time when GuruJi arrived with the Dandiya (after a lot of coaxing all those days that GuruJi didn't join us for Dandiya), and the moment his gliterring dandiya sticks struck, the clouds broke up in an out pour of celebration too....it was an immensely divine moment as bhajan (devotional song) after bhajan poured out of the lips of noteworthy devotees like pearls, and as we danced in bliss...just as Gopi's did when Sri Krishna played his heart out on His flute, in Vrindavan....the entire crowd was lost in a continual moment of "coming back to the Source" (that's what Navratri is all about)...the entire gathering resonated with claps and songs.....and then we meditated when GuruJi led us through a short meditation experience...
I can only say this to those who haven't experienced the joy of being at Ashram ....only after I joined Art Of Living, I smiled first time like never before, danced like never before, sang like never before, and my heart flowered like never before.
The bhajans sung at Ashram are now more rocking than any rock concert I have experienced, and the commitment and loving attitude I see among the people there is exceptional...I would strongly recommend anyone who is blue or dejected with life or job or bogged down with stress, must rekindle the Chaithanya of life with a visit, unconditionally. Its like a place beyond Earth, on Earth...a very very individual experience for anyone...an experience of a journey from the ever-changing external play of joy and sorrow, to the unchanging divine love that resides deep within at peace with every atom and every molecule in this Universe.
do check out this interview excerpts...its goooood !
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/gurujis-address-at-financial-express/
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/navratri-going-back-to-the-source/
http://niranjani.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/effortless-meditation/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
