Most talk with mouth, some with gestures and the genuis .....

... and the genius with their performances. And belonging to such a rare breed is Sachin Tendulkar. The little maestro has done it all and still wears the Indian shirt with pride. His critics of his not so good form must now be having goose bumps in their stomach as they are going to loose not only their bread and butter, but also their reputation as a critic.

Those people must be happy now when sachin gets out on a 100 and still India wins a match. right? . Call it superstition or whatever but as it goes in Indian belief "Sachin ko kissi ki nazzar lag gayi hai" and i am sure those are the people who used to quote him a selfish guy just playing for his centuries . Damned !!!!

It used to hurt when something was written as bad as selfish for such a genuine sportsperson. I am sure the day is not far when he gets his more then deserved century and the moment will freeze for all the cricket fans across the world. We have seen lot of magic already by this genius but this one is going to be really special.

A old saying is there "Life at 41".. i think Tendulkar is just experiencing it, standing tall and handsome at 41 one day centuries and working harder for hi 42nd ....

thats the spirt Sachin !!!
weldone.
keep it up!!!

Om Shanti Om Vs Saawariya and the winner !!!!!

The two biggies are out ... The verdict is out ....Check out yourself who is the clear winner and this time it was google trends to back me ....

Check the beautiful peak exactly at after release of the two films. Its seems for the internet generation, pre film publicity went preety equal but at the day of release after that the "king Khan rulez".( Probably after release people search movies for ticket booking, reviews and much more)

Om shanti OM will be the clear winner though it is preety early days.

Lets see for how many days they are able to sustain the peak.

Social Netwoking 2.0

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Well, over the last few days after reading about my new found
intrest in web 2.0 and especially Social networking 2.0, i
am just left wondering at amount of change what it can bring
to people's life. Not only about the change but also
a pardagim shift is on verge on how business will be
executed. But some queries have propped up in my curious
mind which i need to get answered first to be sure
about Social networking's future.
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Well, social Networking's literal meaning is joining the society as a whole.

Lets see the aim of different stake holders in Social networking websites
1. End users : Make a full network of friend, family and business contacts.Linked and benifitted form huge society. Possible only when whole internet socitey is integrated.
2. Advertisers : product or service advertsied to the max audience possible.
Possible only when whole internet socitey is integrated.
3. Platform owner - getting maximum number of users to their website so more data and hence more Adv. Possible only when whole internet socitey is integrated.

But as of now the ,the popularity and strength of social networks is heavily based on geographical region.

Facebook - canada and US
Orkut - India and brazil
Myspace - Russia and US

Once a user is dedicated and have his social network established on one platform why the person will try to go on another one. Barring a few, probably the people who like to date or get a location changed ? (Intersection of active users on the big 4 platforms will help me to affirm my assumption). So, if my assumption is right given the above demographical trend there can never be full social networking untill "the platforms make data available to each other".
This is possible in 2 ways
1. M&A of 2-3 big platforms
2. Import- Export of friend list: Making platforms open to allow exporting user list from one platform to another. The very few things that i checked on orkut while i joined it, was to get the friend list exported for my use.

Till this does not happen the actual social networking is never possible and the purpose is forfieted. So, the end users are not fully satisfied here.

Next, the open API's of platform is a big talk especially a lot of ho halla was there after google opened it.There is going to be a lot of apllications developed for orkut. Cool !!!!

So, we will have 'n' different application doing the same thing by the same developer for 'n' different platforms. Crazy isn't it? So the application developer isn't happy either with huge work around and investment.

My Conclusions
What i want to suggest is, if every stakeholder wants the maximum number of possible users, why not to share the data. And what Tim O'rielly said was "it is just data, stupid". So, never hestitate to share it. And what i feel will be left unique is how one platform handles that data, the experince it provides to its end users and probably create there own unique applications to retain their customer's. In coming years i see the User data to be common on each platform.

what say guys ? Let me know if i need some trashing on this article .....

My b school Journey - Starting Again

The time has come yet again to join the scrambled bits and pieces of my b school journey yet again. Failing once at the GMAT forte i need to give my best now. For me how much i try to hide the fact but i have taken a sub-concious decision to apply for 2009 season. In between my first GMAT and today lots of things has changed on personal and professional front and decided for 2009 season. I know considering the US MBA scenario it is not a wise decision to have one more year in india but sometimes intangible things matter more to me.
So, this time i want to be much more strict in my attitude towards going forward for my GMAT and hope i will be able to join my bits and pieces.

P.S. - i needed to vent out my feeling so thought of blogging.

I will try to keep GMAT things posted on the blog for reference for the needy ones :)

Web 2.0

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People grow up. Things around us do change with time and
sometimes it is just the meaning of a same thing that takes a
different direction all together. In childhood, I understood it as
spider’s creation. Now being so near to technology the web
has it is own definition or is a new paradigm in itself.
Well, I was talking about Web 2.0 technologies. Last night
reading Apurv’s article on Social networking 2.0, I just thought
to give it a try to write something about technology though
technology has never been my forte.
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What is Web 2.0 ?
Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services, which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users

Okay !! Then what was web 1.0 ?
Web 1.0 - The World wide web in non - interactive (it will be too harsh to say non) , read only website with single way source of information

So, what has introduced in Web2.0 to make it different from Web1.0?
Obviously, it has to be technologies and as definition suggest it has to give Web features such as:
1. Interactivness
2. Not only read-only websites but enabliing users to write
3. No one way traffic (what it has led to P2P traffic shaping, High upstream speed requirmnets and many more tech changes)

So where we are heading to?
Using internet not as a service to end user but to use it as a platform.

What is present right now in Web2.0 technologies ?

Blogs (short for Web logs) are online journals or diaries hosted on a Web site and often distributed to other sites or readers using RSS (see below).

Collective intelligence refers to any system that attempts to tap the expertise of a group rather than an individual to make decisions. Technologies that contribute to collective intelligence include collaborative publishing and common databases for sharing knowledge.

Mash-ups are aggregations of content from different online sources to create a new service. An example would be a program that pulls apartment listings from one site and displays them on a Google map to show where the apartments are located.

Peer-to-peer networking (sometimes called P2P) is a technique for efficiently sharing files (music, videos, or text) either over the Internet or within a closed set of users. Unlike the traditional method of storing a file on one machine—which can become a bottleneck if many people try to access it at once—P2P distributes files across many machines, often those of the users themselves. Some systems retrieve files by gathering and assembling pieces of them from many machines.

Podcasts are audio or video recordings—a multimedia form of a blog or other content. They are often distributed through an aggregator, such as iTunes.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows people to subscribe to online distributions of news, blogs, podcasts, or other information.

Social networking refers to systems that allow members of a specific site to learn about other members’ skills, talents, knowledge, or preferences. Commercial examples orkut and facebook. Some companies use these systems internally to help identify experts.

Web services are software systems that make it easier for different systems to communicate with one another automatically in order to pass information or conduct transactions. For example, a retailer and supplier might use Web services to communicate over the Internet and automatically update each other’s inventory systems.

Wikis, such as Wikipedia, are systems for collaborative publishing. They allow many authors to contribute to an online document or discussion. ( this is my fav he he he)

Now this was all about the technology.

The big question is about business models the web 2.0 follows ?. Ultimately everything boils down to business isn’t it …

The some of the business models I could see in the Web 2.0 are
1. Revenue sharing between The platform provider(orkut, facebook, youtube etc ) and the publisher( one who publish the content on these platforms) model .

This kind of Business model is used in Youtube where the publisher post his video and the revenue is shared between the two.

2. Revenue kept by publisher alone model – ex. The author of the blogs gets the revenue for the ads per click.

3. Revenues kept by platform alone model – ex orkut keeps all the money it gets from advertisement hosted.

4. Revenue defined pay if it helps you model
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So, above was just to enter the gate of web 2.0 world. I will keep my blog posted with all the tech and business updates on web 2.0. And will try to see the best and worst of the different product available.

But i want to leave an open question here is there a way to get another Business model or a technology for web 2.0 ? lets discuss through comments.

P.S. - Check this article for google’s ambition on the web2.0.

Never Mind ....

You got to be living till the sun shines..
The night is never gonna be bright …
Never mind..

I used to go on a lovely drive …
Stealing my show was her lovely smile
I used to love her till my breathe dies...
Never mind …

Once I followed her till the seventeenth pine
What I saw she was having wine
Having it with a rich knight
They dined and wined till the sun shined
I cried that night on my highway drive
Never mind….

Now there was nothing to hide
Love was the not the way in her style
She gonna say quits in sometime
Money was the thing...Huh!!! came in my line
Never mind …

Now the days were left behind …
Friend became foes
Never mind …

You got to be living till the sun shines..
The night is never gonna be bright …
Till you light it with a candle light
Never mind...