United we Stand

I couldn’t let this joke pass…This made me smile from ear to ear…

 

2G Scam

Open Magazine has exposed everything. The corruption and nexus involves media, politics, corporates and bureaucrats! Looks like Barka is also in the Scam. The audio tapes and transcript on the Open Magazine website related to DMK, Congress, Barka Dutt and 2G are very disturbing. You could clearly hear the conversations between Barkha Dutt ,Vir Sanghvi’s and Nira Radia (a big-shot in telecommunications).  The 2G scam headed by Raja has many unknown skeletons.

 

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/some-telephone-conversations

 

Hear are the audio links….

 

http://openthemagazine.box.net/embed/1eohxj927ys7m0d.swf

 

http://openthemagazine.box.net/embed/9mpjug8m5bya55o.swf

 

http://openthemagazine.box.net/embed/5qgzrq6zmipd5nq.swf

 

http://openthemagazine.box.net/embed/yb7gvnzf5kt96lg.swf

 

http://openthemagazine.box.net/embed/eignlbavp9ulvy2.swf

 

Are the politicians like Kalmadi, Deshmukh, Chavan and now A.Raja are the only scapegoats here or they are just thrown under the bus by the congress to save the party image. And yes Manmohan Singh is very clean. After all he is a highly qualified head of the country and we sure will forward the mails of his high qualifications.

The Social Network : Movie Review

I usually don’t write a movie review on my blog unless it is too good to watch it twice or thrice. This movie certainly blows you away with the screenplay and will definitely be the best contender for the next oscar awards. I almost loved it from start to finish. The dialogs were so quick and there is so much going in the movie, you will not realize that movie is longer than it actually is. The movie kicks of with the break up between Mark Zuckerberg and his girl friend Erica at Harvard university. This opening scene is critical to the rest of the story, for as much as we want to root for Zuckerberg throughout the movie, we have to remember that he is very much a nerdy jerk, and people hate him. The film does its best to potray him as an anti hero through out the movie. The break-up gives Zuckerberg the motivation needed to create Facebook, although it doesn’t happen right away. During a night of drinking and blogging, Mark hacks into the websites of the different houses on the Harvard campus, gathering up picture after picture of girls. He then sets up a site where students can vote on which of two girls they think is hotter. Eventually the entire Harvard network is crashed, causing Mark a mixture of fame, hatred, and trouble from the Harvard big wigs. If you want to know the Facemash algorithm used in it , here is the best link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system. The site also helps to gain the attention of Winklevoss twins who wants to create a Harvard exclusive dating site. While Zuckerberg agrees to help them, he decides to wants to build on that idea and develop ‘The Facebook’. He then starts with developing the new site with his best and only friend Eduardo (Andrew Garfield) on board as co-founder/financial support. He then ditches Winklevoss brothers and his best friend Edward eventually. From then on, it’s just a matter of who you believe deserves credit, be it partial or full, of the creation of Facebook. Smart dialogue, sharp editing, and brilliant acting lead the way for yet another solid and spectacular movie. The ultimate lesson is You Don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

 

Social Networking -This is one of the films to see this year. Don't get hung up on the idea that it's just a silly "Facebook movie", or else you'll be missing out on an excellent picture. (IMDB)

Acts of Faith–Erich Segal

This was the last Erich Segal book I have and I had determined to finish it at any cost before going for any other author. The beginning of the story is a bit slow that i have to force myself  multiple time too continue reading hoping that it will have a great end. My patience pays me off...towards the middle the plot started to build up and later i know that i don’t want to stop reading it. The story is about Faith, religion, love and friendship. You will learn a lot about Jewish culture and of course the Bible. It's an interesting tale when it comes to talking about two diverse cultures. The saga is told from the point of view of two Jewish siblings and a Catholic boy growing up in New York. Segal takes the reader from Brooklyn to Israel, Rome, and Brazil in this epic. The characters were struggling to understand their own heritage and what part of it was choice and what part a required privilege. It was extremely interesting and the characters and locations were well drawn. Its about three characters Deborah, Daniel and Timothy. It’s a love story between rabbi's daughter(Deborah), and the Irish catholic boy (Timothy). It captivated me to say the least and you do learn about the tradition of various religions in a way which doesn’t make you feel bored.

Facebook Email

Facebook is out with a new email service..

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40197663/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

 

The product contains three pieces:

Seamless messaging - Instead of dealing with the dilemma of reaching people via e-mail or direct message or SMS, all of these will be combined, so that you'll be able to reach someone the way they prefer to be reached, without you having to think about it. "All you need is a person and a message," said one of the product managers.

Conversation history - All communiques between friends will be logged, regardless of their format, so that you can browse all sorts of exchanges between you and your individual peeps.

Social inbox - Since they know your friends, and those friends of friends, Facebook will apply social filters to the e-mail inbox, prioritizing real humans who you like over spambots you'd rather avoid.

It looks like it has announced another Google Wave, only difference was Google clearly defined the problem then, all collaborations at one place ( superset of email functionality). Wave was a solution in search of a problem. Wave also taught everyone that putting complicated feature set frightens people away. FB guys might do it bit by bit. FB email seems to be a reflection of how a large section of FB users are already using the service. It probably reflects how people are already using FB messages – as a replacement for email. As of now FB seems to be a big threat to both Google and Microsoft.

 

Facebook Chat  -- GTalk – MSN Messenger

Facebook Messaging – GMail -- Hotmail

Facebook Ads – Google Adwords -- AdCenter

Facebook Places - Bing Local Search

Facebook social search -- (part of) Bing Search

Facebook developer API – Google App Engine API -- Azure + various SDKs.

Facebook Money -- Points

Facebook enabled-ISVs (Farmville et-al) --  Xbox ecosystem

Facebook Connect -- LiveID.

 

FB will lead dominate the web over Google within the next five years. It will become and already is starting to penetrate every single aspect of the web and will continue to eat away at Google’s advertising revenues as it understands more and more about people.  Watch out Google, Facebook is coming