Hope all are buzzing a lot these days! Though I started using Google Buzz, I have not used it a lot. But with whatever I have used it, I must confess that I am really impressed by it for lot of reasons. One, being integrated with gmail - you don't have to go to a differnt place to update your status if you are a gmail user. Second, most of these days lot of corporates are banning social media on their intranet - but its very unlikely that they put a ban on gmail.So that way you will be sure that your microblog is always in a active state. And the last but not least - buzz has some pretty decent light weight interface provided by google itself. Both their web and mobile interface are very good.
Google search has introduced some good new features, in case you have not noticed in your search.
1) You have a Nearby tool in the Search Options panel which would get you search results nearby your current location.So in case you want to search for Mexican food or Indian food near by your location, you don't have to include that in your search. Just use this tool and you would only see the relavant searches.You can choose to see results nearby either your default location or a custom location, and you can narrow down to results at the city, region or state level.
2) Starring your search result - Official Google blog says that it will have this feature where in you can just click the star marker on any search result and the next time you perform a search, that item will appear in a special list right at the top of your results when only relevant. Google says that stars is something that users don't have to remember, they just have to perform a normal search and if they had starred something earlier, you will be rediscovering your starred items right when you need them. Stars is a replacement to SearchWiki, which was hated by many because it was actually re-ranking, deleting, adding search results. But with Stars, you dont do anything of that sort. You will still see the regular search results from google,but the ones you had starred will come up on a separate section.
Star search feature will be rolled out in next couple of days per official googleblog.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 March 2010 09:58 )
Motorola Droid
Written by Pradeep
Monday, 19 October 2009 19:49
I am proud iPhone owner ever since its first launch in 2007 June. I was so happy with the first version of it that I even upgraded to the next release, the 3G one. But off late I was always feeling that this iPhone needs some competition, else it will be a monopoly (nothing against Apply - that is the company that I adore). Though we have seen quite a few smart phone's after iphone, like the Palm Pre, Blackberry Storm, HTC Touch - None of them could stop the iPhone march. The latest product to attempt to compete with iPhone is Droid from Motorola which is based on Google's popular mobile platform - Android.
I came across this Droid ad and its raising everybody's eyebrows. The makers have made a good spoof of iPhone. Not sure how Motorola will keep up with the expectation that its trying to create. For now, enjoy this ad. Droid is expected to hit market soon with Verizon
In addition to this, Motorola is also coming up with one more Android based phone for TMobile - CLIQ. This also looks quite promising. A overview of this phone can be seen below. CLIQ is coming to market later this month
Other Android based phones hit to market soon are Sprint Samsung Moment and T-Mobile Samsung Behold II .LG, DELL and Sony Ericssion are also coming up with their versions of Smart phones based on Android
Last Updated ( Monday, 19 October 2009 20:33 )
Hilary Clinton and Aamir Khan at Teach India event
Written by Pradeep
Sunday, 19 July 2009 07:33
For one hour on Saturday afternoon in the majestic wood-panelled hall of St Xaviers College, Hillary Clinton addressed an audience, not so much as American secretary of state or as someone who lived in the White House for eight years, but as a mother and teacher
Last Updated ( Sunday, 19 July 2009 07:41 )
Swine Flu Updates
Written by Pradeep
Thursday, 30 April 2009 19:09
5 May 2009 -- WHO Updates that as of 16:00 GMT, 5 May 2009, 21 countries have officially reported 1490 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection.
Mexico has reported 822 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 29 deaths. The United States has reported 403 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death. The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths - Austria (1), Canada (140), China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (1), El Salvador (2), France (4), Germany (9), Ireland (1), Israel (4), Italy (5), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (6), Portugal (1), Republic of Korea (2), Spain (57), Switzerland (1) and the United Kingdom (27).
It is considered prudent for people who are ill to delay international travel and for people developing symptoms following international travel to seek medical attention, in line with guidance from national authorities. Individuals are advised to wash hands thoroughly with soap and water on a regular basis and should seek medical attention if they develop any symptoms of influenza-like illness.
WHO advises no restriction of regular travel or closure of borders.
There is no risk of infection from this virus from consumption of well-cooked pork and pork products.
Further information on the situation will be available on the WHO website on a regular basis.
Live Blogging by a Cricket Player from Dressing room! Is it true or really fake?
Written by Pradeep
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 20:54
This part of the world(America) is not very familiar with the game of cricket, but in Asia, UK, Africa and Australia its one of the very popular games. Till very late the game was played with countries pitted against each other (except the English league). Last year India started a cricket league called Indian Premier League that plays the shorter version of the game called Twenty-20 that is played for less than 3 hours. This is currently being played in South Africa (coz of security issues in India with general elections going on). The so called self proclaimed anonymous player became popular overnight (though nobody knows his name till date) when he started blogging the internal happenings within the team he is part of and in general about the tournament that is being held for 36 days (started April 18th)
It has caught the eyes of all cricket followers and also the management of the team he is part of. He has been telling the internals of what is happening in the dressing room, the partying nature of cricket players, their internal fight (especially since a popular player called Sourav Ganguly was stripped off captaincy at the last moment), cricket players linking to the fairer sex and all. Though still nobody knows if he is really a cricket player or somebody is just playing around, I spent some time reading through all his blogs that started on April 18th and so far has posted around 26 postings.All his blogs look some what geniune and looks like its a work of somebody who is spending some quality time with the players and especially the team he plays - Kolkotta Knight Riders or he should be really good at imagination with some knowledge on what generally happens in cricket world. The other thing about this blog is he has not taken the direct names of any player and all are referred by nick names or based on their character/nature.The irony is that the entire team management (the team is owned by popular bollywood star Shahrukh Khan) is still not able to nail down the player (from a group of 16 players). as claimed by him This guy gives enough clues about him probably to mislead people or people who are spying around.He also says that the team management has now banned all laptops/computers from the dressing room and now he has gone a step ahead and he says that he is SMSsing the proceedings to his brother and he blogs on this guy's behalf.
Some of his posting read like "The team management is tracking this blog carefully. They have identified 12 members of playing/non-playing staff who are beyond suspicion. Every body else is a suspect until the real one is caught. Someone even mentioned that there's a reward on for anyone who catches the me red handed. May be they should install CCTV cameras in the bathrooms... Hmmmm... I am sure Dildo will enjoy that!"
"Players luv the blog. Y'day, after the match each & every player read it, incl yours truly ;-). Apparently, players of all teams are reading it."
"I am a little stunned by all the attention being bestowed upon me. I mean, I never really expected this. I started this blog only to vent out my frustration. I never wanted this to become so talked about. I woke up today with just one follower on my blog. Right now, just after dinner, I have 17. Is the blog getting too big for me? Am I creating my own Frankenstein? I thought about stopping this altogether. But I believe in doing the right thing. I also believe that while doing the right thing is important, it's equally important to do it the right way. I think the time's right for me to do the right thing the right way. Please read the disclaimer given below."
"We took a cab to Opium. And what a club it is. I mean, I have never seen a club as pulsating as Opium. The club was packed, the crowd was trendy and chic, the babes were hot and slutty, there was a live band playing. I mean, the place was happening.And guess what. The most colourful characters of IPL were there."
There is lot more to read and if you are interested, be sure you check http://fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com. This is making news headlines all over now.
I am really curious to know who this mystery guys is.......
I also read one more report that this fake guy is not part of any cricket team in IPL and its all his imagination. Read that report here Probably the truth should come out soon, will post you guys if I have any updates.
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