Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Social Networking on the Web..
Social Networking is a great concept in the IT. it is all about your presence on the web and interactions with your peers, friends, bloggers etc.
There is a huge market in the Social Networking. and equally enormous Tools for the User to use.
Here is the almost famous tool in social software
wiki
blogs
podcasting
feeds -> RSS, atom, RDF etc..
XFN -> social relationships
Feedburner
del.icio.us
technorati
odeo
videoegg
blogroll
bloglines
skype
google Talk
forums
writely
EVDB or aka eventful
activewords
NextPage
......
It is interesting to see when Microsoft responds to this call.
There is a huge market in the Social Networking. and equally enormous Tools for the User to use.
Here is the almost famous tool in social software
wiki
blogs
podcasting
feeds -> RSS, atom, RDF etc..
XFN -> social relationships
Feedburner
del.icio.us
technorati
odeo
videoegg
blogroll
bloglines
skype
google Talk
forums
writely
EVDB or aka eventful
activewords
NextPage
......
It is interesting to see when Microsoft responds to this call.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Let's celebrate a New India
Dear Friends, Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride, which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you put in reading it : "In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?).
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri (Greatest PM of India) went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat.
As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri (Greatest PM of India) went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat.
As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"
