WEB SAFARRI

Elephant Meal!!!

2010-05-11T16:28:00.006+05:30

Elephant Anyone?

When an elephant dies in Zimbabwe, as these photos show, it doesn't stick around for long. Poverty does some strange things to people and one of the things it does is make them hungry. So when villagers came across this dead elephant they just naturally had to butcher it and take it home to cook and eat. I wonder if it tastes like chicken?

What world would have been without Engineers!!!

2010-05-11T01:55:00.007+05:30

World without Engineers:

Electronics Engineers

Mechanical Engineers

Civil Engineers

Communication Engineers

Computer Engineers

Aeronautical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Twitter is a video streaming hub with Twitcam

2009-07-22T20:02:00.005+05:30

The Net savy at the video broadcasting service Livestream now got a new tool out for Twitter users: Twitcam. If you are on Tweeter you can login with a Twitter account start streaming your own show with live chat

Each page created gets its own URL, which visitors can revisit any time and watch once the live streaming part is over.

Regarding the chat, it's all supported via tweets. Anytime anyone replies to your tweets where a link to your show is included, the application counts it as a reply. Then it aggregates them in a place, so that everyone who watches the show can see the entire conversation. It is not exactly the best way to tackle it, since sometimes it is nice to have some basic text chat that doesn't fill your Twitter stream with stray tweets, but it is done in a way that keeps everything compactly-organized.

Livestream says “Twitcam was built in about a week & uses new player tools that are going into an updated version of its API that will be released in the near future. The company hopes these will let anyone build a similar service with their own branding, and audience tools--preferably with a chat system that does not require so many tweets.”

I tested this app but my bad luck, the faulty webcam didn’t allowed to shoot my first show. ALAS!

PowerPoint Presentation

Would be updating once I’ll go live with my TwitCam.

See also: Justin.tv's CamTweet (which is in private beta)

The Biggest Tsunami Ever - Google Wave

2009-07-03T17:19:00.005+05:30

The sensational new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public later this year Google Wave has already become the most talked about launch by Google ever. In fact, there’s been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the tons of articles being released on Google’s biggest product launch in recent history.

To make sense of it all, I’ve compiled the jest of the information, definitions, and links related to the Google Wave launch. I know you all are so excited about Google Wave, so here’s what you should know:

What is Google Wave?

Google Wave, a real-time communication platform combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, chat, social networking & project management to create 1 elegant, in-browser communication client. Also, you can bring a group of your friends or business partners together to discuss what you doing on weekend or even share files.

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, here are just a few of them:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what the person on the other end is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Google Waves can be embedded on any blog or website. Get that Buzz on you webpage.

- Applications & Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers and tech savvy guys can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time game, depends, how wild is your imagination.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, coz all the conversations on the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said. Recap – Cool enough!

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly. So, no need to pull out your dictionary while riding the Google Wave.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

While these are only a few of the many features of Google Wave, it’s quite easy to see why people are so excited.

Google Wave was the brainchild of a team based out of Sydney, Australia. The main team members are 2 brothers, Jens & Lars Rasmussen, and lead project manager Stephanie Hannon, all of whom were involved in Google Maps prior to the Google Wave Idea. Google Wave was announced today at Google’s I/O Developer conference, although the product will not be available to the public for several months.

Terminology

Google Wave actually has its own lingo – yes, you have to learn a few definitions if you’re going to really understand this new communication platform. Having knowledge of these terms will help you understand more about Google’s newest project. So be ready to learn the new language of the Globe.

- Wave: A wave, specifically, refers to a specific threaded conversation. It can include just one person, or it can include a group of many users or even robots (briefed below). In other words, it’s like your entire instant messaging (IM) history with someone. Anything you’ve ever discussed in a single chat or conversation is a wave.

- Wavelet: A wavelet is also a threaded conversation, but only a subset of a larger conversation (or a wave). It’s like a single IM conversation – a small part of a larger conversation and a larger history. Wavelets, though, can be created and managed separately from a wave.

- Blip: Even smaller than a Wavelet, a Blip is a single, individual message. It’s like a single line of an IM conversation. Blips can have other blips attached to them, called children. In addition, blips can either be published or unpublished (once again, it’s sort of like typing out an IM message but not yet sending it).

- Document: A document actually refers to the content within a blip. This seems to refer to the actual characters, words, and files associated with a blip.

- Extension: An extension is a mini-application that works within a wave. So these are the apps you can play with while using Wave. There are two main types of extensions: Gadgets & Robots

- Gadgets: A gadget is an application users can participate with, many of which are built on Google’s Open Social platform. A good comparison would be iGoogle gadgets or Facebook applications.

- Robots: Robots are an automated participant within a wave. They can talk with users and interact with waves. They can provide information from outside sources (i.e. Twitter) or they can check content within a wave and perform actions based on them (i.e. provide you a stock quote if a stock name is mentioned).

- Embedded Wave: An embedded wave is a way to take a Google Wave and the conversation within it and place it on your website. Users could use this as a chat room, as a way to contact you, or for something more.

Wave Gadgets

A Wave Gadget is one of two types of Google Wave extensions. Gadgets are fully-functional applications. Google says: gadgets are primarily to change the look & feel of waves, although this seems to only scratch the surface of the potential of a wave gadget.

1^st: almost any iGoogle or Open Social gadget can run within Google Wave. That means thousands of applications that have been already created would work in Google Wave.

2^nd: a gadget built within Google Wave can also take advantage of live interaction with multiple users. This means something like a live online game with active participation from all users. In this way, it has similarities to Facebook or MySpace applications, which take advantage of your friend network to make games, quizzes, and applications more meaningful.

Gadgets are specific to individual waves, rather than to specific users. It’s not like having a Facebook app on your profile – the gadget belongs to everyone within the wave. They also do not have titles, to better integrate with the actual conversation. Some of the gadgets already built include a Sudoku gadget, Bidder (which turns your wave into an auction), and Maps (which allows for collaboration on a Google Map).

For a more technical explanation, be sure to check out Google’s Wave Gadgets Tutorial.

Wave Robots

Robots are also a type of Google Wave extension. They are like having another person within a Google Wave conversation, just that they’re automated. They’re a lot like the old IM bots of the past, although far more robust. Robots can modify information in waves, interact with users, communicate with others waves, and pull information from outside sources.

Because it acts like a user, you can define its behavior depending on what happens in the chat. You could build 1 as simple as “change the word F*CK to the word S*CK” or one as complex as a fully-functional debugger. Probably we’ll start seeing some very advanced robots in the near future.

Some of the robots are already in service include Debuggy (an in-wave debugger), Stocky (which pulls stock prices based on stock quote mentions), and Tweety (the Twave robot, which displays tweets inside of a wave).

A more advanced explanation is available at Google’s Wave Robots Overview.

Wave Embeds

Wave embeds are a little more complex than embedding a YouTube video onto your blog, yet, that’s really what Google Wave Embeds are: a way to take Google Waves onto a third party website. Embedded Waves support many of the functions of the actual Google Wave client, including dragging-&-dropping files.

While the Wave Embeds is still in a very early stage, Google has already built 2: YouTube Playlist Discuss and Multiple Extensions Embed. The former allows you to discuss a YouTube video via a wave and the latter allows for interaction with multiple waves on the same page.

One possibility: Google Wave Embeds may be a real-time replacement to static comments. If Google perfects wave embeds, you could even see YouTube.com comments replaced with waves, although it is way too early to make any calls on the potential of this front.

Google’s Wave Embed Developer’s Guide has more advanced information embedding waves.

Furthering your Google Wave education

The Google Wave Logo

Still can’t get enough of Google Wave? While information is sparse, hopefully these links would help you.

Ø http://wave.google.com/

Ø http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/gadgets/guide.html

Ø http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/index.html

Ø http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/index.html

Ø Or come back to this blog for some new updates in shortly. J

Total SMO

2009-07-01T11:45:00.000+05:30

Hey check out these cool and dammn useful links to create that BUZZ of your site over the WEB

Buzzing Bookmarks

001 del.icio.us popular
002 stumbleupon buzz
003 BuzzFeed
004 Agglom
005 iambored popular
006 diigo
007 propeller
008 furl popular
009 coRank
010 simpy
011 blogmarks
012 netvous
013 linkroll
014 feedmelinks mile
015 linkagogo
016 connectedy hot topics
017 chipmark recent
018 syncone
019 BlinkList.com
020 mylinkvault
021 linkarena recent
022 linkdump
023 WireFan
024 maple
025 >> more social

shopping

026 wists
027 stylehive
028 naturalshopper

Top List Sites

029 alexa top 500
030 internet 100
031 zippa 10

Books and Papers

032 gutenberg 100
033 citeulike
034 bibsonomy
035 LT Zeitgeist
036 connotea pop
037 penntags
038 lulu 100
039 reader2 popular
040 amazon 100
041 >> more books

bookmark tools

042 AddThis
043 Add to Any
044 socialmarker
045 socialposter
046 HelloTxt

trends

047 Google Trends
048 trendwatching
049 Springwise

Blogs that start Buzzing

050 lifehacker
051 mashable
052 huffington
053 makeusof
054 growabrain
055 techcrunch
056 Ars Technica
057 attu
058 America.gov
059 stuffwhitepeoplelike
060 BloggingStocks
061 lifehack
062 googleblog
063 Cinematical
064 readwriteweb
065 waxy
066 lookatthis
067 opticalpoptitude
068 presurfer
069 PostSecret
070 dailywtf
071 inventorspot
072 alttext
073 neatorama
074 workhappy
075 centernetworks
076 beertjes
077 flabber
078 doshdosh
079 beppegrillo
080 sethgodin
081 Edward de Leau
082 Photo Journal
083 The Frame
084 Wired
085 TreeHugger
086 sCommerce.com

Webdesign Blogs

087 smashingmagazine
088 Noupe
089 A list apart
090 Sitepoint
091 net.tutsplus
092 Six Revisions
093 >> more webdesign

Entertainment and Celebs

094 gawker
095 tmz

Real American Blogs

096 boingboing
097 dailykos

Vibrating Feed Nodes

098 blogs.com
099 bloglines
100 syndic8
101 2rss
102 urlfan

Wuzzing Weblog Posts and Wiezing Weblogs

103 blogpulse
104 technorati
105 slashdot
106 blogcritics
107 blogstreet
108 bloghop
109 blogorama
110 weblogalot
111 hotlinks
112 ttlb

News, Stories and Smalltalk

113 digg 24hrs
114 metafilter front
115 fark top links
116 reddit
117 shoutwire
118 monkeyfilter
119 yahoo buzz
120 changethis
121 ekudos
122 dzone
123 newsvine
124 topix
125 4chan
126 >> more news

Pliggers

127 buddymarks
128 Socialogs
129 Bringr
130 searchallinone
131 GetIgadget
132 IndianPad
133 PostOnFire
134 PlugIM
135 Tagza
136 Pixelmo
137 Dropjack
138 Business Planet

Hot and Popular Videoz

139 youtube top favs
140 googlevideo 100
141 yahoo video
142 spike top 100
143 metacafe top
144 dailymotion
145 break top rated
146 myspace top
147 putfile top 50
148 vidilife most fav
149 >> more video

How and why Gadgets

150 instructables fav
151 dpreview top
152 cnet top 100
153 engadget
154 gizmodo
155 t3
156 trendhunter
157 geek
158 anandtech
159 daytipper
160 coolhunting
161 >> more gadgets

Music

173 lastfm
174 mog
175 mystrands
176 download
177 amiestreet
178 magnatune
179 sellaband
180 jamendo
181 >> more music

So folks lets not wait and start creating the spark for our site and make it the most talked about website on the WEB!!

Google Suggest: Fast – Faster - Fastest

2009-06-30T19:42:00.000+05:30

Everybody had a common child-hood passion for fast things: speedy cars, trains, roller coasters, monstertrucks & a lot more. That is what makes us so excited to use the new faster Google Suggest, since it saves a hell lot of time, giving suggestions as we type the searches.

Here are some new and useful features introduced with Google Suggest by the geniuses of Google land:

Suggestions on result pages

Previously, Google only showed suggestions based on your original search inputs. Now, when you make a search from a result page, Google provide suggestions that relate to the current results page. See in the example below, if your previous search was for roller coasters, when you begin a new query the first few suggestions are still related to roller coasters — helping you refine your search queries to quickly find what you want.

Personalized suggestions
trying to remember that query which gave you the best results? You're not alone! Now, if you're signed in with your Google account and have Web History enabled, it may show some of your relevant past searches as you type. Personalized suggestions will make it easier and faster to repeat searches that worked before. Or, if you need to step away in the middle of a search task, this will help you continue your search tasks at a later time.

You can remove a personalized suggestion that you do not like by clicking "Remove", which will remove the search from your Web History. You can also remove searches from your Web History directly, manage Query Suggestions on the preferences page, or sign out of your Google account entirely to stop seeing personalized suggestions.

Navigational suggestions
If your first keystrokes indicate that you may be looking to navigate directly to a specific site, Google will list it and send you straight there if you click on it.

Sponsored links in suggestions
Similar to the navigational suggestions above, sometimes Google detect that the most relevant completion for what you're typing is an ad. When an ad is shown, Google mark it with the text "Sponsored Link" and a colored background, as on the results page.

Google is also introducing a couple more changes to Suggest: it will no longer show the result count for items in the suggest box and now bold the text of suggestions to help you more quickly scan the list. To learn more about Google Suggest, check out the help center.

New Improvements to Google Results Pages

2009-05-15T17:19:00.001+05:30

Google has come up with some very useful improvements to Google search that are as follows:
1. An expanded list of useful related searches and
2. Addition of longer search result descriptions
New & Improved Search Refinements

We have come up with a new technology that can understand associations and concepts more related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).
For example, if you search for a phrase like [principles of physics], our algorithms understands that “angular momentum,” “special relativity,” “big bang” and “quantum mechanic” are related terms that could help you find what you need.

Look at the following examples in other languages. In Russian, if you put the query [гадание на картах] (fortune-telling with cards), the algorithms find the related terms “таро” (tarot), “ленорман” (lenormand) and “тибетское гадание мо” (tibetan divination mo). In Italian, if search is for [surf alle canarie] (surf at the canary islands), we now offer suggestions based on the three most famous Canary Islands: “lanzarote,” “gran canaria,” and “fuerteventura”:

With the advent of this technology we are now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know. Additionally, we are offering refinements for longer & detailed queries, something that is usually a challenging task and certainly will help you find out what you are searching for. You would be able to see our new related searches starting today in 37 languages all around the world.

Longer, Detailed & Well Exaggerated Snippets

When you search for some thing on Google, each result shown starts with a dark blue title and is followed by a few lines of plain text (what we call a “snippet”), which together gives you an idea of what each page is about. To give more context, the snippet shows how the words of the query you typed appear on the page by highlighting them in bold.
When you enter a longer tailed query, with more than three words, regular-length snippets may not give you enough information and context. Now with the advent of this new technology we have overcome the limitation, that means if you put a long tailed query with more than three words the snippet in that case will be very much exaggerated & detailed enough in order to make you understand what the result that has appeared on SERP (Search Engine Result Page) is about.

Example:

Suppose you were looking for information related to Earth’s rotation around the sun, and specifically wanted to know about its tilt and distance from the sun. So type all of that into Google: [earth's rotation axis tilt and distance from sun]. A general length snippet will not be able to show you the context for all of those words, but with longer snippets you can be sure that the first result covers all those topics. In addition, an extra line of snippets for the third result shows the word “sun” in context, suggesting that the page doesn’t talk about Earth’s distance from the sun:

But don’t just take our word for it — try it out yourself to believe it with your favorite long, detailed query.

These are two recent examples of improvements Google made. They are certainly looking for ways to get us to the web page we want. Even if you do not find all of the changes, rest assured The Google experts are trying hard at work making sure you have the highest quality search experience possible. That is what our FAITH is in Google.

New Kid On Blogger

2008-07-18T12:58:00.000+05:30

Hi All,

Every journey starts with a single step, and here I am SUNIL SINGH and this is the first step of my journey. Miles to go before I fall asleep........

SUNIL SINGH PUNDIR