Dear Sampath

A personal tragedy. Think about a man who even after his death, was able to get thousands of people for his funeral. People of all social strata coming and paying respect to him. His employees in his farm, factory crying that they will never get another boss like him. The same employees turning to the house next day, so that in case family needs help they can be of use. Local leaders cutting across party lines coming and paying their respects. Everyone stating how that person has helped them and never has asked for help atleast once. That person was my cousin Sampath Kumar. I am missing him so much that the memory haunts me and it is three days after he left our family and earth. Sampath the entire vennarbank and its surroundings is missing you. You have not just left us alone but the entire place whom you served.

i still remember the days you took me to quiz to Sivakasi and you were the only person who actually answered atleast some questions. I still remember you talking to me last month about how the factory is progressing and how your new compound is better than all chem engineers put together. I remember how you strove for all temple renovation jobs and took care of all the people who came to the house. I remember how you took care of your mother[my aunt] alone with still doing all other jobs.

I do not know what to say... You are my brother and i will remember you forever....

Android

Got an android phone and it is 6 months and still cannot stop playing around with it. First i tried updating official ROMS [android OS for un initiated] and then moved to custom roms. I am using cyanogenmod now. www. cyanogenmod.com. Please check on how a team of guys are able to do things which officially all the bigwigs of Mobile companies are unable to do.

1. They are able to provide OS updates ontime and not like the service providers and mobile manufacturers who take ages [ means more than a year].

2. They are able to provide nightly builds which means constant resolving of issues.

Also they are willing to stretch for any new phones that come and also help people who want to provide the same for other not so familiar phones.

CyanogenMod Rocks

Handling information overdose

With so much information in EMail, Web , and Web Links i am finally running out of patience, imagination in handling, reading and archiving them. Assuming all the mails i get, all the web pages i read and all web links lead to correct indicated information, still it will take ages before i can be on par for information i have today. But then new information come and catch up continues. Of course i need to work for my living....

So i am going to hereon filter the information i get. No more all tech info which sounds interesting.... I know it means i will miss a lot of information. But then i can concentrate on my core.......

Till then........

How to capture the market

Recently i was thinking on how companies capture their relative market. For example microsoft captured desktop market by opening up and giving api's when none did . Also it encouraged 3rd party providers and worked symbiotically with them. Currently reliance communications in India captured market by offering phones as well as call rates at throw away prices, when mobile phone and call rates were high in india. In both these cases the market tilted to these companies because they reached the non users by offering services at lower cost which were thought to be premium in nature.

Now comes the google part. how did it did it ?

First search engine. no wonder it made the task easy because of faster results and clear UI
But the real stuff is not that. Then google ventured into everything and anything where they can get user information. Search is probably a best indicator of what people needs. They offered search as service when others offered it as add-on. They understood that people search more than any other action being done on web. They out thought the giants, since they are nimble and also they were also end users at that time.

Now comes the question of what domination of market brings in. Microsoft did dictates its own terms. So is reliance in telecom sector in india.

But the real difference in google is that it needs is sponsors to grow for it to grow. That is the reason for gmail, with context sensitive ads, blog, writely, froogle, and finally wi-fi. It eventually points out is that google is offering all these products free at the cost of getting information about each and every user. Google may not and i am sure will not sell this info. I believe in their ethics more than they do. But they can still target ads on me, create a nudge wink kinda situation where little pointers of ads by google tipping the favour for the respective brands due to google targetted advertising.

Long story and out of way by me,...

Another useful idea

Nowadays i am stunned and surprised with so much creative implementations in web.

For example the site http://www.dodgeit.com/
Whenever you need to give an email to a site you can just give anything@dodgeit.com. Then you can go to the site and login with the email-id [anything] and check the mail. Do this for places where you need to give email-id to download something or access something. Do not give this type of id where you expect an important mail or that has password for a registration.

Another creative thing is http://myemail.com. Here you just give your username password for any POP3/IMAP server you need and it can login to that account. Very simple idea but nonetheless extremely creative as well.

Laslo Mail - New Rich Internet Experience

Recently i saw this Laslo mail with lots of reviews tomtomming its rich features. So decided to check myself. The registration process is simple. Then went to the UI. Liked it pretty much, You can do all the changes for setting, composing in one page itself. its so simple. Also i never saw this page getting refreshed. So no waste of time.
Check the screen shot above.
The webLink is http://www.laslomail.com

See the supposed advantages features.

We've taken a completely different approach than, say, AOL and Google," said John Foltz, the product manager for EarthLink's e-mail using Laslo. "It doesn't behave like a Web page at all."

Among the features possible with something like Flash, he went on, are keyboard shortcuts identical to those used in desktop mail clients such as Outlook -- the Delete key erases messages, a Shift-Click maneuver selects multiple messages -- a single page interface, and in-the-background mail transmission.

Foltz hammered on the single page interface idea. "There's never a page refresh, so it works exactly like a desktop application," he said. "Web e-mail is certainly more convenient [than POP3-based mail], but people don't use Web mail more because it's so slow. We're addressing that."

When clicking on a message header, for instance, to see its content, a user of Enhanced Webmail sees the message body in a preview pane almost immediately, and without the browser redrawing the page. The most current messages, in fact, are pre-cached when the user heads to the site, so that message content appears instantly.

"It behaves very much like Outlook," Foltz said, comparing it to the popular Microsoft e-mail application.

The interface is also significantly more customizable than the new version of Web e-mail just rolled out by AOL, promised Foltz, who demonstrated how users will be able to resize panes and reposition elements in the browser window.

Out the gate, Enhanced Webmail will offer 100MB of storage for each mailbox (each EarthLink account can have as many as eight mailboxes), but the ISP plans to boost that to 1GB -- matching Google's free Gmail -- by the third quarter.

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Microsoft Vista is available for CPP...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx. The expiry of this software is July 7th 2007. RC1 will also be available here when it is ready.
Cheers