How would you term a person worth $5 Million, $10 Million and $100 Million? Here is how,
tags: Millionaires, Million, Terminology, How do you?
I’m not sure if the mainstream media and the public is fully aware of the US Immigration fairlessness and the hardship legal immigrants face before getting past the immigration gate. One good example is the latest fiasco by the USCIS/DOS on it’s Visa Bulletin game. You can read a little bit about this fiasco from here. It looks like not just the poor legal immigrants but the employers as well go thru this hardship it seems and one good example is this move by Microsoft to open up a development center in Vancouver, Canada.
Read the full story from here.
Tags: Microsoft, Immigration, News, Development Center, Canada, Vancouver
To a surprise I got this error this morning when I was on my Google Calendar. I’ve never seen this error before and thought it could be something different. May be it’s just me. The error was described in 18 different languages though I don’t know what all those languages are.
Here is a snapshot,
tags: Google, Google Error, Multilingual, Google Calendar, Different, New Stuff
I was looking at the latest research stuff from Microsoft, HD View. It’s really an awesome application that let’s you zoom in so deep that I was able to see the people standing on top of the Seattle Space Needle.. While taking a virtual tour around Seattle Downtown I noticed this, which looks to me as a bug. Notice the pole that has the US Flag. Is that looking unrealistic to you?
May be I’m testing this free for Microsoft. I love Microsoft products and I don’t mind doing this on my free time.
Well done Microsoft Research Team. I hope you guys put in more pictures to view.
Microsoft Research HD View
tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Research, HD View, Bug
eWeek runs a report on the top 10 flubs to avoid at an IT interview. Here is a gist of it,
Read the full article from here.
MSN Money has an advice article on 20 ways we waste money on our cars. I particularly like their advice on the oil change schedule. Some of ‘em are really useful and simple to follow.
Read the full article here.
Here is what I get when I hit ScobleShow.com or http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/
Looks like something wrong.
Update: Looks like it’s working fine now. Thank you Scoble.
Seth Godin has a great idea of commercializing CAPTCHA’s. The idea is great because as so many people reads blogs and leaves comments and even logs-in to Web 2.0 services these days it is a great way of an advertising stream because they have to read the CAPTCHA’s before typing the text.
One of my favorite video blog on the internet, The ScobleShow, by my favorite blogger Robert Scoble, has gone premium with its flash video player. It used to be that you have to launch a new window or a popup to play the content but now Scoble has upgraded the site to play the video with in the same window itself (like what YouTube does).
I like the change much better even though it lost the flexibility in adjusting the size of the video. For interviews like with Om Malik it’s okay to have the small in-built video player but for some videos where people demo stuffs the flexibility to adjust the size of the video would be a darling. I’m sure he will have that in no time.
Good job Scoble. Way to go!!!
Take a look at the way the “Messenger Relay” system relays your Windows Live messages from one end to the other. (Click on the image to see the full view)
Here is how the whole thing flies around,
1. The user starts the session by double clicking a contact.
2. The user’s Windows Live ID credentials are sent across to the Windows Live ID Credentials server for further verification
3. The information is passed through a incoming only firewall to the dispatch server. This is the first point of connection for the message being sent.
4. Depending where the user is in the world, a connection will be made to the local notification server. There are main ones in Singapore, Dublin, Redmond and Reading. This keeps the connection between the two users alive, and keeps things updated such as user status, chat requests and email notifications from Windows Live Mail/Hotmail.
5. The message itself doesn’t go near the notification servers – it is passed onto the switchboard server which is the where all the messages and files are exchanged. The user starting the chat can talk to one user, whilst using another switchboard session to talk to someone else, and another switchboard session for someone else still – without even knowing it. Invitations, file transfers and video/voice chat are also sent through here.
6. The information is then relayed back through an outgoing firewall and checks the user is still online. If the user is offline by the time the message is ready to be received, then it’ll bounce back and be saved on the switchboard session until the user logs back on again. If they are online, they will receive the message.
Source: http://www.msblog.org
You must have heard this…it’s one of the hot news in the blogosphere. “Microsoft is giving away some of the powerful laptops around, loaded with Vista, to some of the bloggers”. That’s the story.
Lately, the blogosphere was packed with the leaders of the blogosphere talking about whether it’s ethical to accept such an offer, is it okay to keep the gift or just give it away etc.
Robert Scoble thinks that it’s an awesome idea from Microsoft to giveaway the preloaded Vista laptops. Joel at Joel on Software says that Scoble was wrong and Microsoft in essence was bribing the bloggers to write about their product. It’s kind of a war of opinions flying around in the blogosphere.
I think it might not be an awesome idea but at the same time it might not be considered as bribing. Microsoft was not forcing you to write about their product and you are not obliged to write about just because you’ve accepted the gift. They say it would be nice if they review about it but they don’t force you to do so. It’s not a cheap marketing for them as well because the bloggers who’ve got the gift was already blogging about Microsoft products. So it’s not in anyway a cheap marketing campaign.
It might not be an awesome idea because it might trigger a biased blogosphere as bloggers might target that niche to be in line for the next years gift. The reviews might be one sided and might not be true enough. That way it wasn’t a great idea to send a gift preloaded with a specific product (particularly your own).
But I would take it as being a gift from Microsoft for writing all year about their product.
PS: Sorry for not posting to my blog for a while. I wasn’t in a position to post to my blog these days. I hope I should be able to resume my regular posting habit from now on.
Did you notice lately that, after Google has grabbed YouTube, it has become a bit slow? I’ve noticed lately that when it comes to streaming it’s taking more time than before to stream-ahead (buffer) the bytes. It has become annoying to a level that it interferes with the user experience.
Mighty Google…can you hear me?
