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Monday, 29 August 2011

What is What???



There are many things, words, phenomenon which we use and take experience in our day to day life but can't define them. For example: Love, Kiss, Facebook, Twitter, Jan Lokpal Bill (nowadays most popular on net in India), Emotions etc.
If Interested, read on :

Love: 
It is one of the most difficult as well as interesting question for the mankind. Love can’t be defined by just simple two lines or 3-4 words. Love is other name of patience, kindness, intimacy, attachment, emotional bonding, friendship etc. Love can be considered as Polymer made up by joining different small units. The best thing of Love is that in this we focus only goodness of other person. It doesn’t matter how you define love but it is the eternal truth.

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Facebook :
Facebook is a social networking site launched in February 2004. This site helps in making a personal profile adding other users as friends and exchange messages. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates.

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Kiss
It is an art of expressing your  feelings and sentiments. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. At some places kiss is used to express sentiments of love, passion while at some places it is used to express affection, greeting, friendship.In some conditions kiss is a symbolic gesture of indicating devotion, respect or greeting.

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Gandhism
According to Wikipedia “Gandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Gandhiji” In other words we can say that following the Principles of Gandhiji like truth and non-violence and practicing them is known as Gandhism.

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Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging site, founded by Jack Dorsey in March 2006. Twitter describes itself as, “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” But nowadays Twitter is one of the most important tool for online marketing that enables its users quick exchange of information and viral marketing.

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Jan Lokpal Bill
The Jan Lokpal Bill is a draft anti corruption bill according to which there will be a appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases and complete the investigation within a year.
Institution called Lokpal at the centre and Lokayukta in each state will be set up..These institutions will be completely independent of the governments like Supreme Court and Election Commission and no minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

For More:
http://opal20.blogspot.com/2011/08/anna-name-is-enough.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lokpal_Bill 

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/what-is-the-jan-lokpal-bill-why-its-important-96600 

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Clash Of The Titans


With the launch of Google plus everyone has started comparing the two giants of digital era i.e. Facebook and Google plus. First of all I want to give a big compliment to Google+ for their successful launch. Many ‘new’ social networks have failed miserably, but Google+ has immediately become the part of many’s life.

What is Google Plus?

According to Wikipedia “Google+ is a social networking service operated by Google Inc. The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only "field testing" phase.
Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and introduces new services Circles, Hangouts, Sparks, and Huddles. Google+ is available as a web site, will be available as a desktop application and is already available as a mobile application, but only on the Android and iOS operating systems.”
According to  The New York Times Google+ is Google's biggest attempt to rival the social network Facebook  which had over 750 million users in 2011.

Lets have a look between difference and similarities among the features provided by Facebook and Google+ :-

1) Friends:

You send friend request to your friend and you can share things with him only when he accepts your request. But in Google+ there is a feature called Circles in which you can drag your friends and other persons of similar interests for getting updates from them and they add you in their circles to get updates from you.

2) Chatting Service:
The chatting service is available in facebook as well as google+. Both of them provide the group chatting service as well. So at this instance both are at equal.

3) Video Call Service:
The video calling has been recently introduced in facebook but this service is better in google+ in the form of Hangouts. This google+ service overtakes the points from facebook.

4) Friends List:
The friend list in facebook is managed under Friends, whereas this list is managed as Circles in google+. Managing Circles is really very simple and it is really user friendly as compared to facebook.

5) Notifications:
The notification on google+ can be seen and managed from any google application at the top right corner of the screen. You dont need necessarily to be on the Google+ application to view notification. But in facebook you need to login to your facebook account to view your notifications. Notifications for both the applications are manageable and can be managed from settings.

6) Search Friends:
Searching the friends and adding them in your group is really simple in google+ as compared to that in Facebook. As google+ is also associated with your gmail account its easy to invite number of friends on a single click. This is not available in facebook.

7) Sharing updates, videos, links and photos:
Sharing your updates, videos, links and photos is very much similar in both FB as well as G+. But google+ has extra advantage of sending the email update regarding the sharing to the users who are not on G+, this feature is not with FB.

8) Messages:
This feature of sending the messages is only in facebook and not in google+. But instead of this user can use the gmail service for mailing a private message.

9 ) Like or 1+:
This is used when any user likes any post or comment by other user. In facebook user can click Like button whereas in G+ user has to click 1+ button to like.
 
Conclusion:


Google plus can be considered as one more attempt to challenge Facebook’s domination of the social networking  business. According to Google,  Google+ is more than a social product, or even a social strategy, it’s an extension of Google itself. Hence in other words Google is trying to mimic the real world environment with the help of Google+.
Google also has an advantage right now. They are the name in search engines, with over two thirds of the market share. They have their own browser, their own mobile phone OS and still process a ton of queries that lead to Facebook’s pages. 
Although Google is getting hit from all the angles by its opponents but hopefully Google+ will be proved as a Knock Out Punch for them.