Thursday, December 01, 2005

Blog From Flock Web browser

I had this browser(Flock) from the day it was first released and had no major problems.

Go ahead and get it..its cool and the reason is you get to do cool things with it. I am not going to repeat all those here except for this one- Blogging directly from the flock browser. If you see something interesting while your browsing you can just copy a quote or link, hit the feather button on the browser which opens a new window then point to your blog and paste you content or add new content and publish.

Yes this blog was done that way- from FLOCK browser.

Monday, September 26, 2005

Googleblog:Putting crowd wisdom to work


I just came across this googleblog item   Crowd Wisdom. Its a google insider project, predictive market system inside the company. Let take an example of predicting product launch dates, as this system is available to all google personnal for betting to predict, its not reflective in terms of developement time, so it might be some strategic date. you bet on something better if there is large amount of relating data which can be accessed to extract information. I guess this data is readily available from billions of google searches. can google steal

"Now one of the things we're thinking about is what to do with it."- Help Dominos sell pizza.

Profile all the searches with the words relating to pizza for a particular area or zipcode. Lets say this number is 1000, now dominos can use this number and compare with the number of actual sales on that zipcode say its 100. so you know, you might have missed 900 people in that particular zipcode area. Do this for all the locations and offer crazy deals where you are losing the most customer and get them the taste of spicy chicken wings to keep them hooked on.

How effective can the above approach be? Locals have set preferences, like I just want dominos but if I move to a new area and want to get pizza- obviously I google for pizza and find most of the major pizza places within 4-5 miles but see this crazy deal from dominos so even if my fav was papa jones I might want to go for dominos this once. After this its all very simple- dominos number gets into my cell phone, if its a pickup I will know the driving directions etc etc This establishes the association of person to the place and probability of more bussiness is for sure increased.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Why I fear Google Search all of a sudden

I use google almost all the time. I never had this feeling but today somethings stopping me from doing a google search. I think I have a good idea for a software application and pretty sure about no app providing such a service. I dont want to research using google because google will be seeing everything, think I am paranoid may be. Privacy is one thing, in this case may be I cannot be linked to what I am doing online but may be what i am doing online is of more importance.

just for speculation, if I have a innovative idea and use google search to see if there is something already available, I may be giving away particular information resulting in someone guessing about the idea. Just some thoughts!!

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Blog using Email

I am just checking this feature of blogging through email.
 
There are so many ways to blog.
1.Blog by logging into the blogger site online.
2.Use a standalone blogging software like wblogger.
3.Setup an email in the blog settings pages to just send your blog items as email to that address and get them published.
4.Blog directly from microsoft word.
5.Setup your mobile phone and blog from your phone.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Cool use of Gmail space

This app is cool. The huge gmail account space is put to good use other than mail.
Check this out GMail-Drive-shell-extension
Install that and you will see a Gmail drive in you' My computer' then right click on the drive and chose 'login as' to give your gmail username and password and its done. Now your ready to use the drive like you use your other drives. Drag and drop files create folder etc. Make good use of all the gmail space.

All files are sent as emails behind the scenes so if you actively use the gmail account create a filter to directly archive those messages.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

In Quantum states

Quantum computers may not be a reality soon but the multiverse(multiple universes) are deep. This topic of quantum stuff got me into so many sites today- its involves, physics, chemistry and Mathematics. The very concept of exsistance of multiple universes is amazing. I was particularly impressed by the concept of information loss causing limted computer performance due to heat. If two bits are input to an AND gate the ouput is only one bit i.e either 1 or 0, loss of one bit- loss of information? Yes as the inputs cannot be deduced from the outputs.

Lossless gate-Send three inputs A,B,C and at the output should be A unchanged,(B as the AND value of A,C), C unchanged. Now you know what all the inputs were from the just the outputs? yeah A and C are unchanged so you know them and now what input was B, can be found by doing an exclusive OR of B and A times C.


Quantum Computing link
Other Links
Physics web

While you are there, also check the Shor's Quantum level algorithm.
Also think about this, whats something not imaginary nor invisible, like a rock for example, yet can never be seen with your own eyes. OK you can find something related searching for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Check out the links on my Blog

Interested in playing some word jumbles....
http://www.jumble.com/play.html

Interested in some really..realy extreme sports ...
http://www.reevolution.tv/main.php

Connect with friends

Yeah I am posting from the w.blogger tool and unfortunately it didnt work for Jroller. Should look into getting it fixed sometime but for now I am going to see how this will show up on my blogger blog.

ok some news now... Feedreader is a cool free software to read all the RSS/Atom feeds... actually Jroller provides a rss feed of your blog. So its like you can set up w.blogger to post to jroller and setup the feed reader to pull up your feed automatically. Its like you can produce and consume :)

Anyway download wblogger >setup blog accounts >post> send your friends link to get feedreader and your feed url and your connected!!

Thats it for now....Enjoy Blogging

New to Blogging

I have not been a blogger for so long. I also have a blog on Jroller.
used http://wbloggar.com/download.php to have a windows app to post easily and found blogger, so to reach out to more people subscribed in here. Its nice that I can set up these accounts on my wbloggar and directly post from my machine..though have to check and see if wblogger allows me to post simultaneously to all my subscribed accounts. That would be a good feature...going to check it out now.