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Web 2.0: Is it just hype?

For the past year or so, there’s been lots of chattering about this Web 2.0. The term came to life when Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media brainstormed with MediaLive’s Craig Cline.

Is it just another term that Web experts and personalities are spreading to drum up followers and business? If nothing else, many (resources at the end of the article plus we’ll skip quoting the ones that have been quoted a hundred times already) agree the Web is still maturing and it’s changing from “I go get” to “come to me,” says Thomas Vander Wal[1].

The term is hype. That is all it is. Hype. Cry and scream, if you want, but the Web can’t have a label like this. It’s not a project with a start and finish timeline. It evolves. When the first phone came to be, it didn’t get names like Phone 1.0 or Phone BC (before cell). The phone industry involved and now the lines are blurring between phones and Internet connections, even cable television.

But, the thoughts and ideas behind it are important.

Poster children for 2.0

The Web is no longer static and one-way — visitors read content and play no role. Instead, we’re seeing users who participate and connect to each other using services as opposed to Web sites. Applications are no longer limited to desktops or even the Web site itself as more Web-based applications come out.

Sites are becoming more interactive so users aren’t simply sitting and watching the Web go by. They can do something with the content they see, even if it’s not their own and it happens instantly.

Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/), Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/), Writely (http://www.writely.com/), CalendarHub (http://www.calendarhub.com/), ObjectGraph Dictionary (http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/), TuDu (http://app.ess.ch/tudu/welcome.action), and a Periodic Table of the Elements (http://code.jalenack.com/periodic/) are examples of two-way communication that occur in real-time. Go to these sites and play with them. It should be easy to see why these (and few other obvious that don’t need another mention) are the epitome of where the Web is going.

Repeating themes

In most Web 2.0 articles, the following are recurring themes:

*Semantic markup.

*XML.

*Portable content – content crosses paths, appears in multiple places, and connects.

*Users get real-time control.

*Adding metadata, tags, keywords to anything and everything.

Content can go anywhere thanks to RSS feeds and API (application program interface). Feeds allow people to subscribe to a Web site’s content or port them into their own Web sites or mobile devices. Google, Amazon, and eBay have APIs to let developers build applications that use these Web site’s tools. An example of API is adding a Google map to your Web site that shows how to get to your location.

All of these are indicators of the big steps forward we’re seeing on the Web. They should not be grouped and labeled.

I still don’t get it. What is 2.0?

Forget Web 2.0, but not what it represents.

It represents the change in how people and information interact on the Web. It represents designers and developers are thinking about how people use information and that users add value. It represents different approaches for making this happen.

To be honest, writing this article has been difficult. Read the many definitions of Web 2.0 on the Web and no two say the same thing. It’s yet another buzzword. As Rick Segal writes in his post on the topic, “Don’t look for the buzz words to get you into the game or get you a check.”

The term isn’t important. It’s about seeing a change in the Web as users enjoy more real-time control and participation while connecting to each other through many means. So to heck with the “label” and just know the Web is growing up and a lot of things are happening in terms of the advances made to make it a more interactive experience that puts the user in the driver’s seat.

“The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It’s not a real concept. It has no meaning. It’s a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness,” writes Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software .

Vander Wal says, “There is more hype in Web 2.0 than great steps forward.”

Amen.

 

 

 

Aishwarya dispels bikini rumours

On�her 32nd birthday on�November 1, Aishwarya Rai is feeling on top of the world and looking like a million bucks. Is that what she got paid for her performance in Doug Lefler’s Last Legion?

“Ha! I’m not telling. What I’ll tell you is, I’ve never had so much fun acting. So far I was doing lots of roles that required me to play women with a heavy soul — not that I didn’t enjoy that phase of my career — but now I’m finally playing girls who wanna have fun.”

In Last Legion, which she has just shot in Tunisia and Slovakia, she plays a horse-riding, sword-swishing warrior.

“I’ve never done this before. It was really something! There’s a lot of sword fighting. There was hardly any time to prepare, to learn these things. I reached on-location and almost immediately got into it. The whole ambience was so professional and yet so relaxed. All of us were work-oriented, but it wasn’t all work and no play. Everyone was so much into work, and yet having a good time.”

Ash is the main and only female lead in the film. So, is this her true launch into international cine-stardom?

“I don’t see Last Legion that way,” Ash says. “Why do you see it as my international launch? Why are Provoked or Mistress Of Spices not international projects? Because I play Indian characters in them? It doesn’t work that way for me.”

After this film, Ash goes into Umrao Jaan and Dhoom 2. “Both are very different from one another. I’ve never played these kinds of roles before.”

How true are rumours that she is losing weight to fit into a bikini for Dhoom 2?

“There’s no bikini, please! But yes, I’ve definitely lost weight. It’s a process that started earlier for Last Legion. If I had to get on a horse I had to look worthy of it, no? And since in Dhoom 2 I’m playing an utter hip-and-now character, I naturally needed to get more into shape. It was natural process, not one of those dietary missions.

“I had never worked out, never made any effort to lose weight. I’m a total foodie with a sweet tooth. I’ve never tried to control my diet. During Bride & Prejudice and Raincoat the directors did want me to look a little heavy for my characters. But for Last Legion and Dhoom 2 I had to close it. Nothing stipulated in the contract or anything, please! But just something I thought I needed to do.”

Is she in a transitional phase in her career? “I’ve never looked at my career in phases.� There’s never the urge to look at one particular part of my career as all consuming. People from the outside can perhaps categorise different phases in my career. For me everything I do is equally important. You may think some of my earlier films were candyfloss. But believe you me, they were as hard to do as the battered wife in Provoked or the warrior in Last Legion.”

Talk veers to Amitabh Bachchan and his ‘Madam, I’m your only Adam’ declaration in Bunty Aur Babli.

“I didn’t know Mr Bachchan had quietly incorporated that line for me at the end of our number in Bunty Aur Babli,” says Ash.

And she is genuinely surprised when I inform her Madam I’m your Adam has become�a song in David Dhawan’s new comedy Shaadi No 1.

“You can’t be serious! Really? But that was a special line, only for me. They can’t do that,” she grumbles jokingly.

Ten Ways to Keep Your Website Unnoticed on the Internet

If you are a person who likes to keep up with current trends you will know that it is important to have your own website. After all anybody who is Anybody Important has a website of their very own. However one of the dangers of having a website is that someone browsing on the internet might discover it one day and what is worse, actually pause to visit your site and read its contents! They might even be interested stopping for a while to read what you wrote in it, or want to buy the widget you thought might be good to sell as you have more than one of them.

If you would like to reduce the possibilities of that happening be sure to follow these ten tips, and you can be sure that very few people will even know your website exists.

1. Choose an obscure domain name. Make sure the name you select has no relevance to the content of your site, to you or your business. Whatever you do make sure the domain name contains NO keywords that would indicate what your site is about and attract attention when someone searches for a site with your content or product.

2. Do not submit your website URL to any search engines, especially the big ones like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Do not participate in any offers for your website to be submitted to search engines for free.

3. Never add fresh content or pages to your website. In fact it is a better idea to identically duplicate your content on every page.

4. Avoid reading anything about how to promote traffic to your website. One of the strategies might sink into your sub conscious, and you might find yourself promoting your site by accident.

5. Set up your website and then just leave it. Try not even to visit it yourself if possible in case your computer has tracking cookies. Any visits to your site could attract attention.

6. Make sure that you have a generic e mail address that you use all the time. An example of this might be a hotmail or yahoo address. Then when you write emails no one can track down your website through your email address. An address like me @mywebsite.com would just give the game away.

7. Even if you are passionate about writing, do not even consider writing an article and submitting it to a free article submission site such as Articles Beyond Better.Com. The problem with submitting an article is that you have to put something in the resource box which tells other people who you are and how to visit your website and buy your widget. It’s amazing how just one article can be reprinted all over the internet, and read by people all over the world. That kind of exposure is very harmful to secret websites which do not want to receive any visits.

8. Do not put a blog or bulletin board on your website. This just encourages all sorts of visitors who want to read what you write and ask you questions. Some people often make return visits, or even become regular visitors to blogs, forums and bulletin boards. After all it would be terrible if someone actually ‘bookmarked’ your site and came back because they liked it!

9. Do not ever mention or put your website address on your business card, any promotional business material, or as a signature file on every e mail you send.

10. Choose an unreliable hosting service that has a bad reputation. In this way the server will not be up all the time, and people will not be able to access your site even if they wanted to.

By following these guidelines you can be pretty sure that no one will notice that your website exists. I hope you have plenty of money though, and are not wanting to make any income from your website. The problem with a website that is un noticed is that you still have to pay your hosting server every month for the privilege of your website taking up space on their server even if no one comes to visit it.

Rarely Available Photos

Tim Berners Lee — Founder of the World Wide Web

Picture taken when microsoft was started.

Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers.
He was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn’t get any better name for his new company.
So one day he told to the staff: “If I’ll not get better name by 5 o’clcok today, our company’s name will be anything he likes…”
so at 5 o’clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time…
so he keep the name of the company ‘Apple Computers’

Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP.
Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
And the winner was NOT Bill… the winner was Dave.

Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’.
B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
He later called it C.

Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google.
Google was originally named ‘Googol’.
After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor…
they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’ !…
So they kept name as GOOGLE

Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’.
But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain…
So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics… INTEL

Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems.
Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him;
Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it;
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer…
SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network .

Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS.
Hence the working name was Linux (Linus’ Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x).
His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded.
Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.
Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX…

AND THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN WHEN SUPERHIT SHOLEY WAS STARTED……

They were looking at ashrani when he was doing practice first time with his funny Jailer’s dress…

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Titan’s long-sought sea revealed by radar

The first sea discovered on any surface other than Earth’s may have been found on Saturn’s moon Titan.

New radar images from the Cassini spacecraft, which made its eighth close approach to the moon on 7 September, have revealed what appears to be a very distinct shoreline, fed by meandering channels carved deeply in the surrounding terrain.

The dark, flat region next to the bright shoreline “is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past”, says Steve Wall, Cassini radar team deputy leader from NASA-JPL.

And several long sinuous channels can be seen cutting through the bright region and ending at the shoreline, suggesting the existence of an Earth-like cycle of evaporation, rainfall and river systems to carry the liquid back to the sea. But instead of water, the liquid in this case is believed to be methane, kept liquid at Titan’s -179°C surface temperature.

Thick atmosphere

Seas of liquid methane, perhaps mixed with other hydrocarbons, had long been expected on Titan, the second-largest moon in the solar system. It is also the only moon with a thick atmosphere – thicker than Earth’s.

Seas seemed necessary to explain the amount of methane seen in Titan’s atmosphere. The fact that no clear evidence for such seas had been found was one of the big mysteries of the Cassini mission.

“We’ve been looking for evidence of oceans or seas on Titan for some time,” Wall says. The quest was one of the main goals of the four-year Cassini mission. The discovery of the new features suggests Titan may indeed have periodic episodes of methane rainfall.

Ellen Stofan, another radar team scientist, says the network of bright channels indicate “that fluids, probably liquid hydrocarbons, have flowed across this region”.

Some of the channels extend more than 100 kilometres, says Larry Soderblom of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona. The channels appear to be of two different types, some long and deep with few tributaries, others forming denser networks. “Some of them may have been fed by springs, while others are more complicated networks that were likely filled by rainfall,” Soderblom said.

Earth analogue

Titan’s abundance of hydrocarbons, thick atmosphere, and now evidence for the presence of large volumes of liquid, means it is considered a close analogue of the early Earth.

It may even host some of the early complex chemistry that on Earth led to the first living organisms, but whose traces have long been obliterated here. Cassini project scientist Dennis Matson has called Titan a “time machine” for studying how the early Earth “evolved into a life-bearing planet”.

But exploring the new-found sea further will be tricky. Two coincidental glitches caused half of the data from the radar flyby to be lost. One glitch affected the spacecraft’s data recording system, the other the receiving antenna in Goldstone, California, US.

Even worse, the region will not fall within the radar’s view on any of Cassini’s 37 remaining Titan approaches. However, all the data from Cassini’s cameras and spectroscopes was saved and may reveal more details of the features.

Cassini’s next close flyby of Titan will take place on 26 October and will focus on the region where the Huygens landing probe hurtled down to Titan’s surface in December 2004.

Instant messenger could control hacked computers

A US computer programmer has created a software robot that uses instant messenger – a program that allows people to exchange messages over the internet in real time – to control a computer remotely.

So-called “chatterbotsâ€? have been created in the past, allowing programmers to use IM to automatically upload files from their computer. But “Nmapbot”, created by Virginia-based Abe Usher, is the first that allows someone to scan a remote network for machines that could be hacked into. Nmapbot also allows a hacker to use compromised machines to launch a denial of service attack.

Usher has released the bot to highlight potential security risks posed by IM. But he says that Nmapbot is also a useful tool for computer security personnel, allowing them to patrol networks from out of the office using a PDA or cellphone equipped with IM.

“This is one of those dual-use tools that can be used for good and for evil,� says Ron Gula, chief technology officer at intrusion detection firm Tenable Network Security in Columbia, Maryland.

Flaw in Google Desktop Search

A flaw in Google’s desktop search program was revealed on Monday by a team of computer researchers. They showed it could be used to capture valuable personal information from a remote user’s computer.

Google Desktop Search (GDS) lets users quickly hunt for files and documents stored on their computer using a web browser. After installation, the program runs in the background – indexing documents, emails, instant messaging conversations and web browser history – so that searches bring up results almost instantly.

Dan Wallach at Rice University in Texas, US, and two students, Seth Nielson and Seth Fogarty, discovered the flaw shortly after the application was released on 14 October 2004. They developed demonstration code to exploit the flaw and steal search results via a web page.

A query entered into Google on a computer running the desktop search program automatically adds results from the computer itself to results from the web. The researchers suspected that the way GDS integrates these results could prove a potential weak spot.

 

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