Moving my blog
I have decided to move all my blogs to
http://heysundar.blogspot.com/. Initially i thought about categorizing my thoughts and writing it in seperate blogs. Hence i went for seperate blog sites. since im not an avid blogger yet, i wanted to write one blog and want to have some focus. The following blogs are discontinued from today and moved to
http://heysundar.blogspot.com/,
Discontinued blogs,
http://businessbeat.blogspot.com/
http://clickbeat.blogspot.com/
http://technologybeat.blogspot.com/
So from now visit
http://heysundar.blogspot.com to read my blog!!
Happy surfing!! Hope you like it!
Changing trends in Inbox
Few weeks before i checked
New Yahoo Mail Beta. It's an Ajax interface. It changes the traditional look of web based mail and it looks more like Outlook. It was cool... And found that many of the mail providers are changing the face of their inbox. Some of them are
Microsoft live mail,
Rediffmail. Gmail too an Ajax based one, but it still keeps the traditionla look of the mailbox. I sometimes had a feeling that, in future will all these email providers change the face of inbox? May be, but still there are some who love the traditional look of the Inbox, Iam one among them.
Ubuntu
"ubuntu" means Humanity to others. This is a new Linux distribution had its first release on 20-Oct-2004. It is based on Debian linux and the recent version 6.06(Code Name: Dapper Drake) was released on 01-Jun-2006. It is sponsered by Canonical Ltd. As many other linux distributions, this is also a free distribution. Its not just free to download, you can also order free CD's from its
Shipit website. It also has some other distributions named Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. I came across this ubuntu recently while reading about it the Linux4U magazine. I was just trying out some Technology magazine. I tried out DeveloperIQ, PCQuest, ITWorld, MSDN MAgazine, TechNet Magazine and Linux4U. Out of which
MSDN magazine was the best and it has what im looking for. It has free online version. And coming back to Ubuntu... I ordered the CD's and waiting for it to Try Ubuntu.....
FON - Will it be the future?
FON is a relatively new term in the blogsphere. FON is nothing but a software program which allows its users to share the
WiFi broadband acces. They call it as WiFi revolution(In the
official Site). The FON users are called as "Foneros". The Foneros can be of three types, they are Linus, Bill and Alien. Linus is the user who uses WiFi for Free and also shares his/her WiFi for Free with others. The concept is, share your WiFi bandwidth at home and use WiFi all over the world(For Free).Bill, As the name suggests Bill is the user who shares his/her WiFi for some money and pays 50% of what the Alien users pay for using FON. Aliens are the users who pay some modest fee for using FON and they never share their WiFi. FON is still in beta stage and available only for Linus users. As of now FON is
covered only in US and Spain, the company said rest of the countries will be covered soon. FON was unvield recently in Jan, 2006 at an Oreilly conference. Martin Varsavsky is the man behind the spain based FON company.
Will it Fly??As noted above FON is called as the WiFi revolution by the company which promotes it. Before concluding whether it is a revolution or not we have to weigh some obvious things about FON.
First thing is that, it is still in the beta stage. So we are not sure whether it is secure enough to open our WiFi access for everyone. Internet, apart from its benifits, it is also notorious for virususes, hacking etc. So security will be a prime concern in FON.
The second thing about FON is the issue of sharing WiFi bandwidth openly. Will the Broad band(ISP) companies allow their users to share the WiFi openly to everyone? It is an hindrance for FON, but still there are some companies which allows users to share their WiFi through FON. Mind it, only some companies allows that, not many. Will many ISP's follow the suit? Only time gives the answer, lets wait and see. The third factor is you need a router for using FON as a linus user. For now the only compaitable router is Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL. So there are not many options for the router.
And finally FON is dependent on WiFi and ISP providers, since WiFi is not as popular as a wired connection there is a long way to go for FON. WiFi may be popular is some countries, but it is not largely popular in third world countries. By saying not popular i mean WiFi did not reach most of the homes & companies yet.
Pros of FONBeing as a startup does it gets the attention of biggies? Yes it is. In february FON recieved funding of $21.7 Million from Google, Skype and other
VC's & it had started becoming the buzzword in net. So thats a great boost for FON. The three cons of FON which are specified above are just difficulties that should be overcome to make FON a success. What i think is FON will be successful in the long run, but it will take more time to fly high!!!
Ajax - The way the web is becoming!
Web is becoming the Ajax way! Many web sites are becoming Ajax sites. Recently I checked out some of the Ajax sites...
NetVibes was one among them.This is one of the fewer sites which implemented Ajax long time ago. It was cool! I liked the RSS reader in Netvibes. It was instant and as fast as desktop applications. But i use my.yahoo.com for reading RSS content. So it will take time for me to shift to NetVibes. Rather shifting to NetVibes I expect MyYahoo to go for Ajax.
Google:Google is the one which popularised the Ajax, by implementing it in Gmail, Google Maps, Google Suggest and many more... Recently Google Finance was released, which is also an implementation of Ajax. Adding fuel for fire, Microsoft recently released
Atlas. It is a framework for developing Ajax applications.
WordProcessor:Recently
AjaxWrite was released. I couldnt check out AjaxWrite because it is asking for
FireFox. There are many similar Ajax word processors on the net.
Zoho Writer was another one. We can create DOC/PDF/HTML documents using these online word processors. These online proceesors are said to be the alternative for Microsoft Word. But i feel that these cannot replace Microsoft Word Or Openoffice. I feel that these Ajax word processors are similar to WordPad which we use in windows. Recently Google acquired
Writely, another online wordprocessor. Writley is there for quite some time than AjaxWrite and Zoho writer.
What Ajax is?Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is a group of technologies which make the web applications more interactive than before.Eager to know about Ajax??? The
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications article gives a clear picture about Ajax. This is the article which coined the term AJAX. Ajax involves JavaScript, XML, HTML and CSS. These technologies exists for quite long time... Ajax uses older technologies to create newer generation of applications. New way of creating web applications, which gives rich interactive applications for the user in no time!
