News coverage – social networking leading the race?
I ‘heard’ the news, long before it was aired on Television or published on online news channels.
My source was not reliable, but the news did turn out to be true. I saw the news flashing on Twitter and Facebook. People awaiting confirmation from news media on Michael Jackson’s death had numerous – almost ‘live’- status changes.
This got me thinking, was it the timing when I logged in to the networking site or was there more to the way I first heard the news?
I did a little investigation and this is what I found.
Word of mouth still the most effective means to transmit information, eh!
My eyes barely awake
I drift along, into that land of sand where children are protected by cubes of life that drift and weave their way in canals like veins in the sand.
Just yesterday I was at a neigbourhood where Squash was played outdoors with gates wide open, replaced by sliding cloth mesh.
How could I see those rituals amidst the Pyramids and those goons that the three friends caught
Ancient traditions and modern neighbourhoods. Shopping with friends and movie premiers. Goats as lawn movers, block tournaments and parties.
Were these stories that you told me, or was I sleeping.
Happy to Work?
Hakims Aalim Revisited
I believe that service should not be judged based on one visit but rather be reviewed after at least three visits, this is true for restaurant’s and Hair and Tattoo Lounges ( in this case for Hakim Aalim, Hyderabad).
Hence, after my fourth visit to this salon, I thought it was high time to re-review.
Despite my first impressions (read post here), I did revisit this place as the quality and speed of growth of my hair showed visible improvement soon after.
All my subsequent visits have been satisfactory and despite the initial disappointment, I would recommend this place for getting your hair styled. Although I still find the price for their services to be steep, I have yet to come across a better place within Hyderabad in terms of the quality of service.
You can visit them at : http://www.hakimsaalim.com/nodes/home , to get further information on their products and services.
Over
As real as the countdown half way through the year
As real as I wash the world off and climb into dreams
As real as the bells that slowly will fill the year
As real as the closing of another chapter
As real as the feeling that life’s grace period is O..V..E..R
BING – Bingo! or Bin-go?
Microsoft has launched a new search engine BING (But It’s Not Google).
It does not take genius to know that on internet what flourishes is based on networking and recall – two areas where Google has a strong hold. With estimates quoting that $100 million will be spend on promoting the product, the approach to gain ‘following’ is quite unlike the path Google took to achieve its phenomenal success.
While ‘Bing’ is launched with great expectations, it remains to be seen how well it will be received.
The key issue that Bing faces, is not about being as good as Google, or being better than Google, but to be phenomenally better than Google. From what I can see, while Bing can claim fame by ‘But it’s not Google’, it would only be a matter of time before Google could come up with further enhancement.
What could however work in Bing’s favour is the number of people using the Internet Explorer , who will be auto directed to Bing when they type an unidentified address in the address bar.
One aspect that I noticed while checking Bing was the uncanny similarity of the search results page to those displayed by Clusty (a lesser known search engine, which also promised to deliver a better experience than Google.)
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“Life is pretty simple. You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
Interview
Q. So Ms/Mr. , please tell us briefly about your positive qualities.
A. I have a dashing personality and love to take challenges, my name spells of courage and innovativeness and my ‘friends’ have voted me the geek of the group.
Q. Can you justify all the qualities that you have mentioned above?
A. Well, my facebook quizzes tell me so and they have to be right, right? And thanks to the quiz feeds, there is a record of the same and all my ‘friends’ can vouch, that all of it is true.
Interviewer almost faints.
Q. Is there anything else that you would want us to know?
A. Yes, I will die of a shark attack when I am 42, which by the way is cool by me because I am a COOL ZOOZOO.
Eke ke ke ke !
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