Way to Wave - welcome NexGen!

Just an hour into the 1 hr 20 min presentation and 5-10 mins into fiddling around with Google Wave, tells me that Google has ushered in a new era which other tools and 2.0 apps seem to be aiming at...but never were!...

Wave is a new definition of doing productive work and for the first time I would say, has a large potential corporate market rather than an internet audience by way of Wave....

let me go with the wave and see some more tides before I can wave about it....:)

Bye for now...and happy waving!
Rajesh

A dash with the mystic

I should say i have always been circumspect with mystics and *Saamiyaars* due to obvious reasons....but went into Isha Yoga centre with an open mind and just to improve by physical self....it was a packaged 7 day course and we had a very good dash at the Master fondly called *Satguru*, known to the world as *Satguru Jaggi Vasudev*...!!

I should say I am amazed at the credibility he brings to his talks....purely because he has experienced it. There is a lot of science in his thought process and he exuberates them in each of his musings!!

I should say the world of inner-self is very profound and unfathomable for the un-altered person..!! One should experience the Isha yoga courses for the dive with-in...

You can talk to me if you want a first hand experience of how this initiator course *Sambhavi Maha Mudra* was...upfront Answer is excellent!!...

-Rajesh

truly a rage! - twitter...by an old-skool guy

initially I was all cynicism about twitter for it microblogging purely because I was an old skool guy and a blogger since 2004!

I thought *why wouldn't I blog 20 times a day but choose twitter to do the same?*

yeah. there is a difference! nobody has the time in the world to compose a blog post and tell a storyline! all they have time is to impress their feelings in some social web 2.0 medium..

and blogging even when integrated in god-knows-where applications/widegts isnt followed that efficiently as you would have expected....

but stuff ala twitter are designed with minute-made tracking at the unit level. Why twitter has become popular is parallel to why orkut became more popular than something like Hi5. Because more people are on Orkut, its easy to network. Same is the case with tweeter.

plus one more point i have observed is that there are a lot more credible celeb accounts in Twitter than in orkut, dont catch me saying I am reviewing twitter with orkut, just a similar line note...thats it....

i think more credible accounts is mainly due to the nature of usage that people envisage out of twitter!

I just read through Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Shashi Tharoor, Rasmus Lerdorf and a hand full of opensource geeks around the world!!! its real and you feel you are in striking distance of getting a peek at the lives of these people!!

i am actually getting engrossed into twitter much like how i spent 6 hours a day in orkut back in 2005!!!

at the same time, I dont think blogging the old-skool way (through blogger, live journal, word press) would lose its sheen. a proof is I can express so much of what I think about twitter, only in my blog and not through a tweet....hahaha... i like the way I put this!!!

twitter to its credit is also doing a lot of simplification to make tweet-ing much like a *sipping a glass of water*....and mobile technologies and mobile versions of twitter make life-infiltration more prominent!!...

web 2.0 is right here for our grabs! lets enjoy!

Godspeed.

KA vs KL

My proficiency and the influential infiltration of the kannada language into me displayed itself in its full foray this weekend when I visited Kerala. For the fact, my understanding of the malayalam language is pretty decent and the thought of phrases in malayalam in my thinkbox is quite natural I thought until now....but when I tried to blurt out / ask anything to the all-helpful public in Kottayam district, all I could think of, in my mind was kannada phrases like 'illva', 'hege hogbeku?', 'elli idhiya ?'.... For once I thought I should have toured in kannada heartland rather than God's Own Country....but is there an equal to plush green upholstery that God flaunts in his courtyard...! All that in a dedicated push!... For now I am going to bask in the glory of my kannada prowess and memory power which has stood a test of more than 2 years!!!

Godspeed & Shabba khair!!!

Digest for May 2009!

A lot of news has flown into my head over this month for no particular reason (I suppose) because,

a) I listen to FM Radio regualrly now!

b) I also *regularly* peek at slashdot and CNET news for technology updates which was previously like the frequency of australian cricket team losing matches

c) plus a lil less pressuring situation @ my work place!!!

A few stuff which I definetely wanted to share are,

a) Google is launching Google Wave a next generation collaboration app, whcih combines, email, chat, file share and a few more things. I read that this is touted to gain attention as much as iPhone launch!!

b) Microsoft is launching *bing* a purportedly serious contender to Google Search. MS Live Search fell flat on face in comparison to Google I remember searching my name in livesearch and google. Google in addition to giving every detail about my online presence, delivered 55 relevant results, while live search could muster up only 5 results, and none of them being a direct link to my blogspot (my most prominent online presence)... such performance has triggered MS to buy acquire a search company and do a serious soul searching, I should say! And having read previews about bing, it is definetely encouraging!!! lets see if my name returns atleast 50 of those entries that Google could figure out!

c) I curse myself for being lazy...which has become a daily aspect of my life of-late. I should have registered online, and would have atleast had a shot at getting selected for the workshop called *Thiraikathai Ezhuthuvathu eppadi*..conducted by none-other than Mr. Kamalhaasan! and a couple of other people!! starting yesterday for 4 days in Madras!

and a few more news items I wanted to share but dont remember ontop of my head now!!lets see if they can form another digest.

C Ya, Rajesh Prakasam

My Salute to Mr.Dhoni!!

First time ever, do I feel that Dhoni had captaincy talent!...all along I strongly beleived it was lady luck that smiled on him non-stop, 24x7....I still maintain that, but i also add that he definetely has picked up a trick or two from smart people...

he bringing on Suresh Raina in the Match 34 of IPL v2 in the match against KXI from over n. 15 of the chase was smart....or should it be called gut?!

either way, it was beneficial, lucky or smarty....

but my conscience still stays it was luck that made Dhoni look smarter today!

anyways thats my take! the cynical me....:)

Khwaja Mere Khwaja!!

எல்லா புகழும் இறைவன் ஒருவனுக்கே !! 

 

இது நம்ம அல்லா ரக்கா ரஹ்மான் சொன்னது, ஆஸ்கர் விருது வாங்கினபோ. மனுசனுக்கு எவ்வ்ளோ humbleness!!! 

 

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Who the save Super Singer???

A hopeless Airtel Super Singer for the first time ever according to me...

I felt for once that along with the hostess, the creative head of the SUper Singer team as well swapped loyalties....

The latest of the triplet show of Super SInger in the first week after CHinmayi's exit was the worst orchestrated of all...sadly the stalwarts (tridevs of Super Singer lately) had also taken a stroll in the park and three listless judges...I wouldnt comment on their personalities.....but their judgement...I would say was listless...

I would have expected that CHinmayi atleast hosted this episode as a tribute to her master...but was it also the part of the plot??....we wouldnt know forever....

But what we know for sure....is that Chinmayi will always be missed for her suave compere-ing, Sujatha, Srinivas and Unnikrishnan are actually keeping the show alive rather than the singers...:)...which I realized yesterday!!....even the singers are egged onto perform at their best in front of the best of the judges..

It was a rude realization for Super SInger viewers like me...and I couldnt believe my hands that they tuned to a different channel mid-way the show....goes to show how boring yday's part was!!!!!

God Help Super Singer..

A Letter to Padmhasini

This is addressing Padmhasini (as a fall-out to Chinmayee's post on her blog)

You have been very prolific in your show (Airtel Super Singer)!! And you have built a special niche spot for yourself in the show particularly when the show is all about abundance of talent...contestants, judges....where the level of talent is of the next level. I think you have kick started a new clan of MC / Compere / on the tele who are suave, swift in reaction based on the mood of the show, very very competent with the stuff that you are appointed for!!

We appreciate all of this and have started to expect more of this professional MCing from other so-called comperes / glam girls and felt sorry for them. Similar shows in other teles have sloppy compereing....which made me feel that you though being an amateur in Compereing; have brought a breeze of professionalism to this art, be it dress-sense; be it cheering the contestants; be it franchising the tag-line of the show in different tones in differing situations to suit the mood of the show!!; be it jelling well along with the contestants and singing along with them, playing pranks with the terror trio!!; be it the minimum amount of interference with the judgement inspite of being an authority in music yourself; be it the quality of being leastly jarring by way of an MC; be it the poise with which you have been using your bi-linguistic skills equally competent; be it the use of godspeed and shabba khair!!

All of this are the ones that we have felt along the journey called Airtel Super Singer along with you in the past year or so!!!

Its a shame that you are having to part with the show at this peaking part of the show..We will miss you....and yes, needless to say the remaining 8 contestants would miss you as well!!!

Wishing you good luck and we look forward to seeing you in some other show very soon!!!

-Rajesh Prakasam