GMT

I came across this cool post from meebo blog where it shows the IM activity over the last 15 mins! The have used the GMT {Generic Mapping Toolkit} (which I was completely oblivious of!) released under GPL license, I think its totally cool. BTW – the image below is taken directly from the meebo and yes it shows clearly the ‘digital’ divide across the world and coutries to a decent extent.

One of the benefits of the a webapps – web 2.0 ajax outcome? to a very common or a application becoming common by the minute! I think wordpress should come out with something like this. And yeah – look there are decent of Indians out there!!

mobile trends

Carlo Lognino from MobHappy says:

A post over at the MEX blog lays it out pretty clearly: Mobile users don’t search, they locate.
Marek Pawlowski makes the point that mobile users are “mission-driven”,
meaning they’re after something in particular when they surf, rather
than just generally browsing. So the perfect mobile search isn’t
necessarily search, it’s something that delivers people the right
information when they ask for it…

Heard about narrowcasting TV? This is about using your mobile phone to your TV! I find it amazing .. i am very sure my mother who just doesn’t like using a mobile phone will use this to see photos. We can even extend this to read Text i.e Newspaper folks a new delivery module? See movies and more …. I think in a country like India where where TV and mobiles are almost equally prevalent – TVs being slightly more as of now, this would definitely make more sense.

Quotes++

Bjarne Stroustroup in an interview part 1 & 2:

It’s always easier to say what not to do, rather than what to do, so I’ll start that way.

I had a lot of problems explaining that to people and never quite understood why it was hard to understand … And once we think we know the answer, it’s very hard to learn something new.

Fortunately, it’s more important to have the right problem than to have the right solution, because at least when you have the right problem you can eventually solve it.

If you go back to the roots of C++, you will find things considered very hard that are now considered obvious, and you have trouble understanding why people had problems with them. I don’t quite understand why I couldn’t teach those ideas, but I too have learned a lot since then.