Wishing all of you a Happy, Prosperous, Bright and DeLightful New Year. Leaving you all with this quote and a few pics I took yesterday:
Quote: When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it. - Carl Sagan
I am back in India after a long time for Diwali and especially in Mumbai for Diwali after almost a Decade. Though I worked on Diwali day – I guess the fireworks and the moments of togetherness are worth it.
Communities Dominate Blogs hosts Mobile Carnivalist #47 and I simply loved this quote:
Forty-Seven. What a nice number. The mobile phone is the fourth screen (Cinema, TV, PC and now mobile). The mobile phone is also the seventh mass media (print, recordings, cinema, radio, TV, internet and mobile).
Any one new to mobile and hasn’t yet realised the potential of VAS (value added service) on mobiles try to understand that!! Its a very powerful quote!
I had earlier written a post on recording skype conversations using Audacity. I just found a video on google video. This is would help you explain the setup in case that was not clear! BTW the video tutorial proves video – image + audio is a better medium for learning unlike text! 
The video says RSS but you will have to find a service to upload the audio and get RSS out …
We are launching a FREE SMS cricket updates for Champions Trophy and guess what I am in charge 
of the project. Thought will tell you to subscribe and spread the word. Do give me feedback on quality of messages.
To subscribe SMS:
START CRI to 676787
To stop alerts say:
STOP CRI to 676787
to get the latest score:
either goto http://www.mytoday.com (mobile internet portal) or
SMS: CRI to 676787 anytime if you don’t have internet (GPRS) access on the phone (operator charges apply to messages sent to 676787)
Do spread the message to your friends and family. Thanks folks
BTW – this is only in INDIA
All the excitement in the internet world now (sometimes termed as Web 2.0) according to me can be summarised in 4 Cs:
From what I see – I have listed them in that order of importance.
Content first because “Content is the King“! Content in form of data – raw data, information, knowledge / wisdom for personal use, interaction, entertainment is the main driver. Because of RSS and mashups – we see the benefits of micro chunking and tagging them as much as possible
Next comes technology, Connectivity which is the engine (enabler) – Internet, Lan, wired and wireless, communication technology + Mobile phones. Cost had been a barrier in terms of infrastructure i.e for a priviledged few. I would say its a blessing in disguise – Indians haven’t embraced an older technology as the US has done in terms of infrastructure. Indians are hungry for connectivity – the mobile phones technology comes at a lower cost and though may be inferior in certain aspects – serve the basic needs.
Just content + connectivity have limitations! Man inherently wants to communicate with his near and dear ones (social hunger). Just connectivity does that to an extent. But when connectivity and content come at a cost or have limitations (literacy + learning technology + language limitation) – basic voice is left as sole driver to fill his needs. This is one of the reasons why the mobile phones have been largely successful – all one has to do is press a buttin and start talking!
Community, according to me, the passengers. The costs & tools to create content have come down. All you need to make your own audio, photo or video can be done on your phone on the go! you can edit and share them right from your phones. Some of the phones (depending on features, 2nd hand) are selling at Rs 5,000 (grey market ) People want to share the content and contribute to content. This is not only in the form of mobile blogging, You Tubes, podcasting but also community based working e.g community internet radio, newspaper or TV – adaptions of public RSS aggregators where media is audio, text or video or content streaming server.
Finally, something I have missed in the equation i.e Commerce. According to me Commerce is like a spark. Once we have the right conducive environment – Commerce mostly have a symbiotic nature i.e everything will be free / sustainable in nature.
Just to wrap up, I am viewing the current internet sphere using a metaphor.
Internet is a Car. Content the driver. Connectivity which is the engine. Community the passengers. And Finally Commerce the spark! After you start the car – you actually may not need the spark
Note: Ajax is nowhere in the picture ! Surprised? Well I am not. Its somewhere in. between All the first three … In web 1.0 – commerce was the spark + road! and community was mostly for the privileged few.
PS:Awaiting your comments …
I shall expand on these more later when I have time (I am falling short
of it nowadays). I want to spend more time in the real world. Have not
read any blogs for around a month! Hope I am not missing any trends. I
loved being a maven in this area
Time to relax your eyes and enjoy the music ! Its multimedia hour. BTW this was my first upload to google video more than a year back …
Got some one liners from my friend as mail about what she learnt in her life! Here are the ones I agree and relate to completely:
