DSarathy : On Inspirations, Learnings & Reflections

Almost a month later, after Apple relealed it’s iPod’s seasonal plans, Microsoft has announced it’s plan about Zune.

More details at zune.net.

Though their price seems to be competitive, will it really attract the end users away from iPod series. However iPods rocks in terms of it’s wheel and usability, the synching up of data using iTunes is the key drawback. Though the race is still on, it would take some more time to decide on the direction in which the market is moving.

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod

Yesterday it was a nerve-biting finish between India and Pakistan in their Twenty20 Championship’s first World Cup finals. After winning the one day world cup championship in 1983, this is the next major victory by the Indians in the game of cricket. It’s really a delight and fun to watch such an close match, especially if it is with Pakistan, it adds more spice to the game.

Now, let’s try to spot some of the key ingredients for this success.

1. After a long time, I think, this is the first time the BCCI had formed a new team based purely on merits.
2. Because of the above point, everyone in the team knew where they would be if they take their chance for granted, so no fault could be found from anyone.
3. The determination of the captain (MS Dhoni) to win till the last minute. Even after the six in the last over, there were no traces of dejection or acceptance of defeat.
4. Because of all the above 3 points, the Indians played as a TEAM.

Though the Pakistanese team played an excellent game of cricket, it was ultimately the pressure that made them to make some mistakes, which costed the World Cup. At the same time, one could not forget the commitment and energy levels of all New Indian Young Players.

Kudus to the new Indian Twenty20 Cricket team. All the best for their future successes.

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : Twenty20, Indian Cricket, Pakistan Cricket

Navneet has listed the Top 10 Must Have SEO Firefox Extentions. He has listed out RankQuest SEO Toolbar as follows :

RankQuest SEO Toolbar 3.9.1 - RankQuest SEO(Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations. available in Japanese, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, German, Dutch, French and Chinese languages.

Thansk to Navneet for pointing RankQuest SEO Toolbar in his blog.

DSarathy.

Steve Jobs through his recent keynote speech has announced iPod Touch, a device which is an iPhone with it’s latest updated feature set minus Phone capabilities.

The release of iPod Touch looks like a marketing ploy by Apple at a high level. However, hunch says that eventually Steve and his team are planning a different directions for iPod Touch & iPhone.
Let’s wait and watch.

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : iPod Touch, Steve Jobs, Apple

Robert Scoble through his recent blog Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years explains how the Mahalo, TechMeme and Facebook are going to be leading Google in providing contextual content to the end user.

Scoble, names this as Social Graph Based Search. It revolves around the trust based fabric built by TechMeme & Mahalo along with the Social Network from Facebook. Also he claims that it would be very difficult for Google to catchup with these new trends because of their size and their current business model.

It’s really an out-of-the-box thinking. Good job Scoble!

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : Scoble, TechMeme, Facebook, Mahalo, Google, Social Graph Based Search

Google & Yahoo has launched new websites which would server as a source for all click fraud and Ad traffic quality :

Google - Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center : http://www.google.com/adwords/adtrafficquality/index.html

Yahoo - The Traffic Quality Center : http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/trafficquality/

I’m curious to know, how both timed it together??

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : Google, Yahoo, ClickFraud, Ad Traffic

What would be the next generation of Computers? - some what a common question to ask, but a challenging question to answer.
Alvaro Briceno was asking a similar question at LinkedIn.

Internet Mobile: what technologies will prevail and what technologies will vanish without trace in the next five and ten years?

My answer to Alvaro was that over a period of time, there would be a clear distinction between the Home Computers and the Personal Device we use. Where the former is designed towards performance and rich feature sets and the later towards mobility and online connectivity.

Here is what I had answered to Alvaro’s question :

As the cost of the computer hardware is getting cheaper everyday, along with the increase in the speed of the broadband connectivity, On Demand Softwares would be the order of the day (within a couple of years from now). So the installation of the softwares would get vanished.

Due to cool innovations, there would be a clear demarcation between the Home Computers and Personal Computers.

Where the Home Computers would be must more sophisticated in terms of efficiency and performance with a huge display, a virtual keyboard, with voice recognizing capabilities, and many more…

And the Personal Computers would get replaced by the future generation devices of iPhones, which is what Bill Gates refers as the Reality Acquisition Devices.

Many exciting experiences are ahead. Stay Tuned!

DSarathy.

SEO Tags : Next Generation of Computers, Reality Acquisition Devices