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Google or Search?

January 1, 2011June 3, 2012 shashi2 Comments

The term google had entered our dictionaries not only as a proper noun, but also as a verb. We had stopped searching for information. Instead weï»¿ googled for information.

But of late, things are turning around. More and more people are searching for relevant results in their googled information. Try searching for “Google results not satisfying” and you’ll understand.

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Google getting googlied in China

March 21, 2010June 3, 2012 shashiLeave a comment

It’s with great amusement that I am watching the ongoing battle between Google and China. What started as an almost diplomatic allegation over “hackers” gaining entry to Google’s developers’ desktops in its Chinese offices, is now threatening to blow over to a full scale war.

But however, is it only me who is seeing Google and China as unlikely opponents? Here are some similarities I found between them:

Google operates as a monopoly, so does the Chinese government.
The Communist party has a two tier membership – one for the influential and one for the masses. So does Google – Class A & B shares divide the influential and the peasants.
Chinese practice an open “people’s government” in which it chooses what should be open and what not. Google too practices an “open internet” policy, in which it chooses what is open and what not.
A world economy without the Chinese manufacturing backend cannot be imagined in any way. Similarly, a world economy without Google’s information peddling backend cannot be imagined.
China aims to achieve global superiority by being totally self-reliant and also by buying up other countries. Google also is trying to be self-reliant in its own sphere of economy by entering into diverse areas such as Electricity, Broadband, Wireless, TV/Radio and even Real Estate.

These similarities do not end here. But does continue in other areas. Nevertheless, we will never know the actual reasons behind the current face-off between Google and China.

But, IMHO Google must strike a deal with China and stay back just in order to live to fight another day.

An XMPP Wave

May 29, 2009February 11, 2011 shashi2 Comments

The web is agog with the news of engineers at Google announcing their newest and next generation communication tool – Wave. The service looks awesome and sure is a next generation material. And obviously scores of copy cats will try to mimic or even exceed the Wave in its appeal.

But where Google rules is that they’re open sourcing the entire platform (supposedly). Better still, the whole technology is purely built on top of standards and using technologies already available in the open source world.Wave is built on top of XMPP.

We at informedia technologies have been heavy users of XMPP and eJabberd from quite some time now. We’re also coming up with innovative solutions based on XMPP and integrating XMPP with various e-governance apps which takes the entire platform/environment to a whole new high level.

This development not only validates our technology choices, but also serves as the bell weather for things to come. I just hope, people in charge of the decision making processes understand these developments and encourage more open and standards based technologies.