Blogger's Meet

So the day starts, some how I wake up at 7:30 in the morning, time to go to office..................
Shuckssssssssssss its Saturday man, yeah!!! I know its saturday and I have to go to office. Dunno know who came out with the concept of working on alternate Saturdays. Anyways no point on cribbing till the Green Bills are coming in every month end........

I got this message from Dinesh (dinesh who?) well he is a one blogger man. Very active on blog circuit and Barcamp too. Ok back to the message, that there is a bloggers meet an unofficial one on Saturday 31st May. The venue was Pinstorm Cafe thanks to Netra Parekh.

So I and one of my friends decided to go to this meeting. My friend Prasad Narulkar is also hard core blogger. We discussed a lot whether to go to the Blogger's meet or not. Since the venue was very far from our place. We postponed the decision to go to the Blogger's meet till Saturday evening.............

Goooooooooooooood Morning mumbai was my state when I got up at 7:30am. Trying to rationale why Office on saturday, but Bloggers meet was the motivation......To gove some background currently I am under going my summer internship @ IndiaInfoline a stock broking firm....... I had to collect form from my perspective clients in the morning before i reach to office. So I did that, but it was already 11:00 am, and I was running late to office. One of my friends also promised me an account of Demat and Trading. So I reached office did some formalities to complete the form submission. To collect the second form I had to go to Nerul, but the Blogger' meet was still in my mind. The only thing now stopped me was how am I supposed to go to Santacruz from Nerul. So again I called Prasad whether it was possible for him for the Blogger's meet. Unfortunately he told me that he was in a bad situation at his office @ Vikhroli and could not make for the Blogger's meet...............

So finally I decided to go to the Blogger's meet alone. What happened in the meet, check out the second Part

Blogathon coming up

Blogathon Blogathon Blogathon, post, post, post!!!! hehehhehe just trying to make some rhym..........But you guys may have guess it right the marathon for Bloggers is coming up....................For that matter it os for everyone who wants to blog...................Its a marathon for all who have a point of view, an urge to share the views.....................

Blogathon The Coming!!! a competition between bloggers for the best post, or best content on the blogs............It is named Blogathon because here the mind will run.........Here there will be a marathon between the mind of all bloggers participating.



Lets see who wins...................More details is on the site blogathon.in....................
Let me give you a preview...............................The people at Blogathon have decided some topics on which we have to bl og and submit the post for reviewing...................Blogathon will last for a Week from 20-25 April...............Each day one topic, everyday you have to submit your post for the competition..................
Plus every post should have a technorati tag BlogathonIndia, BLogathinIndia1........................Probably the post will get some prize...................The best about Blogathon is people will say their word at least for the sake of competition......................At least more people other than regular bloggers will share their thoughts............

Hoping for the best.


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the social networking war.

hmmm what should i start with now. The thing is, there is something going on in my mind this days. There is THIS type of sites which help us to stay in touch with each others. I mean friends and relatives. And i swear it really helps. I really met some of my old friends, thnx to a web site which provides this kind of facility. Now this type of sites are called Social Networking WebSites. I am here not to favor any of them, but its a discussion of whats going in the web market.

Well i will not name the any of the Sites, but let me name the biggies who are behind this projects. Currently i am only focusing on the BIG THREE as i term them "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google".

OK so it all started with the BLOG war. Google acquired Blogger.com. Yahoo started yahoo 360. Microsoft started spaces.microsoft.com. Well yahoo 360 is not a core blog concept, but currently lets assume it as a blog site. This is because yahoo doesn't have a site dedicated to WEB LOGGING(Blog) .

Oh Gosh!!!, let me be back on the topic, otherwise i will reach on to some other discussion. So after blogging came this image posting sites. Here yahoo was first to buy out Flickr, which is currently the best in this market. Of course there was images.yahoo.com, but nobody bothered to look at it. Fortunately Microsoft and Google doesnt need this kind of site, since their blogging counterpart already supports image posting.

All this and many other sites were acquired, to reach to a final goal of what I think is THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. Google was affiliated with Orkut. Yahoo acquired Del.icuo.us and there were also some contenders who probably pioneered this concept. Likewise we have Upcoming.org, Ringo, Birthday alarm, HI5 etc. Somehow these sites doesn't clicked. They were bulky, very very slow in operation. But the concept was awesome.

Beware, we are now at the start of the war between the BIG THREE on this concept. Orkut is currently leading the three. Orkut is the best of these. Though it was not a child of those Googlers, but the way it was made, is perfect to get affiliated with google. It has those characteristics of Google: Simplicity, Fantastic Interface and Navigational Facility that made it work. Also the site is very quick. Kudos to ORKUT, the guy who created this genius. But one thing you people can relate him is, he is also from Stanford, Gotch ya!!!. These Stanford people are going to rule the world in near future, hahaha!!!. Now is YAHOO's turn. It has integrated all of its acquisitions and sites to yahoo 360. Also the blog in yahoo 360 can be directly integrated to your geocities account. So all thing comes to a single point Yahoo 360. Now this have many features of a social networking site other then just blogging.Very nicely organized, of course its yahoo, the ppl who pioneered the INTERNET.

Hence comes the turn of the GIANT. Yes you people guessed it right. THE NAME IS "microsoft". How can it be left behind. Microsoft has way behind started a site named WALLOP.com. It was just a simple blogging site, but with some unique features of connecting with friends. This site was one of the best because it was totally on MACROMEDIA FLASH. The interface was mind blowing. But now after a long time when i went to this site, there was nothing. Only there is massage for the people, that they are getting ready for the war. JUST visit the website its FANTASTIC. Now only GOD can predict how will Microsoft will turn this whole concept into. WAIT and WATCH.

Above article is just my flow of thoughts on the topic. Its not supporting any side. The article its just my perception and assumptions. So some of the facts may be wrong or incomplete.

If you people have read this whole article completely, thank you very much for taking time to read it.Well the thank should be more for bearing my mistakes if any.
I will be very obliged to improve on your positive comments/suggestion. just fell Free to comment on any aspect, since this my first article of any type and of such a length. THANKS A LOT in advance.