The tussle between Google yahoo and Microsoft for their space on their internet took a new turn with live maps becoming so much better (yeah even better than the google i will say ) .
Directions was something that did come in Google long ago ,Yahoo added to its yahoo maps recently but of all these i find Live Maps most attractive (UI and its tips ) ,the color changes from old live maps have been explained and also what comes as surprise is the traffic parameter that has been taken in calculation the shortest_distance/shortest_path .
Whats added is also simultaneous search by business and people ( didn’t try anything though ) yahoo maps comes closest to these features but microsoft with its huge bag full of money and intention to make its space in the internet we could see some serious competition .
Silverlight platform for RIA looks great from microsoft too ,name tafiti it shows the power of silverlight. And we all know of microsofts interest in facebook ( evaluating it for close to $16bn ,i doubt if anything comes even anything closer to facebook apart from myspace .even orkut has less traffic from us ) .
Yahoo has its Mash beta ,but its a bit too early for anyone to get addicted to it ,i find very little reasons to login to it .And even strange is havig a pet and do some actions on it ( feed it,kill it ).But yes the prospect of what might be still coming is worth waiting .At the moment i think facebook is really really nice,not letting strangers get anywhere close to you unlike in orkut where anyone can scrap you and it has become full of spammers ! .
hopefully mash will be lot better than Orkut ! :-)
Love your city chennai ? then may be we should stand up and show it . A team in chennai is organizing 03:11:00PM .
On the 3rd november ,no matter where you are in chennai ,take a picture with whatever you have and share it .That is all about the chennai 03:11:00PM.
Remember its the 3rd of november and we might see a huge collection of chennai photos.
Go to http://www.311pm.com/ to learn more about this nice concept .
You can read more about these here
http://gapp.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/031100-pm-a-moment-in-chennai/
http://suraksha.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/a-moments-worth-chennai-0311-pm/
You can upload your photos at flickr by joining their group http://www.flickr.com/groups/311pm
and also tagging your flickr photos with 0311pm :-)
hoping to see many join this .
I love seeing unread mails but today wasn’t a good day .I just recieved the news that Thamarai selvan passed away .No he wasnt my friend but i did get a chance to interact with the team .I wished he lived longer :( not to be though .
I did what i could ,donating a small amount of money and also help spreading the word by blogging on My own blog and At Archie’s . Hehas been under treatment for more than a year for Aplastic_Anemia .
Archir behen anduday bhai were generous enough to donate the money they earned through their blog for a year for his cause and i take this chance again to thank them for this gesture ,it may not have saved him but it atleast tells me ,there are still enough souls alive who don’t mind giving their bit for others.
It makes me feel very sad and upset such things have to happen but also a grim reminder all our days are counted as well .
I convey my deepest condolences to Thamarai selvan and his family and also a word of appreciation for KCG Tech and his friends for making this effort until the last breath .
We might have been unlucky this time around but iam sure some day some other person ,some other place we might be able to save other’s life .
I know i have been away from my blog for some time ,but i this news was too big for me to handle ,so i thought may be i should share it with you guys .
Keep Faith !
Update: you can also follow the same post and comments here
http://archie.lipsmusic.net/archives/2007/10/25/personal/unwelcome-mails/#comments
