Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year

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New Year

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

PERSON OF THE YEAR 2010 Mark Zuckerberg

 

On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in. Conference rooms are a big deal at Facebook because they're the only places anybody has any privacy at all, even the bare minimum of privacy the Aquarium gets you. Otherwise the space is open plan: no cubicles, no offices, no walls, just a rolling tundra of office furniture. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who used to be Lawrence Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department, doesn't have an office. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder and presiding visionary, doesn't have an office.

The team was going over the launch of Facebook's revamped Messages service, which had happened the day before and gone off without a hitch or rather without more than the usual number of hitches. Zuckerberg kept the meeting on track, pushing briskly through his points — no notes or whiteboard, just talking with his hands — but the tone was relaxed. Much has been made of Zuckerberg's legendarily awkward social manner, but in a room like this, he's the Silicon Valley equivalent of George Plimpton. He bantered with Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a director of engineering who ran the project. (Boz was Zuckerberg's instructor in a course on artificial intelligence when they were at Harvard. He says his future boss didn't do very well. Though, in fairness, Zuckerberg did invent Facebook that semester.) Apart from a journalist sitting in the corner, no one in the room looked over 30, and apart from the journalist's public relations escort, it was boys only. (See pictures of Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.)

The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you.

They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened?

It's a fair question. Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. It was called Thefacebook.com, and it was billed as "an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges." This year, Facebook — now minus the the — added its 550 millionth member. One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account. They speak 75 languages and collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Last month the site accounted for 1 out of 4 American page views. Its membership is currently growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day. (See a Zuckerberg family photo album.)

What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.

Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It's a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here. (See pictures of Facebook's overseas offices.)

Zuckerberg is part of the last generation of human beings who will remember life before the Internet, though only just. He was born in 1984 and grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., the son of a dentist — Painless Dr. Z's slogan was, and is, "We cater to cowards." Mark has three sisters, the eldest of whom, Randi, is now Facebook's head of consumer marketing and social-good initiatives. It was a supportive household that produced confident children. The young Mark was "strong-willed and relentless," according to his father Ed. "For some kids, their questions could be answered with a simple yes or no," he says. "For Mark, if he asked for something, yes by itself would work, but no required much more. If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons. We envisioned him becoming a lawyer one day, with a near 100% success rate of convincing juries."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html #ixzz19bsZWJn1

PERSON OF THE YEAR 2010 Mark Zuckerberg

 

On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in. Conference rooms are a big deal at Facebook because they're the only places anybody has any privacy at all, even the bare minimum of privacy the Aquarium gets you. Otherwise the space is open plan: no cubicles, no offices, no walls, just a rolling tundra of office furniture. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who used to be Lawrence Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department, doesn't have an office. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder and presiding visionary, doesn't have an office.

The team was going over the launch of Facebook's revamped Messages service, which had happened the day before and gone off without a hitch or rather without more than the usual number of hitches. Zuckerberg kept the meeting on track, pushing briskly through his points — no notes or whiteboard, just talking with his hands — but the tone was relaxed. Much has been made of Zuckerberg's legendarily awkward social manner, but in a room like this, he's the Silicon Valley equivalent of George Plimpton. He bantered with Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, a director of engineering who ran the project. (Boz was Zuckerberg's instructor in a course on artificial intelligence when they were at Harvard. He says his future boss didn't do very well. Though, in fairness, Zuckerberg did invent Facebook that semester.) Apart from a journalist sitting in the corner, no one in the room looked over 30, and apart from the journalist's public relations escort, it was boys only. (See pictures of Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.)

The door opened, and a distinguished-looking gray-haired man burst in — it's the only way to describe his entrance — trailed by a couple of deputies. He was both the oldest person in the room by 20 years and the only one wearing a suit. He was in the building, he explained with the delighted air of a man about to secure ironclad bragging rights forever, and he just had to stop in and introduce himself to Zuckerberg: Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, pleased to meet you.

They shook hands and chatted about nothing for a couple of minutes, and then Mueller left. There was a giddy silence while everybody just looked at one another as if to say, What the hell just happened?

It's a fair question. Almost seven years ago, in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. It was called Thefacebook.com, and it was billed as "an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges." This year, Facebook — now minus the the — added its 550 millionth member. One out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account. They speak 75 languages and collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. Last month the site accounted for 1 out of 4 American page views. Its membership is currently growing at a rate of about 700,000 people a day. (See a Zuckerberg family photo album.)

What just happened? In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the U.S. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India. It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale. We are now running our social lives through a for-profit network that, on paper at least, has made Zuckerberg a billionaire six times over.

Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It's a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here. (See pictures of Facebook's overseas offices.)

Zuckerberg is part of the last generation of human beings who will remember life before the Internet, though only just. He was born in 1984 and grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., the son of a dentist — Painless Dr. Z's slogan was, and is, "We cater to cowards." Mark has three sisters, the eldest of whom, Randi, is now Facebook's head of consumer marketing and social-good initiatives. It was a supportive household that produced confident children. The young Mark was "strong-willed and relentless," according to his father Ed. "For some kids, their questions could be answered with a simple yes or no," he says. "For Mark, if he asked for something, yes by itself would work, but no required much more. If you were going to say no to him, you had better be prepared with a strong argument backed by facts, experiences, logic, reasons. We envisioned him becoming a lawyer one day, with a near 100% success rate of convincing juries."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html #ixzz19bsZWJn1

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Thought of the Moment

"Wise Men Say, Just Walk This Way, to the Dawn of the Night;
Wind will Blow into Your Face, As the Years pass You by.

Hear this Voice from Deep Inside, is the Dawn of your Heart.
Close your Eyes and you will find, there is a Bolt of the Dark."

The Thought of the Moment

"Wise Men Say, Just Walk This Way, to the Dawn of the Night;
Wind will Blow into Your Face, As the Years pass You by.

Hear this Voice from Deep Inside, is the Dawn of your Heart.
Close your Eyes and you will find, there is a Bolt of the Dark."

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Amitabh Bachchan Live

"KBC"  MISSION ACCOMPALISHED!! now, the next one immediately. Sir, you are almost at the verge!

"kis path se jaaun asmanjas mein hai bhola-bhala; alag alag path batlatey sab, par mein ye batlata hoo, raah pakad tu ek chala chal paa jayega madhushala"- Late Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Om Namah Shivaya - Mantra-Singen mit Vishwanath

ANOTHER PROOF OF OUR IMPOTENT INTELLIGENCIA

A bomb hidden in a metal canister exploded Tuesday evening as thousands gathered for a Hindu ceremony, killing a toddler and triggering a stampede that left many others wounded in a holy Indian city.

Police said the blast in Varanasi appeared to be a terrorist attack but would not say who they suspected.

The bomb was stashed in a milk container on the Sheetla Ghat, one of many stone staircases leading to the Ganges river, the site of daily spiritual rituals, according to police official Brij Lal.

The explosion set off a stampede, and 20 people, including four foreigners, were wounded, Lal said. It was not immediately clear how many were hurt in the blast and how many in the subsequent chaos.
The force of the explosion ripped away a metal railing and damaged stones up to 60 metres away, said a witness, Ramatama Srivastava.










A two-year-old who had been sitting on her mother's lap when the bomb went off died later in a hospital from her wounds, Lal said. Her mother and two others, including one of the foreigners, were in serious condition.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

This is what others whom I value, percieve about me

Hello Aalok
 
I wanted to offer you a few final words as we both move forward in our lives.  I believe you to be a good man, who has a good value system and you are built on helping others that you come across in your journey of life.  I say this because yes your blog tells a lot about you as a person and someone who has had values and believes in helping others.  I say that you are a good man because you do good things for people.  That includes the relationship that you have with your wife, kids, your father and people who are selling tea and food on the streets etc.   Clearly you have good intention.  The fact that you participate in “teach India kids” is in fact a good thing that you do for community.  I do not deny any of this and I fully respect you for this.
 
I believe that your biggest flaw if you don’t mind me saying is that you have good intentions but you have the wrong methods in trying to produce the right results.  Aalok, you will agree with me when I say that perception of a person is in fact reality.  You could be doing all the right things but if you are perceived as doing the wrong thing then this is how people see you.  If you go to your blog and you indicate that it is your company that is doing the business with Bell and not Breakwater then this act can be perceived wrong in my eyes (Breakwater) and wrong in Bell Canada’s eyes as well.  Here your intention could be good but you are being perceived the wrong way.  You may have done this for your enthusiasm for working for Breakwater but you used the wrong means to show it. 
 
You may forward me a link indicating Bell products but if in that link you indicate that you are aware of other Certified partners then there appears to be hidden message there for me.  Your intentions may have been correct but your method was very wrong.  If on the other hand if you indicate that you want to be compensated for the 7 days you worked and you indicate that you want me to respond and you will “act accordingly” can come across to me as threat.  You may have no intention of threatening me but you came across it in that fashion than it is wrong.  In another example if you sign Breakwater up for all these site that includes LinkedIn , Leapfrog etc but you don’t ask permission from me then it could be perceived wrong specially if I indicate to you that this is not a high priority for me.
 
Aalok, I like you and you are younger to me and  that is why I am taking the time to give you some advise so that you don’t repeat the same mistake again.  We are all hear to learn and don’t fool yourself if you think I have not made mistakes in my own life.  I have paid for my mistakes but I make every effort not to repeat a mistake because of how expensive it can be.
 
I wish you the best in your work and hope that you work hard, prosper and help kids all over the world.  I wish there were more good people in this world like you and I will always wish you the best.
 
Best Regards,
 
Sunil Bhalla
Account Manager
Breakwater Solutions Inc.

THIS WAS THE LAST PIECE OF COMMUNICATION FROM BREAKWATERS AFTER THE SHORT LIVED TENURE WITH THEM 

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Quote-Unquote

Quote of the Day: “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” – Jim Morrison

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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VISHWAALOK

The Importance of Pain

Quote of the Day: “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” – Jim Morrison

The Business Agreement

1st of November, 2010

The Business Sales/Support Service agreement with Breakwater Solutions Inc.

Finally crossed the first milestone by signing the agreement around midnight.

Monday, October 11, 2010