The Googled Life

Logo 50wht The Googled LifeLarry and Sergey would have never thought this would happen.

Any one with the bare knowledge of the internet knows about Google. It has now more or less become a house hold name. Just like the Saans-Bahu soaps. May be i should never ever compare anything to the Saans-Bahu soaps. Its more of an insult than a credit. Now the fact is, you want some thing Google has it. It has grown over the years with innovative ideas and acquisitions. You need some thing, google it!!! It has in fact become the de facto solution to most of our searches. And searching IS googling.

The mail, integrated with a chat, integrated with a social-networking site, integrated with a photo album, integrated with a video sharing site, integrated with an online office apps…. phew! One can just be hooked on to Google for the whole day.

In fact everything that we use online, is in one way or the other “Powered by Google“.powered by google 135x35 The Googled Life

Not to mention the kind of work environment that they have and the countless eyebrows that were raised all with the same question – “Is that an office?”. Employees in the technology sector dream to work at Google.

But what really made Google, Google. Looking from a surfer’s perspective its the experience. Its like the perfect blend of coffee to make the perfect espresso. A simple page with nothing more than to let you search. No unwanted fancy stuff. More than that its the integrated environment that hooks me up with Google. The usage of a single ID to do multiple stuffs. The hustle of remembering the user ids and passwords are gone. One login and mail, messenger, album etc. etc.

So which other site offers all these – NONE. Equally likable by both techies and normal people.

Just visit the Google Products page and there is something for everyone. icon smile The Googled Life We all have been pwn3d by g00g73;

“You have been GOOGLED…”

WordPress 2.5 Image Upload Problem

Finally after more than 5 hours of trial and error i have the image uploader working fine for me. Trying this out crashed Firefox many times and i finally had to send a crash report to Mozilla.

Followed all the differsnt instruction as mentioned in this post. Changed the .htaccess file to various different formats. Nothing worked. Neither

Option -1 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Content-Type \
“^multipart/form-data;” “MODSEC_NOPOSTBUFFERING=Do not buffer file uploads”
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on No
</IfModule>

Option – 2 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

Option – 3 :

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

Option – 4 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

worked. It worked for some one. But never for me.

Finally there was one post that asked to give the full path for the upload folder. That only created a this directory path in the root folder – http:/jerrymannel.com/blog/wp-content/upload/

Yes things got messier ..

Then reading down the same forum i found this link – 2.5 Image/Media Uploader problems. Now that was a saver. Went setp by step. Bang!!! Step 4 was what had to be done and BINGO!!! Everything worked…. icon smile Wordpress 2.5 Image Upload Problem

I recommend starting at this and then trying out editing the .htaccess file. Happy Blogging.

Some reasons why you SHOULD use Free Software..

copyleft Some reasons why you SHOULD use Free Software..No before i get into the whole thing, by Free Software i mean the programs that follow the 0-3 Freedoms as stated by the Free Software Foundation. Or rather Copy-Left than Copy Right … icon smile Some reasons why you SHOULD use Free Software..
Why is that a Free S/w user is so good at fixing a system, trouble shooting software issues and fixes thing without even reading the manual.
Now these are the reasons

1) Free software users expect open licenses and no activation methods
2) Free software users expect regular upgrades and patches
3) Free software users expect to work the way they choose
4) Free software users want control of their own systems
5) Free software users explore
6) Free software users expect to help themselves
7) Free software users don’t fear the command line
icon cool Some reasons why you SHOULD use Free Software.. Free software users learn software categories, not programs
9) Free software users expect access to developers and other employees

Here is Web 2.0 !!!

400px Web 2.0 Map.svg Here is Web 2.0 !!!

So digging about Web3.0, after hearing about that, I came across this definition of Web2.0 by Tim O’Reilly, the person who was responsible for all the versioning of web and complicating things.Something that will help you comprehend it without reading the whole thing (stolen from it word-to-word) -

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0   Web 2.0
DoubleClick –> Google AdSense
Ofoto –> Flickr
Akamai –> BitTorrent
mp3.com –> Napster
Britannica Online –> Wikipedia
personal websites –> blogging
evite –> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation –> search engine optimization
page views –> cost per click
screen scraping –> web services
publishing –> participation
content management systems –> wikis
directories (taxonomy) –> tagging (“folksonomy”)
stickiness –> syndication

What he says and how you interpret is up to you.

For me, a simple Web will do and all these things come to pic, no need of Web2.0 or Web3.0 or WebX.0

(pic courtesy – wikipedia)

Web3.0 … Wait what was Web2.0?

400px Web 2.0 Map.svg Web3.0 ... Wait what was Web2.0?

Well, Web2.0 was defined and many people are yet to know about it, though they are living and breeding in it.

Web 2.0 as defined in wikipedia -
Web 2.0 – refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

While many still argue and debate about the Web 2.0 as mere term and has nothing to do with the world-wide-web, when still people are trying to conceive the web in terms or versions, when half of the world is yet to get connected and many thousands are dying. Here comes Web 3.0. (WTF.. yeah that was what went through my mind first)

Read/WriteWeb reports –

He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

He called Web2.0 as a marketing strategy too.  

His definition is towards more mobility and connectivity. Hey, Wait a sec! i have been hearing the same stuff for a long time round.