Life in Delhi Metro

I like to start by stating that this post has nothing to do with a popular Bollywood movie with a similar title. It is all about my experiences of  a Metro ride, which i felt is few interesting hours of my life that's why i termed it as Life in Delhi Metro.

Few Emotions:-

•    Revenge:-A guy after having an argument with another person pressed the emergency button which stalled the train by half an hour, pretty frustrating.
•    Unity:- A stronger guy slapped a teenage guy as he thought he is not giving him space to enter the train(there wasn’t any space left ) the guy after being slapped stood still & didn’t respond ; later everybody in the coach united & asked the stronger guy to apologize or he would be pushed out of the train.

•    Ignorance:-  Ladies, old men, first timers struggling to understand the system, Ladies generally straddling on the elevators(still) as they feel their sari would come in the elevator. Old man struggling to understand how to enter into the platform, what to do with the token basically, First time boarders struggling to understand the route and where & when to board & deboard.

•    Desperation: Young majnus trying to enter the women’s compartment or least stand near the rear end of the coach seeing their act of desperation was actually funny but no doubt should be dealt seriously.

Life in Delhi Metro is interesting, where people of varying background, class, strata & age fight for a place to sit, not everyone though but most of them.  Where people want to show their macho-ness by standing anywhere they want to & create their own line (I think they have taken the dialogue “Robert hum jaha khade ho jaate hain line wahi se shuru hoti hai” very seriously). 

Where people give their seats to person who needs it more than they do, where people are always ready to guide & help any non-delhite who approach them, the metro ride is fascinating & full of surprises for sure. Any Person coming to Delhi must take a ride, my personal recommendation free of charge.

 

Metro’s Ride! Delhi’s Pride!

 

Twitter Advertising turning BIG

Twitter has been struggling for years since its inception in 2006 to build a robust monetization system but failed every time, but that was history Twitter has recently acquired AdGrok , a web advertising start-up  to build a self-service advertising program for the micro blogging giant.

AdGrok helps setting up Google adwords advertising campaigns, came out of beta mode just 2 months ago, when twitter made the sparkling offer which they were unable to refuse.

The Twitter advertising space is hotting up right now with a number of players venturing into it. A lot of interesting news coming up for the publishers & advertisers.

Stay Tuned; coz the excitement has just begun!




Know more on Twitter Marketing.

The Museum of Me: Your Facebook Account turned into a Museum

Intel has just launched a wonderful app, a showcase of everything you have been doing on Facebook in a form of a museum naming it: “The Museum of Me”.

Start by authorizing the app by logging into your account and within seconds it will take you to a video tour of your account, with specific rooms for friends, places & messages with a huge screen displaying your status updates.

The graphics are breathtaking and would give you a instant ego boost & better you can share the link with your friends too. If you haven’t checked out it yet, here is the link to Intel’s Free Facebook App Museum of Me

Gmail Made Easy! - Gmail Tricks | Shorcuts

Gmail is hugely popular for personal emailing, i am sure we open our personal account at least once in a day henceforth i thought sharing some tricks & tips about using Gmail would be fun & valuable for the readers, So Enjoy!

Search shortcuts for Gmail: Type the query in the search box for the following results.

• is:read                 for Read mails
• is:unread             for Unread mails
• is:starred             mails U have marked
• is:chat                 Chat mails
• is:label_name       label_name you can replace with other label name like personal 
• in:inbox               search in Inbox
• in:trash               Search in Recycle Bin of mails
• in:spam               Search in Spam box
• in:anywhere         use to search any where in your mail box

SNAPSHOT:- in:spam

So now finding something on Gmail is easy & fun.

Another tip: Gmail does not recognises dot (.) in your username for example your username is michael.jackson@gmail.com then you can login with michaeljackson@gmail.com. Google Mail cannot recognize it, Funny though.

Julian Assange - 21st Century Activist and Crusader of Truth

America's worst nightmare and the Robinhood of the online world is a 21st century activist who has shown the world , the truth behind the US Government's diplomacy by unleashing it's darker side to the world. 


US Government strong reaction to the secret diplomatic cables release by Wikileaks showcases its imperial arrogance and hypocrisy and contradicts its so called diplomatic principles. I believe the US leaders and politicians are smart enough to understand the already damaged reputation will worsen by their attempts to muzzle Wiki-leaks and Assange. 


US Government in the past have criticized and accused China  for obstructing the flow of information over internet but what have been rightly said that you may shout out loud about your principles but when it bothers you then there aren't any. "Operation Avenge Assange " has been launched from Dec 6, 7PM GMT onwards by the group of Assange supporters & Hacktivist.


The major beneficiaries of this leaks are the media industry which has not come out in support of Assange which is surprising, may be due to their Government's pressure. I would like to see the reaction of the President of US on the matter who has stayed away from making any comment on the leaks. Although Mr. Obama can speak on any issue in the world but it may interesting to know what he has to say about a controversy in his courtyard.


I personally like to congratulate Assange for his exceptional work towards creating  more transparent society, But honestly i don't think he is a Hero nor he is a Villain ; He is actually a 21st Century Journalist who hails from no state.


One thing which cannot be denied is the fact that this is a major breakthrough which has happened towards more liberal world.


Long Live the Revolution!!

Apple iPad Review : iBad for Consumers

Apple has a long history of imposing restrictions on its uses in the form of stating them as security measures to combat theft. Latest one under DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) prevents users from installing what they want or tinkering with their devices.

DRM will give Apple and its partners the power to disable features, block any competing products, censor news, and even delete books, videos, or news stories from user’s computers without any notification.

iPad is actually iBad as it has DRM all over it, with complete control on the user device. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is an access control technology to limit the usage of digital content and applications.

There are some DRM Removal software’s available in the market which are legally removing DRM restriction from I Pad & I Tunes.

In the current scenario, apple is trying to put restrictions on users is a big issue for all I-Pad users. I hope Mr. Jobs do something about it soon.

Global Climate Crisis - Deepening

The Global Climate Crisis is actually linked to Global Financial Crisis as we are always stimulated to achieve higher monetary value creation  at a level far beyond our assets or capital available. Although we may recover from Financial Crisis but we need to keep one thing in mind i.e. “Nature does not provide bailouts”.  

We need to understand that its an planetary emergency to cut the carbon emissions, raise ourselves to a higher level of consciousness and take a unified step in achieving our goal, without a deliberate and intensive effort from all nations the purpose won’t be solved. Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from a Chinese factory, the exhaust from a American SUV, or deforestation in Africa.  It may be interesting to know that some emissions in china are affecting temperatures in Europe and vice versa.

Religion is not about belief it’s more about behavior, same is the case with Optimism. So rather being optimistic that nothing will happen and terming it a paranoid fantasy we must act on it and make the earth a better place to live in. Mahatma Gandhi once said “Be the change you want to see in others”.

US is the highest emitter of the green house gases in the world & a non signatory of Kyoto needs to led the world in the race for human existence. Although the country is taking +ve steps in introducing EDA as a Global Climate Change Mitigation Incentive Fund which will strengthen the linkages between economic development and environmental quality a lot still needs to be done. 

There are plenty of concerns associated with Global Climate Crisis like Global Warming, Ozone depletion, Fresh Water Crisis, Dramatic rise in CO2 & more. For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't. Hence the only way to solve this crisis is by taking a moral value and stand for it and remembering that every step counts, how small it may be.

Go GREEN

Google Search : Tips, Tricks and Ideas

Google has made it possible to reach not just publicly available Internet resources, but also to some that should never have been revealed.

We are fortunate to be living  in the era of Internet + Google where information has been commoditized to great extend, now what we really need to do is just type a query in Google and most of the time you would get what you are looking for.

Table below shows some queries which can be useful in your search:-

Operator	Description	Sample query
site	only results to sites within the given domain	site:google.com International will find all sites/Pages containing the word International, located within the google.com domain
intitle	only results to documents whose title contains the given keyword	intitle:Travel will find all sites with the word Travel in the title
allintitle	only results to documents whose title contains all the given keyword	allintitle:International Travel will find all sites with the words International and Travel in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:International intitle:Travel
inurl	only results to sites whose URL contains the given keyword	inurl:International Travel will find all sites containing the word Travel in the text and International in the URL
allinurl	only results to sites whose URL contains all the given keyword	allinurl:International Travel will find all sites with the words International and Travel in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:International inurl:Travel
filetype, ext	only results to documents of the given type	filetype:pdf Travel will return PDFs containing the word Travel, while filetype:xls International will return Excel spreadsheets with the word International
numrange	only results to documents containing a number from the given range	numrange:1-100 Travel will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word Travel. The same result can be achieved with 1..100 Travel
link	only results to sites containing links to the given location	link:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com
inanchor	only results to sites containing links with the given keyword in their descriptions	inanchor:Travel will return documents with links whose description contains the word Travel (that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link)
allintext	only results to documents containing the given keyword in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs	only results to documents containing the given keyword in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs
+	specifies that a keyword should occur frequently in results	+Travel will order results by the number of occurrences of the word Travel
-	specifies that a keyword must not occur in results	-Travel will return documents that don't contain the word Travel
" "	delimiters for entire search keyword (not single words)	"International Travel" will return documents containing the keyword International Travel

My advice looking for something "Just Google it"