The Ultimate Combo

Dear Internet Explorer users, 
If you want to continue all your life on IE and don’t want to tryout Chrome or FireFox, Atleast have some mercy on web developers and switch to your browser’s 9th version. 
A web developer willing to tryout some html5 apps with CSS3 is calling his work an experiment, just because of you. 
This can happen with anyone, ur own bro,sis,daughter,son,cousin etc could be a budding web developer, giving up…tired of writing various stylesheets and if-else, try-catch blocks which are not part of the main program logic at all.

Regards,
An average web developer.

What is Google+ ?

To an average person, it is yet another Social network.

To Google, it is their best bet on being Social.

To Other Social Networks: It is a Threat, a warning.

To me : It is near about the thing which I was waiting for since the time I joined Facebook in late 2009.

Let’s talk about the entire social ecosystem it builds around Google’s services.

+1 button: 

It is same as a Facebook like button on Websites and links on Google Search results.

Awesome concept, Will help Google in future to give search results a social touch and move towards Web 3.0 .

in fact if someone is logged in,  his previous +1s can be tracked by Google in giving him search results and trying to understand what the person as an individually must be searching for. this will be more than what semantic search Web 3.0 demands. being Social could well lead to Web 4.0.

[Anyways these terms are coined by biggies like O’ Reilly, Google and others. I will just brag about it in future, if it happens to be so ].

This is the first feature Google brought in without Google+ being launched.

still doesn’t look as cool as Facebook’s like button but in future will be more useful than Facebook’s likes atleast unnecessary pages won’t be created for people just to tell what they like. instead just keep +1ing to tell world , ‘that link is awesome’.

I guess this will also infact affect SEO as it wont just be links to your website but also +1s that will affect your ranking, and that will be something that will only come when people will actually +1 it.

now i can +1 Wikipedia pages and infact Facebook pages without them having to incorporate +1 in their website.

I guess this is the feature that gave Google+ its name.

Circles.

This is The G+ Feature that is grabbing eyeballs.

Create your circles and drag and drop people you wanna follow in it so that when you share,chator  interact with them you have a choice of choosing circle wise.

So here is where G+ betters both Twitter and FB. share with whom you want to and they will only get to see if they want to.

It has got an amazing UI and has also got a lot of scope of innovation around it.

Usage of all related Google services where one needs to interact with people will have contacts and those contacts can collectively be circled and things can be shared.  

example: sharing a Google doc in a circle.

Circles of circles could be possible where people can add circles two  make bigger circles or even substract circles from circles. Reminds me of Venn diagrams and set theory, just that we will be inside the circle rather than outside.

the Google Circle will be the biggest circle. People should be able to sync with each other’s circles and much more.

There could be Interest Circles where people could follow interesting stuff like products and get there feeds.

I just love this feature.

Hangout

This is the feature which is suppose to be a Facebook killer. basically it is integration of Google Video chat with G+.

Here people can hangout which will basically be a video conference of maximum 10 people.

In fact its integrated with YouTube so that these people can simultaneously watch same YouTube video.

It Also has an integrated chat system so that those people can chat, making it a complete chatroom or shall i say a ‘hangout room’ ?

Old Google Integrated services and Future prospects

• Picasa web albums are also your G+ photo albums.
• Gmail chat is there and your previous GMail contacts are as it is just that you can also add people from your circles in your G+ chat and that will send them a chat request like it happens in normal GMail chat requests.
• I guess Blogger will also be changed in future and if it becomes as awesome as Tumblr is so i guess I will have to move from here.
• There are also rumors that they will soon start  Google games and questions.
• the Android g+ app is also available from the day1 and also iOS version is there.

Useful tool:

To migrate your photos from Facebook to Google+

try move2picasa by Aman Jain.

The black menu bar.

The menubar at the top of Google homepage turned black all of a sudden, a few days before G+ was launched.

I thought they have lost their design sense! After two days, everything changed,

that bar became Google’s strongest social weapon. As of now, Its there on all Google sites except Youtube, Chrome Webstore and android market.

For a moment if someone feels I will stick to Facebook and twitter for my social experience and just log in to gmail for mails.

What happens is that that black bar above will always remind you of G+ and in GMail you will always get notifications on that bar and will feel like at least checking once and then you have options to reply there itself and infact give a status update.

Why Google+ ?

It may seem that it is just another Social network and why should I move. Some Facebook fanboys might get hurt when people call G+, a FB killer. The point is its not going to go away like Wave or Buzz. It is here to stay and for long or may be forever. It is a whole hearted attempt that Google has made on its claim of being Social.

A lot of People already have Google accounts, many of them were on Orkut for long. They won’t have to create a new account.

even if Google+ doesn’t replace Facebook, it has definitely shaken it, proven by the fact that it recently blocked a FB to G+ friends exporter chrome extension  from accessing contacts of one’s friends.

Google as we all know as a company, believes in betterment of world and web. There motto of ‘Don’t be evil ’ still holds even if many people still consider it to become a real world skynet.

I love Google, for their innovation. As soon as you open your browser, you are in there domain, the Internet.

They have everything : GMail,Chrome,Maps,search,docs, YouTube, picasa, Google apps,Google sites,Blogger, Android and now Plus and much more.

Even if there are bugs or features missing in G+, I trust them to improve it soon.

look at there doodles, How much passion do they put in while doing amazing stuff.

They host OpenSource projects and give students a chance under GSOC to contribute to it.

They have taught, both IE and FF how a modern browser should be like, there by forcing coming of HTML5 and future of web much before they would have actually come into picture with the introduction of world’s most awesome browser Chrome.

Basically they are company full of enthusiastic and passionate people who do great stuff. 

That’s why, there are key people whose name you take when you say Google, like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and now Vic Gundotra.

 But in case of other giants like Apple, Microsoft and  Facebook there is always one name you would take.

These are companies whose policies reflect only one man’s vision.

Where as Google is a company that has a vision that is much bigger than what these companies collectively are.

I just hope, Google plus comes good and  all my friends shift to Google+ so that I can leave Facebook.

Hope this dream comes true…. 

In Life, the most difficult thing is to make a choice. Starting from choosing a color to choosing  a career has been a problem for most of us.
I AM NO DIFFERENT. When I was young when I would go to a restaurant, I would take about half an hour to look at the menu and decide What to eat ?.

At the Ice cream parlor, Again the same problem, What flavor to choose ?

At a chaat stall, I would get confused, Whether to go for paapdi chaat or tiki chaat ?
 

I always loved watching superhero stuff, comics, animated series etc.
One day My mom scolded me and said “Why don’t u do something creative and make up ur own stories than wasting time watching something made by someone else ? “
Well … It hurt my ego and as Barney Stinson would always say when challenged,
I said to Myself “Challenge Accepted” !!!

Well… It has been like  9 years, I haven’t decided on a hero, a story or even a concept.
Reason: What color the costume should be ? What all powers should be given to the Hero ? What should be his name ? 

Infact while choosing a blogging service,  Blogger OR WordPress ?

Why does this happen everytime ?

The answer is  everyone of us, who have faced similar problems,  are greedy, we want everything and don’t want to miss out on anything.

But choice is a choice, we cant get everything at once,
I cant keep having all sorts of ice-creams, chaat or while in a restaurant, everything on the menu card.
REASONS: Monetary constraints !

I cant keep writing blog using every single blogging service.

I cant have my superhero wearing multi-colored costume and completely look like a clown or give him so many powers that he becomes invincible and then there is no story. 

Howsoever difficult it may seem, WE HAVE TO MAKE CHOICES !!! 

There is only one solution to this, that is to choose something which gives you a perfect combo of most of the things you want, wherever possible (of-course conditions apply)!

Like a mixed scoops of ice cream, mix chaat and  Tumblr for blogging which has everything, from micro-blogging, blogging, photos, audios and videos etc. 

At McDonald’s, Can’t decide anything ?, Go for a Combo meal!

Even while choosing a career, I wanted something involving everything I love, programming, mathematics and Drawing.

Well I am yet to decide what to do, but Web development and game development are looking to be good options.

One can’t make easy choices or can’t get everything, he or she wants.
But atleast we all can try and search for the best possible combo, life offers us .

So this is the place where i will keep posting my thoughts, views, knowledge, important links and other miscellaneous stuff and try my best to make it The Ultimate Combo of everything that comes out of my mind. :))