Googling with a Plus!

Google, in my opinion, can be termed as "innovation-in-renovation". Apparently, Google has never "invented" any utility on internet but has tranformed almost everything it touched on the web. Google is not Darwin's father monkey that is responsible for the evolution of mankind (read "webkind"). Search engines, e-mails, spreadsheets, web-hosting, e-books, blogging, social networking, browsing softwares, cellular operating systems and countless other territories already existed before Google probably even thought to invade them . Yet, Google's invasion has been anything but destructive. Google, though was not Darwin's father monkey, but it didn't act any thing less than fairy-gawd-mother either. Its magic wand transformed the rules of the game of any arena it flew through. Google, the search engine, 's story is a history now. The company's corporate name is now a world famous synonym for internet search. Revisiting another event; never had Microsoft or Yahoo shared nightmares of their users who had their mailbox's 1MB cookie-worth space overflown. Enters Gmail and a GB of webspace is thrown in the face. An email-user's wildest dream became the email-giants' craziest nighmare! Maintaining the legacy, Google's cellular baby Android has just had Symbian crawling on its knees. Finding blue oceans bore Google. It rather loves to enter a bloody red ocean and cleans it to blue with pure talent.

Just In; Google has recently added another weapon in its already deadly arsenal, the Plus, Google Plus! Even though Google owns a once-popular social networking (SN) site Orkut, it failed to develop it a lot more than a web of discussion forums. Facebook ate up its share, focusing more on networking literally and less on discussion obsession. Twitter came up with another idea and Orkut seemed to be kicked to wall. Previously experimenting with Google Wave and Buzz, Google has now rebranded its SN experience with the Plus. Now let me share my 2 weeks of experience with the +.

Not surprisingly and definitely not intentionally, Facebook played a vital role in making + go viral. It started with some people sharing on their statuses to have a + account and some of the rest asking them to send an invite. Working the same for me, I asked a friend for invitation and got it within 4 days of the Plus launch. Neverthless, the viral took probably even took Google by surprise and we had to wait for another 4-5 days till Plus becomes accessible to invites. With an interface that is more alien to Orkut and more common to Facebook, what I failed to find out earlier is the legacy of Google; to re-innovate the experience of any thing it offers like the thing has been re-born. Giving feeling of a genetic mutulation between Twitter and Facebook, and carrying the strong family name of Google, Plus is not something that will give you google-bumps at first. Profile, pictures, videos, friends, sharing etc almost everything is same as you find in any happy-go-LUCY social networking website. Yes, they have been branded differently though. An interesting thing is Circles, the re-branded friendslist. Its one solid + attraction. You can choose to be private like on FB while sharing your views with the world like Twitter. It actually gives you CHOICE to share what thing with what type of people you want. Another new addition is "Hangout" where you can arrange a webcam party with your circles, ah, friends I mean. Also you can update Facebook, Twitter etc through Plus if thats the only reason you open these things for. Likes have become +1 on Plus, seemingly. That was all I got so far and I hoped that's not what they have to offer so far!

But wait, I have been hearing Google Plus is planned to be the ultimate synchronization space for all of Google Services like Gmail, Blogger, Google Reader and etc etc. Well if that happens, and can surely happen, I think I can see where the networking world is going. If Google really plans to take the networking world to another dimension then we can expect one place to centralize all our digital lives. From office work to family stuff, from friends to love-stuff, everything at one space and yet seperated distinctively from each other. If this + project really lives up to its potential, then perhaps websites like Facebook need to do a lot more than changing Chat rules. But do they stand a chance? Google is much more than a family name for Plus I suppose.

And yes. Dont forget to "+1" this blog. Cya :)

Annual Pilgrimage to Blogspot

Yes. The saint is back to visit his holy chamber (of no secrets) on his quiet unawaited annual pilgrimage. I wont like to put up the reasons why I face an year long memory loss after writing a blogpost everytime. Not that I would not like to, but I just cant plagiarize my own blog and that too the latest (actually and not so literally) one before this piece that you are reading right now. Further I am considering to rename my blog to Lazy Bum's blog. Any suggestions except for Bum's synonym is welcomed.

For those who dont know, I actually just got done with my MBA and am now economically termed as jobless. Though I cannot force a significant impact on my country's unemployment rate, I am trying to nudge the blogging scene once again. I am thinking to expriment with different topics and you might start to see the resulting Compounds in a few days and hopefully you dont have to wait for another year once the first one is out. But yeah, I cannot disclose my atoms at the moment ;)

So if you think you have wasted your 2 minutes, be prepared to waste more. Or alternatively, you can offer me a good job ;-) For the rest of holy men, let the journey begin ;)

Return of the Blogger

Welcome back everyone !


The dim light has struck the devil’s workshop again who had been trying hard to dig some useful leisure pass time but was too lazy to write a blog. So more than a year has gone since I wrote my first blog (and the only one till about a minute ago) and it was so serious that the rest of my writing habits got lost in the seriousness of it. Result? The poor new blogging warrior got corrupted in his first adventure!

In all this year, I was waiting for one big miraculous ray of light that would guide my idle soul to the divine world of blogging again and I eventually found a lot of light bulbs that would heat up the big slim lazy me to write over, but my laziness turned out too lazy to be moved. First it was Pakistan winning the T20 Cup last year; I thought I should also stage a come back like the Men in Green. But that night, the whole nation was high seemingly on cocaine, not really though, and since I was on double dose, I was better off with flying than using my geniuses in writing a blog. Then like the Green’s form was short lived, my idea of blogging died too. Later, the poor being was reincarnated with the death of Michael Jackson and again I thought of writing a tribute to the King of Pop, my most favorite artist ever perhaps, but I thought it’s better to contribute more money to Google through YouTube than wasting time of readers on BlogSpot. I guess any of MJ’s performances will always be preferred on a tribute written for him on any random day. Though every dog has a day too, but then, I would like to be called a human being.

Last but not the least; it was Pakistan Cricket being crushed by the Kangaroo Army earlier this year which made me wonder if our boys were being mistaken for female Kangaroos in Australia? But then Afridi’s ferocious display of CanniBALLization haunted me for several nights. But as I digested what a friend of mine puts as “his appetite for cricket”, my idea of blogging got flushed too.

But in all these events, one thing was common. The result was out! The stress a student feels during the exam can never be retained after the result is out and actually this stress keeps you going. Specially, if you are a backbencher like me, you will fall asleep right after the exam and party until the next time you wake up for paper. So here I am, taken by the miracle of Pakistani team making into T20 worldcup semis despite all odds with thirst for the Cup still not over. The world is our canvas and so I am, all set again in my dimensions, to hit a brush over it.




Regards