I finally got a change to watch the documentary ‘The Corporation’ and should agree that it is an obsolutely amazing film.
It talks about many large corporations who charge rediculous amounts of $$$ for their products and get into the mind set of making money and just making money and ignoring the customer and even basic ethics. It has lots of content…
I highly recommended this documentary if you havent watched it yet.
Raju
I think the concept of social networking sounds interesting but lacks real appeal. I remember registering for orkut in its early days but never logged into it later after building a community. Reason - there is nothing much to do there (and most of the time, the site itself is down).
While this concept of socal networking is good, it’ll only take off when there is some good services added on top of it (Yahoo 360 seem to be doing a good job here). When these social networks are built, if services like Photo Album Sharing, Chat/group messages within groups etc are enabled, it’ll be helpful. Also, other stuff like something along the lines of match.com will also add more value on top of social networking.
Social Networking itself can be considered as a platform on top of which other services can be offered to these groups of networks.
Raju
I spend hours during weekends looking for an ideal phone (atleast close) but couldnt find any. While one problem is choosing CDMA vs GSM, the other problem is choosing devices for each type. A device which is good doesnt work with other provider. Is it very difficult for a phone to support both CDMA and GSM in one piece?
Ideally I would like this phone to carry both numbers (home and work numbers) and even from different service providers with WiFi, Bluetooth support with Pocket PC.
Long way to go isnt it?
Raju
I am hoping to see an free international online wakeup call service hosted in a .com website. The way it works is, I go to a website, login and provide the phone number, time/date for a wakeup call and just submit, it should call me at the specified time.
After I thought about it, I googled to find out similar service offerings but they do charge on a per call basis or monthly basis and are restricted to US and Canada.
May be we can overcome this location barrier if we implement some SIP servers around the globe and offer it for free. Well, offering it for free might sound good, but there certainly will be some expenses to atleast make these automated calls. But if we make it free, there will be many visitors. More the visitors, brighter chances to get ads on the site.
But having all kinds of ads (like Yahoo) doesnt make sense. More targetted ads will be good. For example, when the user gives his telephone number, if this service can automatically track if he has internet connection etc (and provide better rates) for each number it’ll be a killer targeted ad.
I hope to see someone launching such service soon.
Raju
If you are an IE user, I strongly recommend trying Maxthon. I have been using this browser for a long time (may be around 2 years) and didnt find a browser like it. Well, actually it is built on top of IE (which I HATE), but the productivity is brings in is HUGE. I am so addicted with this, I donot browse the internet with any other browser except this one.
Microsoft is trying to build the features in IE 7 which Maxthon already has for a long time (and implemented extremely well). One simple way for Microsoft is to acquire Maxthon. I guessed that MS will acquire Maxthon first and then GIANT Antispyware later, but was proven wrong. The anti-spyware was acquired first and the other never happened (yet). Well, security seem to be MS focus now (it better be).
I have tried Opera, Firefox etc but felt that these are moderate browsers compared to Maxthon (I know I am asking for some trouble here 
). But if you are a power user, try Maxthon with most of the plug-ins installed.
Raju
