Netizen

Friday, November 30, 2012

A Beautiful Truck

The rest of the Internet is too slow for Google Fiber

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Marissa Mayer Is Doing It

I was willing to give Marissa Mayer three years before passing judgment. But only after three months I think she has made it ample clear that she will turn around Yahoo. She already has.

This is mind boggling. This defies all economic theories. This beats China at its peak. And he has been doing it through agriculture, primarily.

Bihar beats Gujarat, Maharashtra with 21.9% growth in 11th Plan

only Sikkim and Goa, which are much smaller in size than Bihar, have performed better than the state. .... 21.9 per cent during the 11th Plan spread over 2007 to 12. ... Sikkim recorded highest GSDP growth rate of 31.6 per cent ..... The worst performers include Jharkhand which recorded GSDP growth rate of 9.2 per cent .... During the 11th Plan, Gujarat grew at 16 per cent followed by Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh at 15.3 per cent each.

Slumdog Millionaire: A Movie About My People

I was born in Bihar.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Tiny Houses Are Amazing

Check this out. 20K for a house. It is not just the price tag, I find myself liking the economy of the space.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Inconvenient Search

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It's interesting to see Google compete with itself.

How Google Plans to Find the UnGoogleable

The company wants to improve its mobile search services by automatically delivering information you wouldn’t think to search for online. .... relatively small pieces of information that I’d never turn to Google for. For example, how long the line currently is in a local grocery store. Some offline activities, such as reading a novel, or cooking a meal, generated questions that I hadn’t turned to Google to answer—mainly due to the inconvenience of having to grab a computer or phone in order to sift through results. ..... mobile devices made it possible for Google to discover unmet needs for information ..... the perfect search engine will provide you with exactly what you need to know at exactly the right moment, potentially without you having to ask for it ....... Google Now offers unsolicited directions, weather forecasts, flight updates ...... the pinnacle of this hands-free experience, an entirely new class of device ....... "In the future you might want to search very new information from the physical environment ..... Your information needs are very localized to that place and event and moment.” ....... Google Now already combines location data with real-time feeds, for example, from U.S. public transit authorities, allowing a user to walk up to a bus stop and pull out his phone to find arrival times already provided. ..... a search engine for mobile devices dubbed Gander, which communicates directly with local sensors. A pilot being installed on the University of Texas campus will, starting early next year, allow students to find out wait times at different cafés and restaurants, or find the nearest person working on the same assignment