This is the best spoof ever in Indian television history. Close to 1 million views on youtube. The guy who is playing the role of Raghu-Rajiv is the co-author of GeekOnNet and my good friend, Mr. Deepak Kumar Mishra. Watch it, enjoy it and share it.
This is a must watch video.
Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. "My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me," he says, "and Steve Jobs inspired me".
In a recent study by Yahoo Research, 50 percent of all tweets consumed are reportedly generated from just 20,000 elite users. Media presents the bulk of the information, where celebrities are the most followed.
These supposed 20K elite users only represent 0.05% of the actual Twitter population, though dominate the information that most of us on Twitter regurgitate to others on the platform.
“It’s really dominated by this media-celebrity-blogger elite,” says Duncan Watts, one of the researchers. “It’s a small number of users who are hyperconnected, and then there’s everybody else just paying attention to those people.”
Of the 50 million Twitter users who actively log in every day, not all of them are tweeting. In fact, we already know that most of these users are simply digesting tweets and consuming content. The study also confirms what I’ve previously mentioned: Bloggers rebroadcast the most information, with other bloggers tending to follow blogging accounts, celebrities following celebrities, and so on.
From personal experience, I definitely tend to rebroadcast or tweet content from accounts that have more credibility — I like knowing that my own followers can rely on me for sourcing accurate or credible news. However, it’s true that the Twitter experience would not be what it is without the mixing pot of content streaming in from friends and family.
If Twitter content was restricted solely to tweets from the 20,000 elite accounts, I just wouldn’t enjoy the platform as much. Half the fun on Twitter for me or any other active user, I’m sure, is the back-and-forth feedback coming in from both those we follow as well as our own following.
Knowing the above, however, I’m curious: Do you think you’re following one of the 20,000 elite users, keeping in mind that these accounts mainly consist of celebrities, bloggers and media broadcasters? And do you tend to rebroadcast content from these accounts, or more typically from your friends and family? Weigh in below.
"GOOGLE", whenever we hear this word there is only one thing which comes to our mind i.e "INNOVATION". Yes, Google is a synonym of "SUCCESS" and "INNOVATION" and my readers might have observed that till now we (Team GeekOnNet) have written only about it’s successful projects/product or successful innovation. But this time we are going to change the trend and we are going to write about Google’s failed product/project
How does one perceive and see things around? To begin with, it is a silly question. We have our five sense organs for it, and wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a sixth sense too? Today seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling are not the only information required to decide the credibility of an object. Why else would ‘Google’ be so popular! But you cannot always ‘log on’ when you need information and knowledge about the object in front of you. That’s where Sixth Sense comes in.
Sixth Sense- it connects the digital world to the physical one. The device (which can be worn around the neck) consist a projector, a mirror, a camera connected to the cell-phone and colored caps (like rings) which are put on the tips of thumb and the forefinger. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction. It is just like watching search results only without a required screen!
The Sixth Sense device caters to a variety of needs, like map navigation. The fingers would allow zooming in an out of the map layout and help search the exact location. If you buy some stuff, it will pop up all the information available about it, so you get the best deal. The drawing tool helps draw on any surface using the fingers. It recognizes free hand gestures too. Using hands ‘framing’ gestures, will click pictures and then later you can flip through those pictures. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing and ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.
The mind behind this intriguing device is Pranav Mistry, an Indian Student pursuing PhD in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s media lab. His work in detail can be viewed at www.pranavmistry.com
~Naineet
Free time tends to maximize your thinking abilities and leads you to something that may sometimes be very exciting. GeekOnNet.com has been such an experience for us. It’s an online portal where we write mainly about new online inventions, business events, innovative websites and web solutions.
We had a group known as the ‘Open Source’ during my IIT days, a group of students who used to share all the new ideas and solutions to solving assignments. Most of us were into blogging and used to put in our ideas into our own individual blogs. We used to meet up every time there was a barrage of assignments. Once during such a week, there came up an idea of having our own website and putting in all our technical discussions and analysis into that.
Me and two of my classmates Ranjeet Kumar Vimal and Deepak Mishra took of the initiative. Ranjeet posted the first article on June 9, 2008. He wrote about a 17 year girl earning $70K from internet. The response he got from the readers was very good. With time me and Deepak also joined in. We also bought the domain name “GeekOnNet.com” from US.
Our articles ranged from analysis and comparisons of online webportals to writing about budding entrepreneurs. We focused mainly on the online startups and portals. Also me and Ranjeet being from Computer Science department helped us, we could give a common man analysis of social networking websites- Orkut, Myspace, Facebook. When Crome and Bing was launched, people were looking out for comparisons and ours was the first to give a comprehensive analysis of both of them. The article on Mozilla and Internet Explorer received the maximum number of hits our portal ever received. Deepak had a different kind of a contribution to make. He comes from the Mechanical Engineering Department and belongs to a Theatre group in Mumbai. He had very good networking skills and had lots of contacts of Ex-IITians who were into entrepreneurship. We added a different section to our portal- the place where we wrote about the startups. GeekOnNet.com had finally become a startup for startups.
Some of our achievements:-
It’s an year now that GeekOnNet started. It had been a very good learning experience for all the three of us. Ranjeet plans to work for an IT company in a few days and Deepak to continue with his theatre in Mumbai. I have joined SIBM,Pune for my Masters in Business Administration. I hope the distance doesn’t create a hindrance in continuing our website.
