"e"xperience sharing

I have been reading a lot on the law of cell phone usage while driving. As I whizz past cars and vice versa I see every third person either talking over the phone, and probably every 10 th person doing something else on the phone. The more I think about this the more it makes me wonder that do we really need law for this? Why do people not realize that when they lose focus while driving they are not just putting their life in danger but of several other people around them? I strongly think that phone manufacturers like cigarette and alcohol manufacturers should start having a warning message running on all their ads saying : Cell phone use while driving is dangerous . The statistics clearly reveal that this matter needs extreme caution by young drivers as the under20 age group had the highest percentage of distracted drivers; 16% of drivers under 20 years old involved in fatal crashes were distracted while driving . An analogy to cigarette smoking is that smokers die much earlier t...

Link"e"d in as the name says really has been instrumental in creation of one of the strongest and inviolable networks (one of its kind as there aren't many professional networks in this sea of social networking sites). And very easily Linked in has scaled up beyond being just a professional network to a combination of network and job portal that's has quality jobs (or does it not..) What's surprising about Linked in is that while there were pioneers like monster, dice, jobsearch , ladders (Another website with a different model of functioning), sixfugurejobs (quite an ambitious name) who have been working on assisting jobseekers and headhunters to get the right fit, but post the advent of Linked in I personally feel that the process of job search will actually alter in the coming few years. I really don't know what could one get by the recommendations in Orkut or Facebook except for some ego massage but in Linked in the recommendations assist the user to a...

Recently " Tumblr " founder David Karp was in picture for having come up with one of the easiest platform for users to start blogging and I decided to have myself registered into it. When I looked at the features I realized that there is nothing out there that can differentiate Tumblr with other blogging sites, but that's what it is and we already have .17 mn registered users on that website. So what does this imply - are we saying that tomorrow Facebook , Orkut, Twitter and others will have to get meatier to keep up with the competition, or will they just the way they always have - will keep churning more users and keep making money out of the advertisements?  Atleast, that's the only mode of making money that these social networking sites have and the model seems to be well accepted in the e-business world. But do we see an evolution in these social networking websites. Are these   social networking sites going to remain what they are with the several widge...

Google - a company that has literally reinvented the wheel by having a business that runs entirely in a virtual world. It's like having a whole new world with its own countries, states, languages, politicians, musicians, movie makers, scientists, doctors and a continuous aggregating population that's all gaga about this virtual world. When I think how Google has evolved in the last 10-12 years from being a search engine dedicated to the Stanford University to now being a company that seems to be making the moves that no other company can match. AdSense & AdWords, Doubleclick , Orkut, Google maps, Google grid, blogger, Google checkout, translator and they all have direct competitors in aQuantive , Real, Facebook , Yahoo maps, Paypal ( who had imagined Google's credibility to be at par with paypal ) ... and to sum it all a solid user profiling by means of : The Google cookie Personalized search G-mail (All the contents of mail are actually scanned by Google) Google docum...