An excerpt from A Film by Aravind

కలయో మాయో నువు కలసిన ఈ పూట
వలపో గెలుపో ఇరు మనసుల ఈ ఆట
నీ చెలిమి నాకు కొత్త భాష నేర్పగ, ఊసులన్ని పెదవి చాటు చేరగ పాడిన ఈ పాట
తొలిప్రేమకే సరిలేదని, తొలిస్పర్శక ఎదురేదని చెబుతున్న ఈ మాట

On request from vikram i am editing the above master piece, i like it very much, in english:

kalayo mayo nuvu kalasina ee poota,
valapo gelupo iru manasula ee aata,
nee chelimi naku kotta bhasha naerpaga, oosulanni pedavi chatu cheraga paadina ee paata,
tholi premake sariledani, tholi sparsake eduraedani chebutunna ee maata!

vikram, hope u understand it.

Browse by name

Its not rather a new concept to the techies, but i havnt find it till i had an exiting experience with my flock browser yesterday. I used to type the website full address along with the http://, but yesterday, while browsing, i forgotten to press "Ctrl+Enter" after typing google, just pressed "Enter" button. I thought that it may raise DNS error. Its a surprise for me and it wents to display the google home page. Then later i tried to type "ICDE 2007", which goes to the page http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/icde/ . Later i think of why this is happening , even our DNS sometimes not able to resolve some new site names and it will take some time to refresh its DNS entries. I keep on tried some more key words and came to know that it is only being done for some of the keywords. Later i came to know that this is what people call "Browse by Name". Its a feature being added in Google toolbar for IE. As if any new feature is added in IE, it'll definitely done in Firefox. When it is being done in IE with Google toolbar, its being directed me either directly to a corresponding site or google search page. But with the Flock broser, which i use often, it tries to redirect to the first site based on a combination of keywords. I forgotten to mention, Flock is a Web browser based on the Mozilla code base. It has most of the Firefox features with extra features.

EBuddy.com or Meebo?

Which one would you prefer? EBuddy.com or Meebo ?
eBuddy is a web application that enables you to chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies without having to install any program or Java applet. All you need is a JavaScript enabled browser on your computer and it works even if you are behind a firewall. Not impressing? There is something special with EBuddy.com, that is it also had mobile version. Just ur mobile shd support xhtml and wap. Thats it. U can login to YM or MSN/ AOL at any time and chat with ur buddies. Its the latest version of e-messenger.net, which was stopped due to funds problem for sometime. Opens windows as pop-ups. Some kind of headache!

Meebo, another AJAX Baby, is giving high competetion to ebuddy.com. But the Meebo.com has the feature to combine all the IM users, YM, MSN, AOL, Gtalk, at a time and partitions the buddies into online and offline. No popups, which is with simple userinterface looks as YM replicate. Had good features like profile views only for the online buddies.

I Dont use nonth either, i prefer to use IM Multi-Protocol Messaging Client (gaim). But when it comes to chose one, i prefer ebuddy.com, because it contains more emotions as in YM, preseves the YM category. Though it fails to include GTalk in the list, i suppose the team may add it soon.

who is google's upcoming rival?

Who is the upcoming rival in search engine market against to google? Is it Yahoo Search or ASK.com or MSN Search? An Interesting Analysis Article from CNN Fortune, on CNN Money.com provides you the relavant answers. It selected ask.com as the upcoming rival to google search. The article shows an example why only ask.com, and even its true any other random query. As per their analysis, YSearch is some what closer to the Ask.com search technology, but the Yahho Search result page is not so attractive. I like the features of Narrow Your search, Expand Your Search options in the ASK.com and as well as Also Try option in Yahoo Search.

Jim Lanzone, Ask.com's hyper-enthusiastic CEO, has a simple explanation: "What really differentiates us is our focus on search. Other companies are partnering with content companies and launching wi-fi networks. But we're not building a rocket ship. We're building a better car. It's not what people will want in five years. It's what they want now."

Google's technology: page rank, link popularity, etc are definitely giving us more search results, but sometimes they are failing to provide us the relevant results. But with ASK.com and Yahoo Search, most of the times, the results are in the context of what a user is looking for.
The rest of the article follows the ask.com history story and its market analysis.

Another feature I am expecting from Search engines

I am abt to keep watching for this kind of feature from some days. may be some one had tried, but significantly i havnt find even as firefox extension. Its just my thought, the present navigation with the search engine results is just traditional click go type. This might destract the users context while reading the result pages (yes, its true with me). Instead if there is some feature like "firefox's AJAX YMail extension", which helps user to keep up with the current search context, instead of opening the results in the new tab/window. By just clicking on the '+' sign, the result page loads there itself, and clicking on '-' sign it shrinks to the original meta-data description. Just imagene the result page of future search engines, as in the Firefox AJAX-YMail extension.

'Reply by Chat'

Reply by chat - one more feature being added to GMail. It lets you to discuss an email on the chat box. When u got an email, instead of sending reply to him, you can chat with the user when that person is online. The discussed mail will be saved in your chat history ( for that u need to enable save chat history, which is by default). Chat histories are only grouped with conversations when you use the Reply by chat feature. If you close a chat window after you discuss an email with someone, and then initiate a new chat, your chat history won't be grouped with a conversation.

A nice feature and integrating both chat and mail to keep up the context.