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What does Hillary want? She doesnt know: As Hillary Clinton found her last slender hopes of winning the..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1168798 at 06/04/2008 04:07 PM

Satyam earns SAP Pinnacle Awards: Satyam Computer Services Limitedon announced that it has earned an SA..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1168797 at 06/04/2008 04:07 PM

Barack, Paper, Scissors - Reuters India: Barack, Paper, ScissorsReuters India - 50 minutes agoBlog..
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/06/04/barack-paper-scissors/ at 06/04/2008 04:07 PM

Sikh radicals proclaim alliances with Islamists - PunjabNewsline.com: BBC NewsSikh radicals proclaim al..
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/10679/77/ at 06/04/2008 04:06 PM

'Jerome should have listened to us' - Times of India: CNN-IBN'Jerome should have listened t..
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Jerome_should_have_listened_to_us/arti… at 06/04/2008 04:00 AM

Pranab to begin four-day visit to China from today - Sify: TopNewsPranab to begin four-day visit to Chi..
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14687119 at 06/04/2008 04:00 AM

Barack Obama makes historic appearance as first major-party … - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com: T..
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/06/barack_obama_makes_historic_ap.html at 06/04/2008 04:00 AM

Gujjars block rail traffic, security beefed up: Gujjar protesters blocked rail traffic by squatting on ..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1168334 at 06/03/2008 07:02 AM

India asks Canada to simplify visa procedures for students: India has asked Canada to simplify visa pro..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1168333 at 06/03/2008 07:02 AM

’Deradicalisation’ plan to tackle Islamist extremism in UK: With UK increasingly seen as a fertile grou..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1168332 at 06/03/2008 07:02 AM

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June 4, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life, In General | Leave a Comment

So what does Dave thinks about HRC/BO/McC - 2008 Elections.

Last 10 tweets from @davewiner

Now let’s see how much of a mofo she is. at 06/04/2008 01:38 AM

HRC is 100 times better speaker than McC. Running a long campaign teaches you how to campaign. (She’s still running!) at 06/04/2008 01:37 AM

HRC addresses her supporters:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2550017176/

at 06/04/2008 01:35 AM

The McCain speech, until he was interrupted. http://mp3.newsjunk.com/Jun32008/mcCainSpeech.mp3

at 06/04/2008 01:26 AM

Can you imagine McC screaming at the strategist that talked him into this timing? (Should have let Obama have the night.) at 06/04/2008 01:14 AM

I think McC made a really bad timing decision. He was sounding really shrill and silly, and then they cut him off. Oooops. at 06/04/2008 01:14 AM

Try Googling “A leader you can believe in.” Hah!
http://www.google.com/search?q=A leader we can believe in at 06/04/2008 01:08 AM

Blitzer says Obama needs 4 to clinch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/2549840474/

at 06/04/2008 12:12 AM

”Twitter will be better off when it’s the best of its own breed.”
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/05/29/thought-du-jour/ at 05/30/2008 10:11 PM

Twitter users are even more creative than Mac users. Here’s proof.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/2537309848/

at 05/30/2008 08:53 PM

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June 3, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life, In General | Leave a Comment

Email still has plenty of juice left.

"Oh! I have so much data, I want to protect every bit of it and I want users to come to me everyday" said Social network sites when they gathered millions of users. For well known reasons social media world is keeping the tremendous amount of valuable data trapped within its arena. This is no secret to savvy users of all these different services. So we see initiatives like DataPortability and OpenSocial picking up good traction. Facebook, MySpace are doing this but taking careful steps as they have a lot tied with their data which they want to protect as much as they want. Users want their data to be portable and they want it quick. On the other end we have "email" which is loved my billions from its inception thru today and it is still not used very well in the context of social communication and messaging except basic notification service within every major social media sites.

There is a huge gap between email world and social media world as far as data distribution is concerned. Email should go beyond "Notify me when I have a new message or comment" notion. Wouldn't it be helpful to get all that email power close to social media community in terms of outreach, sharing and connection.

As per About.com

183 billion messages per day means more than 2 million emails are sent every second. About 70% to 72% (or between 128 and 132 billion) of them might be spam and viruses. The genuine emails are sent by around 1.2 billion email users.

Recently as per Techcrunch on the other topic very interesting numbers came around usage/how much time users spend on different desktop applications. If you relate these numbers with email.

In top 10 , users spend more time on 4 email applications (Outlook, Gmail, mail, Thunderbird)
In Top 3, users spend time on 2 email applications.

So we love email here at MessageDance and believe that there are enough innovative and intriguing things can be built around it using users current attention span and exposing them to the interesting content sharing model across social media. To facilitate this, in last few weeks we have released nice little features like

Sharing and blog right from Amazon, Google Reader, Digg, YouTube, Facebook and iPhone
Tag messages as you write them and make your messages more social.
Multi email support : Add multiple email addresses to the account. With this you can blog right from your blackberry when you are on road and go back to office and blog from your outlook.
User's entourage : you can see what your friends and your friend's friends are talking about.

We are working on lot more in coming weeks.

As we let the time and great ideas build the gap between, so called "legacy email" and emerging social media, we will run into creative ways of using our daily life which is trapped in the wonderful world of email.

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May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Communication/Technology, In General, MessageDance | Leave a Comment

One wheeled motorcycle - The Uno

Good design, and you don't need to do willie anymore.

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Motorcycle Mojo Magazine - The Uno - Canadian Motorcycle Perspectives

To explore the natural and creative side of motorcycle enthusiasts with informative and interesting articles which will appeal to riders of any age, skill level and type of bike they ride.

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May 8, 2008 | Filed Under In General | Leave a Comment

Modern Marvels : Magnets - on History channel

Quite an interesting series on History channel and this one is one of them. you can watch it on the following link.

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Watch Modern Marvels: Magnets Online Free

How magnets evolved from centuries and today at the core everything is driven by that one magnetic force (including electricity, our computer storage etc).

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May 6, 2008 | Filed Under Communication/Technology, In General, Science And Culture | Leave a Comment