Vishal Kothari

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It was a normal routine for me. I finished my dinner, started my computer & opened up a couple of websites to read articles about yesterday’s & today’s matches of the Airtel Champions League T20. I read one article on www.espnstar.com. The second site that I follow is www.rediff.com & opened up that too. To make sure I don’t miss out anything, I read the article for the same match from both of these websites as usually they cover it pretty extensively.

To my surprise, I found the article word to word similar on both the websites. I was disappointed when I discovered this. I didn’t open up the sites expecting this to come.

After that, I decided to check this article on other websites. Result? No different! Check the URLs below:

ESPNSTAR - http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/cl-t20/news/detail/item337058/Gambhir:-Viru-set-the-game-for-us/

REDIFF - http://cricket.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/12/gautam-gambhir-on-virender-sehwag.htm

IN.COM / CRICKETNEXT - http://cricketnext.in.com/news/viru-set-up-the-game-for-us-gambhir/44473-31.html

MID-DAY:

http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2009/oct/121009-Virender-Sehwag-Gautam-Gambhir-Champions-League-Twenty20-Delhi-Daredevils-Wayamba-Elevens.htm

DECCAN HERALD: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/30122/viru-set-game-us-gambhir.html

All of the above mentioned websites, have a certain amount of respect for their names. Who copied from whom, still remains a question.

Strangely, a couple of days ago, I read an article, it was a meetup of News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch & Tom Curley of the Associated Press. They were saying that the search engines will have to pay for Online News. You can read the article at:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-QHPkd1wPcAZL8SOqSTACDn33TgD9B7G7TG0

My friends, no one would pay if you continue doing copy paste.

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I have been playing with Facebook recently & trying out different apps. I thought I would just write down my reviews for each of the apps I tried & share some views as well.

Applications tried so far:

1. What does your day of the birth say?
   1. Asks to enter birth date – doesn’t have it pre-populated from Facebook
   2. Says something about the day I was born like: Adventurous, Great sense of humor, Loves to enjoy life, etc.
   3. Has ads of other apps
   4. My Review: Not exciting.
2. Magic Fortune Cookie
   1. Simply flashes a line of text that says what I am going to do today or in the near future. Also has some numbers being displayed.
   2. Has ads of other apps & other external ads also
   3. My Review: Just shows randomly things you might do, but unreal. Not exciting, except for the things that it shows.
3. Love personality test
   1. Has a questionnaire of around 8 to 10 questions. Based on that, gives the result.
   2. My Review: Didn’t complete this. I think I hate apps that answer more than 4-5 questions.
4. How sexy is your name?
   1. Asks to add up certain numbers associated with letters in your name. Based on the sum, it determines whether your name is sexy or not.
   2. Has external ads & ads of other apps like ‘Find out your top follower’.
   3. My Review: Didn’t complete this one too. I think it’s something unreal & I found it to be a waste of time to sit & add the numbers associated with my alphabets to tell me how sexy is my name.
5. Farmville - Game
   1. Provides the user with a farm. Allows user to plough, harvest, etc. After ploughing a crop, asks the user to come after a particular time (time taken by the crop to grow). This way, user keeps coming back again & again.
   2. My Review: This is one of the popular games on Facebook. I hate the idea of going back again & again when my crop is fully grown & then harvest.
6. Think fast challenge
   1. Directly asks for Name, email & mobile number on the first page of the application itself. A good way to collect email addresses. But even after I entered my correct number, it said “Please Enter Valid Mobile No.” J
   2. My Review: It said it will ask 200 questions which we need to answer in 60 seconds. But they didn’t let me go off the first page itself where they kept asking for my mobile number despite providing it correct 3-4 times. I am not sure what the questions would be, but this app is definitely not something which it says it is, people won’t sit & answer 200 questions…
7. Death’s time
   1. Simply populates your birth date from Facebook by default & asks you to Submit. After hitting Submit, gives a random day of death along with a random cause.
   2. My Review: This app catches your attention once you see it on your WALL. Same happened with me. I went to the app, it had my birthday pre-populated from Facebook. All I had to do was click ‘Submit’ & it showed me randomly what my death time & reason was. I am going to heaven in 2014
8. What do your friends think about you?
   1. Asks to choose 4 friends from your friend list. Wasn’t able to complete this one as I couldn’t really understand what this app was doing. J
   2. My Review: Refer to ‘a’
9. Are you going to heaven or hell?
   1. Another quiz type app which asks questions whether you believe in God, whether you forgive your enemy, etc. And of course, you go to heaven or hell based on your answers to those 5-6 questions.
   2. My Review: Found this one to be an average app. Not exciting, but since they kept it to 5-6 questions, I took it & the options have been formed well too.

After reviewing all the above apps, what I found was 80% of the apps have either external ads or have ads of other Facebook apps on them. The first thing that came to my mind was: Is this spamming of applications? I think yes.

There are way too many meaningless apps or apps that simply seem to be have made to host other ads & have more clicks. I am not sure if that is acceptable under Facebook terms or not.

Facebook is definitely changing the way people interact & changing it in a big way.

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Since last few days, I was just curious to know what’s the meaning of our national anthem. So just went ahead & found out. What was unexpected to find is that this was actually composed to be sung in the honor of the King George V by Rabindranath Tagore, when he was to be given the Imperial Crown of India. Originally, it was written in Sanskritized Bengali.

Here is the meaning of each line:

Jana Gana Mana Adhinayak Jaya he, Bharat Bhagya Vidhata - O! Dispenser of India’s Destiny, you are the ruler of the minds of all people.

Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maratha, Dravida Utkala Banga - Your name excites the hearts of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat & Maratha country, in the Dravida, Utkala & Bengal.

Vindhya Himachala Yamuna Ganga, Utkala Jaladhi Tarang - It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas & Himalayas. It mingles in the pure waters of Yamuna & Ganga.

Tava Shubh Name Jaage, Tava Shubh Ashish Maange - They sing only your name, they seek your auspicious blessings.

Gahe Tava Jaya Gatha - They seek only your victory.

Jana Gana Mangaldayak Jaya he, Bharat Bhagya Vidhata - You are the savior of all people. India’s destiny is in your hands, you are the ruler of the minds of all people.

Jaya he, Jaya he, Jaya he, Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya he - Victory to you…

People have been saying that Vande Mataram should be our National Anthem given that ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was composed for King George V. However, It’s also true that whenever we sing ‘Jana Gana Mana’, it arises a feeling of pride & patriotism in our hearts & runs shivers through our body.

Though after knowing the meaning, whenever I will sing the anthem, it will make me feel conscious as to for whom I am singing it. Something strange…but can’t change it.

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• I too…loved few teachers…and hated few. But all in all, a big thank you to all my teachers … #
• Been watching TV since last 2 hours… Feeling sleepy now…..but some more time to go before sleep… had my favorite coprapak #
• Lazy sunday… #
• Experiencing mood swings… #
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• Can someone give me the old hindi classics of 50s/60s/70s ? Need them badly… #
• My blog is now upgraded…Thanks to Harshad. Time to get blogging now. #
• Searching for the true meaning of our national anthem… #
• Bye bye… poweroff #
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