Now I’m afraid of trying any new Google product, since it may get scraped. Last few weeks we have seen news of change in strategy affecting many services, even to their demise, like no uploading to Google Video, absolute discontinuation of Google Notebook, Mashup Editor, Dodgeball and no made-by-google development of Jaiku.
Jaiku is released as open source project under Apache licence. Jaiku engine is ported to new Google App Engine and, in fact, Google App Engine was a further development of Mashup Editor.
The whole operation looks like a restructuring of Google’s online presence, keeping in mind the hard times coming up due to global slowdown. I think we won’t hear any mega nor under-the-lip takeover deal from Google in the near future. Honestly, even during those glory days, Google as whole didn’t seem that serious about developing those products.
After taking over Jaiku in 2007, it was kept in closed beta (still it was so before this news) and hardly any user witnessed big development, although there were many expectations. Jaiku was serious competitor to Twitter, but, albeit many interesting features, being so closed, like closed chinese economy in 15th century, hardly anyone learned of its richness and it became “unpopular”. Story ain’t different in case of other hurt products. I think dreams of all those newbie entrepreneurs to be a part of Google shall fill the heat and they shall wish those dreams never come true. I am glad there are many entrepreneurs out there, who shall not allow information technology sector to be a part of incumbency capitalism.
Jaiku is not disappearing completely from the scene. It would have been an another shock for me after demise of Pownce. Here is what Google has to say about it:
While Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.
Many microblogging sites are feeling the heat after higher growth trajectory of Twitter, which has found acceptance even among professionals, like reporters, celebrities, players, etc. It can be said the same about Skype couple of years ago, when many reporters started using it in first in remote areas, then on regular basis. But I personally think that the competition is very important for better services. Well, maybe Jaiku has chosen different path, but it shall amuse loyal microbloggers over the course of time.
I wonder how many people know that the oscar winning movie “Departed” was remake of great HK production called “Infernal Affairs”. The intensity, the music composition and climax in original movie was second to none. I put this bollywood production “Company” in the same category. Like many big cities, Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is also eroded by the underworld. This movie shows real life in Mumbai, the events which happens backstage. The director Ram Gopal Verma has talent to make such movies. It is quite sad that in western market such good HK and bollywood productions rarely find the respected place. Nonetheless, this movie shall definitely find a place in my exclusive DVD shelf.
I think, never in the history, the president of the USA had such a legacy like that of George W. Bush. The “Bushism” has become a phenomenon in the media. I found some of them on BBC News. But I quote here only my favourites.
“Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.” Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004
“Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.” Tucson, Arizona, 28 November, 2005
“And truth of the matter is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how important this one is, I read it, and [Tony Blair] read it.” On the publication of the Baker-Hamilton Report, Washington DC, 7 December, 2006
I believe the intelligence report on Iraq was one of those “a lot of reports in Washington”. The world would have been different, if “anybody” had read it, too.
The quest to find a earth-like planet continues. Kepler Mission is a proper addition after european CoRoT mission. CoRoT was kept as an open secret with tedious french connection, even rather very open scientific community has no direct access. I think it will change with Kepler, which has gone social with its own presence in Twittverse. I wish the whole team all the best and am looking forward to first results.
If one creates a cause and gathers pretty much bunch of intellectuals, it is easy that such a cause can get promoted. There is a application related to the cause of “Cause”. This is pretty much longer process, but eventually it succeeds and leaves one wondering whether it was fundamentally a good cause or not. The latest example of it is biofuel.
There are many blog websites which doesn’t allow to put any ads on your website. But Tumblr, the microblogging website, does allow you to put ads, but the way it should be done is not quite that easy like in Blogger, but still pretty simple. Read the rest of this entry »
Finally there is proper vim client for mac, which looks in many respect mac-like, although it might seem exaggerated to call it this way. Vim is very different kind of editor than the one we know. But it comes handy in various situation like when one would like to edit something inside the terminal. But one should understand its application has not be constrained only to that. Here one can find the explanation why it is sometimes superior to other editors, when it comes to real programming. Even after using it several times, I feel newbie to the complete Vim-architecture. I can definitely recommend others the very healthy and pictorial tutorials to beginners from here.
“Kernel panic” in Mac OS X is sometimes irritating problem for end-user and sometimes opportunity to improve the code for developers. But for the end-user it may not be easy to find out why and where this problem occurs. There’s interesting unix command found in Leopard, which can find the root to the instability, when kernel panic occurs.
Apple’s description of kernel panic gives some idea of it. According to the website:
A kernel panic is a type of error that occurs when the core (kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly. A kernel panic may also follow when the operating system is not able to recover from a different type of error. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware.
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