Google Talk

Here is an answer to Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger from Google. It is Google Talk (http://www.google.com/talk). It unites net telephony with an instant messaging network and builds on the Gmail e-mail service.

Here are some comments on it from my friends:

> Initial reports say that it is awesome. We have to wait and watch until it catches on and the bandwidth runs out :-)

It is really awesome man. We've been testing it internally for sometime now. The audio clarity is simply astounding. It is based on Jabber which is an open protocol. Any Jabber client can be used to connect to the Talk service.

Oh, and Google will never run out of bandwidth :-)

> Maybe google has a trick up their sleeve for effective utilization of bandwidth. It would be interesting to see what that is. I don't know what tricks they do internally, but they do spend a lot of effort on compression, optimization and the best use of bandwidth. The best part is the client which is just a 900K download.

Yahoo 360

Heard of the new service from Yahoo? It is Yahoo 360° (http://360.yahoo.com). See what yahoo claims about that…

Yahoo! 360° is a central place where you can keep connected with friends and family and easily share what matters most to you. You can start a blog, share photos, recommend favorites, or post pictures from your mobile phone. You can even show your friends what you're up to on Yahoo!. Share as much as you want, with whomever you want.

Sounds cool… And I am a great fan of Yahoo. I am addicted to their services like Address Book, Briefcase, Notepad, Calendar, Photos, Movies, etc besides the most popular Mail and Messenger services.

So decided to try out this too…. Its interesting…. There is a Blast Message option where you can put some messages and it will be available to all your friends connected through Yahoo 360. But getting my friends to connect to this will be difficult!

See my 360 page at http://360.yahoo.com/sameerct.

MSN Spaces

So Microsoft is also here in the field of blogging with MSN Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com). Cool features like running picture slide show and smooth editing tools make it both fun and easier to be up on the msn spaces. Have a look at my space at http://spaces.msn.com/members/sameerct

My First Blog

Type ‘define: blogging’ in Google and see the definitions like this:

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order).

So everybody out there started blogging…. Why not me… I know, I am late to start… and I am sure it will take many more months (or years? ;) ) to keep my blogging active… As, it is all about getting into a new life style.. or rather net style.

Posting blogs and letting the whole world know what we are thinking, or doing, or up to… is really an interesting idea….

During these recent days, I was lucky to find time to get introduced into new technologies, software and stuffs related to programming… So I will dedicate this blog just for that…