HOP 1800:World's cheapest cellphone "Practically"

HOP HOP and HOP on the 1800 MHZ spectrum. You are there. Only $10. What else do you need. You have a rough and tough phone with 4 hours of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. Looks fairly ok and has embedded vibration, sim lock and keypad lock. Wow! What a fabulous approach when the world is busy selling cheaper iphones. This strategy perfectly makes sense.

Whats on the other side

On the other side is a phone that costs you more and only has a screen. This phone is screen less phone or to say a faceless phone and only has a keypad. It is a cordless phone with a good range and sim in it. Lets see what the world goes for and are they willing to put an extra 0(zero) in their budget to buy a cellphone.

The social downfall

I think it is an engineering marvel( to a certain extent). You can rip of the chasis of ferrari and make it cheaper and you can take out its engine and put a taxi engine or probably rip off a normal car and leave it with an engine and a seat and still say "Hey its the cheapest car". Will you carry with you a $10 handset with no screen, which looks like a walky talky and no display. You better save some dollars for a better phone. These things are good for the records but lets be practical. You wouldn't like to receive a call in a party with your friends and some one shouting "Hey! its that $10 phone". The people today are working hard. They are being payed well and they want to enjoy a higher social status (After all thats what we work for). So why this.
The mantra is "Work more, Earn more and Spend more". Thats not a Albert Einstein quote. Thats my quote.

Wiredness.com is an image manipulation website that allows you to manipulate images. It is currently in its beta phase but the features it offers can help it make a popular website in future. It is more for photo enthusiasts who want to experiment with their images and don't want to use a software like the adobe photoshop. The interface it gives is much like your file explorer interface make it intuitive and easy.

The scoial bookmarking available helps you to bookmark your images easily.

It includes support for multiple languages which for now only includes a German, Portuguese and Turkish version but French and Chinese versions will be added soon.

It has been integrated with picasa and flickr. The integration is not bug free but there are plans to smoothen it in future.

As a developer you can use the API provided by wiredness.

So wire yourself to the website and check it out at www.wiredness.com

You have read it right. Teens are struggling on google (not literally) and so was I. I've been bad with my spellings and so when I was posting my previous blog entry on "How to make popular a struggling blog" I decided to type my version of the spelling on google.com to check whether it was correct or not, because if it is not correct then above the search results you get a red colored sentence "DID YOU MEAN". You can see it in the picture below. I wrote the wrong spelling just to show you the result. So as I finished writing my spelling, what I saw amazed me.
Click on this image below to enlarge it and see the search results. 292,000 search results for struggling teens. Woah! that's not a good sign at all for the teens, or maybe the parents. I'm out of my teens so I don't need to worry and actually nobody needs to worry. Its just that 292,000 or less websites(people) thought about writing on struggling teens and this simply shows that it is searched more and read more. The idea of this post is not to scare or discourage anybody or even google. It is just an observation I made while checking my spelling. Small things lead you big observations and that means another blogpost. Mine is a Tech-No-Logy blog and although being from a technical background, I like looking at the other side of technology, the side which few of is look at.
If you have noticed some freaky results on google or any damn thing, make sure you comment about it.
As a safety measure
Please note : I have no intention of defaming or abusing any organization. It is just an observation.

There are millions of bloggers in the world today. Some blog about technology (like me), some about travel and most of them do nothing. The some I mentioned are the popular bloggers whom we like to read. I don't come under the umbrella of struggling bloggers who want more people to read their story and view point. But it is not easy. It is tough and yes to put more stress on this I'd say this is "damn-damn" tough. The struggling bloggers mostly struggle because of google. Yes! You might find that strange but google gives preference to a blog with a higher page rank and yours ( or mine) being a struggling blog, we never stand a chance. So what do we do next. Promote ourselves. Promote through digg,del.icio.us and other social bookmarking websites. Some go the extent of spamming. In this post I will not go into those things. I'll give more preference to the blog post content this time. Every time search engine optimization is talked about, experts say , "focus on content". But how can a person write a wikipedia content single handedly. It is not practical. It is possible of course! Just spend one day per article or probably more and you'll reach you target of the wikipedia standard and still it wouldn't meet the standards required for an article that is featured on wiki. So what's next. I'd say write short articles, but write more. Atleast 5 articles a day if you plan to be a professional blogger. I met a few at a blogcamp recently. There is an easy way where you connect your blogging platform with a microblogging platform. But whats microblogging. In case this term is new, it is blogging within 140 characters according to www.twitter.com , a microblogging service. To get more information on microblogging, after reading my blog make an account on twitter (but after reading, cos there is more to tell). Now once you've finished up with your account on twitter, log on to twitter feed [ http://twitterfeed.com/ ]. The twitterfeed service is in sync with twitter. It uses the RSS of your blog and updates itself after regular intervals (say 1 hour) and puts your post link on your twitter account. Wow! isn't it. So connect with like minded people on twitter and don't worry about bookmarking your page and trying to become a power digger(digg.com). Next time I'll compare dogg with the tiny twitter, but be careful, twitter.com has got a annoyingly high downtime.
So blogger, get your twitter account and start tweeting. Don't forget to follow me on twitter.
Check out my twitter profile below
http://twitter.com/sushantkumar

But for the struggling blogger this isn't it. It still won't give you a wikipedia post. I'd suggest stop wasting your time building up articulate posts. Just be objective and tweet, digg and sleep. Sleep is meant for sleeping, its not a website.

Orkut is the most famous social networking websites in India. As the developers of orkut are facing problem in converting the popularity of the website into big bucks, the website is riding high on its powerful networking feature and easy interface. Recently (Nov last year ) Google introduced the opensocial application programming interface (API) following the trend started by Facebook.

I recently met two developers at the Delhi Bar camp 4 where they demonstrated how they had developed an application on Facebook last year and how it brought their server down within few months because of the enormous amount of traffic (million page views daily). Finally they decided to sell their application in January this year. Not a bad start for two students.

According to the CHIP magazine, 8 out of 19 applications on Orkut have been developed in India. A game Teen Patti is attracting a lot of people and is all set to become a rage in future. Teen patti which is a cards game played by people on festive occasions can be players between people and the players can chat with each other. It also has a ranking system that tells you who is the best player.

The successful social networking website Orkut is still proving to be a fat elephant to push in terms of revenue it is generating. Manu Rekhi, the product general manager of Google says that it is just a matter of time. It took three years to get the search revenue model right.

Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect" on Monday. TechCrunch speculates that Friend Connect will be a set of "APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites."

Google will join Facebook and MySpace, which launched ways to port user data to partner sites this week. Facebook Connect will provide the hooks to let users port their friends, profile photos, events, and other data across the Web to partner sites. MySpace on Thursday announced Data Availability, with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter as initial partners for its effort to let members port their data.

Google has been taking a more open and distributed approach with its OpenSocial API, which allows compliant applications to work across any social network. By extension, Friend Connect would provide glue to allow any site to add a social dimension and build connections to other social networks.

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