Social Networking

Do you know what is the communication medium in now? 
Social Networking. . . It's the way the 21st century communicates today.


Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and experiences about inyterviews, developing friendships or professional alliances, finding employment and business-to-business marketing.


When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used. These websites are known as social sites. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users. Depending on the website in question, many of these online community members share common interests in hobbies, studies or employement. Once you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize. This socialization may include reading the profile pages of other members and possibly even contacting them. 



Benefits:
The friends that you can make are just one of the many benefits to social networking online. Another one of those benefits includes diversity because the internet gives individuals from all around the world access to social networking sites. This means that although you are in the United States, you could develop an online friendship with someone in US or India. Not only will you make new friends, but you just might learn a thing or two about new cultures or new languages and learning is always a good thing.

As mentioned, social networking often involves grouping specific individuals or organizations together. While there are a number of social networking websites that focus on particular interests, there are others that do not. The websites without a main focus are often referred to as "traditional" social networking websites and usually have open memberships. This means that anyone can become a member, no matter what their hobbies, beliefs, or views are. However, once you are inside this online community, you can begin to create your own network of friends and eliminate members that do not share common interests or goals.

Issues:

As I'm sure you're aware, there are dangers associated with social networking including data theft and viruses, which are on the rise. The Internet can be a dangerous place to post personal information. All social networks should provide the ability to set profiles to private in some way or another. Additionally they should have the ability to report and block users.

Most Popular Sites:

Once you are well informed and comfortable with your findings, you can begin your search from hundreds of networking communities to join. This can easily be done by performing a standard internet search. Most popular sites are:

Key Elements:

Profiles

The heart and soul of social networking sites are user’s personal profiles. It’s like their own Internet sanctuary, a place where they can express their thoughts and feelings, post photographs and show off their network of friends. The most popular social network websites put a strong emphasis on the user’s profile, making it easy to use yet still reflective of the user’s personality.

Networking Features

A good social network goes above and beyond just allowing users to post profiles and update pictures. Additional features should include music sections, video uploads, groups and more.

Search

The object of a social network is to find friends and expand relationships. Top social networking websites allows members to search for other members in a safe and easy to use environment. Common search functions include search by name, city, school and email address.

Help/Support

Most social network sites are self-explanatory. However, in the off-chance a user needs help there needs to be some way to contact the webmaster or answers in an FAQs section.

Legitimate Friend Focus

The growing trend for social networks is to communicate and keep in touch with people you already know. No one wants to be inundated with unsolicited spam friend requests. The best social network sites keep profiles and search options private enough that the only people that can find you are the ones actually looking for users in their own school or neighborhood networks. Even with a completely public profile, users shouldn’t be bothered with more than a couple of unsolicited comments or messages.

Development of Social Networking Sites

Web 2.0 technologies are the most suitable technologies to develope the Social Networking sites. There are many types of them:

• Blogs
• Bookmarking/Tagging
• Brand monitoring
• Content aggregation
• Crowdsourcing/Voting
• Discussion boards and forums
• Events and meetings
• Mashups
• Microblogging
• Online video
• Organization and staffing
• Outreach programs
• Photosharing
• Podcasting
• Presentation sharing
• Public Relations - Social media releases
• Ratings and reviews
• Social networks : applications, fan pages, groups and personalities
• Advertisement Sponsorships
• Virtual worlds
• Widgets

Many jokes are on Social networking... but be careful.

Google Maps with Street View

What is Street View ?

Street View as being the last zoom layer on the map - when you've zoomed all the way in you find yourself virtually standing on the street. But the most exciting thing about Street View is all the amazing uses that our users and partners find for it.

Personal Uses

• Explore the world
• On the go with your mobile device
• Check parking availability and disabled access
• Show your parents and friends where you live
• Preview your vacation accommodation

Business Uses

• Promote your business
• Show real estate listings
• Conduct virtual field trips
• Show the location of a news story
• Scout event locations

How else can I use Street View?

You can view street-level imagery with driving or walking directions. Once you have obtained directions, click the camera icons beside each step in the left panel. 

Where is Street View available?

Explore the Google map of the world to see where Street View is currently available. Each placemark gives you the option to view sample panoramas from each major city.

 For India work is in progress. So soon we the facility.     

http://maps.google.co.in/

How Street View is creating?

In the Beginning

Street View was launched in May 2007 to allow our users to explore the world through images. At the time, coverage was limited to just five U.S. cities.

The feature provides users 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street level views within Google Maps. Google collects these images using special cameras and equipment that capture and match images to a specific location using GPS devices. Once the images are captured, they are "sewn" together to create a 360° panorama. Faces and license plates are blurred before the panorama images are served and become viewable in Google Maps.

What are the Vehicles?

When Street View first launched, the platform used to capture images was a van.

Since our launch in 2007, Street View has expanded to include more cities, streets, national parks and even some biking trails. Currently, Street View is available for almost a dozen countries around the world in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Scaling the project to this level required more lightweight and high-quality technology.

The van was replaced by a car. We have used different vehicles in different regions around the world to collect tens of millions of images.

Most recently we've added a new vehicle to our fleet that we call the "Trike." We basically took the same technology in our Street View cars and towed them behind a 3-wheeled tricycle in a device reminiscent of an ice cream cart. The Trike lets us reach areas not accessible by car, such as hiking trails, biking trails and college campuses, just to name a few.

Our current platforms include nine directional cameras for the 360° views, a GPS unit for positioning and laser range scanners. We design and engineer the Street View platforms to be simple and require minimal manufacturing resources. This approach facilitates the ability to be up and running in a short period of time and allows us to quickly scale and get our vehicles on the road around the world.

Where Do Google Collect Imagery?

Street View imagery is limited to public streets. Ultimately we'd love to drive every public road available, but there is no guarantee that we can cover every location completely. For example, we might face circumstances that are out of our control such as roadwork and construction. You can see a list of the countries and, where available, regions and cities we are driving here. If you find imagery collected from a private road please let us know by clicking on the "Report a problem" link within Street View.

In some cases, Google receives permission from the owner of private attractions to include images in Street View. For example, you can see imagery that we collected in a special drive of Disneyland Paris.

If you are an owner of a property and would like to have Street View imagery collected, please check out our Street View Partner Program.

It can take several months to collect imagery for an individual city, and even longer for an entire country. The time it takes to cover a particular area depends on a number of factors - e.g. the weather, geography and population. We also provide an easy-to-use tool that allows users to request for images of themselves, their car, their family, or their houses to be removed from Street View once the product has been launched for a specific area.

Turning Photos Into Street View

Once the photographs have been taken by our vehicles they go through computer processing to make them ready for showing on Google Maps. We take all the individual photos that have been collected by the cameras and "sew" them together to make the 360° panorama photo that you see on Google Maps.

We then apply cutting-edge face blurring technology, which helps make sure that passers-by in the photographs can't be identified. We will also blur legible license plates. Check out the Privacy page for more details on how we protect your privacy.

For more details:

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/streetview/

In a nutshell,

Teamwork

Teamwork is work performed by a team. The quality of teamwork may be measured by analysing the effectiveness of the collaboration in the following ways:

• communication
• coordination
• balance of contributions
• mutual support
• effort
• cohesion

Communication is a process of transferring information from one entity to another.It is a process whereby information is enclosed in a package and is channeled and imparted by a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback.

Coordination is the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.

Balance of contributions with Fair division.

Mutual support In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks.

effort work, exertion

Cohesion the bonds or "glue" between members of a community or society.

To summarize the above Teamwork , we can achieve many things.

 

Come...Lets build a good team.

Evolution of Mobile Telephony

1G - The first generation (1G) began in the early 80s was analog, circuit switched, and it only carried voice traffic. The analog phones used in 1G were less secure and prone to interference where the signal is weak. Analog systems include Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), NMT and ETACS cellular networks.

Disadvantage and reason for move into digital systems:

Only one subscriber at any given time is assigned to a channel.

2G - The second generation (2G) emerged in the 90s when mobile operators deployed two completing digital voice standards. [GSM and CDMA]

2G technology – Voice and SMS (sent through control channels meant for communication between tower and handset). Greater throughput is achieved through digital techniques such as compression and modulation.

The 2G phones cover all speech into digital code, resulting in a clear signal that can be encrypted for security. Most also include some kind of messaging, as well as support for Centrex style services such as voice mail and caller ID. The most popular is GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), but several others are used around the world. They can send data, but usually at less than 10 kilobits per second (Kbps); by comparisons, most modems achieve a real speed of atleast 30 Kbps. 2G networks include GSM, D-AMPS (TDMA) and CDMA. 2G networks can support SMS applications.

2.5G - The successor of the 2G technology is the 2.5G. 2.5 G supports higher data speeds. The term 2.5G also applies to technology such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which uses a version of the web to fit into a mobile phone’s slow data rate and small screen. 2.5G networks include EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates) and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). These networks support WAP, MMS, SMS mobile games, and search and directory.Through 2.5G and 2.75G operators tried to introduce data services

In GSM – GPRS (peak rate is 114 kbps) and EDGE [Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution] (peak rate is 384kbps) are available.

In CDMA – 1xRTT (peak rate 144 kbps) If you use more voice, you get less data.

Though MMS was introduced in the 2.5G, it really gained its momentum and fame only with the introduction of 3G.

3G - The present hype is around the Third Generation (3G) phones, which is expected to play a very important role until atleast 2010. 3G systems will provide a variety of advanced services, including data transfer at upto 2 megabits per second (Mbps). 3G will support multimedia applications such as full-motion video, video conferencing and Internet access. 3G will cover bot only the connection between a mobile terminal and its base station, called the WAN (Wireless Area Network), but also the LAN (Local Area Network). 3G is a generic term covering a range of future wireless network technologies, including WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service) and EDGE.

3G – 5MHz multi-carrier system is used in 3G so that voice and data can be accommodated in the same channel. Data transfer rates can go up to several Mbps.

4G - Fourth Generation networks are already in the labs, targeted for deployment beginning in 2010. They will provide data rates up to 100 Mbps, enough for telepresence. This is a type of virtual reality, defined as full stimulation of all senses required to provide the illusion of actually being somewhere else – an illusion that cannot be distinguished from the real thing.

Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C between the start and the end of the 20th century.

Global Warming Changes
    An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts.Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and would be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects include changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and changes in agricultural yields.

Global Warming Causes

    The major cause of global warming is the emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc into the atmosphere. The major source of carbon dioxide is the power plants. These power plants emit large amounts of carbon dioxide produced from burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity eneration. About twenty percent of carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere comes from burning of gasoline in the engines of the vehicles. This is true for most of the developed countries. Buildings, both commercial and residential represent a larger source of global warming pollution than cars and trucks.Building of these structures require a lot of fuel to be burnt which emits a large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

How to Take Action to Reduce Global Warming

• Get educated about Globale Warming.
• Vote and influence your government with telephone calls, e-mails, letters and meetings with those who represent you in government.
• Grow fast growing plants. 
• Use public transportation. 
• Use Refills.
• Choose vegetarian or vegan meals.
• Recycle more by using recycling bins, composting, etc.
• Use compact fluorescent bulbs.
• Use recycled paper.
• Buy locally made and locally grown products. 
• Count your carbon.
• Buy minimally packaged goods.
• Replace old appliances and reduce reliance on them.

A picture is worth a thousand words

Lets come, save the world.

Google

Till 20th century, Life slogan is " KHANA KAPDA aur MAKAAN".

But in 21st century, Its become "KHANA KAPDA aur MOBILE"

In future , It will become, "KHANA KAPDA aur INTERNET".

If you know about internet, obviously you know Google. I am sure that, If you are connected to internet, your system have at least one Google application. without that it is impossible to do any work. In 1998, Google handled 10,000 searches a day and 500,000 a day in 1999. According to research group estimates that Google hosted 400 million queries per day recently. ( Data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search )

Initiative:

1995:

Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.

1996:

Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.

BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year -- eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.

1997:

Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google -- a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

...

(Data: http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html )

Life of a Google Query:

The life span of a Google query normally lasts less than half a second, yet involves a number of different steps that must be completed before results can be delivered to a person seeking information.

It means, many things in back stage :)

Company 10 principles:

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.

2. It's best to do one thing really, really well.

3. Fast is better than slow.

4. Democracy on the web works.

5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.

6. You can make money without doing evil.

7. There's always more information out there.

8. The need for information crosses all borders.

9. You can be serious without a suit.

10. Great just isn't good enough.

Software Principles:

INSTALLATION..UPFRONT DISCLOSURE..SIMPLE REMOVAL..CLEAR BEHAVIOR..SNOOPING..KEEPING GOOD COMPANY

Kudos to Google.

If you don'tknow about internet, obviously you know Google.

How? See this..

Just Chill & Keep Googling...

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