Pixzr » Whats Up With That http://blog.pixzr.com Concepts, Ideas, & more Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:43:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Social Networks, What makes the social network social? http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/11/what-makes-the-social-network-social-social/ http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/11/what-makes-the-social-network-social-social/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:44:13 +0000 Pixzr http://blog.pixzr.com/?p=100 [...]]]>

Few ingredients of something being “Social” on the top of my head are,

  • which gives the glimpse of a family. a family could be of friends, blood relatives, colleagues, partners, etc.. The common ingredient here is that they already know or want to know each other.
  • something personal
  • something connected between two persons
  • something you care about
  • from which you can associate yourself
  • from which you can interact or meet people having similar interests, professions, likes, dislikes
  • mutual interests, needs, desires, wishes, habits
  • the connection between the two can be of individual or group level

You may want to add more but thats up to you =]

few social networks on the web that you already know,

  • facebook – a unviersal social network (no focus & for everyone)
  • plurk – a social journal (shares your ToDos in a timeline – good concept)
  • PartnerUp – for entrepreneurs
  • Ryze – for business
  • Ning – if you want to create ur own social network
  • twitter – status updates, rss, micro-blog
  • LinkedIn – for professionals
  • Livemocha – for language leaners
  • BirdPost  – for bird lovers

There is a great  sense of attachment for us if we are using any of these networks. In the last 5 years dozens of new and interesting concepts of social networks appeared. Their population is still on the rise but can you see ahead in 10 years. Will they still be same ? Will Facebook be the same facebook after 10 years. Now, there are nearly 175 of such social networks. This number will keep on increasing for some years but after that, only those will survive which have no immediate competitor and target specific niche. MySapce is dying (new focus: entertainment), orkut is dying (only alive in brazil, new focus: nothing), ning is dying only because people have good alternative of facebook. The way to look forward for them in order to survive is focusing the peoples’ needs.

What about these interesting soial networks below? I don’t know if they already exist – but tell me if they are !

  • social network for bald people …errr [something exist at ning network related to it but not that convincing ]
  • social network for unemployed people
  • social network for divorced
  • social network for pizza lovers
  • social network for philanthropists (added 2 Nov)
  • social network for …..err [more to come soon, check back later]

The thing is – social network is kind of a value system, it gives value to your life and aims at improving it by mutual coordination, discussion, problem sharing and more. But in your opinion what makes the social network social? Please answerthe Which, How, & Why of Social Networks. Are they any good ? For some I know they are too good. But how do you feel about it.

[NOTE: feel comfortable in answering as you will fill it completely anonymously. It will not ask any personal information, but if you want to mention your info then do it in comments :) ]

]]> http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/11/what-makes-the-social-network-social-social/feed/ 4 Why I need to be dropped out? A Path to Success? http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/08/why-i-need-to-be-dropped-out-is-it-a-path-to-success/ http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/08/why-i-need-to-be-dropped-out-is-it-a-path-to-success/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:44:50 +0000 Pixzr http://blog.pixzr.com/?p=32 [...]]]>

Trust me, may be not, most of the drop outs are really worth “drop-out”. Its the natures’ calling to do what you are not supposed to do. Is it the way nature works? I am perplexed, yet excited. Juxtaposing a dozen of famous Entrepreneurs with a whole lot of students who actually drop out every year, I am left with no choice to understand them; understand them clearly! Before I compare the nill people with people who are comparable to null. Lets see our ‘genuine-drop-outs‘, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard and built a company unmatchable to none, Microsoft. Steve Jobs dropped out from Reed College, as a high school student. He was 21 when he started the Apple company from his garage. Einstein although he failed in exam and dropped out from high school but his scenario was different, though he did PhD and won Noble prize as well. Mark Zuckerberg another Harvard drop out. Who doesn’t know Facebook that he created while living in his dorm room; which spreaded like a wild fire in a couple of years after its launch. Michael Dell dropped out from UT Austin, a PC freak, built the multinational company ‘DELL’ purely based on his entrepreneurial instincts and interest in computers. Ted Turner Do you know the first 24-hour cable news channel, its CNN, and he was the founder. Dropped out from Brown university but it was worth it – atleast for him. William Hanna You must have heard or enjoyed the famous cartoons like ‘Scooby-Doo’, ‘The Flintstones’, or ‘The Jetsons’ and so on. William Hanna co-founded the company “Hanna-Barbara” with ‘Joseph Barbera’. He dropped out from college because of un-wanted circumstances (i.e. Great Depression of 1929) but good for him as he paved his way towards success nevertheless. Thomas Edison inventor of bulb William Shakespeare Walt Disney Abraham Lincoln … Lets take a break here as the list can grow bigger and bigger, and mentioning all the famous drop outs is not the purpose.

Why I need to be dropped out? is my question. Well, to be honest, this question might confuse people like me, who wants to follow the path to success, while getting inspiration from the people I just mentioned above. Do they (the people above) really got the substance which proper education cannot fulfill. Proper education only gives you or makes you think in a proper direction. Someone said, real success is in making new paths instead of following successful paths. The sentence is apparent in the character of the people (above) who most certainly changed our life in one way or the other. If I want to be a successful ‘entrepreneur’, I don’t need to get dropped out unless my current state lends me all the time to complete my education. If I still drop out and don’t become a famous figure, I would join the failed majority and keep asking from God for the next life so that I can think different in the time I have given and get dropped out in a positive sense!

Is it a secretive path to success or a coincidence? Does God gives this path to every one and we just have to find it! One wonders, why they didnt completed the education, became regular eligible graduates, and than started establishing what they established later on at their immature time. But things just click once, all they did was to capture that moment. Someone said, fortunate are those who got the moment and were ready and unfortunate are those who also got the moment but were not ready. Here, ‘ready‘ means ‘ready to make a difference’ or ‘do some thing’ . To be ready or not, is not out of the world. The proper discourse of education brings a person to be ready to any moment he is capable of. Even, doing beyond what you can do or learnt of is neither luck nor fortune, its fate. Sometimes it’s beneficial and sometimes it’s not.

Reaching to the few final words…

I just want that moment and capture it where I can make some difference or change – not the change that Obama speaks of – but the one that realizes in me the true hidden potential that was unseen of previously or maybe it was blanketed under the  blind following of norms that restricted me to think apart.

In conclusion, it is a path to success! who really know what the path is.

]]> http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/08/why-i-need-to-be-dropped-out-is-it-a-path-to-success/feed/ 1 Hired to watch Youtube, Youtubing! http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/08/hired-to-watch-youtube-youtubing/ http://blog.pixzr.com/2010/08/hired-to-watch-youtube-youtubing/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:42:18 +0000 Pixzr http://blog.pixzr.com/?p=30 [...]]]>

I was wondering if there would be one job in which I would be adept in and can make a difference, it would be watching youtube videos. And guess what, I just got a call from ‘a’ company to be interviewed as an employee for watching youtube videos.

When I was called to appear for the interview the next friday; I was fully confident, I even ‘practiced’, YES! practiced by watching a couple of hundred more youtube videos. I appeared for the interview 30 minutes before the actual time. I did shave, cleaned shoes, combed the hairs, even worn a tie as well. Even after so much, I was thinking how come someone can get rejection. Anyway, sitting at the edge of my chair, looking time and again to the lady at the counter, I waited and keep thinking about the best and worst videos I have seen. I remembered, have I seen around 10K youtube videos in the recent months, Yes! I guess. It should not be a proud stunt to watch videos online but I was feeling proud of it as it made me attractive for a new kind of job whose market doesn’t even exist. Now the time had come. I was called, I avoided any dramatic entrance, stood calmly, shook hand and settled perfectly on my seat right in front of 3 bowled head persons. The whole video collection I had stored, started revolving around my forehead like I am in some cartoon and got banged with a violin on my head.

The person in the middle said: Which is your favorite youtube video ? Alot of answers were in my mind obviously! I wanted to tell all my favorites but No, as it was a critical situation so I slided down one puzzling answer towards them but smartly. He asked, can you help us tell what is the trend of youtube videos in a particular field. I said Yes Sir, thats what I am looking for. He explained, we are working on some product and we want to trace the development of similar products in the market. He added, we think that every new product is showcased and marketed as an idea or final-product at youtube so why not have a person telling us, whats going on. I said, No Problemo!. The other man asked, how can we guage your performance? Now, that was a trick question. I replied, sure you can. You just need to hire another person whether I am watching youtube or not. I even, proposed few names who can do the job.

Next day, they hired me with my friend….Not! :)

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