new york tours

http://www.citysightsny.com/page.php?id=50 - $74
http://www.nyctrip.com/Pages/index.aspx?PageID=55
https://www.statueoflibertytickets.com/

$184.00 Flight 174 Flight 102 SJC > JFK > BUF

10:25 PM
6:50 AM
8:09 AM
9:35 AM

$214.00 Flight 174 Flight 4 SJC > JFK > BUF

10:25 PM
6:50 AM
9:38 AM
11:03 AM

$49.00 Flight 1 BUF > JFK

8:35 AM
9:55 AM

know your location on phone - no gps/no carrier payment

http://pols.sourceforge.net/

Intel POLS is a Privacy-Observant Location System that provides an easy to use, on-device localization solution for mobile application developers. The goal of POLS is to lower the barrier of entry for location-based applications on mobile devices.

caltrin technologies

Updates through Tweets: http://cow.org/c/
HAM radio like setup: http://www.railroadradio.net/content/view/24/143/
icaltrain link http://m.icaltrain.com/m_search.php?from=San+Francisco&to=Sunnyvale&day=Weekday
Caltrain Bike Car: http://twitter.com/bikecar

shoutcast http://railaudio1.railroadradio.net:7112/

Joomla drawbacks

Joomla Drawbacks (as compared to Drupal)

1. Flexible User Roles and Permissions
2. Content Managements limited to section, category, article
3. Multiple site management
4. Easier URL out of the box missing (it sounds like it should have been fixed in 1.5 for apache - couldn't get it to work though)
   
5. Size 16MB (as compared to 3MB)
6. SSL Compatibility
7. Standards compliance
8. Internationalization
9. Slower Speed

Joomla high level items

Joomla 1.5.11

1. Extension
   

• Component
• Module
• Plugin
• Template
• Library
• Language
  

reasons for layoff

1. canceled project
2. general layoffs
3. performance-based cuts

http://www.telonu.com/layoffs/tracker

Few Google Ads

1. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/index.html
2. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/new.html
3. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/research.html
4. http://www.hendersonfamilytree.com/yousendit.html

East Coast Trip - possibilities

New York:

1. Statue of Liberty
2. Empire State building
3. Central Park
4. Washington Square park
5. Time Square
6. Wall Street
7. Madison Avenue
8. Brooklyn Bridge
9. Metropolitan Museum of Art
10. Museum of natural History
    

Pittsburgh Temple (Washington to Buffalo)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Liberty Bell) (New York <> Washington DC)

Washington DC:

1. White House
2. Lincoln Memorial
3. The Capitol
4. Washington Monument
5. Jefferson Memorial
6. Great Falls of Potomac River
7. Smithsonian Museum
   

Niagara:

1. Maid of The Mist Boat Ride ($13.50)
2. Journey Behind the Falls
3. Skylon/Minolta tower (Observation Deck)
4. Whirlpool Aero Car (Cable Car)
5. American Falls
6. Bridal Vile falls
7. Horse shoe falls
8. Goat Island
9. Cave of the winds (Bridel Vile - US)
10. Butterfly Conservatory - Niagara Parks, Niagara Falls, Ontario
    

Couple of vendors to php SaaS

http://www.responsys.com/ Ondemand Marketing for email campaigns and tracking
http://solutions.liveperson.com/live-chat/ - Chat function for sales & Support
http://www.globallogic.com/ - provide Tech Support
http://www.globallogic.com/ - Out Sources Engineering & QA Team
http://complitech.net/ PHP skills (Sugar CRM)
http://augmentum.com/ China

Groups & Teams

Groups and Teams dynamics online (social networking) is slightly different.

Team: Short lived team members
Group: Longer life of the team members

Social Bookmarking sites

1. Gnolia Systems
2. del.icio.us
3. AddThis
4. Searchles
5. Iminta
6. Diigo
7. Mister Wong
8. metroproper
9. Buru
10. Global Grind
11. kawink
12. Socialbrowse
13. Zigtag
14. Add to Any
15. Antstorm
16. weheartplaces
17. yuppmarks
18. Wakoopa Portal
19. JigJak
20. Link Spank
21. YoolinkPro

• InfoAxe
• start.io

TinyURL
Bitly
Owly
Isgd
Digg
StumbleUpon
Bitly
Trim

Business Search / Evaluation / InfoTools

1. Crunch Base
2. Trade Vibes
3. investing Business Week
4. LinkSV
5. Hoovers
6. Dun & Bradstreet
7. implu
8. InsideView
9. JigSaw
10. LexisNexis
11. InfoUSA
12. BoardEx
13. SnapData
14. DataMonitor
15. Moody's
16. ICON Group International
    

Indian:

1. Manta
2. Sulekha B2B

http://www.palowireless.com/ - with focus on wireless (not as active recently)

open source bookmark Platforms

GetBoo -

GetBoo is both a social and private bookmarking GPL 2 open source & website which can be used to:

• Keep links to your favorite news, blogs, music, games, and more on GetBoo and access them from any computer on the web.
• Import/Export these links from your browser's bookmarks and view them with the same hierarchy.
• Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues.
• Find new things. Everything on GetBoo is someone's favorite - they've already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.

Scuttle

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SemanticScuttle is a open-source social bookmarking web application allowing advanced tagging features. SemanticScuttle is based on Scuttle.

gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-up with information about location. Java based.

Unalog : A web-based human event (links/books read, songs played, etc.) logging tool focused on rich bibliographic support and library (as in books-on-shelves) systems integration.

SiteBar : is a solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them or take them along. The bookmarks are stored on a server.

iBegin Share :

• Ability to save pages to social sites like Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Google, Yahoo, and more
• Ability to email your friends
• Ability to save the page as a PDF or Word doc
• Ability to print the page
• Fully extensible with a plugin system. Add any social site you want. You can even add IM, SMS, and more!
• Complete stat tracking - see what pages are being shared, how they are being shared, over any time period
• Pre-configured as a Wordpress Plugin

ma.gnolia M2 emphasis on design, social features, and open standards

Social Softwares

Not in this list

1. Calendaring (National holidays, religious holidays, flight/train schedules)
2. Investment
3. Betting
4. Searching info (I am searching for a cheap ticket or a vacation or coupon for iPod)
   

In the Wikipedia List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software

• 1 Blogs
• 2 Clipping
• 3 Instant messaging
• 4 Internet forums
• 5 Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• 6 eLearning
• 7 Massively multiplayer online games
• 8 Media sharing
• 9 Media cataloging
• 10 Personals
• 11 Social bookmarking
• 12 Social cataloging
• 13 Social citations
• 14 Social evolutionary computation
• 15 Social networks
• 16 Social search
• 17 Virtual worlds
• 18 Wikis

Web Advertisement Server

Prominent Players:

1. AdSense (Publisher) for Feeds, search, mobile content & parked domains
   
2. Google Ad Manager (Advertiser)
   
3. DoubleClick - An ad management platform for publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
4. OpenX - An open-source ad-server released under the GPL license.
5. ADTECH - Part of the AOL Platform-A group of companies.
6. Hiro-media - Dedicated video ad server
7. Google Ad Manager - Google's Ad Server
8. Videoplaza - Dedicated video ad server
9. ZEDO provides internet ad serving to web publishers and direct marketers.
10. SmartPPC EVO - Ad serving software
11. AdBrite, Inc. is an online advertising firm
12. Google Analytics, AdBrite, Google Adwords, Microsoft adCenter, Yahoo! Search Marketing and the Apple iPhone.
13. SmartPPC EVO (Evolution) is a commercial ad serving software
14. from various XML feeds ( Miva, Abcsearch, 7Search, Marchex, SearchFeed, ValueClick, etc.)
15. from ad networks (Google AdSense, AdBrite, Yahoo! Publisher Network, etc.).

Membership Management

Membership management comprises of

1. Basic bio
2. renewal
3. types of membership

Membership types

1. fees
2. Dues
   
3. Periodicity of membership
4. privilaged status/info
5. 
   

Social Network Service features

1. email
2. Instant Messenger (Text/Audio/Video)
   
3. Discussion Board / Forum
4. News / Blog
   
5. Wiki
6. Organizing
7. play list with no song
8. Trip planning
   
9. Customer / Consumer Review Site
10. Bookmark
11. URL (directory?)
    
12. Calendaring
13. Address Book
14. Polls
15. Ratings / Reviews
    

Infrastructure components

1. Identity Management
1. User Profile
   
2. Work with other social networks
3. Interaction media
4. File / content management
5. Roles & Permission
6. User / Subscriber management
   
7. Search
8. Badges / Widgets
   
1. html
2. javascript
   
9. Provide APIs
1. REST
2. Soap
3. Json

1. Browser
2. Mail readers
3. stand alone client
4. RSS
   

Revenue Possibility:

1. Hosted solution
2. White label
3. Advertisement
   
4. Affiliates
5. Sponsors
6. Research
7. Transactions - Per 1000 blog/emails
   
8. Shopping - Group merchandise
9. Local / group supported ads
10. Subscriptions / membership fees
    

User Generated / Consumer generated

Focused Social Network products available in the market

1. Dating Services
2. Music
3. Books
4. Physical Activity
5. Online Games
6. Regional coverage (buz/technology reasons)
7. Mothers
8. Investment
9. Social Activism
10. Charity
11. Fund Raising
12. School / College
13. Work
14. Alumni (education / Work)
15. Match tourist / Locals
16. Gender Based
17. Art
18. Museum
19. Clubs
20. Scientist research
21. Age based (Baby Boomers)
22. TV Series
23. Genealogy
    
24. Gossip
25. Celebrities centered
26. Hospitality
27. Remix
28. Contests
29. Hobbies
30. Product based groups
31. Church / Temples
32. match questions with answers
33. 
    

Matrix:

1. ARPU
2. CPM
3. CPA
   

squid localhost

I installed Squid earlier this week to track all the http traffic.... effectively web scrapper. I stumbled on one issue that took more than 2 hours to debug...
http_access allow localhost

was needed so that my local machine traffic can be peroxided.

After the traffic started flowing, stumbled on issue that the 'dynamic' web content is not cached. While this can make sense as proxy, Squid is not usable for my use. I wish this feature was provided as charity at-least.

The data is binary - not plain text. This makes it difficult to parse easily...

I had to resort to Firefox extension slogger on firefox 2.0 (instead of the latest as of today 3.0.10). This combo did work and got my task done.

online Browser 'emulators'

http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/

Java vs C/C++

It is interesting to note the differences between the Java vs C/C++ schools of thought. I am sure there might be pundits who might have more knowledge and stronger affinity towards either of these languages - still this is my views (ready to be corrected as needed).

Commonality:

1. It is interesting to note the similarities and dissimilarities of portability of C & Java programs.
2. Both C & Java are implemented in multiple architectures.
3. Both languages have big industry support, total ecology support, Application Developer community, standards organizations, training, education, books, tutorials, conferences, seminars - and religious followers
4. Both are available free of cost (GNU - open soruce)
5. Both C/C++ code and Java code supports each others calling others and be called by the other language.
   

C++ :

1. Some of C++ application domains include systems software, application software, device drivers, embedded software, high-performance server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games.
2. Several groups provide both free and proprietary C++ compiler software, including the GNU Project, Microsoft, Intel, Borland and others.
3. C++ was developed starting in 1979 as an enhancement to the C programming language. C itself is a general purpose programing language developed in 1972. Meaning - this is available for longer time - to be mature as compared to Java.
   
4. C provides compilers for each architecture where the same source code can be recompiled as needed. java approach is to provide single compiler and have JRE for different platforms.
5. C some times provides cross compilers that come in handy for rare/new architectures.
   
6. This author believes there are more architectures that has C compilers than the availability of JRE.
7. C was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, and to require minimal run-time support.
   
8. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language.
9. ISO & ANSI standard
   

Java:

1. Memory management (NO memory leak that C/C++ programs are notorious for)
2. Garbage collection
3. Language is not standardized - pretty much propitiatory spec