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 Has yahoo come out with a new Winner? Yahoo's My Web 2.0 seamlessly integrates search with community networking. It leverages the power of yahoo 360 and comibines it with search to come up with My Web 2.0(Beta).Yahoo users will recall that yahoo My web 1.0 helped you to save search results and bookmarks, combine this with Yahoo 360 and you have a winning combination. This technology combines yahoo individual search results and other peoples searches and bookmarks to come up with better search results. This technology though is an expected step after yahoo bought Del.icio.us. recently. Wonder if this will change trend in the google dominated search industry.

 The Chennai Ready Launch tour rocked! We had a good view into the revolutionary(Yes, Revolutionary! Any phrase less would be an insult) Visual Studio 2005, lots of new features we didnt have any idea of during the Microsoft Tech Talk held a couple o weeks(or was it months) ago. They have integrated all possible features, making it a one stop shop for all your programming needs, All this integration is bound to increase the productivity by almost 3x the speakers claimed(claimed! Cant you see how obvious that is, It's actually an understatement).

 Some of the speakers though, looked harassed(They had been delivering non-stop seminars across the country since 9th bangalore launch). More commentary yet to come, Got to get back to studyin for my exams. I don't do a good job of writing technical articles or reviews, So i've left that job for aswin who plans it as his next post for his technical blog. Will pass the link on as soon as he makes a good job of it.

 Meanwhile in chennai, rains are driving the chennailites(and most of Tamilnadu) crazy. Annauniv students are hoping there won't be another postponement of exams. Already the exams are lasting well into christmas and almost into the new year. Hope the rains don't spoil the fun. Meanwhile all i can do is rant about the rains(and the exams).

 Enjoy the rains(and the exams)...

 I feel sad, tearful and down(One of the reasons i came up with such a dumb title for the blog post...)(Funny -initially I didnt wanna go ). The reason, I missed my trip to Bangalore(Bengaluru -whatever) to see BillyG(Thats Bill Gates NOT Billy Joel or Billie Jean). Agreed i didn't exactly miss it(um...er.. I decided not to go). My friends who decided to risk going there without a business card we're rewarded with a close up view of BillyG, They got seats within 100mts of him(I told ya -They won't let ya anywhere near 75mts of BillyG), and that too because they we're student champs (thats one more reason I didn't go -I'm no student champ). They had a good time at bangalore, though they complained that the amount of security was very high and unneccessary. I've included links to some of their experiences...

 The inauguration @ Le Meridien, Chennai is on the 15th and i'm looking forward to it(looking forward eh? - I'm still not sure what made this complete reversal of stance). I decided to give my free Visual Studio 2005 training at NIIT a miss to compensate on my studies(Sleep rather -Don't lie LApstrE). The launch in Chennai(Madras) is on the 15th and I'm sure I can catch up then (so typically over-confident er.. and lazy).

 Think the Chennai launch will be the subject of my next BLoG, Till then here are some experiences of the  people who attended the Bangalore event. Click on the blog titles to read them...

Johncz BLoG

 This is a frist hand account of the bangalore launch as seen from the eyes of somebody who came down to India to meet BillyG but went back disappointed, both with the event and Bengaluru(he hated the "TOTOs" especially)

AswinAnands BLoG

 A friend of mine who had me convinced to go to bangalore with him. His first hand account on the city and the event. He made it a point to complain about stinky toilets!

Sabarish's BLoG

 Sabarishs view on the ready launch tour.He's the only one i have come across till now who appreciated parikramas performance that night. I personally thought the developer song sucked. Found this Blog and the Johncz Blog on the google blog search...

Boskys BLoG

 Bosky Sez he will be out with his own blog post on the event soon, but no post yet as on the date of posting this post. do consider taking a look, Bosky might have gotten over his laziness... (No guarantees on that though!)

 And hey, I found a gem of a PDF containing links to the most famous of Freeware of all kinds... Software ranging from 3d software to anythin you'd ever want, a nice compilation by somebody named RamKumar. A must have compilation of links to all the free software...Thanx to Sandy for passing on the PDF file. You can download the PDF of Freeware links here.

 Hey , If u have a blog on you experiences at the ready launch tour then leave a link. If you want to pass the link of the Freeware pdf file then please pass on the link of this article. Please care to leave a comment...

 I'm going through one of the hardest moments of my life... BillyG (thats Bill Gates for those who havnt read my prev posts) is here and I don't even get to see him live. My friends are off to see him at Bangalore, and I'm stuck here in Chennai. Well I could have gone out to meet him, when he came to Chennai to see some political leaders(Hmm... Wonder what the purpose was ?), but then they woudn't have letme anywhere near him, and there is the problem of my fanclub mobbing me ;) (Profound vanity ). Strange though he met the ruling party leader last time, this time he meets the opposition leader. Wonder if BillyG is cooking up something big here?

 BillyG has promised to invest $1.7billion in India(WOW ) over the next four years. No doubt most of it goes towards the R&D labs and setting up offices and retail centes in India, But whats suprising is that he has also promised to invest in rural computer infrastructure and supplying schools with computer equipment and projectors. The sum also goes into the hiring training and salaries of 3000 new microsoft employees in India which they plan to hire in the next few years(I see 12 lakh salaries and people queueing up in huge numbers for interviews), this is definitely bound to push up the salaries of Indian companies(You don't wan't to lose your best to the competition do you?) and i don't see any big lawsuits up for employee theft (as Indian companies hate litigation and even if you do, BillyG would probably hire the best in the sub continent to fry your ass).

 BillyG also attended an interview along with Infosys Chief Mentor Narayanamurthy ('Nari'murthy -for those who missed the joke 'Nari' means women and narayna murthy got arrested once by bulgarian authorities for talking to a girl in french! LoL) It was telecasted as a two part series on NDTV(But I missed half of both the interviews, Thanx to a TV Show on one of the regional channels). I did get a good part of both the interviews, Prannoy roy made a good job of questioning and both the guests answered impressively. Seems BillyG thinks the education system rocks in the US, but is not so happy with the way other things are going. He even handled questions about his biggest rival google with ease(He actually said Google was his biggest rival, though not exactly in the same words).

 Hmm lets see where this goes, Its a shame BillyG only spent $47million on charity last year(Well its a cryin shame considering how much he earns).would you give out that much?,you might ask of me...but i do my bit by giving beggars(Yes unfortunately beggars still exist in India and for some it's a very lucrative business, believe me!) if i feel they deserve it. Narayana Murthy I think took a dig @ the figures by sayin "the power of money is to give it away" (First thats a really good quote! He actually wanted to start an orphanage but then his father-in-law thought otherwise, it actually turned out to be for the good, his wife does the charity work now).