Java is everywhre.

You are Your Site!

In today's world you are who your website says you are. Your website can look how you look and it can tell who you are and how professional you are. The websites these days are not just info portal anymore. Hell ya, the peeps in Graphics Technology aren't learning all the mac tricks for free.

There are a lot of reasons to believe the concept of WYSIWYG. Everybody is popular today(the ones we know) because everybody knows them. How did that happen? Because of their site. Fan clubs didn't do much without websites. They still send post marked letters to their favorite artists in India but the whole picture lacks a real interaction. Not the same thing when we consider the same thing in the web world though. For example, some of my friend can get updates in texts and blogs from people like mahalo, veronica and cooper. How is all that possible? Because of the web. All of these people whom I have mentioned above have a really cool and crisp website which offer really simple sindicate. And they look really nice. Again thanks to the peep sin the graphics technology. Keep up with the good mac work! Bravo.

Okay, let me reaveal the truth...this article was inspired by a website called russell.com. If you don't believe me go there and check it out for yourselves. It is a crappy website. And guess what, there commercial claims that they are world's biggest investment company with over "TWO FREAKING TRILLION" dollars in investment! How is that possible?

In my opinoion, if you ain't got the look you ain't nothing. I am sure most of the people who have an affair with this company do most of their work through the web but I am just surprised how do they put up with this stuff.

If any of you were to go to www.russell.com, you would know yourself that the layout is so cumborsome to use. The pages are not in shape. I had to scroll every four words in a sentence. Honestly, I have been looking at companies like a hawk to work for them on the web but no matter how much russell.com offers me I think I might just say a nah to this one.

Alright let me confess, I am not that great looking but I do have a appreciation for beauty and this site makes me sad; especially when their commercial claims that they are over "two trillion dollars investment company on the globe" at one of the breaks during Larry's talk show on CNN.

Ok, last but not the least. What kinda people get hired to do the web for such companies? Do they even have time to look what they are putting themselves out as in commercials? Do they even notice how they look on the web. You can find a lot many others on the web like that but I thought a worsely designed web portal for big companies like russell.com could be the best example to express my dicomfort in the issue of desig and coordination among the people in IT and the people who just want stuff done. I know I could do a lot better job than that.

Thanks for reading!

Flock vs Widsets

Just like any program we write from the bottom up, from a block to a function and functions to a program cocooning all the functions into a program, there are things like widgets and widsets. I was happy to find out that I can get several widgets of my choice groupped together in another cocoon. There are several such cocoons like that but I was glad to get a the beginning info about widget engine after I found out what WidSets does. Nice to know that it is totally free and is for mobile phones. Ofcourse one has to think about what kind of data plan they have but WidSets can, no doubt, can add so much fun to our mobile life. I think this is high time that we rediscover our phone time life into a different dimmenssion. No I a not saying that we ought to dedicate more time to our tiny digi friends like our cell phones or PDAs but I am saying how about we use the same amount of our phone talk time doing other interesting things as well for free. No purchase necessary(ofcourse you have to have data plans to use WidSets). Instead asking or finding every piece of info we need(using the cell phone only) through a phone call, we can view or get texts, images and vidos to accomplish the same task. Doing that at least will give more piece of mind. We gotta face it, how much can we cope up with while having to interact with friends through talking in real time. For example, instead of looking for the name of a cheap hair cuttery place, we could have that info delivered to us within seconds(less than 10) using one of the widgets(that we can customize for our zip code or community name) in WidSets.

A not very exact but kind of same ideal example could be Flock. Flock does for PC what WidSets does for mobile devices.

My main topic was cocooning of little things(they seem little before some other things come out and enclose them) by another thing which is new and is usually inspired after a lot of little things mushroom. For example, so many social sites are available today and it is usually the case that our friends are using them. Mathematically if we were to take a intersection of the uncommon social sites used by our friends then the set will include most of the popular ones. I think how about another cocoon which is basically a social site and encloses all of the other social sites. Just like when there are too many little programs, we can break them down into functions or procedures and then include all of them into a single and efficient program. Doing so is typically computationally inexpensive.

In other examples, we are missing out on so many other really nice search engines because google overshadows them. I am sure google itself would like people to not miss out on those specifice engines because the fols at google themselves might be liking them because they are specific for some specific things that need. Well, nothing against or pro google here but my point is, a cocoon for search engines would be a great next line of products in the web tools arena.

Some of you might already know something like that already but I don't, so please do share.