From the report:-

they measured twitter users based on the following criteria, to consider as the true twitter user. 

Has at least (?) 10 followers 
Follows at least (?) 10 people 
Has tweeted at least (?) 10 times

the study revealed some key findings:

1. only 21% twitter users fall under above specified category
2. 17% of users have zero followers
3. 61% have less than 5 followers
4. 74% have less than 10 followers
5. 20% not following anyone
6. 51% follow less than 5 people
7. 60% follow less than 10 people
8. 48% are following more people than their followers count
9. 18% are following same number of people that follow them
10. 34% people never tweeted
11. 73% people tweeted less than 10

there are even more interesting findings in the report, very easy to read, easily compiled. 

Cisco released CRS-3 Carrier Routing System , next gen super high speed 322 tbps routing system, CRS-3 is powered by cisco’s hexa-core quantumFlow Array Processors,they employ IPv6 smart traffic routing. can handle traffic upto 322 TPBS, its three times faster than previous router CRS-1 and 13 times the competition as per their website.

Cisco offered some attention grabing examples, like "the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes."

it is said company spent around $1.6BUSD in developing CRS products, AT&T is the first to trial the CRS-3.

Cisco CEO John Chambers says that Internet traffic to grow at “200-500 percent per year” as bandwidth-intensive activities like downloading and streaming video continue to explode

Google too working on speeder internet, that should give 1Gbps, right now they are trying out in Kansas, USA.

1. music and promo message: first and foremost is the annoying hold music, repeated promo message.i really don’t understand when we live in a caller tune and background music while in call era, why not allow customer in hold or queue to select what he want to listen?
2. duration: maybe if i am allowed to select what i want to listen in queue/hold, i wouldn’t complain, but still the duration is still a annoying factor, but that can be solved by keeping the customer engaged.
3. information collection: there are some fancy ambitious customer cares,which want to collect details at ivr phase as others do but they never give to customer representative’s screen pop.
4. long menu or no escape available: i don’t understand why don’t menu designers reserve a dtmf to go back to main menu or direct transfer to customer care any time, some times you will end up in a road block menu and what next? call again and do it from the start.

Google buzz and google map’s latitude soon going to be married(via: eweek), most you know what google buzz is if you’re a gmail user, also latitude if you use google maps extensively,

google latitude, it will share your whereabouts to your friends, eg: you run google maps application, and it joined latitude program, and have the google maps application run all the time, you’re friends will know were are you right now etc. it is fun at the same time huge privacy problem, now they have alert service to remind the users that their location is being shared.

google buzz, have privacy issues too, it will expose all my google contacts to public, and if you are not careful and spend enough time with it, you never know who is reading your updates, next time someone from next cubicle smiling at you strangely go check it out, if you have buzzed anything weird to your friends, i mean all your friends.

with these two major privacy issues, i cant imagine, this two joining hands, this is going to be very big privacy discussion yet to happen. just imagine, everybody know where are you moving, what are you doing, what areyou thinking… lol reminds me “truman show” movie.

already these privacy stuff started eating me, not just google buzz and latitude, there are many other. there should be a application that promises “ just tell me, i will not tell anyone.” i see a huge market for it.

Seriously, anyone using the google wave for anything serious? I used it for couple of consulting project i worked on, my client insisted on that, end of the work we were talking much in google talk and hardly used google wave at later.

Anyways, google wave started doing bit to reach outside world, i hope it will start talking to others as well like email, social network, blog etc… you can google.

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if you’re keen watcher of stock, you might have noticed, bharti airtel is still digging deep down, it is a confusing stock in recent time, unable to decide either to hold or sell it off. i did a basic study on the stock and here is the result of study i did on the stock.

before we go further, the reason airtel stocks going down is, it tried to acquire few foreign telecom companies, last year it tried to acquire MTN a african telecom company, this didnt succeed, now they are seeing zain africa a kuwaiti company, deal is still in talks and zain asking price is $10.7 billion.

emotionally speaking, a indian company expanding overseas, is good and it requires our support, but we cant blindly support some unrealistic dreams of the companies, and loose the money, but sunil mittal’s dream isnt unachievable. very much realistic, just huge.

who is zain?

zain is the only telecom company in africa which operates in several countries there, it is holding 50 – 70% of market, with about 4 crore subscribers, zain is asking about 255USD for each subscribers to airtel.

why airtel need zain?

airtel is the top player in india, now it is ambitious to expand outside india, it has penetrated sri lanka and bangladesh already and want to enter africa, african market is very green, has potential to grow with more subscribers, initially airtel tried to enter africa by acquiring MTN, but the deal got failed, now they are trying the same by acquiring zain, if they succeed they will be the third largest telecom company in middle east.

financial:

zain’s price tag is 10.7 billion USD, airtel need 9 billion USD from banks within and outside india, airtel can fetch upto 2-3 billion USD, airtel want that loan at 7% interest rate, airtel also in talks with banks on this.

lets talk problems:

1. will airtel get loan at this low interest rate?
2. zain is also operating in many african countries which doesnt have political stability, aill airtel capable enough to deal with it
3. analysis by experts say, it will take 5 – 8 years for airtel to come back to normal.

good stock?

1. airtel already operating in srilanka and bangladesh apart from india.
2. airtel has plans to expand to 15 more countries
3. africa has lowest cell subscribers, has potential to grow in years to come.

in my personal opinion very good stock for long term.

Recently read a article from gigaom, that twitter trying to set up a advertisement medium like google did. I have mixed feeling about, this can be good for both – users and twitter or suicidal for twitter alone.

Why twitter cant follow food steps of google, facebook in twitter?
Simple, google and facebook serve their visitors on their webpage, but twitter is different, they serve their users from anywhere, i.e any twitter clients, not necessary visit twitter website anymore once account created and patched with twitter client.

What they can do now?
1. Either they need to lure their users to start using the website primarily. In this case there will be loss of users, many comfortable tweeting from the client tools.

2. Force client tools to display the twitter adverts. – this might be feasible, but again how far the tweet clients going to agree is the big question. Again, will client ok with this, for instance i tweet ONLY from my mobile using gravity tweeter client, i will be annoyed to see adverts in my client.

3. Else post the advert tweets between actual tweets, this is already happening, some third party players will send across the adverts need to be tweeted and you post it, and they pay you based on clicks, views etc.

Probably tweeter will choose what is happening in 3rd point with some customization, they might capture the geo location, frequently used hash tags, tweeted subjects, following people, and being followed by etc and decide what kind of advert will suit them and their followers and send across the advert text and ask us to tweet, to be less annoying, and probably share money or some sort of karma points etc.

Generally in Management services whenever a solution is required, the solution provider focus on WHAT has been asked. Very few people really bothers about WHY that has been asked. Now let us take case that a developer is encountering a problem. He will think of the problem and have a solution in his mind. But to implement it how he would ask his manager. Now if the manager focuses on WHAT has been asked and provide a solution it might go in vain if the developers view is wrong which in turn let his manager down though he involved only on how to implement it. But if he would have asked WHY it has been asked before providing the solution, he might have given better solution after thorough analysis. Now he would take full responsibility for the solution given. So a good manager always consider WHY rather than WHAT while providing solutions. This fits not only in IT management but also in all sorts managements.

Fuel cells technology was under development by many companies from samsung to toyota, but the problem is it was expensive, bloom box is expected should be affordable a little.

Early customers are google and ebay, were using the large bloom box’s which is said to cost between $700000 – $800000, this will power their campuses and data centers.

Sridhar, said they are planning to produce smalled bloom boxes that will cost under $3000 for residential market in 5 – 10 years.

There’s interesting story behind bloom box, Sridhar, originally developed it for NASA, but not to create energy but produce oxygen in mars, but when NASA dropped the mars mission, Sridhar reversed Oxygen creating machine by taking oxygen as input, awesome isnt it?

Future looks green

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