whozat? A people Search Engine

                               

     Want to find a friend who is a close friend of you in school? or somebody you met suddendly and you liked him/her and went on missing …….  whozat  can be your place to find people from the web .A new people search engine which allows you to find people from different social networking  sites.The social networking sites includes LinkedIn,IMDB,FaceBook,My Space,Youtube etc.This allows you to have an extensive search of the people from various countries and various places .

 

                       Whozat? also boasts a people-centric UI, machine vision to find photos of the people you are looking for, automatic tag extraction to describe a person at a glance, and “It’zat” and “Not zat” feedback buttons that allow searchers to tell Whozat? whether a person, URL or tag is relevant or not to their search, immediately customizing results accordingly. These interactive features make searches with Whozat? a conversation rather than a one-way street. Whozat? even allows searchers to specify the age (“‘zat old?”), location (“where ‘zat?”) and/or sex of the person sought, and finds related people, too. Unlike sites which mostly contain information provided by users, Whozat? is a true search engine, finding information and photos of people without any prior instruction needed.Thanks prweb

Currently Beta Version is availiable users who wanted to have a preview can register here.

Alltogether a nice people search engine ,whozat? a big Thumbsup!!!!.Great!

Viewzi – A New Age Search Engine

                    Search Engines these days trying to be more interactive and user friendly.Viwezi is one of those search engines which uses the latest search engine technology .Viewzi is a whole new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual Views tailored for the content you are looking for .It as all the search features as other search engines like Google,Yahoo etc.In my early posts I have come down with new age search engines with keyword as well as phrases based tools like surchur, yahoo’s glue pages .

So,Is it unique to other search engines ?

The answer is a big YES!

How is it differs?

                 With traditional text-based search engines, no matter what or how you search, your results are basically the same. Searching for Bono looks the same as searching for chicken recipes or sports cars:

                   Most important one i can say is its navigation style .It has a “view mix mode” which helps you to navigate through various screen like webscreenshot view,video 3xview,basic photoview,sources view ,weather view,amozon book view etc.You would be able to magnify these views by just navigating through the options.Its slick and looks wounderful to navigate.

                     First, a web screenshot view with an actual screenshot of the pages in the search results from various sources. A basic photo view displaying results from popular image sharing sites Also a videox3 view which displays the reslts from different sources like youtube.blinxtv ,veoh.A simple text view from various souces like Google,Yahoo and MSN.Viewzi also includes other views like mp3 search view,celebrity photo view,Tech crunch view,reuters news view and a shopping view.

Over all its a good search engine looks slick and has different views which makes it differ from other search engines.However  watchout for the Mp3 view if your trying to listen to the songs related to your search then your wrong you may end up listening to some chinese or an arabic songs!

Currently not available for everyone if you want to have a look at this you need to register for a preview.

Microsoft Brings WorldWideTelescope to your Desktop

                  The final frontier got a bit closer as Microsoft Corp officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope . WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web application that brings together imagery from the best ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to easily explore the night sky through their computers. WorldWide Telescope has been eagerly anticipated by the astronomical and educational communities as a compelling astronomical resource for students and lifelong learners, and as a way to make science fun for children.

                            The service goes well beyond the simple browsing of images. Users can choose which telescope they want to look through, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Spitzer Space Telescope or others. They can view the locations of planets in the night sky — in the past, present or future. They can view the universe through different wavelengths of light to reveal hidden structures in other parts of the galaxy. Taken as a whole, the application provides a top-to-bottom view of the science of astronomy.

                        The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high-performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. WorldWide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky. People can freely browse through the solar system, galaxy and beyond, or take advantage of a growing number of guided tours of the sky hosted by astronomers and educators at major universities and planetariums.Source:MS press.

                      You might think this is similiar to GoogleEarth than your wrong WorldwideTelescope helps to browse through various Galaxies present in th universe .It has a slick selection look and drag and drop options which really helps you to move around and play with it as you like .you need to download the software and get it installed in your computer .You can able to download the software here.

You can have an overview of the new Microsoft worldwideTelescope video here Thanks pcmech.

Microsoft WorldWideTelescope Just Rocks!!!

Power Set Unveils Wikipedia Search Tools

Powerset a San Francisco-based company was founded in 2005 and is funded by Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, Paperboy Ventures, and a number of angel investors.

                     Powerset’s technology improves the entire search process. In the search box, you can express yourself in keywords, phrases, or simple questions. On the search results page, Powerset gives more accurate results, often answering questions directly, and aggregates information from across multiple articles. Finally, Powerset’s technology follows you into enhanced Wikipedia articles, giving you a better way to quickly digest and navigate content.

 

This has a “powerful”  search option for all the wikipedia articles in a more interactive manner with all the details of the article being shown up.Shows up revalant articles with factz adding to it.It also shows up all the articles in  wikipedia .

For instance if you type in it “Mahatma Gandhi” it brings you all the details regarding Mahatama in an interactive manner with proper descriptions added to it also shows up relavent articles too!

Cool “Powerset”!

Surchur -Latest keyword Based Search Tool

Surchur is one the search tools which I have gone through recently .Its cool ,handy and slick . This is similiar to the “glue” pages which yahoo have recently launched . It diversifies the results of the keyword into different segments like pages from digg,del.icio.us,technorati.com ,pictures from flickr ,photobucket etc,news from google ,videos from youtube and metacafe ,ebay products and books from amozon ,awesome!. You can find different options like all ,pages ,videos etc which helps you to even segregate the search results to your interest.However it doesnt not provide you with an auto correct like what google provides you with.

For instance you type “aishwarya rai”  in the search box you can find all the search results in videos,pages,news etc instead of lots of webpages that gets display.

Another important feature is that it shows a descriptive summary of the contents its quite useful helps you to have a preview of the news before you click on it.

Cool tool also helpful for bloggers! .Have a look at it.

 

 

Google Launches Friend Connect

                            Google has expected unveiled  Friend Connect Beta version , a way to add social features to a Web site without programming.

                    

                            The Friend Connect administration site presents a catalog of social gadgets, such as member management, message board, reviews, and picture-sharing, provided by Google and other developers. Users copy gadget code snippets and paste them into their sites. The member gadget allows for sign-in with Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID accounts; invites and display of activities from existing friends on social networks such as Facebook, Google Talk, hi5 and Plaxo; browsing member profiles across social networks; and connecting with new friends on a site.credit Google.

To have a first look click here  . However, only few numbers are allowed to have a trail .

Click here to access the video of the Friend connect Preview release and have a look at how to add it to a sample website.For more news on this click here.

 

Facebook CTO Signs Off?

        Facebook’s chief technology officer Adam D’Angelo, a school friend of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company.

The 23-year-old helped Facebook cope with its rapid expansion – the company has just borrowed another $100m to buy new servers. D’Angelo has a bachelor’s degree from California Institute of Technology. He was one of the first people Zuckerberg hired to help set the company up.

                 D’Angelo was feeling the pressure and, according to All Things Digital, believed his job no longer fitted with his interests and skills. He mailed Facebook staff on Friday saying he needed a break but would remain a strong supporter of the site.

He will not be replaced – instead, Facebook is looking to hire a vice president of engineering.Thanks theregister

 

 

Plaxo Introduces People Search – Find Friends by Name

Plaxo lt has added a people search engine to help you find friends who may be using Plaxo but are not connected to you yet.

Earlier, you could search for people on Plaxo only if you remembered their email addresses but now they have relaxed the rules and lets you perform a search by name – very similar to Facebook or LinkedIn.

There’s a small difference though. Unlike people search in Facebook or LinkedIn which is open for non-registered users as well, Plaxo offers the search feature only if you have logged-in. Thanks Labnol for the tweet.

Swami Vivekananda’s speech

      Swami Vivekananda (January 12 1863 -July 4 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta (Narendranath Dut-tta), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga. He was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He is a major figure in the history of the Hindu reform movements.

                 While he is widely credited with having uplifted his own nation, India, he simultaneously introduced Yoga and Vedanta to America and England with his seminal lectures and private discourses on Vedanta philosophy. Vivekananda was the first known Hindu Sage to come to the West, where he introduced Eastern thought at the World’s Parliament of Religions, in connection with the World’s Fair in Chicago, in 1893. Here, his first lecture, which started with this line “Sisters and Brothers of America,” ([1] – not his voice) made the audience clap for two minutes just to the address, for prior to this seminal speech, the audience was always used to this opening address: “Ladies and Gentlemen”. It was this speech that catapulted him to fame by his wide audiences in Chicago and then later everywhere else in America, including far-flung places such as Memphis Boston, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis.
                                    
                  The following is a link I came across that seems to have Audio of Swami Vivekananda’s Speech at Chicago in 1893

Thought you might find it interesting !

 

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/23651

 

Golden rules for finding your life partner by Rabbi Dov Heller, M.A.

                 Golden rules for finding your life partner who is yet to find one.. For those who already have found, help some one else..

A relationship coach lays out his 5 golden rules for reviewing the prospects of long-term marital success.

When it comes to making the decision about choosing a life partner, no one wants to make a mistake.

Yet, with a divorce rate of close to 50 percent (in USA), it appears that many are making serious mistakes in their approach to finding Mr./Ms. Right!

If you ask most couples who are engaged why they’re getting married, they’ll say: “We’re in love.” I believe this is the #1 mistake people make when they date.

Choosing a life partner should never be based on love.

Though this may sound not politically correct, there’s a profound truth here. Love is not the basis for getting married. Rather, love is the result of a good marriage.

When the other ingredients are right, then the love will come.

Let me say it again You CANNOT build a lifetime relationship on love alone. You need a lot more. Here are 5 questions you must ask yourself if you’re serious about finding & keeping a lifepartner.

QUESTION #1

Do we share a common life purpose?

 Why is this so important? Let me put it this way: If you’re married for 20 or 30 years, that’s a long time to live with someone. What do you plan to do with each other all that time? Travel, eat & jog together? You need to share something deeper & more meaningful. You need a common life purpose. Two things can happen in a marriage. You can grow together, or you can grow apart. 50 percent of the people out there are growing apart. To make a marriage work, you need to know what you want out of life – bottom line – & marry someone who wants the same thing.

 

QUESTION #2

Do I feel safe expressing my feelings & thoughts with this person?

 This question goes to the core of the quality of your relationship. Feeling safe means you can communicate openly with this person. The basis of having good communication is trust- i.e. trust that I won’t get “punished” or hurt for expressing my honest thoughts & feelings. A colleague of mine defines an abusive person as someone with whom you feel afraid to express your thoughts & feelings. Be honest with yourself on this one. Make sure you feel emotionally safe with the person you plan to marry.

QUESTION #3

Is he/she a mensch? A mensch is someone who is a refined & sensitive person.

How can you test? Here are some suggestions. Do they work on personal growth on a regular basis? Are they serious about improving themselves? A teacher of mine defines a good person as “someone who is always striving to be good & do the right thing.” So ask about your significant other What do they do with their time? Is this person materialistic? Usually a materialistic person is not someone whose top priority is character refinement. There are essentially two types of people in the world: People who are dedicated to personal growth & people who are dedicated to seeking comfort. Someone whose goal in life is to be comfortable will put personal comfort ahead of doing the right thing. You need to know that before walking down the aisle. 

QUESTION #4

How does he/she treat other people?

The one most important thing that makes any relationship work is the ability to give. By giving, we mean the ability to give another person pleasure. Ask: Is this someone who enjoys giving pleasure to others or are they wrapped up in themselves & self-absorbed? To measure this, think about the following: How do they treat people whom they do not have to be nice to, such as waiters, bus boys, taxi drivers, etc. How do they treat parents & siblings? Do they have gratitude & appreciation? If they don’t have gratitude for the people who have given them everything, you cannot expect that they’ll have gratitude for you-who can’t do nearly as much for them! Do they gossip & speak badly about others? Someone who gossips cannot be someone who loves others. You can be sure that someone who treats others poorly, will eventually treat you poorly as well. 

QUESTION #5

Is there anything I’m hoping to change about this person after we’re married?

Too many people make the mistake of marrying someone with the intention of trying to “improve” them after they’re married. As a colleague of mine puts it, “You can probably expect someone to change after marriage for the worse!” If you cannot fully accept this person the way they are now, then you are not ready to marry them. In conclusion, dating doesn’t have to be difficult & treacherous. The key is to try leading a little more with your head & less with your heart. It pays to be as objective as possible when you are dating, to be sure to ask questions that will help you get to the key issues.Falling in love is a great feeling, but when you wake up with a ring on  our finger, you don’t want to find yourself in trouble because you didn’t do your homework. ..

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