My Random Thoughts in Last Few Days

1. Taare Zameen Par - Nice movie. Great direction, good action and everything is good. Nice subject. Aamir Khan selected a nice subject and he studied a lot for doing this. It improves self confidence and teaches many things. Very good movie..
Taaareeeee Zammeeeeeeeeen Parrrrrrrr
2. gmail Hacking - Gmail security flaw screwed up one designer - Poor guy, got screwed up. Help this guy if you know how to put a case against some one who hacked and got a domain name. From this site, you can reach some other sites where you can find lot number of flaws in the projects.

I thought about many more items to blog. But, I forgot about them. Ok, thats fine.
Is my english improving? No.. not at all :(
But, now, atleast, I guess I'm good at understanding.

Get ready to enjoy the Google-Powered Mobile Phones

Oh man.. lot of features built on the Android - the OS used by Google built basically on Linux 2.6 kernel, exposing SDK for development. NVIDIA also joining hands in the open source project to improve the graphics.

Customized Newspaper

Blogging after a long time.. had been a little busy, I guess, these times.. ok..
Point is - again, looks like, one of my old junk idea is patented by Google :(
It is Google Magazine. I was thinking to have a newspaper in the way the reader wanted, i.e, based on his interests. Some may think business news should come in main paper and some may think sports should come in the main paper. Finally, wanted to say is - newspaper/magazine should be in the interest of the end user i.e., the reader.
They gave the caption as "Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications.” They covered a lot in their patent like revenue in ads etc.
I just got this idea and mailed myself to work on it before 2005 July itself, but, never done it :( One problem you can see here is - printing. Google guyz patented it in 2006. I think they don't want to make it as a product. I guess - they want to enjoy the royality.
Whatever it may be, once again, I lost my chance, that too, to Google itself. I don't know whether I should feel happy or not.
One qn - can I ask royalty from Google by showing that mail? Waiting for responses

hOw Google mAps tHe wOrld?

This was my doubt "How Google Maps the World? What its database? What it do?". Found a nice article on this here. These are from that article:
..These images, which are shared by Google Maps, are actually a combination of aerial photos and satellite ­imagery--and a lot of post­processing...
Looks like nothing database as such. Atleast for the current earth positions, it won't use any database. It uses the combination of aerial photos and the images from DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and do the image processing on them. May be, it need to use some spatial databases to store these and get them again whenever needed.
Below is the image from that article that explains most of the process

Google Bowling

Google looks like trying to improve its page ranking algorithm - by penalizing and awarding some points to sites based on their behaviour. Page ranking usually depends on how many incoming links are there to your page and what's their ranks. Looks like in latest algorithms, people found some loophole and it is properly expalined here. "Kick Your Competitor With Negative SEO?" is shared article related to this.

Google Custom Search

This blog is not related to the functioning of Google Custom Search at all. I landed at this Google Custom Search after visiting my friend's blog. Formats of the annotations that it supports caught my eye. It allows to upload a file that have the url's in some format and when you give any query, it searches in that url set.
Looks like this is useful in the project which I'm currently working to configure the rewriter profile. This may help me in explaining one of the junk idea I have.

"Street View" in "Google Maps"

New "Street View" in Google Maps is an idea which have both the faces. It frowns people as it peeps into their privacy. And on the other side, we can't stop ourselves admiring its technology and idea.
Google made contract with Immersive for licencing the idea of taking 360-degree street level images.
Vans are there roaming in the streets that captures the photos in different angles (I think somewhere I read it as 11 angles). This link explains about the SICK device used in the vans. The real time challenge is the image processing system where it collects all these images and give a proper images to the viewer. Somewhere, I read that they are using Nikon DLSR cameras.