Pakpak..(पकपक)

I tried to find the meaning of that word but there is no such word in Hindi Dictionary!!Anyways we use that word so often.

My definition of "pakpak" is when someone SAYS something which he knows in-&-out(Category -1) and when someone TALKS on something without knowing anything about it(Category-2).In another Words "Pakpak" means WASTE!! and such people are called "PAKAU"( a slang).I also belong to one of these categories by default (catg-1 or catg-2)!!

With those words of pakpak wisdom i assure u that I am not alone.I ll give you the list of people who belong to these categories and you can compare yourself.

To begin with, we have legends and GODS with all due respect to every religion on List of first category and it includes names like Krishna i mean Lord Krishna(For His Gita Gyaan),Lord Christ(for his Bible Gyaan),Lord Mohammed(for his Kuran Gyaan),Lord Buddha(for his Enlightenment Gyaan),Bapu Ghandhi(for his Satyagraha Gyaan :) ,Gentleman Swami Vivekananda (for his karma gyaan very contrasting to Geeta Itself if you have read both!!)and then not to miss a mention of current day "babas" preaching on everything from Sex(Osho) to Art of Living(SSRS) to Yoga(Ramdeo)..and this list is endless as far as you can stretch your imagination.

They are in that category because of us !!! YES. Because we don't take take them seriously at so many occasions ? How many of us have actually read them and understood it (I mean all those great books and philosophy of different legends and gods?..Majority of Population believe their teachings can not be applied in today's world..so Indirectly they end up being "PAKAU".They are just books and things to pass from generations to generations.

Second category of People can be found everywhere. Topping the List is current day News Channels.They have their own world of fantasy in which they live and spread the "cooked gyaan" which is not theirs but they deliver with full confidence under the banner of breaking news on their channel.They can say anything and everything on whatsoever they wish to!

Next on list of second category(catg-2) of Pakau people are Politicians.The most so infamous but influential and nothing less dangerous than Mafia.Politicians which every now and then share their "PakPak" to people .They make us believe that everything is possible in this world which is so good to hear and keep us positive.But the trick is in that one little word which is "Possible". Therefore i understood why Hope is so precious for Human Existence.Hope is one of the two most precious thing in this world.

Why do we need politicians in this world ? How on earth these species came? it is Just so hard to understand.

Then that's NOT where we end our list as we go on awarding that Title to people from our own backyard (our Dad,Mom,Bro,Sis,Friends,Teachers,Boss,Colleagues,strangers and many others who are part of our lives directly or indirectly).Sometimes we care and listen to their Gyaan and value it but at other times we just ignore it ,avoid it,run away from it,mock it,etc etc.. ..it is then at that point of time we Indirectly call them PAKAU straight in their face.It means it is we who call someone PAKAU and their sayings as Pakpak.Somehow We don't believe in or have Trust in their words of Wisdom.

We as humans TRUST some or all of those two type of "pakpak" at some or all the point of time based on our needs.That's such a "pakau" nature of human beings.Humans are opportunistic by nature and therefore Trust is the second and last most precious thing in this world.

With that I finish my "Pakpak" writing and Don't wish you that you keep meeting more such people in your Life:)

A Troika

Mathematical Definitions

0---->>zero(shunya):
Nothingness,emptiness,
complete silence,Blankness,
calmness,satisfaction??

Infinity---->>
Neverending,chaos,no end to what is started,eternal,
just keep doing what u r doing with no end whatsoever,dedication ,
keep going till u ..

1 divide by 0 ---->>(1/0= undefined)
unexplored,unimaginable,
a state of ambiguity and confusion..

If there is some correlation OR comparison to these numbers with our own status then the most dreadful number should be Zero and number which we most suffer from and closely related with should be INFINITY..

1/0 makes it easier as its unknown it doesn't raise any doubts & fears in mind.Just take it as it comes and handle like underdogs and who knows if we solve that puzzle!

The point is that we are living in world formed by that Troika!

What is good better best ?

When i try to find standard deviations of population for people who think success comes after one takes risk then it ignores the samples of people who don't think that way.

Probably it was not a Random sampling :)

Take for example: Lance Armstrong who knew he had cancer and it will be very miraculous if he survives so where is the question of Risk when he took the decision to participate in the race? He actually succeeded by not only winning Tour De France for 7 times but he succeeded over the feeling of risk taking mentality.

And if that's so simple to be successful (one should take risks to succeed)then i think people will be making suicidal attempts for sure in pursuit of success by taking unimaginable risks like jumping from Eiffel tower :)

I mean they will not suicide but their attempt for success will definitely be suicidal.

Millions beloved MJ died ,not because he took risk to perform for some 50 shows at a stretch considering he's physical weakness but i think he must have died because of fear to fail.

How many times we have been told that its all their in mind to succeed or lose and risk taking attitude is not physical but a mental attitude.

But it's easier said than done.

I guess one should not give a damn ear to people who say you are taking risk because they are the people who belong to that 95 percent confidence interval of normal distribution of population who look normal to our society because every morning they go to job ,take lunch,drink free coffee,fill office toilets,pick office stationery and come back home with lot of pollution contribution on way back and then go to nearby multiplexes and shop till the shop closes and drive back home in their Mercs!! what a fuctastic life I mean fantastic for such normal people.

The dialogue in the "pursuit of happiness" where dad says to his son that never listen to anyone who says you can not do it,not even to dad himself.

It's rather serious initiative to belong to that 2.5% on the either side of normal distribution and try out things knowing that people are laughing at you and questioning your existence.

Risk taking is bullshit!! It's a self developed human phenomenon to defend ourselves by not trying out things which we always dreamed that we ll do once we grow up.

Either we'll belong to lower 2.5% on left side of Normal distribution where Mr. MJ failed to achieve success OR we can belong to upper 2.5% on right side of Normal distribution where Mr Armstrong defied failure( actually he defied death literally which is so real and inescapable).

But the point is that it is worth trying to not belong in that so called NORMAL category of mid 95% of normal distribution even if people call you MAD,SENTI,ARROGANT,PSYCHIC etc etc..

We have to decide to do things which will make us outliers in that Normal Distribution.

Long Live MJ!!

Iphone is a Device OR Operating Platform First?

So Indians are getting close to 3G phenomenon.I am excited to see how things go now in our country when Internet did not go as far one had expected here from the early days of 95-96and so do the penetration of Notebooks,Laptops and Desktops with so many designs overloaded with features which were marketed as these features are only available to peoples from other planet like mars or Jupiter of the UNIVERSE!!

Other interesting point would be to find is it internet which didn't look useful or proved useful to majority of people and therefore Computer penetration kept a low figures OR Vice-versa.

If Its the other way around means People( "common people" and not Jet Flying and executive class ) have still not realized any usefulness of computers to their daily lives then hey GOD please give enough willpower and strength to all poor and hardworking marketers to make further attempts and try out their best to convince people to buy computers .

If in close to 15 years internet penetration is nearing to 50 Million mark then seriously something is wrong somewhere. Off course we are atleast 1130 Million so people using Internet should not be at such levels.

Now contrary to Computers and its effect on Internet penetration ,Mobile phones came like a Tornado and its intensity is still not over. We are close to 400 Million with 10 Millions additions every month.

So who is getting better on other ? SIMPLE!!!

Mr Jobs has better vision of future than Mr Gates!.

Everyone makes a Mobile device .Even Chinese can make better phones than Finnish engineers!! Sorry Just Joking .Nothing Personal.

Mr Jobs would have definitely realized this after waking up one morning and he would have decided well let me also make a mobile device.Then he would have stopped and decided that No ...Just a device is not the end of GAME.And He invented the entire Operating Platform with features and then made a device to represent all those features.And world got a IPhone.

Don't you think Apples is selling IPhone operating platform than IPhone Device.I don't have second thoughts on that.

And who is going to challenge that kind of Platform? Well there are 2 other smart people on our planet to tackle Mr Jobs!!

You would have guessed ..No..Give one more try. No Not Still..oh you are so unaware.

They are Serlary Friends.YES Sergy Brin and Larry Page .

Android is going to be competing to Iphone operating platforms for future mobile market of devices as well as software platforms .

I don't know if Apple is ready to sell their IPhone Platforms to other device manufacturers OR it will only be available through Iphones.

And so next time when you go to shop to buy some smart phone after the mad rush of 3G launch(Which I am sure will happen !!) please check if you are paying for device or Operating platform.

Which 3G scheme is better? Reliance,Tata,Airtel,BSNL,MTNL......lol :)

Big Bang theory of Internet

Probably You would like to bet on that analogy with your friends..if you do that please don't forget to pass on some royalty to me.

Everyone knows how far we have come since the basic evolution of Internet world and Few Bright Stars and discovery of new stars and planet..

Early stars  were found as Microsoft,SUN,IBM..New stars were discovered Google..Then  planets came into pictures like blogs,tech news sites etc who revolved around  few  specific and niche industry and so on..

I doubt we are in stage of discovering Black holes now..which actually absorbs so much of information and probably informations are not coming out from it..I m not sure if Facebook,Myspace Or Twitter should be  seen as Black-holes of Internet Industry but  i guess it's certainly behaving like that.

And with the popularity of these black-hole applications known as social media platforms ,black holes themselves should be seen in positive light and not some demon.

Some would like to argue that these social  media platforms are actually planets where people have started to  live and whole  ecological  system is  under development  .

But  Really we are following  something  similar  of our Universe evolution in the Internet world and  many more galaxies are  to be discovered and many more planets are under  evolution where life can survive .

Just can't stop myself stretching my Imagination more of bringing this analogy..It may look ridiculous but definitely there should be some parallels here in this new world of Internet where people are settling and living than actual real world..so What's Your Say!  

Premium comes after basic is seen..Probable Marketing Theory

You can easily observe it and no need to be you sitting somewhere and apple falling off on head to discover the eureka moment..

So i thought it can be just a probable marketing theory..Here are the observation(in fact i should definitely get zillions of such observations but then marketing research tells us sampling is better than census..so why to search for those many observations to right the hypothesis..)

Story goes like this..simplestlyy simple ..First came the wheel then bullock-carts,horse carts.then horse powered cars..well definitely one observes basic value shifts to premium..
First came basic T-model from ford and then came the audis,mercedes,rolls-royce,etc..again basic changing to some premium stuff..

Similar things are happening on Internet world..in my college days few applications came which said to connect me with my college and school friends..don't remember the name.it s still there..then i guess it should have evolved into Orkut ,Facebook,myspace,linkedin,twitter and others..Also sharing of something changed from basic to premium like photo sharing(flickr,picasa,etc) to music sharing,video sharing (hulu,lala,youtube,last.fm and million others!!) to desktop sharing(rapidsharing,teamviewer,torrents etc..) and many more to come!!

Next wave of developments are said to be in virtualisation of servers or Cloud computing..lets see it rather prepare ourselves to face it. more than sure it will happen!

Interestingly same things should happen in so called Search Engines..Came Google ,yahoo and others!!(with basic search based on Keywords) now the likes of alltop,Kosmix,oneriot is coming ..i am not sure if they are some premium version but they claim so by offering something new proposition in their view..

also the applications like Googlereader,Pipes,Protopage,
pageflakes,netvibes etc etc ..which are applications for aggregating news items from your interested field of search and browsing history and similar other premium parameters..

I guess Internet consumers would decide if they need basic Google or premium stuff for some cost!! time will tell..

Sometimes i get passionate that there is scope for everyone with good idea but it looks so challenging and frustrating at other times!! that how to come out with that unique idea which would look Premium to everyone and one will feel that he was the driver for people to take them from Basic to world of premium..

You would definitely find zillions of such examples for which you have to believe in one philosophy that Apple always falls on the head of who thinks on it rather than eat it:) better not to eat that apple as Newton did and went on write 3 laws of motion and relativity theory !!WOW thanks to that Great Apple !!..oOOps I again mentioned about Steve Jobs!!Anyways you cant hide something which you like..and so it keeps coming out at occasions in some indirect way..

The future of Digital Content And Its Role

I came across two different Blog articles which mentions about the increasing relevance of Digital Content.World has already seen the role of it in Obama Victory.I got a research report how Obama Achieved the success what has he achieved?

The article was posted at Guy Kawasaki Blog..(well a big GUY from Valley !) Here you can find the Report on OBAMA success

The other article which says about the 2009-5 Trends that will change media and substantiates the idea of Micro payments in Web Based Entertainment Portal.

Interestingly the 4th Trend in above article says that users are beginning to pay for digital consumption!! WOW ..Motivating for so many Entrepreneurs out in the world to create value applications which will be monetizable ..So i guess now VC's would look to such Proposed Idea with sound business model :) Well Lets Hope for better Times in 2009 for Media and Entertainment!!