Yep. Am back to writing about my pet interest in blogging…..Although the tech world had been obsessed by the Micro(almost)hoo acquisition, it’s quite interesting to see that Google has been doing all that is possible to ensure that it has a continued relevance when online search advertising starts to saturate and moves to different platforms ! Their latest announcement of a $500 million investment in Clearwire, is interesting…I, for one, have kinda taken a liking to google’s strong arm posturing, considering the cash that they are sitting on….Their recent agressive stance on the spectrum auction, the whole jamboree on Android, their habit of talking of any kind of network access at the drop of a hat, and actually succeeding in most part…All show a definite pattern which we have seen in the past as well…The amazingly well oiled Google PR machine that continues to remain at work. What has happened since my earlier 2005 post is only that this has now grown bigger and come to influence matters of policy….Kudos Google!!!
…..The city is polluted, dirty, is overcrowded, has rents which make the word obscene sound like Shakespearean prose !!! People keep complaining forever of the traffic, which seems to chug forward at zero kmph !! Socio-economic disparities present themselves at their worst here…And mind you, everyone considers slums an integral part of the city’s fabric …Translation—Too little time to even think if they should exist in the first place ! And with the recent noise over outsiders and conspiracy theories, you have a soap opera of a city that ends every night only to begin the next morning !