Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
India
I'm at Karma (New York, NY) w/ 2 others http://t.co/FZC6Z4hDFR pic.twitter.com/BA7Uc9jqdB
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) April 5, 2014
Front seat at stand up comedy, one comedian made a point to say "I don't give a f__k about India!"
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) April 5, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Hunger Games
The Hunger Games (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
For the longest time I avoided the movie. What? Kids getting into fights kinda movie? I thought. But once I watched one, I realized the last time I got this excited about a movie was with the Bourne movies. Movie effects can't carry a movie. But they can help a strong plot. And there has to be a timelessness to the theme.
Technological advances will not cure the basic savagery of human nature. There are other remedies to the savagery. And The Hunger Games speak to that. With the Bourne movies it was the idea of a super soldier going to battle with a super government agency. That is the eternal tussle between the individual and the state.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Facebook Drones: Super Exciting
Facebook Looks to Drones to Boost Internet Access
Facebook's new Connectivity Lab is looking at the high-flying devices - not to mention satellites and lasers - to assist in providing Internet access worldwide. ..... work in the Philippines and Paraguay, where 3 million more people now have access to the Web .... Ascenta, whose five-person team worked on early versions of Zephyr, the longest-flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft. ..... Zuckerberg launched Internet.org in August, with the intent of increasing access to the Web, and bringing the Internet "to the next 5 billion people." As of now, about one-third of the world's population has online access. ..... where satellites may do the trick in lower-density areas, solar-powered drones are better suited for more high-frequency locations. ..... Located 20 kilometers above the earth, these drones, which can stay aloft for months at a time, will broadcast the Internet to local users at significantly higher speeds and better connection than a satellite would.
Facebook Will Deliver Internet Via Drones With “Connectivity Lab” Project Powered By Acqhires From Ascenta
While they both have somewhat altruistic objectives, Facebook’s Connectivity Lab could compete with Google’s Project Loon, which uses huge helium balloon vessels to beam Internet to the developing world. ..... Internet.org will use different vehicles to deliver Internet to different types of locals. In suburban areas it will use “solar-powered high altitude, long endurance aircraft” that can stay in the air for month, are easily deployed, and can provide reliable Internet connectivity. Less populated areas will be served by low-Earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites. ..... when I spoke to Mark Zuckerberg at an event at Facebook headquarters last year, he seemed earnestly adamant about the potential for Internet.org to empower the world through access to the web
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
The List
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @chipper_b @KevinColleran @Tuffyen @phkeane
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @dchertok @MParekh @jtriest @KamranAnsari
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @ExpansionVC @gregstuart @jerlevine @emf
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @grosen @salimmitha @Kenfox_nyc @thealanmac
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @giordanobc @jeffpulver @SamStella1
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @TheAmishShah @cpxceo @daegloe
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
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— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @ScottTannen @claudezdanow @kbrownsirk
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @sbroderick @jgphilips @PALcapital @jkhoey
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Can I get you interested in my tech startup? I need a number I can call. http://t.co/fCwfrlngci @TJ_Happened
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@matthilt0n You favorited my tweet. Thanks. Would you know angels who might be interested?
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@davidlesches You favorited my tweet. Thanks. Would you know angels who might be interested?
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@officengine You favorited my tweet. Thanks. Would you know angels who might be interested?
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@JohnBPetersen You favorited my tweet. Thanks. Would you know angels who might be interested?
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@WaredSeger You favorited my tweet. Thanks. Would you know angels who might be interested?
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
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— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
@nickbilton San Fran is not big enough. It is not dirty enough. It is not Delhi/Mumbai enough. http://t.co/iAIdS18onw
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2014
Audio: One Of The Next Big Things?
SMS is convenient, it is efficient, and by now it is also cheap. Free is cheap.
There is an inherent richness to audio that textual conversation simply does not capture.
There are a few things that get in the way of audio. One is bandwidth. Audio files are half way to video. They take so much space. There are huge hurdles in search when it comes to audio. We don't have machines that "read" audio files as readily as they read textual files. A comparable search engine for audio files would figure out the language of the audio files and their content, and there would be the option to translate the content into a language of your choice.
Maybe literacy is overrated. And I mean literacy even for the literate. It has always amazed me how the so-called illiterate masses of the Global South tend to be so verbally gifted in their mother tongues. It is a waste that they do not fall under the knowledge worker umbrella.
There should be buttons attached to the comments sections of top blogs that would allow you to join group, real time audio conversations on the topic at hand.
Audio blogging is not as easy an option as textual blogging right now. Believe it or not, I was a huge fan of what the Twitter dudes had before they gave up on it and launched Twitter. I have missed it since.
The best way to reach out to the "illiterate" masses of the Global South is to tackle audio.