Google Talk everywhere: Open federation

Google has just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, "Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other. For example, email is a federated system. You might have a .edu address and I have a Gmail address, but you and I can still exchange email. The same for the phone: there's nothing that prevents Cingular users from talking to Sprint users.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with many IM and Internet voice calling services today. You can only talk to people on the particular service you have an account on (so you need an account on every service to talk to everybody, which is pretty cumbersome). With open federation, you get to choose your service provider and you can talk to people on any other federated service (and vice versa).

This means we can now talk to millions of users around the world all with a single account on the service provider of our choice. it will bring us one step closer to making IM and Internet voice calling as ubiquitous as email.

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Kids to write new chapter in Indo-Pak peace initiatives...

A bird's eye view of the 'World's Largest letter' aimed at building bonds of friendship between India and Pakistan at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Monday, 16-01-2006.
The letter is painted with the message ''Dear Friends in Pakistan, Let's join hearts in friendship. Together we can make a better world. --The Children of India.'' Surrounding this letter is smaller tarpaulins signed by school children from around the country.

supplemental result...

Today, as usually when i started googling, i got different search result for my search string...
only one search result i got, that too 'supplemental result' and also the title for that result is not at all relavent to my search string......i was surprised...... this is what the text i got as the result....

Hello visitor,

Soory, google smashed my webspace with indexing this file containing
some thousand words with ranking and order and giving this 3MB txt
as search result for hopeless search queries.

If you are still interested in that wordlist please download
wordlist_2004-03-14.txt.bz2 in this directory or place your browser to

http://rabe.uugrn.org_(slash)_scripts_(slash)_google-news_(slash)
_wordlist_2004-03-14_(dot)_txt_(dot)_bz2

Regards
rabe

I didnt observed this never b4. It might b coming b4 also.....
Yes...
the supplemental result is the feature to augment the results for obscure queries. This is a new technology that can return more results for queries that for example have a small number of results. So it might not affect the results for a popular search, but for a researcher doing a more specific query, it can improve the recall of the results. The supplemental collection of pages has been collected from the web just like the 3.3 billion pages in Google's main index

Six degrees of Separation

Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called Chains.

Source: wiki

She is Human calculator...

January 24, 1977 . A cold and windy Monday afternoon at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas .

A beautiful young lady smartly clad in a sari, walked up to the stage. She sat down on a chair smiling at the hundreds of students and professors assembled in the hall. A scholarly professor wrote a 201 digit long number on the black board at her side. The number occupied 10 lines and took four minutes to write. After finishing the number, the professor took out a stopwatch from his pocket and with a nod at the lady he started the timer. There was absolute silence in the hall.

The young lady took one long look at the number and closed her eyes. Seconds ticked by. In deep concentration she appeared to have gone into a trance. At the fifty-second mark, the lady opened her eyes and slowly pronounced the answer, '546372891'. The professor then checked it with the result given by the computer. Yes, she was correct. The number given by her is the 23rd root of the 201 digit long number. Earlier that day, the fastest computer of the time, Univac 1108, had taken 62 seconds to give the answer.

Every member of the audience jumped to their feet and applauded the genius who beat the computer.

She was born in Bangalore, and that lady was Shakuntala Devi...........

source: wiki

Kalam’s list of must-read books for children

Addressing the 13th National Children's Science Congress on Wednesday, the President said, "I want you all to finish this homework in 2006. You should read five books - Journey into Light, Life and Science of CV Raman by G Venkataraman, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Empire of Mind by Denis Waitly, Parallel Worlds by Michao Kaku and The Best of Indian Physics by Dr Siddharth."

The Braille Alphabet

Why do we need to type characters from a picture....

We will b asked to type characters from a picture in most of the online transactions starting from creating accounts to change passwords etc.. I always having a doubt y do we need to type like that... what security they r achieving with that...
here z the reason...
You must type the numbers and letters you see in the picture to confirm that a person is trying to access the page, rather than an automated program. This helps keep automated programs from creating fraudulent accounts or misusing accounts, for example, to send large amounts of unsolicited e-mail.
In most cases, automated sign-in programs can't recognize the numbers and letters in the picture.