Coming back to life!

I want to become a blogger not only to increase my typing speed but also to share my immense knowledge on useless things. I have made a good start by setting a "fancy" title for this post, but when was I ever alive in cyberspace. Well, thats what the title of the Pink Floyd song mean, doesn't it ?

I do have accounts on facebook, myspace, twitter, hi5,orkut and a few others, but does this actually count as being a part of cyberspace, where all we are doing is occupying the pricey space and filling it with useless and redundant information about ourselves. Believe me this space is not infinite and is going to be exhausted soon and that is when companies would start charging for every email id we keep, every account we hold on social websites, every image we upload and blog we write. The Think-Tanks of the internet by then would have made us so addicted (well I am referring to those who are not already) to our social presence that we would actually not stammer to pay. After all 5cents is a small price for a status update on FB if it gets us 10 likes and 17 comments.

I was talking to a high profile employee of one such social("duh") website, he said that he really dreads 2 people in the world, one is Facebook and the other is Google. Well he is not totally wrong when he refers to the two gargantuan sites as human, after all Android does mean "having human features" according to Webster. His reasons are pervasive, they know everything about us and can use all that information against us if they want. Well can we blame them, who is actually providing them with all that info. But we have to furnish all the information to have a social standing otherwise we would be "social outcasts". Isn't it a CATCH 22 situation.

Now the quote below makes more sense to me :- "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users ?"

Google strikes yet again

The ubiquitous Google strikes back, not that it had a downtime in its server of innovations but this new and interesting application named LIVELY  is yet another jewel in its crown.

For those of you who have not already started drooling hours on this interactive 3D chat room, welcome to LIVELY .

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html    It is exactly what it sounds like i.e. it removes the dull and monotonicity of dead chat rooms into lively 3D virtual spaces(rooms). After downloading a small application from its site you can access many of the virtual chat rooms available where you can have a 3D human form for yourself which can be customized as per your choice of hair, wardrobe etc. It has a new form of AVATAR, which can move in and around rooms, lounges, pools etc. Not to forget the music in the background which perfectly suits the atmosphere of the room. My favourite room being Brasil Party because of the cool lounge music it plays.

Also, you can make your own room and invite friends, you can pick furnitures and stuff add them to your inventory which could later be added to your personal room. Its like having a private get together where you can chat, dance, kiss, hug, beat up people or just hang around watching television or listening to music.

To sum it up, LIVELY is here to stay

sulabh choudhury