On the Edge!

This morning’s news paper took me to this article by Chris. Chris Shared his views elaborately on Unite services. There’s a good amount of conversation on his site, i would recommend you to head over to his post to get more on the discussions.

I am writing a post here in detail as i could not  share all my thoughts  on his site due to lack of time.

Opera Unite is a set of services that are integrated into the browser using which one can  share files, photos,  chat with people, and better make it your web server.

These are quite interesting features you can expect to run from a browser. I tried them yesterday, and i was really excited to see the review by Chris. I have to tell you Chris, opera deserves an appreciation for such an attempt given the fact unite is still in its alpha stages and has to go a long way. Its true that all the services are implemented pretty neatly. I felt all the services offered are really not necessary for the layman at least for majority of them. The following are reasons why i think.

1. Hosting a server on my laptop is good, but it has a long list of limitations and that is why we prefer web hosts.

2. As for as file sharing goes,  there are a variety of options which i use already, why would i need  to use this. 

3. With respect to other services,  If i am already using a lot of social sites (facebook, flickr, etc. where i am happy with what i am)  then why would i be interested to move everything into opera’s services. I am sure most of my friends are not on opera’s communities.

But there are a few things i really would like to appreciate. Opera is slowly getting that polish as browser which lacked in the previous versions. It really did not seem like an alpha experience, at least not to me trying out the browser and the service. The browser still rocks when you compare it with Chrome or Firefox or Safari or Flock, etc.

“Yes I have”, would be your answer if you were living on the edge like me. Well for those who did not get what I am talking about, Facebook  has come up with vanity url for all of us, which got implemented from today. Well i am ranting our here just to say that i have chosen mine and wish you also get one if you haven’t. Just login to your facebook account and you will see the update on your home page. Just select your url and confirm.  Quite simple wasn’t it.

Feel free to connect with me on Facebook by clicking here. I also tweet as simplysaru which happens to be my vanity url on facebook, feel free to follow me. Don’t forget to update your blogs and social media sites so that people can identify you quickly.

Since the day i stumbled upon the TED site, I have been a fan of TED. People who talk at TED are really exceptional and they have made it on TED because of their intellect and ideas. I really appreciate every one of them who have presented there for sharing their knowledge and making everybody wiser.

I recently got to watch Mr. Joachim on this nice interesting video. What he speaks about is  really very simple, something we know about. Not all of  us realize it often and capitalise with it.Well he speaks about self discipline.  I would say self discipline is all about yourself and you fail at it you loose in life and the best part is you can’t blame anyone else for it but your self. I feel self control and self discipline are not two different things. The more you have control over your self the more you can groom your self. The take from the video is “the more disciplined you are the better are the chances for success”. I really enjoyed the video hope you will too. Head over to Ted Talks and keep checking them for more thought provoking Talks. BTW a big hats off to team TED!

You can download the video from here.

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