Today I got this text from warid that Warid has just introduced Micro Sims. It has been made clear that this move has been made keeping in mind the ever increasing use of iPhone and iPad. Here is the text advertisement I received from warid.
“Discover the new MicroSim from Warid. Compatible with iPhone 4 and iPad. Available at selected business centres.”

This sounds like a good move as there is increased use of tablets and phones with MicroSim slot (particularly Apple’s products). People had to get their sim cut to make it fit inside their devices. This will make things easy as well as there is always a chance of data theft and sim duplication issue when you hand it over to a third party.
The sim is available in selected business centres in following cities.
Lahore
Gujranwala
Faisalabad
Multan
Islamabad
Peshawar
Karachi
Hyderabad

On a side note this would be a great combination with warid unlimited Internet and will boost the sales of iPad’s wifi and 3G models.

Whenever i meet students who want to start their own business, there is always a very typical barrier which holds them from making the move. If its a techie the question will be, I can produce stuff but i have absolutely no clue how to sell it. If its a business person (most likely MBA, BBA), the confidence for sales and marketing is there but they are totally lost when it comes to building stuff.

Well there are two answers to this issue. Firstly you learn things if you opt to do a startup (and thats the fun) but the second thing is more important that you go out in search of people who complement your skills. Remember the cartoon series “Captain Planet” we used to watch when we were young? Besides the captain there were 5 kids in the cartoon series who had rings having different powers. When their powers were combined Captain Planet came into action but remember what he always said towards the end, “The Power is Yours”. Yes thats true. All the potential Entrepreneurs are like those 5 kids in that series, some have the passion (fire), some have the driving force (wind), some are dominating (water), some are persistent, no matter how hard the situation is they stand tall (earth), some have the real understanding of whats going on (heart) and when all these powers are combined an ideal Startup team is made. So when you are planning to start something of your own and have all these fears, go out in search of co-founders who can complement your skills and always remember, its you who is going to solve your problem and no one else.

From 31st August onwards Twitter is going to wrap all urls that are being tweeted, with its own url shortening  service t.co. the urls will be displayed in a user friendly manner and all those who click will be taken through twitter’s newly introduced security service that will determine if the url is safe enough for you to view (i.e. the site doesn’t have any malware etc.). Twitter has been bashing many url shortening service which had been causing (as per Twitter) enough confusion and security concerns as users couldn’t find what they were clicking on. Although many services like Twitter Gadgets had intriduced features like revealing the url on mouse over but Twitter seems to have some other plans.

This seems like a big set back for many url shortening services as more than 70% of the tweets contain url  (billions of them) and most of them are shortened by one service or the other. Although the third party url shorteners will be hit back by this change,  it seems to have positive effect on users. The change will be rolled out for all users by the end of this year.

Google has been slowly adding a lot of features into its image search, improving it day by day. From advance filters separating line drawings from photos and clip art to recently added image similarity which digs similar images, a lot has been going on. Google just gave image search a brand new fast and sleek interface which lists much more images saving you from the hassle of clicking next page button. The list is loaded on demand when you scroll the page. Also to mention the on mouse larger thumbnails of the images. I think Google just made the image search better and far more fun than it used to be

Google has recently acquired Metaweb and company that indexes and classifies information on the basis of objects or entities. The main focus is the understand the exact meaning behind a user query and give out the best contextual search results. Not exactly a vertical search engine i would say but a different mechanism to understand search queries and indexing data.

However our focus here is to analyze what Google is up to? Ever wondered whats going on with information classification in the past year or so. You give your class or subordinates an assignment to dig information about something and all turn up with wikipedia pages. Search for something on Google and you end up having Wikipedia page about the thing as the first search result. Then why not search on Wikipedia? Wouldn’t that give you reasonable information on what you are looking for in 50% of the search attempts? Who would need Google then?

Now imagine how Google can change that or stop that from happening? Yup you got it right, by understanding what people are searching for in a better way and have something on top of Wikipedia search result which shows you aggregated and conformed information about what you search for.

here is metaweb introduction

I never write about movies and music but the recent buzz around Misha’s Coke Studio performance of famous Reshma’s song Chori Chori has forced me to write few words. To start of, Reshma’s voice is omong the most melodious voices in the history of Pakistani music and to redo any of her song the singer’s voice has to be at par with her.

Where Rohail’s composition is good enough and the song comes together well, Misha’s voice is a total misfit. The song is one of the most melodious and sensitive song i have ever heard and Misha blows it with her raw voice which is not smooth at all and very crude. I’ll give her full credit for her performance in Jugni and thats the kind of song which suits her voice the most. However there is always a good thing about remixes. If its good it refreshes the memory of the old song and if it bad it always brings the old song back in fashion. In this case its the later for me.

oh and to all the guyz who have been drooling all over the places, guyz all that glitters is not gold.

Wrote a fairly lengthy post on the topic but decided to skip and just go with this cartoon

Just noticed this new message in my Picasa web albums about editing photos in Picnik. Picnik was acquired by Google few months ago and the results of the acquisition have finally start to show. As the whole globe is right now caught into Football fever, the current theme is about Fifa worldcup. You can not only edit your photos using basic editing options by picnik but you can also apply face paint,  stickers and more exciting stuff on your picture. Alright enough said, i am going to paint my face in green & yellow, Joga Bonita!

Too bad the capctha never loads and a user can’t submit request to unban the IP. Anyone out there facing the same issue? Is Warid doing anything about it? How should this be reported to them as it would be really painfull to call their stupid helpline and prove that there is an issue

Warid users facing issue accessing Facebook

I have noticed lately while using Facebook on my mobile that  when i am about to comment on something Facebook gives me a bad IP error and the following message appears

“You are trying to access Facebook from an IP (Internet Protocol) address that has been associated with abusive behavior. You may request to have this block lifted from Facebook by contacting us”

Too bad the capctha never loads and a user can’t submit request to unban the IP.  Anyone out there facing the same issue? Is Warid doing anything about it? How should this be reported to them as it would be really painfull to call their stupid helpline and prove that there is an issue

Update(22nd June): The issue has been resolved and seems it was another cache issue for which Facebook had blocked all sorts of update actions from Warid IPs.

With Facebook not around and nothing much to do, office environment is so boring.

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