I'll be signing off this blog w.e.f from the end of the month. This does not mean I'll stop blogging, it just means that you'll find a different set of postings (with more personal opinions) under my own blog name ie.
http://ravindra-krishnappa.blogspot.com
Please re-register your following. I'll however post a parting shot in about a week and maybe you can switch allegiance once you read that :-) ?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Street Art : The Bangalore model is spreading !
I was in Chennai last week and was very pleased to note that some stretches of the roads are getting a set of street art (ala the paintings along roads in Bangalore). I saw some work on the Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai and it looked very nice :-)
I hope this is a model that gets replicated very quickly across all other Indian towns. It is certainly a welcome change to the numerous bills pasted on the walls. I'd rather look at the painting of a "pile" in a monument than an ad for "piles" !
My other fond hope is that these paintings do not get plastered with the various political posts / movie posters etc. Who knows - this may be the precursor to getting to a NO PAAN spitoon areas also ;-)
I hope this is a model that gets replicated very quickly across all other Indian towns. It is certainly a welcome change to the numerous bills pasted on the walls. I'd rather look at the painting of a "pile" in a monument than an ad for "piles" !
My other fond hope is that these paintings do not get plastered with the various political posts / movie posters etc. Who knows - this may be the precursor to getting to a NO PAAN spitoon areas also ;-)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Moving Individuals to the cloud : Is this cirrus or nimbus ?
Just learnt that Google has announced public APIs for Google power meter.
What this does is allows individuals to setup on the cloud (google personal home) a ticker that will get a set of feeds from individual power meters. This feed allows individuals to track their power consumption. The question is - will this work ?
I guess it makes sense in those cases where the utility provides a feed directly to google / cloud. It also makes sense when devices start to get intelligent and transmit power info to the web - but, that IMHO is still a looong way off ?
So, why bother ?
I actually think that this is a neat way to get people to incorporate the "talk / transmit" capability into devices. Just like most telecom / IT equipment comes with a "call home" option, my guess is that the structure will allow for this to reach out on the web.
Will all these devices talking together make it a chatter ?
Hmmmm.......
_________Google Powermeter image from their website________
What this does is allows individuals to setup on the cloud (google personal home) a ticker that will get a set of feeds from individual power meters. This feed allows individuals to track their power consumption. The question is - will this work ?
I guess it makes sense in those cases where the utility provides a feed directly to google / cloud. It also makes sense when devices start to get intelligent and transmit power info to the web - but, that IMHO is still a looong way off ?
So, why bother ?
I actually think that this is a neat way to get people to incorporate the "talk / transmit" capability into devices. Just like most telecom / IT equipment comes with a "call home" option, my guess is that the structure will allow for this to reach out on the web.
Will all these devices talking together make it a chatter ?
Hmmmm.......
_________Google Powermeter image from their website________
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