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I had been a big fan of “Michael Learns To Rock” band, specially b’coz in the early days of my music listening, those where the few songs which we were legally allowed in my institute.(which was strict, and dont encourage all the rock stuff). If you look for slow songs, melody and sing along kind of albums, then you should definitely check them. Moreover if you looking for romance, or the image of the that ‘dream one’ in your heart, MLTR is perfect !!!

Though i had offlate not listening to many of theirs, but their songs still holds a special appeal to me…and when my friend RP asked whether i am interested i had no hesitation. Mainly bcoz , atleast i can listen to those guys live, whom i have always listened and watch in TV’s and Diskmans.

One important and very stricking point of the band is their simplicity (probably that reflects in their simple songs too). I quote from a fan ” As opposed to so many other international names, the road to MLTR’s success has never been paved with scandals, divorces, drugs, or even extreme images of life on the edge – It’s strictly about music.” We can literally see it in their songs, and i could see it in the stage too…they really dont know how to “show off” much , like many other bands i have seen.

Some of the songs reminded me of very font memories , like “Sleeping Child” which was played during one of our undergraduation events when i very emotional, “Nothing Can Stop emotions”….during postgraduation farewell….and hearing them live was relieving those moments….And when we all thought they are gone, they came back on request from the crowd to play some of my favourites like “Paint my love”, “Wild women” and finally the best of all “Someday” ….

….Not to forget the “beautiful” crowd which really convinced us it our money’s worth…

who does not like to humm:

“I’m not an actor I’m not a star
and I don’t even have my own car
But I’m hoping so much you’ll stay
that you will love me anyway”

MLTR may not rock, they definitely soothes….

May be a bit biased for i work for yahoo!…but i am very excited and cant resist to point these facts about the New yahoo mail UI….Just clipping some reviews for emphasising my point of view….

Walt Mossberg saying:
I’ve been comparing the new version of Yahoo Mail, which claims to be the leader in Web mail, with Gmail, the challenger Yahoo most fears. My verdict: The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect.

…and PC Magazine saying:
…there’s no question that Yahoo! is set to make a big leap forward with its new Web-based mail product. We’ll hold off on a rating until the official release or at least the full public beta, but from what we’ve seen and tested so far, Yahoo!’s competition may soon have some serious catching up to do.

“Gmail is suddenly looking a little clunky. The new Yahoo! Mail is a sleek, finely wrought piece of interface design. The overall look is an Outlook-styled, three-pane window with folders in the left vertical pane, headers top right, and a message preview pane below the headers. Thus, Yahoo! becomes the first major e-mail provider to keep the Inbox in view while reading a message. That alone is news, but it’s not, in my opinion, the biggest news.
The new Yahoo! Mail features a tabbed interface whereby you can line up several messages for later perusal, very much like Firefox’s tabbed browsing.” — by Brad Hill

I felt a sudden difference when i used the new yahoo mail interface, i just felt i was using my outlook or thunderbird….some of the noted enhancements i summarize — Client-like performance and Ui, Tabbed interface, keyboard shortcuts , Mail Preview panel, powerful search within mails, Drag and drop functionality….
…..overall to me it was the pinnacle of the web technology in action…..

(This was one of my previous posts in 360)

When i look at the internet world i wonder what would be the next big thing??? But definitely it is becoming a huge virtual world out there !!!

When yahoo (one of the major players in internet) stared as a search website , it was a huge hit, for there were no organised place where internet links were stored…a simple directory structure !! But soon they wanted to get a way from the search status and become a portal !!! Portal where info about everything is stored, a gateway for the net . The aim to get all the users to come to Yahoo and then lead them to anywhere they want…to make Yahoo the home page of all !!!

Now comes the next hero, Google who slowly started as a search company…and yahoo who wanted to get away from search readily allowed google to take the search incharge in its portal too…afterall search is just a product in internet, and yahoo has many such products in its page!!But things changed, search slowly became the key, people noticed that google was providing search even for yahoo …and slowly they started going to google.com …and then only there!!! An average surfer first goes to the search page and then starts his surfing….”search became the window to the internet world” –things did go the unexpected way

Slowly things started getting ominuous, Google had no competitor, and soon a page exists in net only if google has indexed it..and the probability of hitting a page becomes dependant on how google ranks it…and the world was moving to a direction where google will have the index of all pages of the world and if we put a new page better inform google…..a mini google-internet world…

Luckily the gaints realised the folly , Yahoo and Microsoft pumped effort and money for search before things go out of the hand!! And now we have a worthy competitor in yahoo and msn , and better still many people now rate yahoo search better than google or at par !!(here i may be biased)

There was another similar development which nobody thought will pick up — Blogs. Initially it was the craze for home pages, and yahoo started their geocities….but never realised people are more interested in dynamic home pages where they can present their views everyday. But it went still further, people started posting specific techical stuff in their blogs and people of similar background visiting the page , posing their comments …and blogs grew and grew….Now sometimes people get news faster thru blogs than even news channel…there was rumour in blogs about yahoo buying flickr before the real buy, there were reviews about products in market that people checked before buying products…..Some blogs became famous as mobile blogs, travel blogs, networking blogs ….they became a website in itself. I even heard that some companies hired some famous bloggers to spread their brand name, and some famous bloggers are valuable commodity in marketing and technological fields !!!

Yes the fight is still on…google bought blogger.com, yahoo started 360, lifejournal if flooding with new registrations !!! Blog analysis sites are there, blog content search is there, rss feeds of blogs are spreading, mobile blogs are on new rise, technical blogs are becoming hot debate spots….its everywhere …let us watch and see where it goes !!

It was quite sometime, i was looking for a *free* blog publishing site. I was very much excited to start blogging, so that i can atleast look back at some of my own thoughts, forgotten, can organise my ideas and also draw my identity.

I have been using Yahoo’s 360 blog , which is cool, fast with a host of useful features, but it may not be suited for *just bloggin*….where u might look for just a blank page to write and let your friends comment!!!

Anyway there are lot of issues in which manytimes you just feel it this way, or you predict things to happen this way……and when it really manifest or happen…oh ” i knew it all the way”…..now i can probably show my blog and say “see i had told that loong back”…….many times we just want to say something but couldnt simply coz we didnot get the right audience.

Anyway this “wordpress” is exciting, always wanted a blog with tags, atlast when i found it couldnt resist my temptation to start one.

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