Glimpses from San Francisco and Singapore

Again see the beauty of Golden Gate bridge!





Beautiful Singapore



The great Golden Gate Bridge



American 'Dasa'



Weekend funtime near Bay Bridge, SFO

Sunnyvale snaps...

Yahoo! Campus tour bus.



Sunnyvale downtown...a calm n quiet town...



Downtown food street...minimum coughing amount $10!



Only cars..dear..no bikes...

In the eve of Yahoo! Open hack day!

By Jayakishore Bayadi
Thursday, 11, September, Sunnyvale, CA

Yahoo! Announced its this year’s edition of Open hack day this morning. In a press conference Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! invited talented developers to take advantage of Yahoo! Platform to experience a hockey stick kind of turn around in their work they do, i.e., developing applications!

It’s some thing like this. If you are a developer with a dream to impact an insane number of people with your work and don’t want to start small, dazzling only a few bunch of people with your incredible codes, then Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) should be a perfect platform for you. It’s a cool and one of the most happening event where you can write code that will meaningfully reach millions of users in a single bound. That’s the promise of an open Yahoo!. You can write applications that build on existing Yahoo! applications like Yahoo! Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc. to tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.

Today more than 500 million users use Yahoo! Services every month. They serve 120 billion page views per month. They spend 235 billion minutes a month on Yahoo! sites. Importantly, some 10 billion relationships exist on user buddy lists and in Yahoo! address books. All that represents a mind-boggling audience for developers.

Says Balogh,“We are in the process of rewiring Yahoo!, building platforms that fundamentally change how Yahoo! works." For instance, future Yahoo! Search will not be just 'content' search, but it will be 'intent' search. "Instead of giving just web links to the related search item, next wave would be understanding the needs of the user and delivering the content exactly what he wants, explains "Prabhakar Raghavan, Head, Yahoo! Research. Perhaps, artificial Intelligence(AI) should be the mantra behind this as every body is after that technology nowadays.

Back to Yahoo!’s open strategy. Being "open" is buzzword these days with lots of Internet companies are on the “open” bandwagon. “Open is not only our strategy, it’s necessity in mobility because of its complexity,” says Marco Boerries, Executive VP at Yahoo!. And with the bandwagon is getting pretty crowded, it seems that Yahoo! has been in the “open” camp for years, starting simple with RSS feeds in 2003. And now, Yahoo! claims that Flickr is the second-most popular API on the Web. And the company is leading the industry’s efforts to embrace open development.

A first taste of Yahoo!’s strategy was SearchMonkey, which lets developers mash up helpful data with their search engine results. A Japanese restaurant would no longer be a simple link. Instead, it could include a photo, address, ratings, reviews, and links to online reservations. Now, Search Monkey available and already attracting bunch of users across the globe.

And it doesn’t stop there. Y!OS will let developers make Yahoo! portable so that everywhere you go, a more relevant, social and useful online experience is available to you. Shopping on a third-party site, Web on your TV (TV widgets), Yahoo! One Search, mobile sites exclusively for mobiles with faster…beautiful experience… powerful features and many more applications in the pipeline. Just wait and watch there’s plenty more to come in the months ahead!

That’s why, though it looks like following in the footsteps of Facebook, Google, Y!OS is basically the rewiring of Yahoo, which would make perhaps make the consumer experience more social. Well, with Google’s friend list growing, Yahoo! should go social before it is too late right?
(source:Siliconindia)



It's me@Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Finally i'm in America!

By Jayakishore Bayadi
@Sunnyvale CA, USA

It wasn’t so bad as expected. After a day long flight via Bangalore-Chennai-Singapore-Seoul-SFO....I expected a day long jet log. Leaving an instance of going to sleep in bathroom on the day of arrival there is nothing much body related troubles! Interestingly my body clock adjusted to the ‘local settings’ immediately and I had a nice good night sleep! Thank god!

Currently, I’m here in Sunnyvale California, right here in front of Yahoo! office at Sunnyvale. My hotel, Sheraton Sunnyvale is just a 5 minutes drive from here. Today is second day in the great tech savvy United States of America, really the great business people. Cool people!

Well, my first international experience was quite cheerful. I think anybody who wanna grow must have an international experience. Exploring the unknown place is quite interesting and challenging…but too much of exploration will burn your pockets…spending $100 is not just like spending Rs.100 right? So, I will have to continuously keep in mind that each dollar spend here will make about Rs.50 less rich in India! Plus, unknown culture, profoundly dissimilar food habits will add to your challenges list! Check out some snaps as well posted along with this blogpost.



My hotel@Sunnyvale







Cool Sunnyvale streets!

Obama Calling!

By Jayakishore Bayadi

Hey guys! How are you doing? Life is becoming lot busy these days. But I don’t have an ACER to make it easy, but have DELL to make it simpler! Iam contented that life is cool, happening, dynamic nowadays with a huge room for learning. I thank lord GANESHA for every thing and by the way, I wish you all HAPPY GANESHA! Belated though!

Well, Iam very pleased to share one of the finest moments in my life. Guess what? You guessed it wrong. Not marriage. Finally, after my “uncertain visa episode” achieved a nail biting finish last week, for the first time, Iam flying to the United States next week, that is on 9th mid night. Purpose: needless to say, again to attend a two-day techie conference namely, Open Hack Day to be held on September 12 – 13, 2008 in YAHOO! headquarters situated at SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA.

Let me tell you what this Open Hack day all about. The event that is open to all Yahoo! employees and outside developers from all over the world. During this time, what Yahoo! does is that opens up all of its products, platforms and APIs to participants (Ethical hackers) so they can build onto Yahoo! UI libraries, product APIs, and more with their great ideas. Open Hack Day will take this mission to make Yahoo! as open as possible to an external group of developers, giving them the scale and infrastructure that only Yahoo! can provide, to see what they can come up with.

In September 2006, over 400 people participated in the first Open Hack Day in Sunnyvale, and since then Open Hack Days have been held all over the globe, including London and Bangalore. Yahoo! is inviting anyone who has a great idea for a hack to use its resources - the scale and infrastructure that only Yahoo! can provide - to bring it to life. They are expecting hundreds of developers from Silicon Valley and beyond to storm Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus to hack, build, create, and have fun.

Interesting fact is that Open hack day will start at 6.00pm Friday, September 12 with activities like live entertainment, dinner/drinks/mingling and partying. Meanwhile overnight hack session and camping will continue into Saturday morning. On Saturday afternoon the best Idea will be rewarded.

Only select Broadcast media, print media and influencers will be invited to attend and cover the event and Iam a part of this contingent.

Well, keep visiting this blogsite, Iam planning to do a live blogging from California.

I feel, it’s little tough to resist Obama’s call!!

IMS: The Hot ‘Revenue Mantra’!

By Jayakishore Bayadi

The offshore delivery of Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) is gaining momentum nowadays, is creating plethora of opportunities especially for Indian IT, due to decline in their growth fuelled by the economic downturn in the U.S.
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3G: Will it be the Start of a 'Fast' Era?

By Jayakishore Bayadi

It is fascinating to see how 3G will pan out in India and what could be the 'killer application' that could drive mass to go for 3G? In Japan the video telephony and downloading music. What 3G will hold for India?
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Smokers=Criminals?

By Jayakishore Bayadi

“This is my place.Who are you to ask me to don’t smoke here?”

A chain smoker tenant just beside my room replied without any hitch, when I requested him not smoke here instead go to terrace…

He never bothered. I requested him again. Complained to the owner. He warned him. But it didn’t work. Then I decided to change my room. Iam a happy man now. I can breath ‘polluted’ fresh air in my new home, at least not contaminated by Cigarette smoke!

I feel pity for such brats. They can’t handle stress without Cigarette. They can’t even shit without it. They are addicted to it. They already become a slave of a bad habit. They may feel they can conquer the world while smoking, but in real they can’t. They are the most stupid, low morale, not-so-confident individuals I believe.
I really feel sad that government is bringing a new law to contain smokers, as it does to curb criminals. That means, Smokers=Criminals! So sad my dear smokers… that include our so-called great celebrities as well!

PTI reports that the government is empowering school principals, postmen, railway stationmasters, even your boss to book you if you're caught smoking in a public place after Oct 2 - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The health ministry has already sent the rule for gazette notification and will make it public in the second week of September.

'The government is yet to approve a fine of Rs.2,000 for those caught smoking in public,' said a senior health ministry official. 'So we are implementing the new Smoking in Public Places Rules 2008 with the old fine amount - up to Rs.200.'
The new rule will also expand the definition of public places from government buildings to include all office buildings, hospitals, schools, colleges, railway stations, airports, bus stands, hotels and restaurants.

'With the public notification, we will empower principals of schools, colleges, stationmasters, postman, airport authorities to challan (book) those smoking in public places. Once caught, the smoker will have to pay Rs.200 or whatever he has if he is carrying less than that amount,' the official told PTI. 'These people have better access to public places and their involvement will work as community participation to reduce smoking in the country.

'The public notification will empower top officials in private firms to challan their employees. The challan money will go to the revenue department of the state government concerned,' the official added. The modalities will be finalized before the public notification.

To start the process, the official said, in the last one week they fined eight employees of the Nirman Bhawan, the building that houses the health ministry, urban development ministry, and some other government offices.
Hundreds of thousands of people lose their lives due to smoking related diseases in India every year. They are at risk from all cardio-vascular diseases like heart attack and stroke and cancer.

When will these spoilt brats will learn? When death starts knocking his door?