GMail Infinite Storage Facts

The counter displayed on the Gmail Homepage and the storage limit indicator when you login to your account match with each other. For example If counter on homepage displays "1172.8564443 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user." , after login your storage indicator will also show "You are currently using 148 MB (13%) of your 1172 MB."

I found this article on CNET that GMail is giving out 2 GB storage space. So is it really infinite or 2 GB? so here are my thoughts aboutthis

1. GMail is increasing its storage limit to 2 GB
2. The counter displayed on the GMail Homepage is just for fun. It will run upto a value of 2050.000000 Megabytes and after that it will stop and display a message
"Over 2000 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user."

Nice idea to make an announcement !

Stay tuned till midnight and watch this space for more updates..

Update 1:
Change your system date to 2nd April 2005 and time to 4:29:00 PM. Visit the GMail Homepage
And wait for 1 minute. You will experience the counter stopping and showing above mentioned message.

Update 2:
Next stop for GMail space counter is 2075.000000 MB

Update 3:
Next stop for GMail space counter is 2100.000000 MB. It seems that they are increasing 25 MB per week. With this pace, GMail storage will increase to more than 3 GB by next year. Watch this space for more update (Ctrl + D to bookmark this page).

Update 4:
Next stop for GMail space counter is 2150 MB. The counter speed is also changed and is updated at less frequently.

Gmail: Infinite Storage space

Check this out

They are talking about giving infinite storage space. Check out following graph displayed on gmail home page(without login)


Gmail calls it Infinite + 1 plan. The page also displayes a counte.

Gmail logo is also changed(only on homepage)


Pretty cool announcement for 1st April !

I am on Yahoo 360*. Invitations available

Finally got an invitation to Yahoo 360* thanks to Welsh View. As a courtesy, i sent him an invite to Rojo which is also a greate website with unique features.

Yahoo 360* also provides you a blog space. Since, i started this blog first, I decided to use Yahoo 360* blog as a link blog where i will be posting links to interesting stuff. Do check it out.

If you want an invitation to Yahoo 360* or Rojo, leave your comments on this post with your blog URL. Its nothing personal, its just Social Networking ;-)

Invitations available: 94

Yahoo! Tech Buzz Game

Yahoo! Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.

As a player, your goal is to predict how popular various technologies will be in the future. Popularity or buzz is measured by Yahoo! Search frequency over time.

Predictions are made by buying virtual stock in the products or technologies you believe will succeed, and selling stock in the technologies you think will flop

This reminds me a similar game at TechnologyReview which is sophisticated and realistic. They call it Innovation Futures. There are technology tipping points like "Google will not announce before the end of Mar. its launch of a Web browser" and you have to predict its probability.

Do Check it out!

Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 for Call Centers

Mitel has announced the integration of Mitel's Contact Centre Solution with Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 to deliver telephony and multimedia presence and collaboration capability to contact centres. Mitel's Contact Centre Solution integrates voice, Web-chat, e-mail and fax routing and queuing capabilities into the powerful real-time collaboration and presence capabilities that Live Communications Server 2005 brings to programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003. (more on)

MS Office Communicator 2005
Microsoft this month began to pull together its real-time communication platform and to deliver the pieces that corporations will need to buildinstant messaging and presence awareness into their applications and networks.

The company announced the imminent release of Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, the corporate client for its real-time platform. It also announced upgrades to its Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) instant messaging/presence platform and Live Meeting Web conferencing service. (more on)

What's On Bill Gates' Mind

"Bill Gates is thinking hard about video on the Internet. So reports the Wall Street Journal today. During his twice-yearly Think Week last week, the paper reports that the growth of Internet video was among the topics of the 300 papers he plans to read, and he spent a 30-minute walk on the beach—the first time he left the cottage last week—pondering the topic."

"According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 69% of Americans say the Internet is a good way to entertain themselves in daily life, and 88% say it plays an important role in their daily routines, which include finding a wealth of information at thei fingertips. Given those findings, the opportunities for Internet video seem endless: New ad revenue from sponsors, with endless airtime, more ways to split your "channel" to increasingly finer demographic slices, maybe even deliver customized content presentations that users can slice together—and interact with?-- according to their own interests."

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who-remembers-me.com

Today received an mail from anonymous person who kindly sent me a reference to http://www.who-remembers-me.com/ site. The website is designed in a way that will enable everyone to look up Family, Friends, Neighbours/neighbors, Colleagues or even just acquaintances from the past, right from your very childhood to the present day.

Brazil: Adopting free softwares

Check this article on NYTimes

Mobile Answers.com

If you are user of answers.com and have smartphone, access http://mobile.answers.com/ via your smartphones and see the magic

Intelliseek announcess BlogPulse 2.0

Intelliseek Announces BlogPulse 2.0, Featuring Faster Performance, Deeper Search, and Graph-Creation Capabilities. BlogPulse 2.0 provides faster data retrieval, a six-month index of blog posts and data, a daily count of blog activity and analysis, and the ability to create customized graphs that track themes and issues appearing in the Blogosphere.

Check this Yahoo 360*, Gmail trend. Very unique feature.

MCI Says Yes to Verizon

Verizon has won the bidding($7.6 billion ) for MCI Inc. a second time, agreeing to pay $1 billion more for the long-distance telephone company, and yet still considerably less than a rival bid($8.45 billion) from Qwest.

Detailed posts on Yahoo News,NYTimes

Java: Happy 10 years

I may be late in reporting this but java is 10 years old now
Best wishes to all Java community.

Some facts about java

• 4 million Java developers.
• 1.75 billion devices run Java.
• Java is Everywhere.

View Historic Maps

Great collection of historic Maps

Battle of the search engines

Good article on current state of Search Engine war

Winners of Google india Code Jam 2005

20-year-old Ardian K Poernomo from Singapore, was declared winner of Google Code Jam 2005, hosted at the Google R&D Centre in Bangalore. Ardian, an undergraduate student was chosen as the best among the 14,000 entries from South Asia. Three Indians made it to the top five. Interestingly, four of the five toppers of the contest are students. Pascal Alfadian from Indonesia stood second, Rajsekar Manokaran from Chennai stood third, Nishant Redkar from Mumbai came fourth and Sreeram Ramachandran, an Indian-born lecturer from Singapore finished fifth.

There were three algorithms problems for final round. The first was to find out the unique URLs (universal resource locators); the second was trying to find the shortest possible path and the third was to calculate the probable winner among the two in a competition.

The first two winners received $6,900 (Rs 300,000) and Rs 200,000 ($4,500), while the Indian winners received Rs 125,000, Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000.