Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

Oren and I, have decided to form an invite-only Scrum Clan.
We would like to tag Pasha Bitz (snapshot attached) as the 3rd clan member.

Pasha, please choose carefully, you can only tag one Scrum-Lover like yourself to this distinguish clan….

Good Luck!

P.S. The web 2.0 tag was added to this post since it is a genuine-user-generated-content-post especially made for Pasha

Google Trends (a.k.a. my experiment - part III)

• Clytie Lane
• Moon Bloodgood
• Deceptively Delicious
• Rotten Neighbor
• Melinda England
  

Three Month ago, I have started a “quest” to find out what is blogging all about.

“Quest” status:

1. Open a Blog – Done
2. Make a “meaningful” post weekly – Done (Did I really say “meaningful”???)
3. Register blog to every blog community in the $%#^ing Internet – In progress… (a.k.a. the “slow”, right widgets pane in my blog)
4. Survey bloggers – Just started*
5. …

* So… I started to survey bloggers using an (empty) community @ bumpzee** & small group @ blogcatalog** and these are the kind people who helped me in my quest until now:

• Gerry @ http://www.planetearthpeaceparty.com/ (a.k.a. The Peace Guy :-)
• Tony @ http://www.113dir.com/info & http://www.weightlossinfo.us/blog (Good luck with your residual income… ;-)
• Parisukat @ PARISUKAT.COM
• Katrina @ http://t-shirts-around.blogspot.com

Stay Tuned….

Google Trends (a.k.a. my experiment - part II)

• Hiroshi Osaka
• Rumspringa (Google it…)
• Army Ten-Miler
• Moti Karmona (Yea right ;-)
• Semingo (Soon…)

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** 13-10-2007 (quick update) - I have deleted the “blogsphere” communities since I have decided it isn’t a pragmatic quest - it was consuming too much of my valuable time…

Almost a month ago, I have moved to my own hosted blog due to google blogger outage.

Last week (September 3rd ~00:00), I was visiting BlogCatalog and I got the Internet Service Outage-Lie-of-the-Day: “Database Error – We’re sorry, but our database servers are currently overloaded. Please enjoy a cup of coffee and then try refreshing this page – Blog Catalog” [BlogCatalog Outage September 3rd - 2007] … so I followed the site recommendation and I have enjoyed a great cup of Italian coffee but I was very sorry to see that it didn’t helped the BlogCatalog database to recover…

These days, we are working intensively on the last sprint goals; One of the goals was to finish the architectural design of our unique internet service.

So… Yesterday we where guesstimating (until the very late hours of the night) on the scale needed for this service and started mapping the IT topology, Database implementation and software back-end options that are viable to support it.

I have a lot to say on the process, technology challenges and options for my future posts and I can sum it up now saying: We all hope that by taking the right decisions when reaching a critical-architectural-junction these days, we will be able to enjoy a good cup of Italian coffee while our databases are down for maintenance… but we also know that simple risk management on our guesstimates is also to be prepared for rainy days with a good enough Internet Service Outage-Lie-of-the-Day ;-)

As I posted when I just started this blog - Almost 2 month ago I have decided to leave a promising (& cozy) career @ Mercury to join a challenging new-born start-up… called Semingo.

This was an offer I couldn’t refused…

Semingo is a venture-backed internet startup developing cutting-edge web application in the domain of Internet Search and Meta Social Networks.

It is more challenging, inspiring, interesting and exciting than I expected, imagined or I can put into words so you will have to join to understand… We are looking for top-notch algorithm researchers, .Net coders, mySQL DBAs, “Hackers”, QA experts and out-of-the-box thinkers… to join our unique development team (e.g. Pitz, Boo and Gabel)

Stay tuned (…)

According to Alexa (which isn’t the most accurate thing in our planet :-), Orkut users are mainly Brazilian, leading with 71% share!!!, India with 13.2% in the honorable 2nd place, US goes 3rd with 3.3% and taking the 4th place is Pakistan (?) with only 2%…

I was really relieved to see that according to Google fight (which is the 2nd most accurate thing in our planet after alexa :-) Brazilian still like Football more than Orkut.

Loren Baker tried to explain the Orkut phenomena with: “Orkut sounds like Yakult or “iogurte” (yogurt)… Everyone drinks it in Brazil when they’re kids…” a.k.a. “Are you stupid?” - one of the amusing comments below his post…

Google’s “Black Sheep”:

• According to Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY: “Osama bin Laden fan clubs build online communities using Orkut” (!!!)
• Brazil Fed Up With Orkut (…)
• Police planning to ban Orkut in India (a.k.a. honorable 2nd place with 13.2%)
• Believe me there is more… (just google it and you will see :-)

So Google’s 3-year-old social network Orkut isn’t behaving according to the Google family expectation a.k.a. “why can’t you be more like your big sister Gmail?!”

Who knows… Maybe the new SocialStreem “treatment” (& Blogger integration) will help Orkut to grow-up and maybe it will only help it to grow-up in Brazil…

Well… I couldn’t resist the urge, so here it is:

Web 1.0 is about browsing… (a.k.a. “Been there, done that”)

Web 2.0 is about Social Collaboration, Blogs, Wikis, Mash-ups and 42 other things (a.k.a. “You are here…”)

Web 3.0 is about the Semantic Web, Geospatial Web, Artificial Intelligence and broader range of next-generation technologies and approaches for making the Web smarter - towards providing easy, transparent and organized access to the world’s data, information, and knowledge. (a.k.a. Just started working on it ;-)

Web 4.0 already started to buzz around “Web OS” (a.k.a. Too early)

Web 5.0 is whatever comes after Web 4.0… (a.k.a. Really not relevant)

Web 6.0 is something I want to trademark before anyone else :-)

etc.

My two cents: The web-some-number-dot-zero is a really a weird buzz, trying to tag the obvious evolution of internet but I will surely do my best to make money out of it……

(4 Pasha ;-)