Facebook or Google+ ?
It’s been just 6 months of release of Google+ and more than 6 years of Facebook’s release.. What appeals to you most? I prefer Google+ over Facebook for reasons as below:
Spam Protection:
Google as a company has always preferred to keep spams away from their system and have a dedicated team for called webspam team. In Google+ too they are cracking down on profiles that are spreading spams. They take spam reporting seriously… On the other hand Facebook rarely acts on spam reporting… Many Facebook applications go viral and fill infected users’ walls with links to themselves. Even when these applications follow a common pattern Facebook has still not been able to find an algorithm to defeat this type of applications. Google+ still don’t have application platform but before they have it, they will be ready with the spam protection plan.
Content creation:
On Google+ content is created by a user… if you change your profile pic it’s on you to share this message with your followers or not… On Facebook a large part of content is automatically created on user’s action, be if changing profile pics, changing marital status or other profile info, adding someone as your friend… In all all your activity is used for new content creation and which flows into the news feeds of your friends. Due to this you will find more interesting posts on Google+ rather than Facebook.
Control over data:
All of your data on Google+ is yours and available for download anytime you prefer. Facebook on the other hand has most frustrating system for data download, which it spoiled to prevent Google+ from benefiting from it… I once tried to download the data and you know what it showed me various pics and asked me to recognize my friends in it… I failed!! because what I can see in the was Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare… the person who shared the pic tagged dozens of friends in it and Facebook thinks that its photo-tagging feature is being used in the same manner it was designed for. Try downloading your data yourself and see if you can access it!!
Features:
Facebook have added more features in it after release of Google+, than it’s many years of existence… It is now trying to catch up with Google+ is terms of features available… but surely it will fail as Google+ has first built a proper infrastructure and now building the Google+ features above it and it is not changing the infrastructure to enable new features in contrast to Facebook. Incidentally Myspace though tried to catch up with features on Facebook failed after certain level of performance drop.
Social Networking
Facebook is a network meant for friends to socialize on… You can participate and comment on a person’s post only if you are a friend… Though Facebook added feature to subscribe to people (similar to circling on Google+) it still doesn’t allow subscribers to comment on posts. Google+ on the other hand was never meant for friends alone.. In fact more than 90% of people following me (or me following them) on Google+ are not my Facebook friends. So what am I doing on Google+? More than what I did on facebook… Inspired by the photographers’ community flourishing on Google+, I started grooming my photographic skills… I cannot count anything like that for Facebook.
What is your preference and why? btw my profile at Google+ can be reached from http://jalaj.net/+
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012
Wishing you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2012… January 1 is the starts a new year and resolutions are made to make this year different one that went by…. Last year I stuck to my resolution to post daily on this blog for long 100 days, but things that are prone to get broken usually gets broken 
however this does not prevent us from making the resolution in the next year… I love this blog which to my surprise has completed 5 years on December 12th, and would always keep this going… Hope to post regularly again…
Only Great Minds Can Read This
I came across a post that shows a para full of spelling mistakes and emphasizes that according to a study at Cambridge university only the first and the last letter matters and even if the letters in-between are jumbled one can still understand the word. I feel it’s more like showing you the naked king’s new magical wardrobe adding that only true people can see it – for this para starts with ” If you can read the following paragraph, you are just awsome. Only great minds can read this ”
Now if only not so great minds can notice the spelling errors, then all the teachers in this world should come into this category for they point out even the smallest spelling mistake in a student’s work. Is it so?
Fact is that our mind do recognizes the spelling errors and since we are afraid of proving ourselves ‘not so great’, it spends fraction of seconds to correct it in mind and continues with next word. This time spent is nil for words upto 3 characters since they are in their true form, a small time for words having 4-7 characters whereas 1 second or more for words with 8 or more characters…
The post ends with “if you can read this, forward it”… so in order to prove that we are great great mind we forward it and this goes viral in a way that the false theory begins to look like true one.
What do you say? Below is the original post I am talking about:
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If you can read the following paragraph, you are just awsome.
Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!
If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too
Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the
olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it
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Split 5 Photos for Google+ Profile
Got too busy with other affairs lately and couldn’t post here for long. One of the other reason for non-activity here was Google+. This doesn’t mean that I was very actively posting on Google+… No, I was more fascinated by the possibilities and shortcomings there and thus spent the little available time developing Google Chrome extensions/apps for them.
One of the things that attracted me was the capability of adding 5 pics, called the scrapbook photos on the profile page. What’s magical in it? you may think… Well if you are adding 5 different pics then surely there is nothing magical but…. but, what about 5 pics that are the part of a single pic and which have been split in such a manner that they still look like a single pic although being all different.
I had heard that such a thing can be easily done by creating a template in Photoshop for splitting the pic in 5. But then I surely cannot purchase Photoshop for doing nothing but splitting pics for Google+… So I took the hard step of doing the work using nothing but “MS Paint”… To start with, I worked on the details, the five pics had to be 125x125px each and are all separated by a white band of 15px. So a section of pic 685×125 px could do fine. The pics now had to be sliced properly by co-ordinates calculation… A half an hour or so I was ready with the 5 pics and after uploading the same to profile page I was feeling like on top of the world.
But then I had a second thought… It would have been better if I had started with another pic, or yet another pic… Am I going to spend half hour each for those?… More than that, will the monotony involved in it allow me to get the next set of pic?… Better if I could find some other way!! That other way was developing an app for it.
The new capabilities of HTML5 could allow me to do the task, but then HTML5 instead of being a single specification is a collection of different specifications and all browsers miss a feature or two, so if I had to get the app run properly I needed to first decide which browser the app will run on… and my choice was Google Chrome which is my most used browser followed by Internet Explorer (sorry Firefox…)
Result is the Chrome app “Google+ Scrap Photos Generator”… All you need is to have a Google Chrome browser and in no time you will be able to split a section of your favorite photo in to 5 pics ready to be uploaded on your Google+ profile page.
Working on this app is not difficult… You just need to start the app, drap and drop the photo you want to split in the dashed area. Once you are done with it, a bright section will appear on the photo which can be dragged or resized… Select the section you want to appear in the 5 pics and press “Go!” button… The pics are all generated and need to be each right-clicked and saved by selecting “Save image as…”
Any difficulties faced? Fell free to comment here or add me to your Google+ circles and communicate there. My Google+ profile is at http://jalaj.net/+
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