Eight key take away from Patch Adams....

Eight key take aways from Patch Adams movie apart from how much humor and caring means...

Conditioned minds

We are real individual. Then somewhere along the way we are drawn to conform. It is as if we are conditioned by programmed responses. But sometimes you can alter the programmed response...  just by changing some of the conditions, altering the parameters. The goal is to break thru programmed responses by changing normal parameters... and getting a new emotional response from the person. 

Death

The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying "Slow down" To check out. To shuffle of this mortal coil. To head for the happy hunting ground. To blink for an exceptionally long period of time. To find oneself without breath. 

A new approach to facing problems

They helped me realize that by helping them i could forget my own problems. And I did. I really helped some of them and for the first time in my life I forgot my own problems.

Love

I love you without knowing how...

or from when or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride. 

I love you because I know no other way than this. 

So close that your hand on my chest is my hand. 

So close that when you close your eyes... 

I fall asleep. 

Conversation with god

So what now, huh,

What do you want from me?

Yeah i could do it.

We both know you wouldnt stop me

So answer me, please.

Tell me what you are doing.

Okay let's look at the logic.

You create man

Man suffers enormous amounts of pain

Man dies.

Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions... prior to creating.

You rested on the seventh day.

Maybe you should have spent that day on "compassion"

You know what.

You're not worth it.

Everyone can be a Doctor

Everyone is in need of some form of physical or mental help. They are patients. But also every person who comes to the ranch is in charge of taking care of someone else... Whethere its cooking for them, cleaning them... or even as simple a taks as listening. That makes them doctors. I use that term broadly but us not a doctor someone who helps someone else? Doctors offer counsel and hope.

Indifference

What is wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why cant we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency... and god forbid, maybe even humor? Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we are gonna fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible disease of all... "INDIFFERENCE" 

Cultivate friendship

Transference is inevitable, sir. Every human being has an impact on another. Dont let them numb you out to the miracle of life. Always lvie in awe of the glorious mechanism of the human body. Let that be the focus of you studies and not a quest for grades... Dont wait till you are on the ward to get your humanity back. Start your interviewing skills. Start talking to strangers. Talk to your friends. Talk to wrong numbers, everyone. And cultivate friendships...

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Hei god asked me to pass this message to you

After my previous conversation with god, I frequently bumped upon him and what do two jobless guys do when they meet, just chatter time away and that is what we do the best.

One day I found him in a sober mood and asked him what happened? He vented up his feeling and said that everyone wants me to do this and do that but they don’t understand that I cant do anything. Why don't you humans become god for a day, for an hour or at least for a moment by doing what you expect me to do.

The next time you see someone in trouble why don’t you help them, next time you see someone in pain why don’t you try to sooth it a bit. The next time you see someone begging in the road why don’t you buy him a meal, The next time you see a stray dog with hunger why don’t you feed it, the next time you see dry a plant why don’t you pour a glass of water. That is what you expect me to do right? Why don’t you do these things, so that there will be less number of people cursing me.

So this was the message from him “Be God for a moment” do the smallest of things you can without expectation of any return or favor, not even a appreciation, not even a word of thanks, not even a smile just do it and walk off and erase the memory of everything that you did for that moment, for that hour, for that day. Your life may not become more beautiful, your life may not change but you would have changed some ones for sure and to him you will be the god. Yep, there will one person lesson cursing god too, pun not intended.

This was a conversation I had sometime back but did not bother to share it with anyone except for a close friend of mine, partly because he is one guy who is able to put up with my entire nuisance. Than something interesting happened… 

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Free Hugs - Hug the world, Spread the love…

When you open your arms you open your heart, when you open your heart you open up love and when you open up love go hug the world and spread it. That is what free hugs is all about.

The world has become a tougher place to live in thanks to all the walls we have built. These walls do not allow us to see beyond what we want to see, they do not allow us to share what we have in plenty but when we break these walls the world becomes a lovely place to live in. 

Free hugs is to break those walls that we have built around ourselves which does not allow us to share the love each one of us is blessed with in abundance. I could see the different kinds of walls people build around when the “Free Hugs” campaign kicked off at the Beasant Nagar beach.

There were very few without any walls, there were few who broke it instantly, there were few who really wanted to break it but had to be tempted, there were few who wanted to but did not have the will power to do so and there were few who were literally scared of breaking the walls; but it was very clear, deep inside each one of us want to love and be loved.

Maybe everything about the world will change with that hug of yours or may be not; but something about you will change for sure. Go, try it now.

The best place to start will be at your home, when was it you last hugged your mom and dad, the siblings of yours, your better half, your kids, your grandpas and grandmas, the aunts, uncles and cousins, friends, colleagues and if you dare to the stranger who walks by you and needs that big hug of yours to lighten up his world. Should you not find anyone to hug give me a call.

If you think this is all farce, look at the smiles in the photos below and judge it for yourself. Why don’t you try it too, it costs nothing, it is after all free.

Hugs to you all…

P.S:  And to all those sweet enemies out here ready with a comment if this is an attempt to hug all the women out here; yeah they get a special offer 1+1 absolutely free ;-)

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Build your applications in a way that they can scale up...

Building a scalable application is a real challenge. A lot of nightmares can be saved if you have your basic architecture right when the applications scale up. We are prepared for failure but often not for success. I am collecting a list of useful links on building successful applications. Please share them with a tweet to @2rams to be included here. 

 

May 9, 2010  http://dorai.wordpress.com/about/scalable-web-architectures-resources/ - @dorait

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7 key lessons for web app developers - Steve Huffman Reddit

At Future of Web Apps Miami 2010 Steve Huffman gave a great presentation on the 7 key lessons he learned during his time at Reddit. If you are in the business of developing large scale web apps or just taking your first steps into thinking about building your web app there’s plenty to take note of.

Check it out at http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/steve-huffman-on-lessons-learned-at-reddit/

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THE SOCIAL WEB COUNTER

A social web counter by Gary Hayes

 

For more details please visit http://www.personalizemedia.com/the-count/

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The Future of Facebook will depend on...

With great power comes greater responsibility, remember the Spiderman. Today Facebook is exactly in the same scenario. As it aspires to be the super power of the web it needs to understand it has got greater responsibility than before to its users. Some of the key issues to the future of Facebook will decide on how it deals with

Security and stability: With more than 400 million users as on date and growing at a astronomical rate when so much of personal data is entrusted with a company like Facebook, is the data safe and secure. What if for one day Facebook goes down, will all the sites built on this ecosystem also go down?

Privacy: The privacy settings of Facebook is something that many are not comfortable with. All the details about a user are open for access to any site or application, worse even their friends data are shown up. Even if you have set high privacy settings details about you could be obtained when your friends sign up or register to a site. Assume one of your friends goes to a porn or gambling site than the site will have access to your data also, sounds scary right!

Hackers: With so much of monetizable data Facebook is always going to be a target for hackers. Even a small glitch in it can create chaos. Facebook had to recently shut down its chat system after it emerged private conversations were visible to other users. Any user was able to view the live chats of their friends, as well as their pending friend requests. This is just be a small sample of the potentially bigger hazards.

 

Stalker: Facebook is also a stalker of your entire online activities. No we are not talking about you clicking on a like button and Facebook tracking it. Irrespective of whether you like it or not your online activities will be tracked. One way to escape from being tracked is to do your browsing in the inprivate or Incognito mode. For more details on the same check an indepth article on the same by Ashwin Anand http://bit.ly/9dSYey

The future of Facebook will depend on how it handles the issues discussed above else it will not be long before Facebook gets itself entangled in unnecessary mess. Remember it takes one sensitive issue to blow up the entire system and pull down Facebook. With greater power comes greater responsibility and greater scrutiny.

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Facebook, Future!!!

With the unleashing of F8, Facebook team would be smacking their lips at the slew of opportunities that has opened up. Facebook would like leverage upon them to help it grow beyond as a social networking site over a period of time.

Search : Search is a holy grail that not many have been successful. Facebook has a good chance to be among the select few who have mastered this. Currently most of the search rankings system is based on the number of quality links that a site has. On the top of it if you add an algorithm to give weightage to the number of likes a particular article has search will throw up better results that are not only made of bots but also human intelligence.

Personalized search: One big advantage Facebook has is it can unleash personalized search. When I do a search results can be displayed as per the weightage my friends have given to different articles. For example if I am searching for review of iphone the results can be based on the likes that my friends had given for different review articles and sites. Not only does this make it personal but also more authentic.

Advertising: Facebook advertising platform can be extended to other third party sites in a big way. Facebook can provide with better targeted advertising services based on the personal likes of a user. The wall is full of information about an user and his friends, add to it the fact that the pattern of a users browsing behavior is also tracked making it much easier to display targeted advertising.

Facebook Currency: Facebook is currently testing a system called Facebook credits. This can be a real big push for sites that build their revenue models around virtual currency. Enter Facebook credit and user need not buy credits for each site or game. A uniform system of payment will open up new opportunities for sites that were traditionally relying on advertising as major source of revenue

Gaming is big business and Zynga has immensely benefited from the Facebook platform with revenue estimates to the north of $500 million by analysts. Gamers give real cash to buy virtual currency and trade in their games now this virtual currency could be replaced by Facebook Credits. Typically gaming companies pay around 10% to service providers like paypal or credit cards companies. Facebook credit can replace this entire system and it is expected that Facebook will take a 20%-30% cut but companies will immensely benefit from the fact that a uniformed system of payment will bring in more users.

Enterprise market: One needs to read more into the partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. The Microsoft docs application helps Facebook users to share documents among friends. I won’t be surprised if any announcements come targeting at enterprise market or on a platform.

I am sure there are many more interesting products that can be built around F8. It is going to be a problem of plenty for Facebook. 

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Why is Facebook sharing its user base? What does it stand to gain?

When protecting data about a user base with high level of secrecy is the norm of any industry, why is Facebook willing to share details about its users. What does Facebook stand to gain? Well the guys who found Facebook are after all not dumb right!

The benefits that Facebook stands to gain can be classified into short term and long term. We will look into the short term benefits in this post.

Short term benefits

A strong eco-system – As more and more sites embrace Facebook it stands to gain from the eco-system of applications that are built around it. The success of iphone is due to the applications that were built around it, Mozilla dominates the browser market despite presence of heavy weights like internet explorer and chrome exactly for the same reason. Now with a new web eco-system built around Facebook it will virtually stamp its presence everywhere.

Content aggregator - Currently More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month. When the like button was released Mark said that he expected 1 billion likes to be shared on the site within just 24 hours of launch and this number is likely to swell by each passing hour.

More user engagement – As more information is shared on the wall by its customer it will lead to a higher user engagement. The more the time users spend on the wall the better it is for Facebook. There will also be frequent returning visitors as users will be checking updates are available on the wall more frequently and more regularly.

Better brand recall – With a single stroke Facebook will all of a sudden be visible on all the websites and applications. Facebook already had 250,000 sites that were using Facebook connect and within a week of the F8 announcement another 50,000 sites have added Facebook plugins. As a brand what more can you ask for?

Membership boost – Not to forget the growth it will fuel for the giant social networking site. With all the branding and hype created and ease of signing up with any site it will not be long before every granny and nanny will become a member of the Facebook site.

Knows your mind map – This also helps to track its user behavior as to what the the tastes and likes of a user are. In essence all your browsing habits are now available with Facebook. All of a sudden all the bands and brands you like, all your shopping and weekend plans are now known to Facebook. Throw a bit of artificial intelligence and Facebook knows your entire mind map.

This is part 2 of the Facebook analysis. Part 1 - http://techbites.posterous.com/facebook-like-the-new-evil  

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