Yahoo! has been right there competing with MSN and Google. Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Maps, everything.

And now, Yahoo! is getting its huge user base to do community and blogging activities. Check out http://360.yahoo.com

Also, Google has changed Orkut logins to link to Google accounts. So now Google has a unified view of YOU!

There is exciting stuff going on in MSN.

September 13th is the Professional Developers Conference and is also the unveiling of the MSN Developer Center.

It is worth seeing it right now at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn The nice big MSN logo and the announcement is really heart-warming, because it announces with a big bang - hey Google, here we come.

Check out interesting things that will be part of MSN Developer Center: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ec5ea191-4b3c-4d94-94a9-dc5e67902648

It is also rumoured that PDC opening session by Bill Gates will have people talking. Bill G is supposedly going to take on Google (indirectly of course) by the launch of Atlas and many other cool stuff for Web 2.0. Read about it here: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Web+plan+takes+aim+at+Google/2100-1007_3-5855244.html?tag=nefd.top

And about Beating Google, Scole says it all at http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/09/09.html#a11079

You can watch Bill Gates' session live from http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

This was a moment to cherish!

Being at the Golden Gate is just an experience. The bridge is so massively huge, it just brushes you aside and completely overwhelms you.

This is the one of the entry points to the USA from the wide, wide Pacific. That's also where it gets its name from.

http://www.jayanthan.com/blog/2005/08/28/so-there-is-a-god-after-all/

Hilarious!

I am simply addicted to Google Desktop. I can't find files like I used to before Google Desktop Search.

Now, I just have to remember keywords (which is always easier) and go search. And I land up on that buried email, document or file in seconds.

And now Google Desktop Search has gone to the next level. Here's version 2 with some real cool nifty features: http://desktop.google.com/?pr=hpp-gds-en-v2-3

There is a Google Desktop Search Enterprise Edition too that organizations can deploy for search within Intranet. That means you can search on your file servers, other peer computers and just about everywhere!

The interesting thing is Google has beaten Microsoft to taking up the "sidebar" space. Google Desktop allows you to have a sidebar similar to the proclaimed Longhorn sidebar that is to release with Microsoft Windows Vista. It will be interesting to see what happens if people get used to Google's sidebar. Considering Microsoft still has an year to get Vista to release and then the time it will take for people to adopt, Google sure has an upper hand.

http://www.jayanthan.com/blog/2005/08/21/rules-and-regulations/

How amazingly true!!

http://www.google.com/talk/

The long awaited Google messenger is here.

And needless to say, it is awesome!

Back in the United States. Arrived yesterday at San Francisco after 38 hours of flying and waiting to fly.

San Francisco looks like a nice city - not that I've had much time here - but it sure is busier and livelier than Minneapolis/St. Paul (which I visited two months ago).

I'm here for a month and if any of you have any suggestions on what I could explore here, leave me a comment.

You're sure to see more blog entries on things I get to encounter here.

For now, back to work.

Got this email - this is really useful information:

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