Chatter Gives Salesforce.com a Facebook Look and Feel

SalesForce never stops surprising its followers...

In a few short years Facebook and Twitter have attracted so many users and had such an influence on the way people interact on the Internet that Salesforce.com has decided that the social networking paradigm is the way for people to interact with its cloud CRM application. On Nov. 18 the company introduced its upcoming Salesforce Chatter, a "secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform," as the highlight of its annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco. Chatter will provide links to Twitter feeds and Facebook profile information. Salesforce users will be able to filter the most relevant Twitter feeds through Chatter to track the competition, watch for new business leads and follow developments read more If you are a salesforce user/stakeholder, please do let me know [comments] what do you feel about this development...

Wonder how can you keep urself up-to-date than the weatherman?

The Phyan cyclone has shaken up Mumbai, and schools and colleges having given the day off...i wonder how do i keep myself up-to-date with mom nature... found some very interesting stuff...would like to document it here, so next time i want to get the real picture, i know how to find it...

The Below mentioned Google mash-up shows the latest temperatures of various cities, searching for any specific city would lead you to another window, where further detailed information would be available...thanks to weatherbonk.com



More interesting link is this one, where you can see the cloud cover over any part of the world in an animated form, giving you more hands-on data of whats happening right above planet earth...satellite views of cloud cover, give more accurate information than a tell tale TV news garbage...

One more weather link thats a mashup with Bing Maps...choose animate, and satellite view to see cloud cover move w.r.t. time.

Rediff has setup a live alerting system...Click here

Mid-Day acknoledges the hard work put in by the disaster management cell...clik here

The Maharashtra Government has already setup a National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project [2005], wonder if its still in force...check this out

My External Antenna Finally rigged Up...

This Diwali Holidays, i finally was rattled up by VU2WSM, Satish, into waking up, and setting up the external 5/8 Antenna lying idle...

I setup a 15 feet 1.5 INch Pipe, some 30 meters coax RG58, some hardware and within 4 hours, had rigged up the 5/8.

Initial testing by VU2IVV, Jayesh helped us figure out a perfect spot for the Antenna, and now, after so many days, i am being heard across till Marine Lines, Mira Road, Panvel & Ghatkopar on 5watts, Simplex too...Woooow...the power of RF and height!!! thats something like a 30Kms radius...

Thank you IVV and WSM without whom the setup would not have been complete...
Handy Used FT411 & external 5/8 Antenna - [both loaned to me by VU2EOJ]
Though i admit, i am not a regular On-AIR sign, but i am now confidant of my rigging skills...

73s to all,
VU2PCT

A remarkable move...

Mumbai Police have started this website, and i quote them:

"Mumbai Police started this website www.CopConnect.in to reach out to the people of the city and to make it easier for the people to reach the police. We all knew that there was a need to establish a technology channel like this, but, quite frankly, none of us had expected the kind of response that the website has received."

end quote.

Just goes on to demonstrate that the authorities have taken the Electronic media seriously, and are making efforts to reach out to the common man.

Shri D. Sivanandan, Commissioner of police, Mumbai, has taken initiative to write regularly about his feelings, his emotions & his beliefs on the blog, do read them up, gives one a sense of security, that the Top guns in the city are also Human beings, and are available to hear you out...

Blog-site http://copconnect.in/blog/

special thanks to VU2SFH for directing me to the site.