Exploring new aspects of Facebook

Okay so i was visiting some stuff on google or you might say googling (i like the former as the latter has a striking appearance to googly). Anyways so i came upon a link en-gb.facebook.com As an avid facebook fan or you might say facebooker, i found it intriguing. As i dug deep i discovered i could show my facebook page by the same name. Earlier it was facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Adding the en-gb prefix it changed to en-gb.facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Though the content matter was exactly same, what i noticed was some changes in the css layout. En-gb facebook was well covering my whole mozilla screen while simple facebook had some space to share on both left and right side. I decided against in opening the css of both and checking the layouts. Instead i googled further more for information. What I found was that the en-gb is the short code for English language, that was fine but then why not more of these special facebooks to the other languages like hin-facebook for hindi. I didn't get the answers but i didn't stop here. i had to know the secrets and i stumbled onto something never seen before.
facebook.com/peering some pretty advanced stuff there, look for yourselves.

The first column was simple about origin of facebook and blah blah and again blah.
The second column had an autonomous system number AS32934
I googled this number and found out this autonomous system number is been used in routing on the internet. A quick whois of this number solved some of the doubts. whois

But then again peering itself was a new term. A wiki catch of peering showed
"By definition, peering is the voluntary and free exchange of traffic between two networks, for mutual benefit." Thus facebook works on the public peering method, in addition to this I realized that how less we all know even after graduating from computer science. The peering page showed 16 locations of internet exchange point, that is huge.

Another link on the peering page took me to the Merit RaDb website, This website is just a registered database of peer users which use routing. Its facebook page there was as normal as any Db page Facebook RaDB but what was intriguing was that it showed its previous website address Thefacebook.com, yup with a "The". The social network and Sean Parker was back in mind. It also had zuck@thefacebook.com.
It also featured one more celebrity company level3.com, a telecommunication and ISP that uses fibre optics. How this is related to fb, my guess is it was the first Internet service provider for thefacebook then Mark Zuckerberg started his own routing and peering stuff then eventually changed the name to facebook and in its final listing just fb.

My next research took me to PeeringDb website. This project is all about peering stuff, it represents all the interlinked connection peering the internet packets and maintaining such synchronism, it is absolute marvellous. The facebook peeringdb link is Facebook peeringdb.

And at last one more unconventional way to open facecbook, use V6 (used for the ipv6 users). v6.facebook.com.

Book Review: The Steve Jobs Way

Rating:-2.5 Stars

My first review, lets see whether i can give justice to that. And then there's lot more to come.

The rating system i started is for the sheer pleasure, in which a naive human mind like me tries to judge things. And from the visitor's point of view, it is essential to give them their value of money. However, the concept of judging is solely a personal point of view, and if speaking blatantly, i don't even acknowledge this because the platform is always different, we cannot play this on a single scale. For example, a book related to the concept of farming will be a zero rating from me, as i neither understand the concept nor do i intend to, but for some guy in farming, it could be a rating 4 or 5. So, basically it all depends on the point of view of blogger, and in this case that's me. And presumably I'm going to be honest.

So, bear with me, here it goes...

The biography is about the iconic leader Mr. Steve Jobs who as an entrepreneur started an organization with the more technically gifted neighbor kid Mr. Steve Woznaik to give shape to a billion dollar empire (as of today its net worth is around US $222 bn.) The story has long been told and retold in today's generation about how he is sometimes difficult to work with, how he was shown the boot from his own company and his comeback. Jay Elliot has written quite an appealing piece to the general audience, it has already been declared bestseller. Written in simple talking English, it instantly catches the accent of people.

Jay Elliot himself was Jobs key associate in his various decisions as the senior vice president of the company and according to him, one of his most trusting fellows. Even though, the age difference and the varied experience, Jay considers him his mentor ahead of Intel founders and IBM heads whose bureaucratic methods were the reason for him to leave those companies.

Even, the book is written in a business point of view, it really does not leave any mark. The thoughts are somewhat banal, those we already know without having an mba degree like who doesn't know about the team spirit, recognizing talent etc etc. What the authors (Jay Elliot with William L. Simon) didn't understand that people will buy their book to read the juicy details of Steve Jobs, those unknown to the public eye rather than read business ethics from a 15th in line to the business empire. And they are hard to find. Unlike "The Jack Welch Way" which is almost an epic read in business literature. Strangely, stories about his personal life and his cancer days are missing.

In some cases, the adulation of Steve is so much that it literary shows the effect he had on some persons. Overall, the volume is a 254 pages with some significant stories like how it was always considered that the board of directors cut him out after the appointment of John Sculley as CEO, but it was his decision to leave the company because those people didn't want his involvement in products and how he was finally on the verge of breaking down after the 2 companies he started NeXT and Pixar did not do well, One particular story I liked was the way India influenced him to a level, Jobs before starting Apple, traveled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a  College friend in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.

The way he converts an idea to a billion dollar empire, his persuasiveness quality, how he started a product based company and ended up in a bureaucratic environment and then again after his second comeback changed it back to a product based company. As an entrepreneur point of view, just enthralling. So, go on read the book if you are an avid apple fan. And the book finishes with a reference to the Steve Jobs commencement speech in 2009.

You have to trust in something-
your gut,destiny,life,karma,whatever.
This approach has never let me down,
and it has made all the difference in my life.
-Steve Jobs,
commencement speech.
Stanford University, 2009.

And then it all began...

Its been 3 years since i joined Blogspot. Since then the prospect of serious blogging was always on my mind. I published my first blog on September, 2008. It was very quirky of me because the purpose of the blog was to create a replica of my friend's blog. Though it served its purpose, it is not needed now. The second blog i published was in Feb, 2010. Strangely enough, again it was created just to felicitate one of my friend's birthday. Both blogs are now mercilessly deleted. So, today after almost being 18 months on this website and not having  produced a single worthwhile thing, I wish to start with shades of GREY. That's what I'm calling it now. The reason, it will be a catalog of my routine boring life which is becoming Greyer at each passing day. The difference from traditional networking, I could very well use more than 140 letters. Now, the final word, If you want to criticize my arguments or to give your SPECIAL suggestions as to how to lead my life, how to write certain stuff, don't bother, I've got enough people on my back. So long, till next post, Sayonara..