The Future

Lets talk about some technology and some ideas that will be helpful to everyone.

Beginning with an Idea, I always thought of finding a way to connect all the aspiring students to those who are already successful and established in USA. Social networking is one good way. There are many public social networks, but a network dedicated to the matter would be very helpful. It was with this intention that I created The Desi Network. But it is a free network and has lots of limitations, like no more than 250 members can join, to list a few. I found this social networking site which will be really helpful in connecting Indian students and sharing ideas would be so easier as all are students. The link is here, www.stutalk.com/. You can join and find several aspiring students and share ideas and innovations. Also you can connect to alumni students and ask questions.

One innovation, which is really interesting is the unveiling of a $35 computer for students. Follow this link www.cnn.com to view more of it. The idea is giving the power of connectivity to everyone. Even though a $35 computer might seem to be something that could not do half the stuff an actual computer does, still, if you jut think that as an internet tablet, it will give power of expression to people who cant afford an actual computer costing upwards of $300. They are even testifying that eventually, with mass productions, the cost per piece will come down to $10. This will help all the aspiring students in developing nations to see the developed world, they have only heard that exists. This will also give them power to explore new territories and become innovative for new ideas. It will revolutionize the way of teaching in every corner of the world.

The future course

Now that my course is about to be over, I will just give a brief Idea on the future of this blog, what content will I be posting and what direction will i be taking the blog to. I will again start with the original posting and go ahead with where I left. I will make it more interesting and more informative such that everyone can get some idea for what next steps you should take. In between I will keep posting some useful tips that could be of a great help to all the new aspirants.

Some interesting Podcasts

Hey Everyone, 

Today I want to talk a bit about podcast and five of my favorite ones which can be helpful to you. 

1. Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More:

     In this Podcast, author Stever Robins provides intense productivity and organization tips which are actually really useful in the day to day life. The Podcast updates each week and the topics range from managing emails to juggling with technology to keep in touch with friends to every aspect of day to day life. It is really interesting as you may b applying to lot of universities and this podcast will help you juggling with all the applications, managing materials and keeping stuff simple.

2. Inspiring Words of Encouragement: 

     This podcast also updates weekly by Zig Ziglar. Each week there will be motivation, inspiration and encouragement from the author to keep your positive attitude and spirits high in those difficult times of waiting for admission confirmation from universities, visa application and all the hard times.

3. The Daily Boost: Motivation | Life Coaching | Personal Development | Life Purpose |:

     This podcast updates everyday and with just sparing 9 minutes in morning, Scott Smith helps you to fill your mind with motivation, un-confuse you and helps you get clear about what you want in life. 

4. Take Control of Your Career and Your Life: 

     Marcus Buckingham is a business expert. I listen to this podcast that was released in 2008. It has 7 sessions and after going through all the sessions, it made me feel really clear of what to achieve and what are my strengths. Author, specifically stresses on your career and job, but that equally applies to life and what you want to do with your life. Great motivator. 

5. Law of Attraction Tips: 

     This podcast os more about general day to day life, your relationship, health and money. Author Caren Luniw talks about what relationships really mean to us and how to be at the best to get most out of life and how each relation should be nurtured. Also she talks how to make money work for you and keeping yourself healthy.

The Gator Nation

Here is a slideshow I have created to give a glimpse of how the life is at universities in USA.

The Desi OC

I would like to share this series of The Desi OC. It is a comedy with panache. It actually shows how the second generation in USA is confused with their identity. I have posted its first episode here and the rest of the episodes can be viewed in the related videos on youtube, It is very fascinating to watch how comedy and reality are mixed together.

With the Desi OC I would like to share the trailer of an upcoming Hindi movie which is very promising. The actor seems to do the job as more than perfect.

"The Deep Web"

Here I want to write an article about the obscure web. There are lots of web pages out there and sometimes it gets actually difficult to figure out which one is trustworthy. Here I will take an example of a blog and try to see whether or not you can trust a page or not. I will take the following URL, "http://www.theindiansabroad.com/2009/11/indian-students-in-usa-surpass-100000/"as an example as it is also related to the blog topic. It will be helpful for people digging into information to determine whether or not the source is reliable. 


Let us start with the domain name. There are various extensions for the domain like .com, .org, .gov, etc and also there are domain specific for each countries. Here we have a domain of .com and you cant say much from that just the domain extension. I would say most appropriate domains that could have necessary information for would be students are .com, .us, .in, .org and .gov. 


Check out the About Us page or contact us and find the source of the information. Also look who is responsible for the content. The link that we have here, the Contact page is just a plain form coded in PHP and you have no information about the author. Even the welcome page does not have any reliable information about the author. Even the page is not dated, so we do not know how old is the page. So we have to see other criteria on how reliable this source is. 


Now we can look for additional information. Look for links. See from where the references are cited. Here the references that are US India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and The Indian Embassy (press release). This is what we are exactly looking for. The information is cited from a very reliable source and can be trusted. But again there is no copy right permission. So again you can be skeptical. 


We may again check other sources. Alexa.com is a good source to check thye authenticy of a website. Alexa says that the average views of the above website is 1. pages per day on a an average. Also the number of links that Alexa says is 30. That is 30 other webpages link to this page. While Yahoo says only 14, google and bing says zero. So this is again ambiguous. 


Adding everything up, we conclude that the above page is not reliable source of information and we cant srust it. It has no credible information that could be used.