yaad hai aata nadi kinara
aur ghar ka lamba haata.
budhi dadi, ammi, bhai
aur pados k hasmukh kaka.
mujhe ab paas bulalo papa..

yahan khud se rooth hoon leta
aur phir khud ko hi manata.
akelapan bardast na hota
ghar bahut yaad hai aata.
mujhe ab paas bulalo papa..

bade ghar aur chaudi sadken
ab kuch bhi na bhata.
achhi thee tooti chat apni
aur purana kaala chaata.
mujh ab paas bulalo papa..

daulat sohrat naukar chakar
en sab k peeche badi hathasa.
kha lunga mai rukhi-sukhi
roti-chatni aur bhna hua aata.
mujhe ab paas bulalo papa..

sab hain yahan matlab k saathi
ense kaisa kaunsa naata.
jawani mujhko chida rahi hai
bachpan peeche hanth hilata.
mujhe ab paas bulalo papa..

gulli-danda kati patange
bachpan wo hasta gaata.
yaadon ki taswirain dekhkar
mera dil bhar bhar aata.
mujhe ab pass bulalo papa..

(Written by me 21 Aug 2010)

“It’s time to hang up the nightly suspenders,” the famous host announced.

Larry King Live holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running show with the same host in the same time slot; in fact, it’s been a regular feature on the air for 25 years. It was also the first-ever worldwide phone-in TV talk show. King himself has been in professional broadcasting for 53 years, during which time he has conducted more than 40,000 interviews with celebrities, politicians, topical experts and others.

Understandably, news about King’s pulling the plug on his show created a significant hiccup in the social web. Let’s take a look at the topic as it trended on Twitter, Google and elsewhere.

First, here is a YouTube video showing King’s announcement:

The term “Larry King” is currently trending on Google, fourth in the list of hot topics and eighth in the list of hot searches. Searches for King’s name rose sharply this afternoon and quickly peaked.

On Twitter, mentions of King popped up all over the world very quickly. These tweets, at their peak, accounted for .25% of all Twitter updates.

And on the New Digg, Larry King-related stories are on the rise, as well:

What’s your take on this legendary reporter and host’s retirement? Let us know in the comments.

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First of all, Sony brings a much better Facebook integration this time around. Sony launched Facebook on the PS3 back in November, but the features were pretty limited. You could only send updates to your news feed when you acquired new trophies or bought new games on the PlayStation Network. Now, there’s actually a PlayStation Network app on Facebook where you can review your friends’ accomplishments as well as your own, compare notes, and even add Facebook friends as PSN friends.

Sony also added the option to rate content in the PlayStation Store on a five-star scale and the ability to upload, browse and comment on photos in Picasa or Facebook albums from within the console’s Photo Gallery app. Cooler still, you can now edit videos and upload them to Facebook or YouTube using a native video editor app.

PlayStation Plus

Connectivity and sharing seem to be the themes of the 3.40 update, an emphasis which is most apparent with the PlayStation Plus launch. The service costs $17.99 for three months or $49.99 per year — and if you get the year package right now, you’ll get an extra three months on top of that.

Features of PlayStation Plus include auto-patching for the games you own, exclusive access to game demos and betas, price cuts on PlayStation Store items, a subscription to the Qore online video series and the ability to try some full games for up to an hour before buying them — a feature that’s quite similar to one from the recently launched OnLive game streaming service.

Sony is expected to launch cross-game voice chat for Plus subscribers at some point in the future, but it’s not live yet. Regardless, you can get all the other features of 3.40 by going to the Software Update in your PS3’s XrossMediaBar interface.

What do you think of PlayStation’s upgrades?

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Employees are told to say that the device’s reception performance “is the best we have ever shipped” and that its critical antenna flaws are “a fact of life in the wireless world.” They are told not to perform service on iPhones with these problems and instead to give customers a PR-driven recitative instead.

In a nutshell, Apple knows the phone has problems but will insist that users are simply “holding it wrong.”

These statements are dead ringers for CEO Steve Jobs’ own assertions that the iPhone 4 antenna and reception issues do not, in fact, exist. “There is no reception issue,” he told one user. But the very fact that this document exists suggests that Apple execs know there is indeed a widespread hardware flaw, even if they’re unwilling to address it publicly at this time.

Outside the reality distortion field, on the other hand, we and many others have been able to duplicate the issue being discussed: When held by its sides, which are composed of a metal antenna band, the phone’s reception quality drops dramatically. iPhone owners in our newsroom have seen reception decrease from five to two bars simply from holding the phone with two points of contact between the owner’s hand and the antenna band.

One law firm is even preparing for a class-action lawsuit against Apple and is soliciting iPhone 4 customers to contact them about reception issues.

Also, while some folks have reported that using a bumper case prevents contact with the antenna band and preserves reception quality, AppleCare reps are being told to not give bumper cases to disgruntled users.

Here’s the full text of the document as reported:

1. Keep all of the positioning statements in the BN handy – your tone when delivering this information is important.

• a. The iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. Our testing shows that iPhone 4’s overall antenna performance is better than iPhone 3GS.
• b. Gripping almost any mobile phone in certain places will reduce its reception. This is true of the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS, and many other phones we have tested. It is a fact of life in the wireless world.
• c. If you are experiencing this on your iPhone 3GS, avoid covering the bottom-right side with your hand.
• d. If you are experiencing this on your iPhone 4, avoid covering the black strip in the lower-left corner of the metal band.
• e. The use of a case or Bumper that is made out of rubber or plastic may improve wireless performance by keeping your hand from directly covering these areas.

2. Do not perform warranty service. Use the positioning above for any customer questions or concerns.
3. Don’t forget YOU STILL NEED to probe and troubleshoot. If a customer calls about their reception while the phone is sitting on a table (not being held) it is not the metal band.
4. ONLY escalate if the issue exists when the phone is not held AND you cannot resolve it.
5. We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers – DON’T promise a free bumper to customers.

Do you think Apple is responding appropriately to iPhone 4 owners with this five-point plan for dealing with complaints? Let us know your opinions in the comments.

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This morning, Posterous introduced their new “Rescue your photos from TwitPic” tool — a one-click way to import your photos from Twitpic over to your Posterous blog. This is the same type of importer Posterous has already made for Ning, Vox, Tumblr and a host of other services — as I said, they’re about halfway through the 15 of these tools they intend to make.

The idea, of course, is that if they make it easy enough to get your existing content on to Posterous, they think you’ll like their service so much that you’ll permanently switch. Twitpic, doesn’t like that idea one bit.

According to Posterous, Twitpic had some idea such a tool might be coming and sent a letter last Thursday threatening to sue the company if they launched it. “Their claims are completely bogus,” Posterous co-founder Sachin Agarwal tells us. “Posterous is simply acting as an agent to the user who owns the photos. We authenticate the user’s Twitter credentials and then download the images on their behalf,” he continues.

“Our lawyer sent a response to TwitPic this morning indicating that we aren’t breaking any laws here, but simply giving users a way to access their own photos and then decide which service they like best. Nevertheless, TwitPic banned our servers within a couple hours of the importer launch,” Agarwal says.

Twitpic has since responded to that letter from Posterous. We’ve had a chance to see them all. Twitpic seems most concerned about Posterous’ methods for accessing this data. The user privacy issue is brought up a number of times — and they also wonder if Posterous isn’t access Twitpic “trade secrets” with this importer.

“We are simply using their public RSS feed to pull images on the user’s behalf. There are no privacy violations here,” Agarwal says.

Twitpic says they’re not going to stop users from exporting their data, but prefer users do so manually, rather than with the use of this tool. Of course, if this really is just pulling the pictures through users’ RSS feeds, it’s hard to argue that this tool is anymore more than useful for people who are looking to switch. Plenty of other blogging sites offer similar import tools.

The “magic” behind the concept is to eliminate or reduce the most time-intensive part of data transmission, which involves converting an optical signal into an electrical signal for memory storage. Memory storage is required whenever multiple optical signals arrive at the same router at the same time, requiring said router to convert and store the extra signals coming in until they can be properly processed.

MIT professor Vincent Chan’s concept of “flow switching” obviates the need to convert and store data by converting high-traffic corridors into unidirectional pathways. In other words, a dedicated pathway between two big nodes in New York City and Los Angeles would send optical signals in only one direction, preventing multiple signals from arriving from different directions at once.

This research has been ongoing for the past 20 years, with findings from new computer modeling of flow switching networks showing a potential 100- to 1000-fold speed increase as well as significant power savings. Implementing the plan would be costly, requiring the replacement of large numbers of routers with new, optical-only models.

Still, with the advent and growing popularity of bandwidth-intensive applications like high-definition video streaming, moving to a flow switching network might start to make financial sense for Internet service providers and tech companies.

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