Month: August 2005

Cybersquatting is big bad business

In dotcom era cybersquatting was at its peak. Basically booking or using domain names with bad-faith to make profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to large/small corporations. They also try to sell these domains for profit to others or even to business itself. Even after DOT-COM crash Cybersquatting still continues because of profits.

I remember when I uses to sell computers and my firms name was ‘Cyberciti Computers’, so I booked cyberciti.biz domain. I used to get an email from someone who claims to owner of domain cyberciti.com and willing to sell me the same.

By past mistakes I have also learned lesson to renew domains on time. My first domain vivek-tech.com was taken by someone. So if you got domain make sure you rename it on time or even in advance.

If someone takes your domain related to your business then you can take the help of laws. If you are in US you can take help of 1999 US federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. I don’t think so we have any such law in India, under IT Act 2000.

Switzerland (swiss post) will issue the worlds first MMS stamp

Scheduled to release on September, 2005. Swiss Post, Swisscom Mobile and Museum for Communication organized a competition, where user submitted MMS photo taken using a camera & MMS capable mobile phone to the website.

This the first time four mobile phone photographers are being honoured. They used Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to submit over 3,300 MMS photos taken by owners of mobile phone and final 100 were selected using the public votes . Finally specialist jury composed of representatives from the three project partners then selected four of these MMS pictures, which will now feature on the new stamps.

You can view these stamps online at MMS stamps page along with photos of winners

More information please visit official swiss post website.

Seven steps to success

Recently I came across Sunday Time of India article written by Chirs Widener. Article highlights the seven steps to success as follows:

i)Give others your honesty
ii)Give others your respect
iii) Give others your vulnerability
iv) Give others your care
v)Give others your passion
vi) Give others your experience
vii) Give others your help

I must agree with author and just would like to add one more rule to this list

“Every action has opposite reaction (Newton’s Third Law of Motion – For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.) so if you do good to others (by giving your honesty, respect, care, help etc) same comes back to you”.

Indeed last rules summaries all of above rules.

An Effect of Mumbai cold

Rest of country feels heat when mumbai catches cold. ATMS stopped functioning across country, BSE and NSE stops trading bringing down financial system. And don’t ask about air, road and rail links all of them are halted.

Once again Mumbai is flooded, I don’t understand why the hell in our country we don’t learn lessons from past. Be it earthquakes, floods, epidemics etc our disaster management sucks for sure. And government never wake up in time.