Happy Independence Day To All My Dear Friends in America!

Its Fourth of July, America Celebrates. Its American Independence day. Thought i should share some good photos for the occasion.

I really love this quote from the “Independence Day” Movie.

“We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombe

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster

I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Ada

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Have A Great July 4th and a Great Weekend!

My Recent Click: Little red chair

I sat,
I waited,
On my little red chair.
Day after day I would wait,
Wait for you to meet me there,
At my little red chair.
Though you continued,
Not to come.

~By Thushshani Muruganantharajah

Recent report from Hitwise says Facebook is the No.1 website in the US in terms of web traffic.

The report says

“The market share of visits to Facebook increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google increased 9% during the same time frame. Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.”

Does this mean Google is pushed to the No.2 spot ?

Lets see some interesting infographics of  both the companies from Pingdom & onlineschools.org.

The main advantage for Facebook is the 400 million user base which grew up to this level from 200 million in just one year. The other pulling factor are your friends. When your friends are in Facebook, why do you want to go anywhere else? There are a few downsides though. Although Mr.Zuckerberg expects a 70 percent revenue growth in 2010, Facebook became positive in cash flow only around last September. Facebook must also work hard to set right the huge privacy issues which they are having right now.

But on the other side Google dominates on the $ value. With around $24.5 billion and after making $6.5 billion profit in the past year, Google will only get better to dominate the market in online TV and film distribution, improving its “Chrome” browser and enhancing its core “Search” & “Advertisement” Business. Google has also jumped in to the mobile market with its Android mobile platform. It got better with the acquisition of Admob and with the introduction of the nexus phone as a competition to Apple.

Apple hit back on the announcement of iAds in the WWDC 2010 Keynote. Today Apple has revised its developer agreement almost banning the competing ads. Now, What will happen to Google’s Admob? This makes Google’s life even tougher. See this interesting infographic from Gigao.

Conclusion: Google has to fight with Facebook as well as Apple to stay afloat in this Technology WAR. Iam sure both Apple (World’s No1 Technology company) and Facebook (World’s No1 Website in terms of traffic and user base) will be given a good run for their money by Google. Apple and Facebook on the other hand are great technology companies and they will surely push Google to the limits.

Whatever be the result, we are the ultimate beneficiaries because we will be getting new technologies and great gadgets as these giants continue fight among themselves. Let this healthy war continue...

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