Monday, November 29, 1999

Caching in...

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They are often called as manifestation of new enablers that unlock human needs whenever people come across a new revolutionary technology, or a new facet of societal values. But one thing that can be pointed out as the truth is the fact that with a change in the levels of prosperity one can be sure to see the emergence of a new trend or style. And one such trend that has taken the fancy of people, young old all alike is that of Life Caching.While the jargon might not yet have become popular within the rank and file of people across the globe, but Life Caching, or Life Blogging as it is also known as, is a trend that in its own ways has infiltrated into our lives. Speaking more about it Rajeev Singh, who runs his own software consultancy firm, says, "People are fuelled with a need to showcase their self-worth, and, now-a-days as it turns out, their immortality too. With blogging spaces, memory sticks, hi-definition cameras, and portable media storage devices offering a high amount of storage it is but natural that people want to store their lives, their everyday happenings and even their personal information, voluntarily not only on the world wide web but also on their personal storage devices for others to view and peruse."Life Caching owes its origins to the explosion in technology in the latter half of the nineties and the ongoing decade of the 20th century. While it was one thing in the past to write diaries or even make colourful scrapbooks and collages of photo albums for families to cherish, the entire concept now has shifted base to the digital world. A quick set of flicks and pictures can be instantly uploaded on Picasa or Flickr, scrapbooking, a miniaturised version of staying in touch with people was popularised by software engineer Orkut Büyükkökten through the social networking site Orkut. As of late writing on walls (not literally) has been the rage amongst users of another popular networking site,Facebook.So where does the crazy to make one's life available stem from in this new world order? In the words of Rick Rashid, who oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations, "A person can store, every single conversation that he or she ever had in his life in one terabyte of storage space, every picture every moment ever captured in another terabyte, and the value of one terabyte now is less that 100 USD."With blogging, moblogging (mobile blogging), Vlogging (video logging) all coming up and with major players like Nokia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola all cashing in to lure prospective consumers to tell their story to anyone and everyone.

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