Facebook Celebrates its tenth Anniversary

Facebook celebrates its tenth anniversary in the week beginning February 4, 2014.

In a January 2014, during the week previous to the company's tenth anniversary. Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, clarified: "Zuckerberg always said Facebook was started not just to be a company, but to fulfill a vision of connecting the world."

What is Facebook...?
Facebook is an online social networking site which was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and friends  Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, then its called "thefacebook.com. The originators had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later enlarged it to colleges in the Boston area. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was purchased for $200,000. Now Facebook allows anyone who declares to be at least 13 years old to become a recorded user of the website. The site's features have continued to develop during 2007. 

Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, then add known users in friend list, chat with friends, and receive automatic notifications. 

Case against Facebook :-

The legal case against Facebook dates back to September 2004, when a classmate named Divya Narendra, and the brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who founded the social-networking site ConnectU, blamed Mr Zuckerberg of copying their ideas and coding. 

New information uncovered by Silicon Alley Insider suggests that some of the complaints against Mark Zuckerberg are valid. 

The primary dispute around Facebook's origins centered around whether Mark had entered into an "agreement" with the Harvard seniors, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, to develop a similar web site for them and then, instead, stalled their project while taking their idea and building his own. Mr Zuckerberg had worked as a computer programmer for them when they were all at Harvard before Facebook was created.

The case was dismissed due to a technicality in March 2007 but without a ruling.

Figures about Facebook on its 10th year :-

Facebook has 1.26 billion total users, more than 1.20 billion mothly active users of which 9% are fake, 757 million daily active users. About 945 million of the users were accessing facebook on mobile devices. 70% teens that are friends with their parents on facebook, based on company data.

In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook. 

In 2012, Facebook was valued at $104 billion, and by January of 2014 its market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion.At the end of January 2014, 1.23 billion users were active on the website every month, while on December 31, 2013, 945 million.

The biggest market for Facebook is the United States with 146.8 million users, Next was India (84.9 million) and Brazil (61.2 million) in late 2013, according to the research firm eMarketer.

Facebook billionaires include co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and its first president, Sean Parker. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has also become a billionaire with the rise in Facebook's stock.
Facebook reported its revenues jumped to $7.87 billion from $5.1 billion in 2012. Most of the revenue is from online advertising.
Facebook had 6,337 employees as of December. Some studies suggest that Facebook-related firms and apps have created many more jobs and economic value.

"The Social Network," the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, won four Golden Globes including for best picture and best director and three Oscars, for best adapted screenplay, original score and film editing.

                                                         :- Kunwar Avadhesh Shekhawat

Arvind Kejriwal presents AAP's one-month report card: Highlights

Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, held a press conference to mark one month of his Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi. He claimed that no government has done “as much work as our government has done in one month”. 

Highlights of Mr Arvind Kejriwal's media interaction:-

* Our VIPs should live like normal citizen.

* Our aim is to provide a corruption-free government.

* We are bringing in honest, "saadgi bhari sarkar".

* The Delhi Janlokpal bill will most probably come before his Cabinet on Friday.

* Enhancing water distribution network in the city was one of his major priority.

* Fast power metres testing will be carried out across the city.

* (Fighting) corruption is very important for us.

* If anyone bribes you, please do inform us' this scheme is working properly.

* I have visited various offices and people are saying now their work getting done without bribing.

* Corruption have reduced across many departments.

* The anti-graft helpline launched earlier this month.

* An investigation committee needs to probe the 1984 riots as demanded by the Sikh community.

* Water tankers were a big mafia. Their schedule has been put on the website.

* The nursery helpline launched by the education department is getting a positive feedback.

* All government schools across the city have been mapped to check what infrastructure is required.

* Every school has been given Rupees 1 lakh for administrative purposes.

* Contractual employees including DTC workers and guest teachers will be made permanent. But we need to follow procedures.

* If the striking employees don't come back to work, we will not consider them for regularisation. We can't afford to have 600 DTC buses off the roads. 

* I have met some teachers on strike.

* The recent strike was for women security. Wrong or right, everyone has their own view on it.

* A committee has been formed to suggest measures to enhance women security.

* Government was working on setting up a women security force but It is not a parallel police force.

* Retired home guards, army personnel to form part of this committee.  

* 5500 NCR permits for auto-rickshaws, will help citizen commute from satellite towns like Ghaziabad and Noida.
* Fast track trial needs to be set up.

:- Kunwar Avadhesh Shekhawat

(Note:- I am not a supporter of any political party, its only a news which is published)

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BEWARE ! The Robots are Coming

What is Robot...?
A robot is a mechanical agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is operated by a computer program. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense of intelligence or thought of its own.
Here, by the word “robot”, I’m using shorthand for “automation” – a mixture of improvements in hardware and software.

Is it dangerous for us...?

 These automated machines can take the place of humans in dangerous environments or manufacturing processes, or resemble humans in appearance, behavior, and cognition. Many of today's robots are inspired by nature. 

Robots have replaced humans in the assistance of performing those repetitive and dangerous tasks which humans prefer not to do, or are unable to do due to size limitations, or even those such as in outer space or at the bottom of the sea where humans could not survive the extreme environments.

What’s your reaction to the suggestion that, at a stage in the next 20-40 years, you will lose your work to a robot ?

The suggestion is that automation will continue to improve until it reaches the stage when it is cheaper for your worker to use computers and robots to do your job, than it is to continue employing you. This change has happened in the past with all manner of manual and repetitive work. Could it happen to you?

People typically have one of two reactions to this suggestion:

1. My work is too complex, too difficult, too human-intense, etc, for a robot to be able to do it in the foreseeable future. I don’t need to worry.
2. My present job may indeed be outsourced to robots, but over the same time period, new kinds of job will be created, and I’ll be able to do one of these instead. I don’t need to worry.

Think again. Don’t need to worry?      

• Automation will cause increasing numbers of employee to lose their current jobs.
• Accelerating automation will mean that robots can quickly become able to do more works their ability to improve and learn will far outpace that of human workers – so the proportion of people who are unemployed will grow and grow.
• Even as technology improves, the economy will stagnate, with disastrous consequences. 
• This is likely to happen long before technologies such as nanotech have reached their full potential – so that any ideas of us existing at that time in an economy of plenty are flawed.

There are concerns about the increasing use of robots and their role in society. Robots are blamed for rising unemployment as they replace workers in some functions. The use of robots in military combat raises ethical concerns. The possibility of robot autonomy and potential repercussions has been addressed in fiction and may be a realistic concern in the future.

Robots are quickly becoming an important part of reality. These intelligent machines have already taken over manufacturing, so find out which other jobs robots are likely to take! Many companies are working on developing cars that drive themselves, so it can't be that long before robots take over driving jobs. This type of work is perfect for a robot; go from point A to point B, they could be easily implemented in trucking, taxi, and mail delivery services using GPS systems and special vehicles that sense surrounding traffic.They can also paint cars and assemble aircraft equipment. 

I think only Dharm guru, Pandit, Molvi & Padri's work will be safe.

                                                    :- Kunwar Avadhesh Shekhawat