Big Data Approach for Software Development

This post of mine was recently published on a German Magazine.

There is a lot of talk happening around the big data world about how new technological capabilities can be a win-win situation for both the firms and the consumers. For firms, depending upon the reliance and fairness, using customers’ behavioral data to meet their needs and achieve valuable, sustainable, long-term relationships—is turning into an increasingly important differentiator in the competitive market. Big data is helping the firms in truly developing a deep understanding of their customers, firms are trying to take complete advantage of it in order to satisfy their customers’ needs and wants in a fashion that meets, if not exceeds, expectations in all major areas such as product experience, quality, service, communication etc. to name a few.

Till now in this post, I’ve given you the glimpse of few of the most significant advantages of big data, and keeping those in mind I would now want to turn your attention to a completely new direction, which would be Software Development. Having worked in Information Technology industry for several years, I always wished to make the software development process as efficient as possible, and it simply doesn’t just end at the development stage, but exists throughout the software’s lifecycle. So, with this post I’m trying to mix two separate concepts into my imaginative and wishful thinking for software development approach.

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http://outsourcing4smes.com/site/big-data-approach-for-software-development/

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HOW TO SEARCH FILED PATENTS ONLINE

There have been so many instances when I had an Idea in my mind and it got me very excited to check if I can file a patent for it. Well, I'm sure many us come across various ideas and all we hope is to find out: if there is already an idea similar to ours and if there is a patent already filed against it? Until today, I was as clueless as you are, but guess what I found my solution in the form of our very own "dearest" search engine: Google !!

Yes, no kidding. Google is maintaining a complete database of all the patents filed under the US patent office and has recently extended it to the patents filed under the European patent office as well. What is even more exciting is that now you can search all those patents online with complete details. To search for Patents you need to access this url: www.google.com/patents/  

Once you open the link you will see a normal Google search screen, but it will be searching your query against all the Patents those have been filed till now. Well, I know one person who has filed a patent at the US patent office, so I decided to search for his patents by entering his name in the search query. See what I got-

 
So, you see it did a regular search query against the keywords that I gave, but in the results it gave me all the Patents. What it even more exciting is the fact that you can see the complete details of the patent such as Application number, Publication number, Filing date etc. Of course, you can read the entire patent online or have the option to download it as a pdf on your machine, icing on the cake !!

Simply Awesome .....

 

Next time, when you have an idea that erupted out of your nerdy brain, don't just let it go at the expense of resources available at hand to verify it, but rather just do a Google Patent Search, the ultimate patent information solution.

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HOW MY BIRTHDAY WENT "VIRAL"

Birthdays are fun, aren't they? I just celebrated mine and as I went through the emotions of blessings and greetings I did a small social media experiment in order to utilize the occasion....Aaaahh I bet, you know the social media enthusiast in me..lol

Birthday Cake

Ok, to start with I did this experiment on Facebook. I've 480 connections on Facebook, of course few them are just "dead-ducks", what I mean is they just added me for the sake of adding and then never came online again, may be around 30-35 connections. Few of them are regulars such as me, but I guess there won't be more than 30-40 connections who regularly and frequently post on Facebook. Around 60% of my total Facebook connections (~ 288) are not more than 10-updates a month kind of candidates. In any case, I'm just giving a number for the sake of taking my calculations forward so don't just scratch your head yet.

Coming to my Birthday, you see I'm in India and I've around 30 connections in the USA, Canada and UK (otherwise pretty much nothing out of India). Due to the time differences, it all started from South Asia, as the clock ticked past 12 in the mid-night, Facebook flashed my Birthday to my connections and the birthday wishes started pouring in on my Facebook Timeline.

I first noticed my Facebook Timeline at around 1.15 am (IST) and saw about 25-30 posts. By the time I get to sit and read all the birthday wishes it’s 2 am and already there were 10-12 new posts.I pretty much "Liked" each and every single post and responded with a short "Thank You" Note mostly addressing with @Friend-Name. Of course, I included people’s names (like I type “Thank you @XYZ”) showed up on my connection's Timeline whom I responded. After that at around 2.30am I slept.

Now this is when the ball started rolling, because I posted and liked all my posts...they became visible on my feed to my connections as well as to my friend's connections, as a result it triggered a massive chain reaction. Starting from around 10am (IST) new messages started coming on my Facebook Timeline from all across my connection's in India. While I was busy at my work place and of course picking calls from friends and relatives the numbers kept growing.

I checked around 2.30pm (IST) post my late lunch and my Facebook was already floating with around 80 birthday posts. At the same time, I decided to upload 3-pictures of flowers and cakes that I received from my family and friends. Within couple of minutes, all 3-pictures together had around 20 likes and then again birthday wishes started coming from new set of connections as photo comments. I responded few of the comments with "Thank Yous and Likes".

At around 6pm (IST) I again happen to check my Facebook account, now because it was already morning in the west world i.e. the USA, Canada, and UK, I started receiving birthday wishes on my Facebook Timeline from more connections in that geography. In between, at around 8pm I responded few of new posts and photo comments with more "thank You" and "Likes", and then left for my celebration.

I came back online around 11.20pm (IST), by now the campaign had already ran around 24 hrs and my Facebook Timeline was filled with approx. 140 new 'posts' and 55 new 'Likes'. The after effect continued and I received more wishes and likes from more new connections who discovered it's my birthday. At around 1:15am(IST), the campaign now had ran over 25 hrs and my Facebook Timeline is fabricated into a beautiful graffiti with staggering 180 new 'posts' and 68 new 'likes', all in just single day i.e. my birthday... Ooooooohhh !!

Just to measure the effect of this very day in-terms of social media influence and network reach, I logged-in to Klout at around 1.25am(IST), and guess what I saw the impact: +3 points of bump !! If you are not aware of Klout, let me tell you it is one of the terrible algorithmic engine designed to measure your social media influence and reach, and to increase the score on it is no piece of cake :)

So, you now know how my Birthday went "Viral" :)

I would love to hear your comments if you have something special to share, cheers !!  

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