[ What is Google Maps?
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, bicycle, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. It also can help find the location of businesses.

I want to be there, but how?
All you need is to contribute via Google Mapmaker. Start tagging places/buildings for the areas you know or lived. And one day you will be listed on Google Maps . It took me a week for ~100 edits.
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[ Update 2009-07-13: My edits are now visible on Google Maps.. Hurray !!

Update 2009-08-03: Now in search results too. Check D-cabin, Ahmedabad
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- ankit

The concept maps are quite similar to RDF Graphs, where we can explain entities and relate them with predicates only. With concept maps we can related any concept/idea with either predicate, act or relationship (RDF becoming more stricter).

Wish you a very Happy New Year!
- ankit

But, now Ankit is back with cool and new articles to write. And one promise to the readers of my blog – such absence will not occur again. At least I’ll try to write something about my experiences, my passions, techie stuff.

- ankit

That’s what happened with me. I had a thought of building ‘code-history’, history of each line of source code file. Typically when you look at the source control, you see file history. Actually it’s not directly associated with source code file; it’s first coupled to the change (change-set) you made and then linked to the file. So, the idea was to build Code History by combining two typical file operations: 1) File History and 2) File Diff technology. And drill down till you get the version where selected code was first introduced.

Orcas, next version of Visual Studio, features the same named ‘ Annotate:

Annotate is an Orcas feature that allows developers to inspect a source code file and see at line-by-line level of detail who last changed each section of code. It brings together changeset data with difference technology to enable developers to quickly learn change history inside a source file. You can answer the questions – which version of the file introduced this section of code? or who left this buffer overrun in the code! Subversion users may recognize this as the ‘Blame’ command 

- Explained by Orcas Team

In simple words, I lost it

This is not a single instance, earlier the concept of Flickr Maps stroke to my mind and while I was planning (for few weeks) the scope of the concept, they launched .
No doubt, they are ahead, but not much. I’m just around the corner!

Lessons I learnt:

• Internet is Big Boss that knows every thing. If you have an idea, first search for the same thoroughly.
• If your thought is unique, carry out Proof of Concept right away. I mean “right away“.
• In case you don’t want to implement, write a Blog post’ to claim (or go for patent). Or give it to me I’ll write.
• Think much faster (much much faster at what pace I do currently).

The exponential growth of Internet has made world’s thinking/inventions much faster then what happened in previous centuries. Inventions are much closer to each other with a thin line of separation. The half-life of our knowledge is decreasing and Humans have to survive!

Thanks!

- Ankit

[Inputs from 'Chiku' - aka Chirag Maharaj:

The records breakers are just a second ahead then the runners up then also the money difference in them is more than 10 times and even the glory they receive is 100 times more than runner up; though the diff was just one second!!!

So you to be the winner, you have to be just one step ahead. A little hard work could make u at top!
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Actually, it took a loooooooooo ng duration because visitors to my website were very less. But now, I have pretty good number of visitors and expecting next payment in five-seven months.

This is the only way to keep this blog up and running. Heartiest thanks to all my visitors!

~ Ankit

• Is that to make money to run this website through ads?
• Making an identity on Internet?
• Being on the top of Google?
• Sharing my knowledge?
• Having a platform to write and publish what I think and what I like?

It means all for me , and that’s why I write blog. I remember the day when Dad subscribed for an ISP, and I touched Internet first time (1999). Those were the days of Netscape Navigator v4.5 and Yahoo rocking all around. Netscape had a build-in HTML editor, that attracted me right away and I started playing with those tags without any book/reference. It was not just an attraction, it was more than a passion which led me to Computer Science engineering and being an IT professional.

I have been in this business since college days, when we friends (Vinod, Saurabh, … ) just fought to build a better and informative website using free hosting packages. We always kept track of new web-based-services. Even though we encouraged students by organizing Best Web Programmer contest – not only building a website but also publishing it. The fight continued and we need something to update that HTML content regularly. Actually, we were looking for something that allows us to modify HTML pages without any hassle and publish right away from anywhere. Here we encountered the term “dynamic website”, and started looking for open source forums/blogs/journals. That fever continued and compelled me to buy a domain and host my blog.

Hmm, so that’s now called blogging fever….
we discuss about blogs, ask people to visit ours, keenly wait for comments!

That’s how I started !!!

~ Ankit

Blogs around me:Chirag, Mohit, Harsha, Kiran & more…

2006 with new fun, excitements, ambitions… … (बस एक ही आकांशा है, गुगल के शिखर पर पहूँचना !)

more confident…… more strong…… make people happy…… to enjoy Life with full bash…

Achievments :

Thank God, I completed BE and felt free from all those heavy burdens of exams, submissions, lectures, etc…
Campus selection in Persistent… and moved to Pune.

~ अंकित

My friends are waiting for a “treat” …….. and even I want to give them a grand PARTY…….
Still i am not thinking for a Mobile, may be on next salary !
If you have something important for me, just drop me an email……….. I’ll definitely reply……….

One more thing I want to share is this is my first post for this blog. I will be regularly updating this blog…………… and also I am about to renew ankitjain.info domain name (with my first salary ) . . . . . . . as it’s going to expire in a short time.

Ankit
(In case you loose my contact search “Ankit” in any leading search engine, You will definetly find me…..)