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Google has come up with an interesting social networking platform - Google+. It has some nice features, pleasant look and most importantly an intuitive interface. Will it be a Facebook killer? Here is my take on it. Circles  Google has gone one step ahead of Facebook in creating an online society. As in reality, some friends are closer than the others even on the web. It is desirable to share photos or status updates with only certain group of friends instead of everyone. Circles in Google+ allows one to do this by way of organizing friends. While Facebook also has a way to organize friends, I don't find it as intuitive as Circles; probably circles is marketed while its counterpart's utility is not. Hangout For me, if anything can recreate the feeling of society, then its got to be the concept of get together for a conversation. Hangout is designed to do this precisely. If you are chatting with people in a circle, the others in that circle are invited to come hang out....

I was at Baltimore last week to attend RFIC Symposium. I had the chance to try (read forced to try; food in conferences are sad and overpriced) a sandwich shop called Jimmy John's (JJ's) which was right outside the conference venue. They serve very good sandwiches which are actually cheaper than subway. However, their USP is ATTITUDE. Check these out: Do's and Dont's at JJ's More Stuff Nice one. I will use it to sell my recipe sometime :-).  This is super cool. It works well in my case, at least the last one. Really??  Do you use that in $5 sandwiches?? Dig at Jack Daniels.  Didn't get this one myself. May be they are talking about pork sandwiches flying off their shelves.. Not sure... "16 things it took me 50 years to realize" - Dave Barry  1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative the same night. 2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not...