Vijay For Victory

FIFA World Cup 2010 is on it’s peak now. Design and the specifications of the Match Ball of the world cup have always been special factors for any world cup.

This world cup’s match ball is named as Jabulani and it is the production from Adidas.

Jabulani means ‘rejoice in Zulu. If you translate literally, it means to celebrate.

Jabulani ball has 11 colours on it to represent 11 players in the team, 11 official languages of South Africa, 11 communities in South Africa. And of course the final will be held on 11th of July.

These balls are produced in China and the raw materials are imported from Kerala-India and Taiwan.

Jabulani is the first official  match ball that is moulded by to keep the complete spherical shape.

Here is a cool video clip that details about the production process of match ball for World Cup 2010.

Football World Cup 2010 is starting today. Next few weeks is going to be ‘”Football everywhere”. Matches, reviews, betting, celebrations and many more.

No celebrations without music.

Every World Cup has it’s own official song. This year, it is “Waka Waka” from Shakira.

There is another song, “Wavin’ flag” from K’naan. This song was chosen as Coca-cola’s promotional anthem for 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Both songs are rocking over internet and crossed few million views in Youtube.

Let’s enjoy the world cup with music.

Waka Waka from Shakira – Official Song for FIFA World Cup 2010

Wavin’ Flag from K’naan – Coca-cola’s promotional anthem for FIFA World Cup 2010

Is Social Media a Fad? has been released by Socialnomics last year. Few days back, they have released an updated video with more interesting stats.

The facts and figures provided in the video are quiet interesting.

• More than half of the world’s population is under 30.
• Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the populations of Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama.
• 1 out of 8 married couples met via social media

Check out the video for more interesting stats.

What if barcodes were replaced by chips that could not only be read more quickly but could have their information updated as well? And what if those chips could communicate with other devices? These chips already exist and the technology they use is called RFID – short for Radio Frequency IDentification.

RFID from wiki …

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.

Below given animation video is RFID in plain English and explains how it is rapidly becoming a key technology.

Isn’t an interesting explanation?

Just wondering the supermarkets like Asda & Tesco without any counters and queues!!!

Very good motivational video about famous failures.

How Google works is always a basic question asked by everyone. Here is a short video that explains it all.

More such videos can be found here – How Google Works?

This is one of the best stage performance I have ever seen. The mind and body co-ordination of the boys are really outstanding.