Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Treasure at Kerala

Kerala, India: Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.


Over the last week a seven-member team of investigators has broken into five of the six secret subterranean vaults piled high with jewels that have lain untouched for hundreds of years.
Onlookers and devotees thronged the shrine in the bustling center of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of India's southern Kerala state, as officials said treasure worth more than $20 billion had been found — more than India's education budget.
Sacks filled with diamonds were piled next to tons of gold coins and jewelry, media reported, in the vaults of the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, the royal chapel of the former rulers of Travancore, now part of Kerala state.
"The current market value of the articles found so far by the committee members would be roughly 900 billion rupees ($20.2 billion)," one temple official who was not authorized to speak to the media told Reuters.
Priceless jewels Investigators searched the vaults to draw up an inventory of the riches because of worry about security but they had no idea of the amount of treasure they would find.
Investigators have been unwilling to disclose the official amount partly because of the ambiguity involved in valuing the priceless jewels and gold coins by weight.
While the chamber B yet to open as it is very difficult to open, specialist may be bring to the place for expedition. Supreme court pour water on the keen of the devotees to know about the treasure in chamber B. The Supreme Court on Wednesday July 6 announced that the Rs 90,000 crore worth treasure trove inside a temple in Kerala will now be filmed and photographed.

Google Plus

Google on its workshop of new social networking project "Google Plus". The site bears a striking resemblance to Facebook, with streaming feeds and specialized groups of friends. In fact, Google + gathers many of the features of existing social networks.

Circles lets you group your contacts — e.g. friends, work, family. Like Facebook, this features lets you share information with groups of contacts instead of hitting everyone with your latest update at once. Sparks acts like an RSS reader or Facebook news feed, letting you input things you’re interested in and pushing relevant content to you. Hangouts features live group video chats, aiming to foster spontaneous meetings with up to 10 people. You can also alert certain groups of friends when you’re hanging out.
Instant Uploads takes care of the increasingly important mobile aspect of social networking, automatically posting users’ phone pictures and videos to a private album. From there, users can decide if and with whom they want to share their media. You also have the option to add location data to every Google + post.
And Huddle is a group texting feature — similar to Beluga, which Facebook acquired in March — that lets you have a group chat through your phone.

They have started only in test basis. Users flow is huge but the sad thing is now it is testing with alimited number of users. The message showing now in the site www.plus.google.com is like the below






Users using this have variable reviews. many of them saying it is some what same as that of orkut with some additional things. One of the plus is that with only a google account sharing like facebook become more effective.