Rocketboom – pioneering Video Blogs

In one of my Blogs earlier this year, I had mentioned that Video Blogs (or vlogs) were growing in popularity. One of the pioneers of Video Blog, Rocketboom got a mention in Businessweek today. I checked it out and well, I wasn’t too impressed with it.
Firstly, the video took a long time to buffer and [...]

Remembering India’s famous victory

India might be struggling to beat any world class team right now. But 34 years ago, on this day, India had created one of the greatest upsets of all time – defeated England in England. Put in present day context, this is similar to Bangladesh going to Australia and defeating them. Now, what are the [...]

Google Talk

Google Talk, which marks Google’s entry into the IM market was released today. This is probably one of the first products of Google that is clearly divergent from what they are famous for – an obvious ploy to take the market share from the Yahoo!s and MSNs of the world. I tested the Voice Chat [...]

Wrap up – 08/24/2005

Trip to Alcatraz

Today morning, on the 21st of August, 2005, we (myself, Susmita and my parents) had gone to Alcatraz islands in San Fransisco. This island is just a mile and a half away into the ocean but this, at one time, was the home to one of the most harshest prisons known to mankind. Some of [...]