Leadership in market share & power of brilliant design- Part 1 : YouTube & JVC

How far can someone take a simple idea and turn into billion dollar industry around it without really knowing about it ?. YouTube is that success.

Did YouTube founders ever thought that one day their idea will have such massive impact on the industry that video hardware manufacturers will design their products to support this phenomena?. Probably not. If founders say yes to this question then probably they will be lieing.

Check this JVC camcorder out. Designed for one touch upload to YouTube. I would say smart move from JVC’s marketing team. Riding on a already successfull product can potentially go a long way.

For all those YouTube video producers this might be the perfect device. Even though I have not seen or used this one, but looks like a good one.

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September 8, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communication/Technology, Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Atherton man trades his 2 mercedes car for scooter,smart car & hybrid car

It’s interesting how people go full throttle on “change” in life.

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August 6, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Apple’s new push notification service API

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/31/apple-hands-out-push-notification-service-api-to-developers-background-apps-ftw/

This should open up interesting transaction model for application developers. But this is a two-edged sword, cuts both ways. On one end applications can provide more real time information , to the point notifications which can serve like a virtual assistant to iPhone users. On the other end if not used right this can potentially be a spam/annoyance.

I’m sure API will mandate developers to provides user options to decide if device owners want application developers to push notifications or not. Depending on how important the app is users can drive the destiny of this interesting feature.

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July 31, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communication/Technology, Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

AOL Radio is one of the best apps on iPhone appstore

Truley satisfies the basic need of listening to diversed music from around the world. The best part is surprise element of discovering new music. Sometimes “surprise me!” is better than “I’m looking for…” Sent from my iPhone

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July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

How to avoid SSL verification on Ruby SOAP calls

Problem

You will get following error when you are making SOAP calls to external web service using ruby's SOAP library 

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed 

code might look something like this

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("https://<your soap end point>", "<soap URN>")

driver.add_method('<method>',"name", "password")

…..


Solution


Just add following line to your code (right before you make a call to end point )

driver.options["protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode"] = nil 


Above line turns off the SSL verification while making soap calls.




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July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Sprint Samsung Instinct vs LG Vu vs iPhone - Long Version

Touch screen smartphone war is on. Check it out. 3 latest and best smartphones side by side. He said "iPhone is a winner" but iPhone has its own issues.

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July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Supercharge your tweets with FatBird ; Its on Steroids.

This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to see breaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media.

Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me gap between mainstream media and twitter media is very perceptional and your attention span. Big difference between these two is that news on twitter comes in packet of 140 characters and you have running stream of updates to read the whole story. Having said that every tweet (one status update on Twitter) becomes very important for followers (in a traditional media its readers) to consume when someone updates his/her status (traditionally news publisher).


There are tons of twitter apps doing interesting things and adding value to this whole twitter ecosystem. Here at MesageDance we been a fan of Twitter from day one and had twitter status udpate posting via email for few months along with every message users sends (blog post, YouTube video, Digg share, Google Reader share etc) to MessageDance can be updated to user’s Twitter timeline.


With FatBird, we released a new feature called “MyTweets“. With this feature MessageDance becomes the full blown client to Twitter which can send, receive your tweets on demand along with other goodies. Check it out..


Bling Your Tweets


MyTweets in a true sense supercharges your tweets. User’s 140 characters gets more powerful as it exposes important assets of each tweet.
  • TinyURL expansion : instead of tinyurl , It expands the url and shows the real url to the user
  • If the url is YouTube video url it shows YouTube video right below user’s tweet.
  • If the url is Flickr url it shows Flickr photo right below user’s tweet.
  • If the url is MP3 it shows audio player inline right below the tweet.
  • User can Reply or Retweet right there from each tweet.
It feels good to save user some time and few clicks on the WWW.


Set your tweets free with TweetShare.

Having done all the blinging to tweets, How about setting your tweets free to go wherever they want to go?.




TweetShare feature
  • Lets users send the anyone’s last 10 tweets (whom user is following) to their blog, friends, facebook etc.
  • Lets users send conversational tweets to user’s social destinations.
This opens up the door for tweet blogging and link love between blogger and urls in the tweet.
FatBird is your tweets on steroids. Let it fly to places.

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July 11, 2008 | Filed Under Communication/Technology, Fun Stuff, MessageDance | Leave a Comment 

Split second photography

Creative piece of work. Check it out.
Website Snapshot

Split Second - The Morning News

An online magazine, published weekdays.

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July 9, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Is San Francisco considering going “Double Decker” for local commute ?

Double Decker buses are vital part of mass transportation for cities like London and Bombay for ages. You travel in them and it's a fun feeling all together. Back home it was the most important means of commute apart from local trains. 
Last year  I was in London and I enjoyed traveling in these buses once again. Interesting part of this commute was hopping on brand new of these puppies from old design buses. Bottom line you got to travel in them to enjoy.
Photo : on the way to Piccadilly Circus
Looks like these double deckers are making their way into mainstream transportation in cities like New York, San Francisco, Seattle.  Which is a shift from being  tourist focus to daily commute. If you consider pure upside of these buses. 
  • They can carry twice as many people in the same living/moving area of the bus.  
  • Fuel savings; if not 100% , should add to "Save the Earth" effort overall if you calculate per person fuel consumption for a  regular bus vs double decker.
But on the flip side city authorities will have to do some infrastructure changes for these buses to run everywhere. e.g San Francisco overhead live wires for current local transportation needs to be readjusted or redesigned. The most important no-no that might keep the city from pursuing this would be San Francisco's notorious hilly streets. Think about driving these buses up California street or Gough street. Moreover San Francisco has tried these buses on some its routes last year.
New York is already planning to get these double decker's back on selected routes. 
Wired has story on this.

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June 18, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment 

Recap time - This week in Ruby

 Last 10 tweets from @rornews

 
http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/06/16/this-week-in-ruby-june-16-2008/ This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008) at 06/17/2008 03:20 AM

 http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=326 rails error log at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://www.railsonwave.com/railsonwave/2008/6/9/spread-out-the-good-novel Spread out the good novel at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://thegnollinthemachine.blogspot.com/2008/05/rail-sand-box.html Rail sand box! at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/my_rails_learning_path_flash My Rails Learning Path: Flash Pitfalls at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://www.flex888.com/2008/06/10/actionscript-framework-ruby-on-rails-jumpship…. ActionScript Framework Ruby on Rails = JumpShip at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://blog.elisehuard.be/2008/06/links-on-a-sort-of-summery-tuesday/ Links on a sort-of summery tuesday at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306418999/pool-party-poolparty-ruby… PoolParty: One Ruby Gem = Easy EC2 Computing Cloud at 06/06/2008 11:20 PM

 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306366813/microsoft-arax-ruby-ajax-… Microsoft’s Latest Bad Idea? ARAX - Ruby-powered AJAX at 06/06/2008 09:20 PM

 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/300901062/pragmatic-screencasts-904… Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 04:40 AM

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