Gagan explores thoughts and ideas on technology and business.
I went for a weekend trip to Murud Janjira. It was a great experience, with the rains providing the much needed relief against Mumbai heat. I will be writing a small trip guide for people looking for information on how to go to Murud Janjira, and what are the interesting places to visit there. However, the review is a work in progress as of now. Check out the pics available on my photoalbum.
Nokia has recently launched its Nokia M-Blog service for India, wherein you can directly post pictures to your blog that is hosted on the Nokia site. I had recently reviewed Mabber, and how the application might not find a lot of users in India due to the high-priced Advanced GPRS, which is a requirement to run the app. However, Nokia M-Blog application takes care of this issue, and easily connects to the servers. It is nice to see one application that belongs to Web 2.0 and easily works with the basic GPRS (aarrrggh!!!) subscription in India.
For now, you can only upload images to the blog site. Along with the image upload, there is an option to add a caption for the image. I would like to see more text capabilities in this application, to rate it as “The Blogging Application”. A single image upload took took less than 20 seconds for me. The quality of the image remains a concern though. Incidentally, the application reduces the size and the quality of the image so that it can be transferred over a WAP/GPRS network. But that is one issue that I am ready to overlook for now.
I also have set up my own blog to test out the service and the ‘coolness’ factor. I am testing this application right now, and will post an update soon. Till then, check out the service at the Nokia M-Blog site for India.
I was surfing the best of Yahoo feeds and came across two whacko sites. They really rock and I am already hooked. Check them out.
Also came across
Another interesting addition to this week’s website discoveries is
I was surfing on the web for the blogs and sites that are making news, and came across the Bloggies awards. Listed here in the best meme section was the blog, Is my Blog Burning?. Its a food recipes site based on the same model as some of the photography sites like Photofriday, which call for theme-based postings. In the case of this blog, a weekly/monthly theme is announced and people post their recipes based on that theme and also post their comments. After going through the whole site, I found it much better than those dead monologues on other recipe sites. Finally, the cooking brethren puts on their creative hats to get in the league of the elite recipe makers. Go check it out.
Came across an interesting link on Seth’s site. Go check it out; Its hilarious. The link is Numanuma. Also check out an interesting but time-consuming game, which was mentioned on someone’s site. An ideal way to spend the latter half of Friday in office 
The game page can be found here.
Just an afterthought - If you can get fired, while caught sleeping on the job, I don’t know what would happen if you are caught gaming, while the deadline is minutes away. So fight the urge!!!
I came across the ‘Mangaldeep’ brand of matchboxes which have been introduced in the market by ITC. In a new and interesting business paradigm, ITC is putting up cooking recipes on the backside of the matchbox and further, tips that appeal to any woman viz. how to make mehendi last longer and better; how to make sure your clothes don’t lose color when dipped in water et al. Inter alia, the company has also come with a smaller pack AIM which cites a lot of interesting trivia on each box. Will try to get a picture of the matchbox and the printed recipe on it soon.
Recent Comments