Bill Gates: the exit interview

Must read : http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/bill-gates-the-exit-interview/

Here comes another bubble

looking at the way so many web 2.0 sites coming up.. blog sites.. community sites and what not... this video justifies it all.

and like in song of the video says.. blog it blog it.. blog this song.. so here I am doing it :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

PUG Meet

I will be in Pune tomorrow (5th January 2008) and will be presenting at PUG meeting.

Topic: Building Communication Aware Applications for Windows Mobile
Abstract: In this presentation Mayur Tendulkar will show how developers can leverage the functionality provided by Microsoft Windows Mobile platform to build Communication aware application. This will include, making and receiving calls, SMS interception, Bluetooth development, using emulators and real devices
Speaker: Mayur Tendulkar

Topic: ASP.NET URL Rewriting
Abstract: URL Rewriting is process of simplifying complex URLs, which are easily remembered by users and adds a great business value to web site in terms of Search Engine Optmization
Speaker: Dhaval Faria

Time: 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Address: Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd.202, 2nd Floor, Phoenix, Bund Garden Rd., Opp. Pune Residency Club, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India

Underwater Digital Camera

you wont find me blog abotu gadgets very often.. though I am gadget freak as many of you knows...

but this thing just catches my eyes.. and looks a bit funny, you might have seen many waterproof cameras... this one is no different apart from its looks... this digital camera just makes it perfect to catch moments while ur catching up fish, shells, shark, jelly fish, etc... and u dont have to be busy holding it with one hand and pressing shutter button with another.

more info: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/02/liquid-image-intros-underwater-digital-camera-mask/

Thanks to Community-Credit for Crediting me with Artoo Potatoo

as many if you know I am very much into community contribution... I have been contributing to the community since 2000-2001, few days back I discovered a site called http://www.community-credit.com/ this site credits community contributor with stupid geeky prizes... I have won the 14th prize - Artoo Potatoo. I am now waiting for my prize to come... :D I am excited about this.. and would like to really thank Community-Credit for this.

Thank you Community-Credit and David Silverlight :D

Bye Bye Netscape

AOL announced that Netscape wont be Supported from 1st February 2008 - Source - http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/

I have a very special respect for Netscape, its because of Netscape I am what I am :)... not talking about internet... ok let me talk in a more detail... 1997 got my first internet connection that time Netscape was the only browser popular among the users, I still remember version number Netscape Navigator 4.5 and 4.6 being my mots fav that time... I used Netscape Navigator to surf web sites, check emails and many more things... one day accidently or fortunately I mistaked Composer option in Netscape as Compose for email... which incidently had the same icon and with same name and same place for writing email in netscape email program (dont remeber name but operated from same application), I thought Composer is for email, clicked on it... and I was introduced to a whole new world of HTML... and my journey begins to the programming world :), and one more respect to Netscape for coming up with javascript....

its sad to know that Netscape wont be there sooner.. which will actually mean lesser competition and might slow down the development in the browser market.. the kind of revolution you can see in IE from IE 6 to IE 7 and in next version IE 8 is because of competition from Firefox, Opera and others... hope this continues and consumers gets more out of it.

Netscape will be remembered forever.

PS: I stopped using Netscape after IE 4.1