Entries from August 2005 ↓

Just found this cool AJAX RSS Aggregator -
Tiny Tiny RSS. It’s a nice way to aggregate RSS feeds, is designed well, and is something you can hack on!

I was thinking about an aggregator using Flash for the upcoming Foss.In/2005 conference, but this seems a nice alternative to it.

Google is a favorite topic of discussion for many. What’s the company up for? What will it do with the next $4bn it plans to raise, how well will Gtalk and the new Google Toolbar go? Will Google make the next operating system and turn the world upside down?

Bill Gates feels Microsoft is under threat by start-ups. Somebody will come up with a killer application and finish the behemoth.

Robert Cringely says:

So it could be that Google isn’t the Microsoft-killer many people — including Gates and Ballmer — fear the company is. Going a step further, it is even possible that Gates’s conviction that he’ll eventually be taken down by a startup is wrong, too.

Here’s where I go out on a limb, but I think Microsoft’s clearest threat still comes from Apple, though not the way most people expect. Yes, Apple is about to take Microsoft to the woodshed when it comes to Internet movie distribution. Yes, Apple already super-dominates the music player market where Microsoft doesn’t even really exist. But the real jewel is one Microsoft has to lose, not gain — the PC platform, itself.

I am a big fan of Bob’s writing and he never stops amazing me. Read the current article here:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050825.html

I am Nirav Mehta, from Mumbai, India. I lead a technology company – Magnet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Magnet operates in the web, rich internet application, mobile computing and localization. I enjoy reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking!

While writing up the first paragraph, I realized how difficult it is to write about myself – it’s much easier to write about a technology! There are many thoughts going on right now - whether to write something or not, whether it will look good or not, what is it really that I am going to put up here, will I regularly post entries? Should I write about technology only?

The answers will appear.

Welcome to my blog!

Trust & Freedom - values at the core of my heart. I created the possibility of trust and freedom as part of my Landmark Advanced course in August 2005. The course was superb, and I will write more about it soon, but I thought how can I create something that will allow me to take these values to more and more people?

This website is the fruit of that thought. It’s going to be a blog, and I will write about trust and freedom as they touch various aspects of life. I may delve more into software and relationships - these are topics that interest me.

It’s a new beginning and I made a drawing to reflect! I actually painted something after a decade!

The drawing is of a morning walk - it shows the usual life: students going to school, some people travelling, greenery, a busy road, a few buildings, and then the person who’s actually going on the walk. If you look at these daily visual with a different perspective, you can notice there is so much trust and freedom around!

• Freedom to enjoy such a beautiful morning
• Trust in the friendship of three kids
• Trust and freedom for the young one who’s riding the bike with her dad
• Freedom that nature has given us, and what we try and limit with a variety of social structures
• Trust that we have in the supreme power

Wish you a great weekend!