Entries from May 2006 ↓

We celebrated Magnet’s 7th Anniversary today. 7 years have gone flying. It was a dream when I started out with three friends in 1999. We have now grown to fifty and are looking forward to grow to around hundred this year.

It’s been a wonderful journey. Lot of ups and downs. Lot of ecstatic moments and lot of times of grueling hard work. It’s been like seeing your baby grow. And I can’t explain how lovely it is!

I love Magnet! And I am proud of the team and the work they do. And I can see that this baby is going to make me prouder next year!

This is what you get when Steve Jobs co-designs an Apple store. The recently opened Apple Store on Fifth Avenue NY. It’s open 24/7 and is an innovation in architectural design. Yes, others have built transparent looking buildings, but this one surely has the Apple touch even on the staircase!

Check out the photos in this article and the links that follow from there.

I love the iFox Graphite theme for Firefox. I was looking around for some clean yet appealing themes for the fox, and liked this one the best. It’s very much like Safari (without the brushed metals). It takes less screen space, the colors are non obtrusive and is very functional overall. The Graphite look may seem a bit odd at the beginning, but after a day’s use, it feels as if it allows me to focus on the content of the page much better!

Worth a try!

So finally, BarCampMumbai is over. I enjoyed the event thoroughly. The blogosphere coverage of the event is low. It’s building up, but nowhere near the expectations. The photos too are slowly coming in.

I have uploaded the PDF slides of my talk on our experience with OpenLaszlo and Flex. It was very interesting to read Pratik’s comments on my presentation. It’s a busy day (and week), so I am saving the answers to his questions for later. Probably he has used some more intelligence by now to discover that it’s called OpenLaszlo and not OpenLazlo.

The DJ performance was ok, I liked the concept but could not understand the story. My fault though, as I got there late and left midway.

Had a long ride back home from KReSIT. Had to drop coming home and go directly for an appointment due to the traffic jams on western express highway! But well, worth the experience of the day!

Mahesh Murthy is talking about online advertising, marketing and mathematics right now. Pretty interesting concepts. The idea of buying ad words for phrases that are not so common, but still relevant, is great. The money search engines make, the money an advertiser would end up paying if he choses wrong ad words, and the methods to optimize the ads. It’s a fascinating business model - at the same time a good technical challenge (to process through the tens of thousands of phrases and process the ads).

He talked also about various tactics people use for online marketing as well. The click frauds, ad sense hacks, and optimization strategies that they use.

I am now realizing why there is so much of spam around - especially the spam comments!

This was a very interesting session - something not so tech, yet very engaging!