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Photon gets featured on CNBC

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Brands tags in and

12

Nov

Photon got featured in the CNBC Young turks program last week.

Its really nice to see your CTO and CEO on TV

You can check out the video

Story

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Rajeev Motwani on early days of Google

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Brands No Tags

11

Nov

Quoting Rajeev Motwani who was a mentor to the larry,sergey duo @ stanford

Meanwhile the World Wide Web was coming around at that time and I just got sucked into that. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were running a searchengine out of Stanford. These 21-year-olds would come in and make demands on me – we need more disk space because we are crawling the Web and its getting bigger, we need to buy more disk… I’d give them more  money and they’d go buy more disks.

At some point these guys said, we want to go do a company. Everybody said you must be out of your minds.There are like 37 search engines out there and what are you guys going to do? And how are you going to raise money, how will you build a company, and these two guys said, we’ll just do it and they went off and did it.And there are some big names who supported the company in its early stages. And then they took over the world. And right now, you know,other search engines do not even compare. It is just amazing.

Just felt like sharing something I just read

 

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Microsoft.Net goes Open Source after Sun did it for Java

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Brands, Software, Coding No Tags

4

Oct

Some hot news for Microsoft Fans and Developers using the .Net platform. Microsoft is open sourcing .NET framework libraries.

We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows).  We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ).  The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally).  We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.

When you debug a .NET application and hit a breakpoint in your code, you’ll now be able to see a debugger call stack that contains detailed file and line number information for the .NET Framework classes and methods in your application:

Sounds interesting.? Are we nearing the day in which we understand completely what the Exceptions mean

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

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Suhasi Garodia

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in India, Brands, Movies No Tags

16

Sep

I hardly find time to watch tv these days. I was watching Aek Chaabi Hai Pados Mein on Star which is a nice family entertainer. She plays the Female lead in the serial. I have seen her on so many other ADs these days. But did’nt know her name. There’s not much I could find about this future bollywood heroine

Facts

  • Professional Bharatanatyam dancer
  • Daughter of Gujarati stage actor Lata Garodia
  • Starred in a DD show Shakti
  • Claim to fame is the Mango Slice Ad
  • Done lots of commercials including Airtel, Surf Excel and Vicks.
  • Spotted in the latest Univercell Ad with Madhavan
  • Flooded with Movie offers from bollywood and kollywood.

0126115359_64.jpgsuhasi-1.JPG
I ll try to post some more pictures of her soon.

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Akamai CDN Prices - the Battle Continues

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Brands tags in and

8

Aug

The Content Delivery Network Market is hotter than ever now. The number of websites delivering content to a Global Audience is on the rise.

I came across an interesting post my Om Malik in this context.

Akamai Technologies (AKAM) has lost over $3 billion in market cap in the last one month due to increased costs and reduced prices due to heavy competition. Akamai has a presence in India as well with a lot of Indian websites thronging them for collocation. A long time customer of Akamai in India is rediff.

Just see the ping time for rediff india’s homepage

Reply from 220.227.238.168: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=62

VSNL ,Bharti, Reliance, Sify have their data-centre businesses but the costs are to high. VSNL has been there for a long time .

I would debate later on the difference between partnering with a CDN Vs getting up A Dedicated Server Cluster.

Will be interesting to watch how CDN players / prices perform in the current web2.0 scenario.

Online Video is currently booming and broadband penetration is also rising.

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Microsoft.com running Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Brands, Software tags in , , , and

8

Jul

Windows Server 2003 is old . Over 4 years old. Looks like the folks at Microsoft are testing out Windows Server 2008 at their main site
This was the info i got from the HTTP response of the site


X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727
Windows Server 2008 Microsoft-IIS/7.0

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Will AJAX.Net be a hit ?

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Web, Brands, Coding tags in , and

25

Jan

M$ released AJAX.Net earlier this week. It was called Atlas earlier.

Pototype,Dojo, Scriptaculous have been around for some time now and have large user base.

This may be Microsoft’s attempt to make Entreprises sing the Ajax song.

Will be worth watching the adoption rate of this framework

official page

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Now you can buy domains from Google

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in General, Web, Brands tags in , , , , and

15

Dec

Google is going to join the domain registration bandwagon in a bid to attract more users for its Google Apps for your Domain .

From Google Blog

Well, I’m excited to let you know that we’ve made signing up for Google Apps for Your Domain much easier for those of you that don’t yet have your own domain. We’ve partnered with GoDaddy.com and eNom, two leading domain registration services, to offer domains for $10 per year. And I like the fact that we’re including private registration to protect your personal information.

For now this is available for .com, .net,.org, .biz, and .info domains only.

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Google to offer SMS support for its services in India

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in General, Web, Brands tags in , , , , and

10

Dec

I managed to read somewhere that Google calendar is offering SMS notification support in India. I logged on to the site, only to be disappointed.

Airtel TamilNadu is not in the list of supported operators.

google_calendar_sms.jpg

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Microsoft Zune is incompatible with Vista LOL

Posted By: varun krishnan  Permalink in Brands, Gadgets tags in , , , , and

16

Nov

Another example of M$ most foolish mistakes.

Their latest MP3 player / Ipod rival is not compatible with their latest OS Vista :D

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