Not sure if this has been done before, but am going to be using the rage of the week, twitter to log my comments on the progress of the Indian innings in the crucial match against Sri lanka
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The media giants are to launch an online video service that would compete with Google’s YouTube. The service would contain Movie & TV clips stuff plus clips that users can modify & share with others (whatever that means). What makes all this even more interesting is that Yahoo, Microsoft & AOL are also involved in the deal)
The attempt here is to control the distribution of video and therefore the advertising dollars that go with. Clearly these folks are not happy with the potential that Google might have a stranglehold on online advertising
Very interesting, Search is a lost game for all the others, no reason why Online video should go the same way. Nothing better for the consumer that a good ‘ol slugfest amongst these giants. May the best one win !
Wishing all of you a very happy new year. Hope this year brings us all the best of joy & happiness 
Pranav Happy New Year Hosted on ZooomrSo, the year 2006 is just about coming to an end, thought I’d put together a few thoughts on what this year meant for me and the world in general …
The big event ofcourse was the birth of the pearl of our lives, Pranav, our Son on Oct 19th 2006. Our excitement knew no bounds when Nandhu did finally deliver him at 11.03 pm that night. Naked innocence, Non complex life and a heart of full desire, he did enter this world and will certainly teach a thing or two about Life and Love. The years ahead are going to be full of challenges and as parents we are eager to provide for him a life that he someday would perhaps thank us for. It is very easy (& I did succumb to it), to project our desires and wants, things that we perhaps craved to do when we were much younger on him and to form our own vision of ambitions for him, but on second thought, it is afterall his life and he would be the ultimate judge of what he wants to do with it. Care, Love and Nurture are things that we would provide to him to the best of our abilities and more and hopefully he would learn that his is a precious life and one to be lived fully and to the fullest
Further away, the other big event was ofcourse the Football World Cup in Germany. A mega event and a success by any measure. Along with billions of people across the Earth, I too was deeply immersed in the travails and travels of many a team. The English team, that I so backed disappointed, but am so glad that the team I hated, Portugal did not get all that far :-). All credit to the Azzuri for their victory and perhaps Zizou would live to regret his moment of madness for the rest of his life
The travails of the Indian cricket team has been documented way beyond what a human can read & digest, but if there is one thing that I would remember the year for, it would be the year in which the ex-great, Sachin Tendulkar plumbed to depths that perhaps he alone would need to explain to the people someday
On the Technology front, YouTube undoubtedly changed the face of Internet forever and made Video a fundamental data type on the Internet. While John C Dvorak might have issues with Time Magazine’s choice of ‘You’ as the Person of the year, the fact remains, that 2006 is indeed the year in which the Web finally became the Read & Write web (something that Tim Berners Lee intended originally anyways)
In the realm of Global politics, George Bush’s misadventure in Irag continues to get worse (sacrificial lambs such as Don Rumsfeld is not going to help George Bush cleans himself of his sins) and Iran and North Korea’s Nuclear Sabre-rattling and the United State’s response to this were rather humorous to watch !
The Indian Stock markets hit record highs and many a man made his millions. While I remain an optimist that there is something fundamentally right about the Indian economy, I still remain a doubter on the valuations floating around and I await the next crash. Call me a Bear if you will … but we have miles to go before we run (sleep is a long long way off). But my country, Hope is something we have but that is not enough, we need to try harder, the marathon has just begun. We are NOT going to be a leading economy riding on the Outsourcing wave alone
I will leave the thoughts for 2007 for a later day, but would sign-off for now by stating that there is an opportunity in front of all of us to make this world a better place and the first step starts with us
Well ! To start off with, this one IS a fake … but a really nice wanna be ad for the much touted & awaited phone from Apple … these folks have named it iTalk (which sounds way better than iPhone). Looks cool … double flip open, touch screen keypad, wide-screen video, camera & scroll wheel at the back (wonder why you need this when you have a touch screen panel) … anyways …
Our son turned a month old today, as good a landmark as any that he would cross in his lifetime. Just thought I’d record this day for posterity and tell him how much I am waiting to see him. He is turning into a rather active child with good balance of a contemplative nature. The days, weeks and months ahead are all going to be rather exciting for us, and at the same time filled with so much responsibility too
Pranav Nov 19 Hosted on ZooomrThe Pearl in our lives, Pranav is growing older ! He will shortly be 4 weeks old. I really miss him (me being in Mumbai & my wife & Pranav in Chennai), but the good part is that I will be down in Chennai next weekend to get my heart’s fill of the little one
collage3 Hosted on ZooomrThe Punya Jayam for our son was held yesterday (29th Oct ‘06) and we have named him Pranav (which means OM). The choice for the name was rather tough with names like Abhishek, Rahul and Rahul (& not to forget Nikhil, Aditya, Navneet, Manav etc) featuring in the list. Our personal preference went from Rahul to Pranav and thankfully the public vote also indicated Pranav
The considerations that we had while choosing a name for the kid were that it should not feature high above in the class roll number for the kid (an important consideration … which is why names starting with A did not make the cut), should be pronounceable by anyone anywhere in the world and it should be short (ask me 
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The Divine sound ‘OM” is also called Pranav because it originates from Prana (the vital vibration). We hope that Pranav likes the name we have given him
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