Products for The Man

I saw 2 advertisements today - which explicitly focuessed on being the products for the "Man"..Burger king commercial where guys left their hot dates in classy restaurants and went to burger king for the meat filled burgers for the Man..and then there was the Volvo commercial with the Volvo logo inside the male gender sign

I am surprised that marketing teams for these companies are ready to miss on attracting the female homo sapiens..oh well..whatever works..for the man!

Daylife at NYC tech meetup

Jon Harris presented daylife.com on Jan 9th 2007 at the New York Tech Meetup. Here is a video of it. Unfortunately, we lost internet connection during the demo, but Jon managed to get the idea of daylife.com across.

Mashing up Visual Search and Shopping

My friend Nikhil (alias:kholu) works for this startup company in visual search and face recognition called Riya. Pretty neat idea about maintaining and searching photos based on faces in the photo. I did not like the fact that face recognition works only within my riya album and does not work globally..but thats just too hard a problem to solve..

Necase, the reason I am writing this post is because of their new venture called like.com...pretty amazing how these guys mashed the idea of visual search and shopping. I think this is the killer in the next generation of online shopping. People love celebrities and people love buying what their celebrities are wearing...Check it out..its pretty sweet!

Also, amazon.com started a new venture to sell shoes, handbags etc..Endless.com. Its all coming down to online shopping for the girls!

Daylife APP3 goes live

Life comes to Daylife

Daylife.com went live today at 11:00 AM EST. Moment of truth has arrived...Traffic is being monitored...it was exciting..although people here at work just clapped..I was expecting Champagne..(i know its 11 AM but we launched)...

I think perfect way to start a new year! launch products! ... i think i am lucky that I am seeing this 3rd product being launched in 3.5 years of my career..pretty neat!

Dakota Fanning: the best kid actress ever

I am watching Dreamer starring Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell. She is just an awesome actress. Oh my god! knows to act the best in every scene - comedy, emotion. I am definitely on her fan-list now..

Second Daylife APP goes live

Be a vegetarian or not

Meanings of the names as they know it

Wanted to capture the meaning of names of my friends as they know it:

South Asian names
Vineet - humble
Vikas - progress
Vivek - wisdom
Aman - peace
Amish -
Somil - 100 miles
Kedar - powerful

Asian
Fang - fragrance
Xinzhen - precious things born when sun rises
aka. Rosita Fresita - little rose and strawberry


Russian
Valeriy - valour and courage

Irish
Conor - "dog lover" or "wolf lover"

Greek
Thanos - the one who does not die

American?
Gregory - happy
Sally - a princess
Andrew - "a champion has come home"

Hungarian
Istvan - Sexy

Latin
Rafael - God has healed

Good Night, and Good Luck

Amazing Amazing movie...the storyline is precise, accurate and to the point..the actors fit the characters in the best possible manners. And its a Clooney movie - how can it go wrong...I think I am moving on to journalism..such a fantastic career - u r working everyday on something new and its just so intriguing and adventurous..

Miami escapade

Whatz wrong in my life?

Just wanted to make a checklist of the things that I need to fix....what could be better place than the blog.

Level 1
- I dont have a girlfriend.
- I lost my cellphone. The guy who found it wants to send it to me but everyday I forget his phone number at home, so cannot call him to send me my cell to my home. -- Done
- My car registration expired 3 months back. My car could be impounded and I might go to Jail. --- Done

Level 2
- I cannot get back-bay resident parking permit because my car registration expired. -- Done
- I got 2 parking tickets in June - 120 for handicapped area parking and 40 for invalid resident area parking.
- I cannot pay the 120 dollar parking ticket because the system does not recognize the ticket number and the customer service just keeps me on hold.
- I got 1 parking ticket in July - 25 bucks for being parked on street cleaning day. -- Done
- Someone knocked off my motorbike and so it is in the repair shop. Will cost 700 dollars in worst case.
- I moved and usps.com cannot recognize my old address for mail forwarding.
- Lost my credit card couple of weeks back. Did not get a new one probably because the new one went to the old address and there is no mail forwarding.
- The credit card I lost was used on almost all online transactions for bills - cellphone, EZPass, Calling Card for India and god knows what. All of them have started denying the service.
- The light bulb on my bedroom ceiling is fused. An extra light bulb is in my car but I forget everytime to bring it upstairs.
- Even if I have the bulb, the ladder is behind a closet which is blocked by my music system.
- My digital camera doesn't work anymore. The memory stick is also fubarred.
- I have 2 rental DVDs from Walmart which I have to return so that I can get 34 bucks. I need to call them before I can send it to them, so pending for 5 months now.
- I have 2 DVDs from Columbia house which I do not want. Need to return but don’t know the process.
- BMG Music is sending me stupid Audio CDs and charging my credit card, but I don’t know how to stop them.
- Don’t have a dresser or a bookshelf so my bedroom and closet are a mess.
- My PS2 is broken and does not play DVDs. I don’t have a DVD player.

Tribecca Film Festival

Short videos at this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/film-festival/screening-room.html/002-5706380-0624825?%5Fencoding=UTF8&rate=0&moreFilmsTab=0&movieID=9995

The one named 'Street Therapy' is awesome. It just is amazing to see the everyday frustrations of people at one place.

Smoking is dangerous for health but hot for chicas!

Hmm..so what is better: smoke and meet some hot chicas coz i guess smoking does hold some fashion value outside the clubs or save your lungs!... i guess it depends at what stage in your life you are...if you are not going to the clubs and crazy parties you definitely dont need to smoke..else dont missing giving a smoking kiss (literallly) to the hotties!!!

Keys

I did it again..I lost my whole set of apt keys 2 weeks back...and today I again left my keys inside my apt and locked myself out...I am out of the building and searching for my keys in my pockets..but not there...this girl (btw very cute) lets me into the building but I am thinking how to break into my own apt dooor..and guess what.. the old set of keys that I lost are on top of the fire extinguisher ... this is a bad sign for sure that someone has a copy of my apt keys now... how the hell would a person know that a random set of 3 keys belongs to my apt...any case..at least for now I can drive to work!..oops i am at work..start WORKING!!!

Ultimate Frisbee rox

I have been thinking to start my blog and I feel so happy today after playing ultimate frisbee that I decided that the time has come...the sleeping Lion needs to wake up (ask Sean) .... and I was so good at it...well not really but not bad either.... I had gone for a run near the charles and there was this random group of people playing...I asked them and they let me join...so unhappy that I did not have any money on me and so i cudnt join them for beer and pizzaa....but neways..lots of fun!