blogging

A collection of 40 posts

Tech

Cyber Celebrity?

Deccan Chronicle article says: In the blogosphere, technology rules supreme as some of the most popular bloggers, Prashanth HN (techbangalore.com), Swaroop C H (swaroopch.com) and Vikas S N (techknots.com) all blog about it.

General

Featured Blogger in Outlook Magazine

This blog has been featured by Outlook Magazine as one of the “8 Bloggers to Follow and Bookmark” in the B-Drive / Best B-Schools Snippets section of their Sep 27, 2010 issue (cached PDF here). It is indeed an honour to be featured along with TechCrunch, Rajesh Jain, Amit Agarwal and

General

Writing Principles

I think of this weblog as a small place for me to write. The reason I write is because I have this innate implicit belief that I learn only by teaching. In hindsight, that’s why I wrote those books and that’s why I keep writing in this space.

Business

Happy Birthday to ion

Note: I no longer work with IonLab since Nov 12 of 2009. One year ago, on this day, we launched ion, the ipod charger. The launch was just one blog post. That’s it. Within two hours, Atul Chitnis bought the first ion in our online store. We celebrated. But

India

Searches leading to this website

I gleaned this from a random look at the website logs for two weeks. P.S. What does he/she mean by using orkut effectively? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

General

My first Adsense cheque

After opening a strange envelope with a Sweden stamp on it, I was holding my first Google Adsense cheque. Not only did I get money, but later in the day, Google (Mail) gave me career advice as well: Heh.

Tech

Wah, Kya Theme Hain

Chug’s awesome design for my website has been getting great reviews and has been featured on many design review sites: 1. Design Meltdown 2. WordPress Gallery 3. Screenblog 4. WebCreme 5. Nidha 6. Web Design Archive 7. CSSMania 8. CSS Remix

Tech

New swaroopch.info theme

I was starting to get bored with my website design (even though I really liked it), so I hired the talented Chugs‘s services and he came up with a really simple and colorful design, and it’s live now. Note: There are still some quirks to be worked out

General

4 things

Usually I don’t pay attention to memes because everybody’s doing it at the same time and it gets boring quickly, but for once, I decided to play along. Pradeep has tagged me to make lists of four things. So here goes: Four movies I can watch over and

India

Dakshina Kannada Police

I would’ve never expected to see the Dakshana Kannada Police blogging. They have updates on the ZP/TP election results. Also, they have entries in Kannada. (via Sharath)

General

More Conversations

Apparently, Doug Kaye and Team ITC were not satisfied with ITConversations and now they’re onto an even grander vision. I say more power to them!

General

Richie blog rich

My blog is worth $32,178.78. How much is your blog worth?

General

YPodcast

Podcasts.Yahoo.com went live today. It’ll help you find and listen to podcasts as well as create your own podcasts. Many of my friends in Bangalore are part of the team that created this. Kudos to them for converting a concept to a product launch in an amazing

General

The shortest interview possible

Anush “interviews” me. P.S. No, I did not select that photo.

India

Aamir Khan’s blog

Aamir Khan is blogging as Mangal Pandey? Somebody pinch me, I still can’t believe it. Is this for real? (via Mekin) Update: Scoble confirms it is authentic.

Tech

That Podcast Song

I’ll blame Adam Curry for getting me addicted to that podcast song. Just can’t get the tune out of my head. My favorite part of the lyrics is: You want it, you got it…just download it and pod it On a podcast…no one’s gonna stop

Tech

360 API

Siddharth Uppal asked about a REST API for Yahoo! 360° and it seems that it is in the works.

India

Where are the Indian IT women bloggers?

…. asks Vijayalaxmi in The Telegraph newspaper. Excerpt: Unfortunately, figures on the number of women who blog in India are simply not available. But anecdotal evidence suggests that women write about personal or social issues, unlike men who focus on work-related issues. For instance, there are more chances of a male

General

The Podcast experience

For the uninitiated, podcasting is like a radio show that you regularly subscribe to, the podcasting software that you use downloads the mp3s of the show for you so that you can listen to it whenever/wherever you like. The difference is that anybody can start a radio show and

General

Chiliablog and Softies

Interestingly, Sriram just made the 1,000th comment on my blog. Btw, Sriram joined Microsoft last month (in Hyderabad) as a PM in the DevTools team. To Sriram : blogs.msdn.com/sriramk doesn’t seem to be taken yet ;)

Books

Reason 82 to blog

I’ll soon be getting an autographed copy of ‘Armies of Hanuman’ from Ashok Banker! Woohoo! That book isn’t in available in India yet :D P.S. I’ll write about the other 81 reasons later… ;)

Tech

What is a blog?

Some of my friends, who are uninitiated to the blogosphere, know that I write a ‘blog’ but they still don’t get what it really means. I’ve achieved some success by helping them understand how to use Firefox Live Bookmarks but I am sure there must be a lot

General

Circle is open now

Yahoo! 360° is now open for a public beta. This photo is by Ernie, one of the Yahoos who has worked on 360° ; that 360° logo was created out of pixel blocks (whatever that means). Leave a comment (with a valid email address) if you need an invite. P.S.

General

So why not a blog mela

I’m trying to play catch up with the blogosphere.. but it is difficult when I have 221 feeds in Bloglines. Actually, there were more but I’m trying to trim down my folders to a more manageable size. I got bored of simply reading, so I decided to host

Tech

Yahoo 360!

It’s official. Yahoo! has entered the blogosphere. Soon, you’ll be blogging at 360.Yahoo.com :D . The integration is simply awesome. Having played with it, I think Blogger.com will face some real competition now.