Thoughts @ Amit Gupta

Meeting Matt

I met Matt Mullenweg last saturday @ wordcamp India. I must say , I am damn impressed by this young champion of new media. He is such a nice and down to earth guy with no air about giving world a whole new medium of expression in way of WORDPRESS.

He shared his journey so far and his vision for the product. He was full of energy on podium and it was flowing across the audience. He was very enthusiastic talking about every update and new features to be introduced in wordpress. Matt’s philosophy of making life easy for the users in terms of product, interface, upgrades and features is very well transalted in WordPress as a world class product.

Hats Off !!!

Tags: Matt, WordPress

WordCamp India (India’s first WordPress Camp)

  

 I’ll be attending the India’s first WordPress Camp to be organised on 21st and 22nd February. To know more and register for event visit :

http://wci.eventbrite.com  

 

 

PS : Event is Co-hosted by Mayank Gupta.  An internet freak , wordpress fan and my sweet little cousin.  I’m proud of you.

Best of Luck …

 

Tags: Internet & Mobile, Wordcamp India, WordPress

10 Years of Google

Many many happy returns of the day.  Google always stands for innovation and usability. I wish you many more successful and innovative products. 

 

 

Tags: 10 years of googling, Birthday, Browser, Google, internet

Google Chrome – First look

I have downloaded  Google chrome today. I am impressed in the first glance. Though it will take some more time to understand how will the brower perform. BUt few features which make it stands out are ;

a) Neat and clean look : A new browsing experience and the window seems to gain that extra screen space. The tabs and search bar are intelligently integrated in the browser. Every pixel is optimally utilized.  

b) One stop shop : Search , Address bar, suggestive search all integrated in one box. Google makes me LAZZZZY

c) Most visited site : Hmmm… nice tool. I would not say amazing but useful (advertisers will love google for this) 

d) Browsing history : Smart way to display  history along with time of visit.

More to come ….

Tags: 'google chrome', Amit, chrome, Google

Product offsite at Karjat (Mumbai)

Off-sites trainings are fun and this is my second off-site training camp in People Interactive within six months. Now this is advantage of managing multiple portfolios and slogging.  I got to go out with both software and product offsite to take break from work at makaan.

My last visit to Daman with software team was close to sea and this one at beautiful Karjat near Mumbai. The weather was awesome and it almost rained for our entire stay at karjat.

We had a training, presentations, Jam session, treasure hunt all squeezed within two short days. We were literally awake for two days.

This is a very memorable trip for me to Mumbai itself also. After so long I really got the chance to out and see mumbai city. Before this mumbai to me was only our office and road to airport. This time round Me and my team decided to extend our stay in city for a day more.

Our city tour in taxi include visit to Sidhivinayak, Hazi Ali, Gateway of India, Marine drive and Nariman point.

Waiting at airport for the flight back to Delhi. The guy with lappy is me tring to finish this post

Tags: Daman, fun, Gateway of India, Job, karjat, Mumbai, Product, Rivergate resort, Travel

Makaan Chowdhary

My fond childhood memories of Chacha chowdhary , Sabu , rocket (Chacha’s pet dog) are back. Chachaji can solve all the problms in the world cauz ”Chacha ka dimaag computer se bhi tez chalta hai” . Watch him in new avtaar making Rajnikant and Mithun da the superstar.

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Tags: chacha chowdhary, comics, Makaan, Mithun, rajnikant, sabu, superstars

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

 

I have just checked out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 version and Firefox3. I would not be comparing them but there are certain new feature I liked about both of them.

But the most exciting feature to me is Actiities in IE8. I lets to do certain activities on the webpage you are working on. Its like talking to many other application from one page (uff.. internet making me lazzy and more demanding every day).  Though the application integrated are few but all are worth mentioning.

See how useful a Live Map application can be for a real estate site. No clicks , No tabs and you get what you want. I have tried looking for Noida and a map was there (That too fairly close).

 There are many more activities which can be done on a click like Google search , Blogging with Live Space and define with Encarta.  Microsoft keep exploring….. 

 

Tags: activities, encarta, Google, IE8, Internet & Mobile, Internet explorer, Live maps, Microsoft

No Gates for Windows

Bill Gates call it a day at Microsoft , the giant software empire he has founded and build over last 33 years. A richest man on the world for many years will now focus on philanthropy. 

Time will tell the impact of this change on Microsoft.   

                                               

Tags: bill gates, Microsoft, Operating system, philanthropy, windows