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The real smart car

Over the holidays, I wrote a small windows mobile app that would let me listen to one of the Bollywood radio stations on my phone. It’s very handy to use voice command to start the app and have it play desi melodies as I set out for a long drive over Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 2:03 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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To get them reading

Read a short essay by Adrian Hon about decline in reading . It talks about how people are reading less these days and what would get them to read more. I don’t know if people are reading less overall but I tend to agree that in this age of microblogs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:04 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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The most influential book on Influence

Just finished reading Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini. This has got to be one of the most convincing books I have read in a long time. I read it as part of an internal study group on Managerial Psychology and I’m glad I did. Though Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 2:18 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Labs: Something between R & D

Just noticed Soma’s post on DevLabs . He introduces DevLabs as a place to share innovations happening in the developer division within Microsoft. This looks like a sibling to already existing Office Labs and  Live Labs . Pretty exciting. Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 1:15 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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Lala: Yet another business model around selling Music

Selling music online is an interesting business. So many people have tried their hands at it with so many different approaches… iTunes and Zune were revolutionary. They freed good music tracks from the otherwise mediocre albums. iTunes pioneered this Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:06 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments

beep…

Saw the latest Mac ad. In it Hodgman tries to buzz the Mac guy every time he tries to say Vista. These are getting more and more boring, negative and pointless. Come Mac folks, Think different! Also on the topic of buzzing, while its competitors are busy Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 4:24 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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No Joost for me.

Read over at TechCrunch today that Joost has undergone a UI makeover to become an all-flash site. Don’t know how that is going to give the ailing site a boost, but good to see that Joost is still alive. They have a great idea; using P2P to deliver streaming Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:10 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments

Pirates to Profits – Deregulating the copy

Lawrence Lessig had an interesting essay yesterday at the WSJ. Based on his upcoming book remix, the essay is subtitled “ Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up ”. Among the solutions Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 3:31 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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The famous last lecture

A truly moving lecture by Prof. Randy Pausch of CMU. This guy has incredible story telling skills. He kept reminding me of of Richard Feynman particularly during the first part of the lecture. Coincidentally Feynman lost his life to cancer too… ";" Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 12:24 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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Now it's PC's turn to take a shot at Mac.

I'm a new soul I can do this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take But since I came here felt the joy and the fear finding myself making every possible mistake :) Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:24 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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Naive Joel on Mesh

Joel's blog is one of the best resources on the net for software development. I find myself agreeing with him most of the times but his latest post on Live Mesh didn't come out to be as insightful as some of his others. If you take out his histrionics, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:06 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 7 Comments
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My search engine is better than your search engine

Hey you, yes, I am talking to you. I know you use that non-evil search engine. Yes the one with multicolor logo. You think that's the best search engine out there don't you? You are so addicted to it, you even made it your your homepage. Like a lost wanderer, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:07 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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How to beat Guy Kawasaki to a startup

I admire Guy Kawasaki and love The art of start . I'd recommend his book to anybody who has ever dreamt of starting anything. So when he announced his latest venture today, I was all ears. It's called alltop . A concept so simple that it'd make you think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:35 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 2 Comments
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WWT @ TED

The much blogged about WorldWideTelescope was talked about at TED. Here's a quick glimpse of it. I can't wait to see it live at the TechFest in a few days. Folks at MS research do a lot of cool things that only we had a privilege to look at. I am glad Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:28 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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And I'm reading again...

For last couple of years my reading reading appetite has been sated by the junk news served by digg and reddit . I read it not because it was sensational but just because it was so easily accessible from my live.com page. Thanks to DailyLit , I won't Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 5:43 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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