Dropbox : Why is it popular?

Dropbox is a great cloud-based online storage product. Whatit does exactly.. There would be a folder. You'd put your stuff in it. It would sync. The best feature is that it is very easy to sync in all the devices and run in windows, mac or linux. Its totally painless and it just works. Dropbox works better when you're sharing with others mainly because it syncs to the cloud so you don't have to make sure someone picks up your changes. Also it does backups of every change, which is nice when someone in your group accidentally overwrites a file, or, worse, deletes the entire folder. You never have to think about version control, file sharing. You never have to wake up with the though you have to carry your USB device or share your files and folders. It does lot of things..

 

1. Executed a solid Free-mium model.
2. Rewarded users with more "free" storage by referring more users.
3. Easy to remember name and URL.
4. You can install the app in your CPU and it's folder syncs (easily) with the cloud account.
5. Multi-platform app (iOS, Android, RIMM, WP7 etc)
6. It uploads and opens documents, pictures and video.
7. Multi-user folder sharing
8. Cheap and effective business model (Paid accounts are reasonably priced)
9. Free accounts have no ads (how about that?)
10. They focused on user experience than adding tons of features, bells and whistles

 

You could see the slide deck on dropbox below with lot of lessons for startups and other valuable stuff.

 

Click here to get yourself an account: http://db.tt/c1BVA4o Get yourself a dropbox account and help me out in that process by clicking the link http://db.tt/c1BVA4o I will get more space in my dropbox account.

 

Nokia + Windows Phone 7

So the Greatest hardware meets the amazing software. Good to hear that Windows Phone 7 will be on all smartphone price points not just high end. Nokia is very strong in standard cell phones but definitely not a leader in SmartPhones. Nokia are good at producing hardware……they simply now produce to hardware baseline so it runs WP7. But the question is “how is Nokia going to produce magic hardware that will prompt people to buy windows phone?”  Nokia has devoted fans. They just buy whatever Nokia is selling. All these fans see something in Nokia, a cultural backbone, a design philosophy which is uniquely Nokia’s. How can they possibly maintain that backbone while depending on an OS made and designed by another company? Lets hope it will be win win situation for both. Zdnet used a very nice graphic. The product mix looks awful.

 

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi passed away. One who gave his magical voice to popular DD song "Mile sur mera tumhara" is no more. It would be disrespectful if I put this in the blog title. We have been listening to just him since the Doordarshan Days. One of his lesser known music is the bhajan written by mahatma gandhi and the music maestro Ilayaraja did composition for it. It is surely worth a watch. If you have any his music do share it here in the comments.

 

Hardly Working

Link Via ehowa

summary of srikrishna commitee

Remember the Telangana agitation an year back, and the srikrishna committee formed after that. Finally the report is out and the here is the summary of it.

 

1) Maintaining Status Quo

2) Bifurcation of the State into Seemandhra and Telangana; with Hyderabad as a Union Territory and the two States developing their own capitals in due course

3) Bifurcation of State into Raya1aTe1angana and coastal Andhra regions with Hyderabad being an integral part of Rayala-Telangana

4) Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Seemandhra and Telangana with enlarged Hyderabad Metropolis as a separate Union Territory. This Union Territory will have geographical linkage and contiguity via Nalgonda district in the south-east to district Guntur in coastal Andhra and via Mahboobnagar district in the south to Kurnool district in Rayalaseema

5) Bifurcation of the State into Telangana and Seemandhra as per existing boundaries with Hyderabad as the capital of Telangana and Seemandhra to have a new capital

6) Keeping the State united by simultaneously providing certain definite Constitutional / Statutory measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana region — creation of a statutorily empowered Telangana Regional Council

And here is the entire report

http://www.sakshi.com/newsimages/report/CCSAP-REPORT-060111.pdf

 

Any guesses what would be the end result after this. Looks like we are back to the same problem again. The destruction of public property starts again. But unfortunately, to repeat the public property destruction, all people who did during earlier riots were released by lifting cases.  Our government is responsible for releasing them without punishment.  It is like giving them another opportunity to repeat the mistakes again.

100 Things to Watch in 2011

Yet Another Year end Post

Another year passed by. This time it’s the end of the decade. I no longer love my birthdays and I hate to grow up and become older. Why do I love new years then? Not sure why do I become cynical when it comes to year end post. When I look back at 2000, that’s the beginning of my engineering. I knew nothing then and scared of everything. I was a serious guy in class during my time in B.Tech, With lots of ambitions, lots of fears, doubts and questions.  I’m the kind of person that likes order in life. The fears still remain, just that they are different now, not the same set of problems. Of course, the way of dealing with them changed a lot. The order in life no longer remains.  Who would have thought I would have fall in love, and the power of bad break up, of course I underestimated it. And then another set back with a break up of the engagement. I used to plan for everything then. Needless to say, I’m not much of a planning person anymore. 2010 has been a pretty interesting year for me. While the cynic inside my knows that this too shall not last, I tried my best to make it interesting. Coming to the resolutions I made, I didn’t succeed in at least one of them. Neither in reading the books, nor in making the trips. I am sick of making the same resolutions again year after year when I know that I never keep them. This time I am going to make some resolutions that I can actually accomplish.

 

• Read less
• Gain weight. Put on at least 4 kgs.
• Stop exercising. Waste of time.
• Watch more TV. I am actually missing some interesting stuff.
• Procrastinate more.
• Start being superstitious.
• Spend more time at work and in front of computer.
• Eat out more, Eat more sweets and junk food.
• Make a new habit. May be drinking or smoking.