iPhoney!!

Hmmm, if you go to techcrunch, the last 15-20 posts have been about iPhone. The hype, the apps, the wait and the likes. Seems to be some sort of a frenzy out there in the US for the next 3G phone from Apple. I even watched the somewhat funny video at this posting for waiting in line for 5 plus hours without any results.

I was trying to compare this with whats happening back in India. Vodafone did some adverts about launching the iPhone in India and I did contemplate for a second or two about sending them an sms about wanting to be one of the early users. But thats about it, I guess. I think people in America tend to have this ME FIRST mindset a lot. Long lines for the Wii, new star trek movies. Camping out for some new game launch etc. etc. I guess South Indian movie fans do this ;), but generally I do not find such fanatical single mindedness happening for such kind of stuff around in India.

Guess most Indians have more pertinent things to think about..

Get and Spread FireFox!!

One way to take a stab at M$'s evil world domination plans. Replace Internet Explorer with the Firefox browser! Infact 17th June is download firefox day and they are aiming to set a Guinness World Record by targetting 5 million downloads in a single day (scratch, scratch - no one knows the existing download record though).

I have already downloaded and added my 1 to the global counter :). Infact downloads from India seem to be around the 35,000 mark. Wake up Indians! download now!

The global count appears close to the 5 million mark already! Check it out here!!

(P.S. This posting was done out of Firefox 3 :))
And here is my certificate!

IndiZeitGeist

ZeitGeist is originally a German Expression that means "time spirit" or in other words the spirit of the current times or age. Google captures the online version of it by tracking the most oftly used search phrases. It thus reflects the current online mood or the pulse of the online world.

I thought to seek out what is on the minds of more and more Indians who are getting online and hence was looking around for Google India ZeitGeist. Sadly they don't seem to have country specific ZeitGeists (you listening Google?), but it seems they recently compiled and released a list specifically for India. Here it is. Seems like Orkut, Deepika Padukone, Sania Mirza, Mahatma Gandhi (yes he is on the list!) are the flavor of the times :)