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Vista! Eptiome of Innovation.

From a Blue Ocean to a Pink Ocean

TATA unveiled the world's cheapest car at the Auto show in Delhi a few days back; 'TATA nano' the ""most"" economical car an Indian could ever get. It was definitely the crave for innovation and their blue ocean strategy that has made this a reality. But while gearing up for an uncontested market space actually the words ""most economical"" of their ad campaigns were way far enough but somehow they ended up doing a big mistake. And the consequence of that big mistake surely is going to be disastrous. Everything was going just fine until they launched the car, but why on earth did they ever think of comparing Nano with the good old India’s favorite entry segment car, i.e the Maruti 800 (Frontie, as her pet name goes). As for me this was the most insensible, dumb, foolish, moronic thing that TATA's would have ever done. They should have never compared Nano with some other small car. Now, this not only has become an advantage for Mar...

"Looks" like Web 2.0!

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Yesterday I was chatting with Sarah, who happens to be my so called chat buddy from the States. While we were just in between of a breezy chat this gal went up like... "Waaaaaw, check it out mate! This is so kewwl! Look how amazing this page looks, its got this mouse over effect when I roll my mouse over these flowers...its simply amzinnn, must be Web 2.0 AJAX, right? Hello! There is definitely some confusion about Ajax, and in particular Web2.0. What you are seeing right now through Ajax is what the Flash guys were probably doing back during the world war. As a Technical Lead, yes I have fought AJAX based Web2.0 as any new dumb buzzword that comes around. I have to admit, there is definitely something in Web2.0. However, in my opinion, it’s got nothing to do with the technology as such. The effect that people like Sarah have been admiring is just a mere UI magic with the help of JS, and this certainly has been around for a long time and yet now it looks like people are realizing ...

Joke of the day!

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Donno from where I got this image... but I guess I thought it was worth uploading.

FlockPod!

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So what if I had to remove the template of my site! No problem! This tools really worth it!! People are talking too much about this new Social-interaction tool for eLearning(I guess so)... so I just wanted to see if I can make one for my blog... Urekaa!! Click on the icon once for a Space Age pod to open! Damnn coool stuff... Ok. You can create polls, have debate, mark your links and do a hell lotsa things... mann... this tools gonna shrink the size of world... Ok. As me how I did it... vishaladsool@gmail.com. And thanks A TON Shamaila for showing me how to do it. :)