Thinking about buying Samsung Galaxy SII? Wait

Are you thinking about buying anAndroid Phone?

And have you zeroed on Samsung Galaxy S2 as the best option available in the market?

If yes, my advice: WAIT.

If you have not heard, Samsung along with Google recently launched "Samsung Galaxy Nexus" @ Hong Kong. Read more about it @ http://www.google.co.in/nexus. 

Samsung Galaxy Nexus, uploaded with Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwitch, is the best available Android phone out in the market. Unlike Apple & Unlike last time, when Google launched Samsung Nexus S only in USA, this phone would be available in India. So Indian Android buyers, it is time to wait for Samsung Galaxy Nexus and wow your friends in the party with the new Face Unlock Feature.

Dynamic Views in Blogger Rocks

It was five years back, I set up my first blogger account. I had been just selected to IIM Indore. And all my new classmates were sending their blog details to yahoo groups (Most of them with just 1-5 posts. And that point of time, I did not understand the ulterior motive behind it.. :)). Inspired by them, I started this blog - Titled then as "Tirunelveli--> Chennai-->Indore-->???". Basically to communicate that I don't have any idea whether the heck this is leading me to. Then the blog metamorphed as "A Blog to Express and not to impress" and then as India-centricity. In the meantime, I amassed a good number of page views and my first 100 USD through Google Adsense. 

But I had always regretted the decision for choosing blogspot over other blogging platforms - wordpress. Only the fact that I can't enable adsense account in wordpress kept me in the blogger platform. And I was forced to live with the ugly-looking standard templates of blogger. 

So it was surprising today, when i accidentally found the existence of newly created templates called "Dynamic Views". And I have to say "DYNAMIC VIEWS ROCKS". You can read more about Dynamic Views @ http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/09/dynamic-views-seven-new-ways-to-share.html

Today, I am proud of my choice of "Blogger Platform". :)

Hope you also like it. 

Google takes a crack at Online Movie Distribution in India

Majority of successful start-ups in India are focussed on adapting a foreign idea to Indian environment. And sometimes, these start-ups do so a good job that foreign company can never enter India. e.g. SnapDeal & Groupon.. makemytrip.com, etc.. 


So it is rather interesting when Google India tries to do the same. Its entry to online movie distribution through www.youtube.com/boxoffice is one of the shrewdest moves by the company in recent times. As US statistics show, movie rentals contribute a significant amount to internet data traffic.  And in India, a paid model will never work. So Google is killing two birds - by taking a leadership role in online movie distribution through its youtube and this also helps it to position itself along with India TV Channels in the minds of the advertisers. 


Launched three months back,  YouTube Box Office channel has already got over 11.5 million views in India and is the #20 most subscribed (all time) channel in India. And they have recently started telecasting 2 box office movies

1. Shaitan
2. Pyaar Ka Punchnama

Please note that both these movies are being telecasted ahead of their TV release. 

Reference: Google India Blog: YouTube doubles the movie treat on YouTube Box Office

Google Becomes Evil

Until now, Only the good things about Google used to reach our ears - 20% personal project time, unlimited sick days, Free Food, etc. Lot of people even expected Google the Savior to save them from the Evil Corporation - Microsoft. Sadly, those golden days for Google are slowly coming to an end.

A few Days Back, Google laid off people for the first time. Today ex-Google badmouthing Google email is blogged at Techcrunch – Why Google Employees Quit. It is really sad to see the beginning of the end of Google love story.