Author Archives: Ruchit

Youtube displaying 3D video

Someone on my twitter feed shared a YouTube video link and i saw something which made my eyes go wide. A 3D button on the player control. With single click I could see 2D video into seemingly 3D video. I don’t … Continue reading

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Why do you need a CEO?

Sometime back a wannabe entrepreneur walked up to me, introduced himself, asked about what I am upto and slowly wandered into indirectly asking “Why do you have CEO title, you guys are just too small?“. Probably he had just read … Continue reading

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Why you need to go to good college?

Forbes this morning touted MIT as game changer by brining most of their content online available for anyone who is interested. Folks completing courses online would get a certificate which won’t have weight as that of MIT diploma you get … Continue reading

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Madmimi C# Sample code

We use Madmimi (an awesome emailing service) to send emails to our 9Slides users programmatically. Though they have pretty good developer help with plenty of samples, they do not have .Net C# samples for any of their REST APIs. We wrote some code … Continue reading

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Farewell Microsoft

Excerpts from my final note to Microsoft team Many years ago a senior corporate executive spotted me passionately pitching ideas for my my startup in India and few years later convinced me to join Microsoft India(R&D) as one of the … Continue reading

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401 keg plan

I read this somewhere on the facebook, and could not resist sharing it with you all given the roller coaster going on with economy. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 … Continue reading

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When to use CDN?

Other day there was a discussion in the tech forum about when to use CDN. I shared some of my experience and later realized this could be a good read for technically oriented readers of my blog. But first What … Continue reading

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iPod design was from 1958 transistor?

Below is photo of The 1958 Braun T3 transistor radio, designed by Dieter Rams. Looks like an iPod, isnt…Note the similarity of proportions, colour, corners, location of display (audio versus visual), and the wheel controller From Bill Buxton’s collection

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Snail

Snail Originally uploaded by Ruchit. Found my way back home…

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Met former NASA Astronaut

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know when you get, what you get and where you get. I happen to meet Bonnie J. Dunbar recently during a recent Keiretsu Forum meeting. Apart from all her great accomplishments … Continue reading

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