I saw a possibility of something similar when I visited Talkie Town yesterday at Hyderabad and amazed how government can allow operation of such activities which can risks lifes of 1000s of people.

I went to watch ‘Welcome’ one of the latest hindi flick in Krishna-Narshima screens of talkie town in Miyapur yesterday. To my surpise exit route for all the people coming out of the hall was blocked with lots of contruction material including iron structures, mound of sand (or something similar). Add to that, there was some water leakage happening which made the complete route pretty slippery.

It was just not the route, i found that hall itself is not yet ready( or atleast its management) to take on to the challenges of converting an old theatre into a cinemaplex. I found lots of people complaining about mosquitos inside the hall, insufficient number of toilets, cleaniness of toilets, mall functioning of ACs and what not.

I hope someone will take immediate action to rectify these serious flaws which are definitely big risk to all talkie town movie goers.

Giving up the traditional way of finding events on newspapers and billboards, which are hard to remember and more importantly difficult to share, my wife Vibha has started this portal known as EventNu.

Recieving listing of latest events in the email inbox,automatically, along with directions, offers and more, that too for FREE. It has never been so easy.

This is about Event aNd yoU and currently lists events happening in Hyderabad, Pune & Mumbai. Interestingly, Vibha has recieved couple of intents from residents of other cities who want to contribute to the portal. This is cool!

Check it out, if you havent already www.eventnu.com

Wishing her Good Luck!

Antar-prerna is a composite word. Antar stands of inner and Prerna stands for insipiration which together means ‘something which inspires you within.

Just thought like sharing with you all..

I have worked with a company which was way too much focussed towards its long term products and missed out to milk cow for short term.

Results were almost catastrophic, core team got dismantled loosing on long term goals as well.

I consider short term goals as bread and long term goal as butter.

Think Bread but do think butter as well.

What I dont like…or rather I would say I wish I had a feature in TataSky which allowed me to set reminders not only via the indexed program list, but also when there is some commercial going on for a movie or a soap I wish to watch.

To explain it a bit further, say I am watching a channel on which they are broadcasting an advertisement about a forthcoming movie next week at 8pm. So if I wish to watch this movie, either I should rely on very limited and short memory OR I should go to program list, browse through it so that i can reach that particular timeslot and set reminder (which is just soooo many clicks/presses if this movie is scheduled after a week).

There should be single button click option right there which should allow me to set reminder than and there for this telecast. Right there!

Technically, I think this should be quite possible. What TataSky needs to do probably is to get broadcasters like Sony or Star to tag there advertisement pertaining to forthcoming telecast. Just catch these tags and display an option for user to click ‘red’ button to set reminder.

Simple isnt?

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What I saw today is a big leap from what they had 2 years back. I just checked Facebook game application which is powered by bunchball’s flash engine.

Game collection is just ok and finding a player online to play with can be tough ( I am sure this will change with its rising popularity) but I liked the idea of karma point and speciality avatars.

See below this is something I just created using 200 KP.

Cute, isn’t?

I am wondering why this is just a plug-in app for facebook and not a full fledged service running independently? Rajat?

Microsoft tops the list of the Best companies to work for in India Study, 2007 jointly conducted by Business Today, Mercer and TNS India.

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