Manoj Samuel's Web Script

Seth Godin on why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department

2009-12-11T09:36:00.000-08:00

Jessica Livingston on founders at work

2009-12-11T09:35:00.001-08:00

Steve Krug on the least you can do about usability

2009-12-11T09:33:00.000-08:00

Jason Fried of 37signals speaking at Business of Software 2008

2009-12-11T09:30:00.000-08:00

One real good presentation for to get the new software culture that really works. Btw we use basecamp and we just love it.

Change!

2008-12-09T03:00:00.000-08:00

What is change?

v.,
changed, chang·ing, chang·es.

v.tr.

To cause to be different

v.intr.

To undergo transformation or transition

The act, process, or result of altering or modifying: a change in facial expression.
The replacing of one thing for another; substitution: a change of atmosphere; a change of ownership.
A transformation or transition from one state, condition, or phase to another: the change of seasons.

I choose not to be same!
Let's Change!
Let's Change India!

http://letschange.techmastiff.com

Finally TO-DO list on gmail.. wow!

2008-12-09T02:57:00.000-08:00

I have been waiting for this to -do list to happen for a long time now. Its the best thing that could have happen to me. One place to organize everything, to-do list is one of them, especially with emails.

Check out more on what techcrunch has to say about it

Birth of a Product

2008-11-09T23:18:00.000-08:00

Birth Of A Product

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: birth of)

Google Launches SMS Channels for India

2008-10-07T01:45:00.000-07:00

Google Labs in India have launched their latest mobile service named Google SMS channel. Google SMS channel service is designed to enable users to send free group SMS messages.

They are currently testing this service in India before making it available in their international markets.

The service currently supports messages in several languages including English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

Prasad Ram, head (R&D), Google India spoke about this new service: “The SMS channel is in line with our endeavor to connect the 250-million mobile subscribers who have no access to information.”

The service currently does not use any form of advertising in the messages but it might be added after the commercial launch.

Subscribers to this service can currently join as many as 30 channels. He would however not receive more than 10 SMS messages a day.

Message senders can deliver the message using a web based interface and the subscribers can set the time when they want to receive the messages.

Great service to look into as web and mobile interfaces are reducing the gap between both the technology verticals.

I have launched a new channel just to try out things

http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/TechnologyIn

For updates from Technology domain and good initiatives in technology front, this is really good platform to explore.

Thirst!

2008-09-08T18:03:00.001-07:00

Now I know Thirst! ( This presentation has won the First Prize in Slideshare contest)

THIRST

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Google Chrome is its mothership

2008-09-04T19:01:00.000-07:00

With google launching its own browser it seems to have now decided to make sure that they have the mother ship to ensure their product delivery. With all the products enabled and haveing astonishing user experience enabeled and embedded in this broswer for years to come, this browser will give tough time to its competitors.

I even though know it will take time for this broswer to catch up but with the market capture that google products have it should not be that difficult.

Web product developement and delivery will be redefied. Also this adds to one more browser to be supported for web application development companies. Should not be a big deal for Mastiff, as they have already started to look into the options to implement and support the same.

Check out this product at www.google.com/chrome

Surely I have found it to be faster.

Open Social Application Launched

2008-05-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

Blood Search - Mastiff launches the first Open Social Application. With a social cause, Mastiff moves into helping friends with a helping hand. Friend for each other. People will be able to update their blood details and they will be able to search for blood when needed from their friends or friend of friends.

Moving to the next level, expect new products to be on the way!

Till then help your friends - help save lives -

Application Url Below:
http://www.orkut.com/AppInfo.aspx?appUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fopensocial.techmastiff.com%2Flogin_doner.xml

Prime Time Rewind. tv launched from Mastiff

2008-03-20T15:36:00.000-07:00

One more product launched from Mastiff's Development Center.

Mastiff Enables Revolution : Hypecall.com

2008-03-11T21:39:00.000-07:00

Revolution: Mobile telephony at “Skype“ prices!

An English start-up is aiming to revolutionise the world of mobile telephony, has managed to transport Skype’s appealing cost structure to the cell phone and is now launching the beta phase 2. What makes it all especially attractive is that it takes just one text message to initiate a double call-back. The savings? Up to 90 percent!

Modern mobile telephones can do just about everything these days: play music, take pictures, make short films, surf the web and even in certain areas communicate via Skype. But there is one area where all these wonderful things turned out to be woefully disappointing – the costs. Especially phone calls made abroad but also those made into other networks domestically can turn out to be real nightmarish cost traps – and that’s not even including cell phone calls made from abroad. More

Open Social Enabled Poduct - Remindo.com

2008-03-07T10:13:00.000-08:00

What is Remindo? (Open Social Enabled Product)

Remindo is an integrated one-stop workspace that gives you a customizable page, an inbuilt messaging system and a permanent web based address book to assist your daily requirements at work.

It differentiates itself from a social networking site by providing you with a concentrated set of customizable feeds and widgets keeping your professional needs in mind, piled with everything required to make your day at work simpler.

Phew!! Quite a mouthful.
Ummm….but what is a workpage?

Simply put, a workpage can be defined as the homepage specifically designed to assist the working professional.

triber.com unleashed ( One of its kind of product )

2008-03-07T09:21:00.000-08:00

What is triber?

triber offers a complete set of most frequently used and addressed online online functionalities. Users of Triber get their own free website with a virtual hard disk of 2 GB, helpful and easy functionalities like: homepage, web log, digital safe, address book, e-mail, photo library, link/bookmark page, hobby tool, calendar, sale tool and a music library.

Users can keep their personal content on your website for themselves, share it with family, friends, or make it public.

Everything online, in connection with each other, with only one login name and one password.

Mastiff Tech has been the technical partner in implementing the product and the phase 2 of the product is in hanger. Please give us your feedback and also valuable comments. Wish to have a triber.com account?

click on this link and you will get one.. in the mean time you can have a look at mine.

http://manoj.triber.com

Ruby on Rails Product Launched - www.swarmpolls.com

2008-03-07T02:51:00.000-08:00

Its time to say that we have launched the best in the market. We are really happy to announce the launch of www.swarmpolls.com a fully enabled polling portal in Ruby on Rails. Below is the snapshot view:

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

2007-12-22T03:29:00.000-08:00

Social Networks and User Genegrated Content

2007-11-23T08:46:00.000-08:00

Mastiff has created a lot of user generated content platform and provide platforms to bring your ideas to life.

One of the product that went live recently from Mastiff's shop

www.saavn.com

Moments

2007-11-22T13:55:00.000-08:00

There are few things in life that is simple and cherished. Few call them memories, I call them moments. i happen to read this small blog section of one of my friend, we call him Parag.

http://www27.brinkster.com/paragonline/updated/walking.htm

Happy Diwali

2007-11-09T06:07:00.000-08:00

OpenSocial ( Google's response to Microsoft)

2007-11-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

Taking the social Networking war to the next level, Google has now come up with OpenSocial to take on Facebook and in other words Microsoft. Guess who is in Googles side, Linkedin, ilike, hi5, imeem, .. check the partner list the video to see. The actual war to go live soon....

The first OpenSocial Camp from Google:

VON Fall 2007

2007-11-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

I am happy to be a part of the VON conference.I thank Amit Shafrir for inviting me to the conference.

you can see me in Pulver blog.
http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/007607.html

This is really a big event.
check out http://pulverblog.pulver.com/

Interview in blogtalkradio.com

2007-10-23T17:24:00.000-07:00

Click to play!

There is more to football................

2007-08-19T05:12:00.001-07:00

Sometimes when I run out of words.. there is someone who makes the required impact.. who.. my bro.. see what he has to say .... this is to our good days bro!

There is more to football that just kicking the ball and for us (me & my brother) there will definitely be more to football. Anybody recalling their childhood days would agree that it was more fun doing things which were suffixed with dire consequences from the powers that be – our parents. Though our don't do list was much bigger than the do list, some things were as close as being a taboo. Football though never featured in the don't do list (actually our father encouraged me when I started practicing for our school football team), the combination of football and rains were a much ostracized event. I think anybody who has footed a ball will agree with me that noting beats the fun of playing football in the rain. And we never got enough beating for doing that.

What makes football in the rain different from at any other time is 1) the cloud and rain would make it so cool (that's what rain does, right) around that one really never got exhausted playing and 2) (a highly debated point though) with the water and dampness in the field, the skills and tricks of the best of the players came to a naught, as if creating a level playing field. Though we never used to have the likes of Ronaldos and Peles amongst us but the above two reasons at least brought the Tendulkars and Kasparovs to the football field. So far so good, but what used to cause trouble at home was bucket full of soiled & dirty clothes and cuts & bruises in plenty. The later was not of much of a concern as ours was a medical fraternity, the former added to more wet clothes all around the house on overcast days. May be that's what added football in the rain to the don't list. Unless and off course our father did not liked us mingling too much with the colony kids. But for us what added extra fun was to go play and come back without letting the parents know (which you will read further, was not always the case). Mom was sometimes OK with it but we hard time keeping out of dad's sight.

On a typical day we would first start looking out on the field to see if somebody had started playing, as the field was clearly visible from our balcony on the first floor. Then we start listening to our parent's conversations to see if dad was about to go out for some chore. We were sure on Tuesdays he would go to the local vegetable market in the evening and that meant an hours play for us for sure. It was not hard to convince mom but sometimes we just slipped out of the house once dad had left. Otherwise we would say to mom that we were back in a minute. It feels so funny to me now that whenever I tried to slip out of the house my excuse would always be - I'll back in a minute, irrespective of what I was going out for or that it would never be done in a minute. It was my way of saying that I was going out and you (mom) don't want to know what I am up to.

I still can't remember why we siblings never used to be in one team. May be because we used to team up based on our age and the younger ones were put in one team and the elders in other. Though this disparity never used to be a problem because there were no Ronaldos and Peles amongst us but just a bunch of kids trying to hit a ball through a pair of stones kept at opposite ends. Also it looks like we had more pairs of siblings amongst us trying to find a way to nurture sibling rivalries. Another thing that I clearly remember is that we always played bare foot and anybody who came to the field in a sneaker had to do without it on the field. It was an unspoken rule as we all knew that none of us had spare shoes to play football with let alone football shoes. This though led to a lot of cuts for sure but it was a necessary evil. Another must on the field was a lot of arguments and quarrels, on everything from goals to fouls to off sides. Sometimes these small disagreements were fought with more fervour than the game itself. Usually my bother and I used to be the more vocal parties to the dispute as we took our disagreement seriously and often took it home with us also. I think it had nothing to do with football per se but we ended up doing this in all other sports, cricket especially because my brother was passionate about it (that's another story). Otherwise the disputes used to be settled based on whether one was winning or loosing or had a winning or loosing chance based on that one decision. Not to say the kid who owned the ball had a greater say on the proceedings (but we did overcome this veto power later on by pooling money to buy the ball). Though the quarrels did add another dimension to the game with the rare elbows and kicks becoming more frequent. But there was one thing we all agreed and knew would change the fate of the game was if the sky would open up suddenly. Once it started to rain it was anybody's game. Even a badly loosing team felt they had a chance and the till now convincingly wining team felt a knot in their throat. The sudden rush was so intense, as if it were the dying moments of the game even though the evening had just started. Once the field started to show up puddles of water it was anybody's guess that staying on ones feet would win us the game rather than trying a lot of antics. It so much fun and difficult, at the same time, to get the ball from one goal to another that we would end up laughing our heart out and celebrate our goals for minutes to come. I had another thing to worry about was to keep my specs constantly dry in the rain. When it used to rain heavily the specs were of no use and so was I. My worst nightmares used to come true when often my specs would come under somebody's feet. My brother, though also being spectacled, was ok without one while playing.

Though there was one thing that used to worry us both while playing and that was to get back home before dad reached home. So we used to constantly keep one eye on the road and the other one on the proceedings on the field. But as luck would have it we were often spotted by dad in the act of playing or just when we were done with the game. But it did used to make much difference if we were spotted close to the house or on the field. Because if we were on the field then dad would come to the field and thrash us all the way home. It was so embarrassing in front of so many kids who were getting extra dose of fun for the day by watching us getting thrashed.

Looks like and for certain that it was only our dad who would not bother about where he was seen setting his children right. But in hindsight I think this made the other kids not to mess up with us because they feared getting the same treatment. Our dad held a cult status for the kids would have their tails between their legs when they spoke to dad. As we grew older we were able to outrun dad on the field and made sure the beating always happened in the house. But even if he caught us he could not hold on to both of us. Whoever escaped would make a dash for the bathroom and start cleaning up. He would take so much time in doing so as if one has not bathed for a century. The idea here was to let dad vent his anger on the other sibling and give him time to cool off. So it used to be always a race to reach the bathroom first. It was obvious that if you lost this race you won yourself a good amount of thrashing. It was funny once when we on one such race came home to find mom using the bathroom. We had never thought of such bad luck before. But were relieved that now we were both in the open and will have to share what was coming. We rushed to the terrace and started cleaning up taking water from the water tank. Dad became more furious this time as we were spoiling the whole water tank. He started to chase us and we took him for a ride in circles around the two water tanks. It was like a musical chair with us crying to be spared and dad swearing at us. I can't recollect how that ended but as far I know my dad it might not have been a happy ending for us. Funny indeed that often, after all that has happened, some moron kid would come to our house to return the football in full view of dad. Yes, common sense was in short supply with those kids. They used to get the choicest profanities from dad and for us the misadventure doesn't seem to end. Dad used to be in a foul mood for the rest of the evening and we used to stay away from his sight. It used to be so quiet in the house on such evening that we wished some relatives or friends would come home to break the curse. Even though we wished the day to end quickly we knew the night won't be much fun either. We siblings used to settle scores in the night as one of us would have won the game or we would have quarreled on the field or one would have got more thrashing because the other reached the bathroom first. We used to make sure that we did not go to bed, or sometimes even afterwards, until we were even.

I still love football but I miss the days when we had more to look out for than just the opponent in the game. Because playing football for us was not just hitting the ball.

Sunoj

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Picture Perfect!

2007-08-13T00:11:00.000-07:00

I sometimes feel, I live a life less ordinary. Someday, I will reach the top! Today, I am just measuring the height I need to climb.

my Drawings

2007-08-07T21:08:00.001-07:00

Not bad at all.. seems like there is lot that i can still imagine... lions den.. from the eyes on the king!!!

http://mydrawings.com/view?x=945194400&y=-279418400

mannuscript.blogspot.com

2007-07-25T06:59:00.001-07:00

Get jaxtr | Login

Online Media : Mastiff's Capabilites.

2007-07-22T21:15:00.000-07:00

Small Widget for your Feeds!

2007-07-21T19:32:00.000-07:00

Flat world!

2007-07-16T03:11:00.000-07:00

Someone said world is flat and so see it really is. Technology has other meaning for it. I think the level will be to make the world a better place to live .. good work Frappr..

Human Search engine

2007-07-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

Ziki is the place to aggregate all of your content on the web onto one profile, from websites, blogs, podcasts, videos, and then combine all of your social networking profiles. This means your Myspace, Linkedin, Viaduc, 6nergies are all now one one familiar page. You can also add personal and professional information and interests to your Ziki, add tags, feeds, and media files. Most excitingly, you can get your name to be sponsored on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Good place to search about you and see where all you have presence.

My school!!

2007-07-11T09:28:00.000-07:00

Last.fm

2007-07-11T03:13:00.000-07:00

Enjoy Red Hot Chilli Peppers in a Rainy afternoon.

Mastiff Tech and Silverlight

2007-07-10T09:23:00.000-07:00

www.techmastiff.com has launched its first Silverlight Integrated product for its client. Its in closed beta and will be soon available for peoples use. Our client is closely looking forward to this release to make sure they move into the next level.

Waterfall !!

2007-07-09T00:16:00.000-07:00

This was just a few miles from my home.. njoy guys!!

Vuvox: Your channel..

2007-07-08T21:08:00.000-07:00

Good.. hover your mouse on the right side of the flash to see the different sections of the channel. you can do ahead and create your own channel... good one for sure.. :)

Precious!

2006-06-12T18:31:00.000-07:00

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to You?

We always try to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put You through...

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you

If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Song By Depeche Mode

Please Forgive Me!

2006-06-12T18:23:00.000-07:00

Feels like the first kiss and
It's gettin' better baby
No one can better this
I'm still hold on and you're still the one
The first time our eyes met it's the same feelin' I get
Only feels much stronger and I wanna love ya longer

You still turn the fire on
So If you're feelin' lonely.. don't
You're the only one I'd ever want
I only wanna make it good
So if I love ya a little more than I should

Please forgive me I know not what I do
Please forgive me I can't stop lovin' you
Don't deny me
This pain I'm going through
Please forgive me

If I need ya like I do
Please believe me
Every word I say is true
Please forgive me I can't stop loving you
Still feels like our best times are together
Feels like the first touch

We're still gettin' closer baby
Can't get close enough I'm still holdin' on
You're still number one I remember the smell of your skin
I remember everything
I remember all your moves
I remember you
I remember the nights ya know I still do

One thing I'm sure of
Is the way we make love
And the one thing I depend on
Is for us to stay strong
With every word and every breath I'm prayin'
That's why I'm sayin'...

It's not easy to be Me!

2006-06-12T11:42:00.000-07:00

I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
I’m just out to find
The better part of me

I’m more than a bird…I’m more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It’s not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I’ll never see

It may sound absurd…but don’t be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed…but won’t you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It’s not easy to be me

Up, up and away…away from me
It’s all right…You can all sleep sound tonight
I’m not crazy…or anything…
I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive

Men weren’t meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I’m only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I'm only a man looking for her dream
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet

and it's not easy to...

It’s not easy to be me.

Song: Its not easy to be me, David Grey (Dawson's Creek)

Creeks Calling!!

2006-06-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

wow this was a good weekend .. went for MI3 .. was good.. rate it 3/5.. but you can miss it and see it on dvd on a boring sat :) . Other than this found a really good place to escape in thane.. really peaceful and loved it like anything. If I am not reachable on my cell .. the only place I might be, will be that, I really don't want to kill the silence with the beep of my cell.

I have been from a city of lakes ( bhopal) and lucky that I am again into the another one( thane). but you wont believe it .. its not the lake that's calling.. its the creek.. its really a b'ful place. You can be lost in the beauty for ever and never want to return home.

when I reached there the sun was setting on one end and moon as of on the other end waiting to color it with silver ... time passed ... all I knew it was not a dream.. Sun went down coloring the sky with shades of orange and moon started painting the river like its canvas with its own shades .. for a nature lover like me ..it has been like visit to heaven ... it really helps you to forget all the pain , pressure that you are in .. at least for the time you are there.. I hope to run to it again.. May be again and again ...

Going for a personal diary online!

2006-06-11T17:37:00.000-07:00

Well other than this blog, planning to have a personal diary online.. that will be really close to my heart and day today happennings of my life. I know there is lot to put out there as I seem to be lonely again. Some times .... ok.. from here on... it goes into my personal diary...

Wanna Know what people are searching every 30 mins on Google?

2006-06-03T06:52:00.000-07:00

ok here you have the answer...

Google Current__

By this time you all might have come to know that i am a google fan! Tell me who is not .. aaahh. i know ... CEO (Yahooooooo) .. :)

Check this out ... njoy!!

http://www.current.tv/google

Google NoteBook ! Phew !

2006-06-02T12:36:00.000-07:00

I happen to see one b'ful product to work as notebook. yes it's from none other than Google.
Helps you to collect contents as you surf the web. This is directly added to the the gmail account of your choice. Also you can make public or keep it private.

Download Google Notebook

After installing, IE click on the small icon on the right bottom.Login to your gmail account. now you are all set to take a note! many more features. You can look for more feature and mail me the if you find more.

The only issue is that its only compatible with IE.

Notebook : I tried something ....

I searhed for flowers in Google and phew!! google has as good collection :)

Made a selection and then clicked on notebook icon(), ...ok ..ok .. it will be better if you see this link below..

http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/overview.html

Finaly after all that hard work!!

First Day at BLOG land!

2006-05-28T07:30:00.000-07:00

Hope this will be my playground for the next few days or months to come ... depends how fast m addicted..

For the time being you can look at this to keep youself updated of the latest in the world..

one of my favorite!! OK i have Made one more change to it, rather than giving you an image of it I have loaded the website here itself for you.

http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html