Posted by Saurav Mohapatra on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 @ 02:20 AM
Want to lose weight quickly? Seeing things a tad too clearly? Want to be "Comfortably Numb" like the Pink Floyd song says (without getting assistance from illegal chemicals)?
Don't worry! Dr. Mohaps got a new lifestyle for you! It's called "BrUnNerTM".
BrUnNerTM = Breakfast +lUnch + dinNer
[note: The meal is to be taken at one usually at 18:30 hrs and has to be washed down with generous doses of caffeine]
[Caveat Emptor : Dr. Mohaps is not a Real Doctor and BrUnNerTM is not a real meal/diet/lifestyle. Side effects might include seeing things, late nights and heavy duty coding binges. Prolonged BrUnNerTM lifestyle might result in severe burnout and addiction to watching crappy hindi films over and over again.]
We finally pushed out the alpha build of dimdim Web Conference out and boy! Did BrUnNerTM help!
We had a marathon bug fixing session just prior to the launch, which helped us set new uptime records. Jay was the hands down winner managing to stay awake for nearly 48 hours and Prakash got a honorary mention for doing 24+ with Jet Lag (he basically continued the same day across the globe traveling from India to US. I think there is a twilight zone episode here somewhere)
Even new hire Rohit was thrown straight into the fray working on the build system.
But anyways with a small dev team stretched to its limits and working round the clock (The only "employee" of dimdim who does not work 7 day weeks is our cleanup lady/maid/cook who has Saturdays and Sundays off ) ] , we have managed to quell a lot of doubts that people initially had as to whether or not we could deliver on the promise of the dream that is dimdim Web Conference.
Now there is celebration (mostly involving catching up with long deserved sleep and sampling other meals of the day individually) but soon (within 16-24 hrs) we are going to drive full steam on the beta path.
Hope to talk to you soon and long live the "BrUnNerTM" lifestyle!
Cheers
mohaps
Posted by Sundar Subramanian on Sun, Sep 03, 2006 @ 04:23 AM
Peter is a 79 year old widower who lives alone in UK. A lover of motorcycles, he likes to reminiscence about his experiences in the Second World War and how he took up art as a hobby after retirement.
Why am I talking about Peter? Because he has already garnered the maximum number of subscribers in YouTube (YouTube ID: geriatric1927) and each of his videos has got tens of thousands of views in just two weeks. His videos have started a passionate movement within the community with many users posting reply videos and some of them are pretty introspective. They talk about the basic human yearning to connect with others and how sites like YouTube help them in this. The benefit YouTube has garnered is immense and when the Web2.0 hype eventually bursts and the dust settles, I expect it to be one of the few startups left standing because YouTube fulfills the innate desire to communicate (even if it does this in an asynchronous manner) and imparts its users a sense of belonging in a community in a user-friendly way. And this is precisely what Dimdim also aims to achieve in a synchronous way with immediate results for all the parties in a conversation.