Saturday, April 30, 2011

વાંસલડી ડૉટ કૉમ - કૃષ્ણ દવે



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વાંસલડી ડૉટ કૉમ(.com),
મોરપિચ્છ ડૉટ કૉમ,
ડૉટ કૉમ વૃંદાવન આખું,
કાનજીની વેબસાઈટ એટલી વિશાળ છે કે કયાં કયાં નામ એમાં રાખું ?


ધારો કે મીરાંબાઈ ડૉટ કૉમ રાખીએ તો રાધા રિસાય એનું શું ?
વિરહી ગોપીનું ગીત એન્ટર(Enter) કરીએ ને ક્યાંક ફ્લૉપી(Floppy) ભીંજાય એનું શું ?
પ્રેમની આ ડિસ્કમાં(Disk) તો એવી એવી વાનગી કે કોને છોડું ને કોને ચાખું ?
કાનજીની વેબસાઈટ…


ગીતાજી ડૉટ કૉમ એટલું ઉકેલવામાં ઊકલી ગઈ પંડિતની જાત.
જાત બળી જાય છતાં ખ્યાલ ના રહે ને એ જ માણે આ પૂનમની રાત.
તુલસી, કબીર, સુર, નરસૈંયો થઈએ તો ઊકલે છે કંઈક ઝાંખું ઝાંખું.
કાનજીની વેબસાઈટ…


એ જ ફક્ત્ પાસવર્ડ(Password) મોકલી શકે છે જેના સ્ક્રીન(Screen) ઉપર નાચે છે શ્યામ.
એને શું વાઇરસ(Virus) ભૂંસી શકવાના જેનાં ચીર પૂરી આપે ઘનશ્યામ ?
ઇન્ટરનેટ(Internet) ઉપર એ થનગનતો આવે, હું કોઈ દિવસ વિન્ડો(Window) ના વાખું.
કાનજીની વેબસાઈટ…

Amazon, PCS, L & T Infotech, Morpheous, InfoBerry Hiring Various Skills

1. Amazon
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Please find the Job Description for your reference and send me your acceptance with your updated profile if you are interested :

If you are a sharp software engineer with a penchant for creativity, strong analytical and problem solving skills, a solid computer science foundation and the desire to be an individual contributor to Amazon's next generation technology, we want to talk with you. Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to write software that benefits millions of customers and interacts with sellers spanning the globe. The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, software experience, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems. The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and above all a great team player. He should drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with aggressive cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

Experience and Knowledge
SDE-I & High SDE-I (Will process accordingly)
Experience : 1-4yrs
     * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Masters/PhD is a plus
    * Strong understanding of CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms and programming languages)
    * Fluency in day-to-day development on Linux platform. Familiarity with C++/Java IDEs like Net beans or Eclipse a plus
    * Firsthand experience developing distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications in a 24/7 environment.
    * Understanding of performance/space tradeoffs and browser compatibility issues.
    * Understanding of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA/OOD) and Design Patterns.
    * Strong leadership skills, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

Warm Regards,

Shazia Begum |Talent Acquisition Team- Hyderabad| Amazon.com, India
Email ID: shaziab@amazon.com (+91-40-44358300)
Amazon.com $50 Gift Card (0109) 
2. PCS
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Mandatory Skill sets

.Net 3.5 C#, VB.Net, WPF, WCF, windows based


Candidate should have 3+ years of experience.


Job location: Gandhinagar


Positions are open at different levels.


About Patni:

Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (Patni) (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is one of the leading global providers of InformatioIn Technology services and business solutions. Over 14,500 professionals service clients across diverse industries, from 27 sales offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and 22 Global Delivery Centers in strategic locations across the world. We have serviced more than 400 FORTUNE 1000 companies, for over two decades.

Our vision is to achieve global IT services leadership in providing value-added high quality IT solutions to our clients in selected horizontal and vertical segments, by combining technology skills, domain expertise, process focus and a commitment to long-term client relationships.


We offer end to end product design & development services across diverse verticals such as: BFSI, Manufacturing, Automotive, Industrial Automation, Mobile & Wireless,Medical Devices, Office Automation, Consumer Electronics, Storage & Telecom.


If you find the job profile as per your needs then apply with your details. Also, please feel free to forward this to your friends & colleagues who are working on the same technologies.


Current Company:

Total Experience:
Relevant Experience:
Current CTC:
Expected CTC:
Notice Period:

Looking forward to hearing from you.


Thanks & Regards,

Rekha Patkar
Executive Recruitment
PES Business Unit,
Patni Knowledge Park,
C Block- Awing, 3rd Floor
IT-1, IT-2, TTC Industrial Area,
Thane Belapur Road,
Airoli , Navi Mumbai- 400708
Tel (Dir) + 91 22-3917 4359

3.  L & T Infotech
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Company: L & T Infotech
Location :
Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune
Total Experience :5-6 Yrs
Qualification: BE/BTECH (Relevant), MCA
Mandatory Skills: OBIEE
•OBI Development especially worked on Repository building and Presentation Layer Knowledge of DAC and BI Applications Preferable is Data warehousing and any other reporting tool knowledgeSend
send yr cv at : arjav.acharya@lntinfotech.com


4. Morpheous
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PHP:

Experience Needed: 1.5+ years
With Knowledge of: Core PHP, Wordpress, Joomla, Payment gateways integration, any of ecommerce frameworks
Should Have:
  • Strong communication skills
  • Able to give inputs and ideas in project meetings.
  • Able to understand project requirements with minimum assistance.
  • Should be pro-active, self starter, eager to learn new technologies
  • and have flexible approach
SEO:
Experience Needed: 2+ years
With Knowledge of: Directory submission, linkbuilding, onpage and offpage, market research, Social Media marketing, Article posting and other basic functionality of the field.
Should Have:
  • Strong communication skills
  • Able to give inputs and ideas in project meetings.
  • Able to understand project requirements with minimum assistance.
  • Should be pro-active, self starter, eager to learn new technologies
  • and have flexible approach
Designer:

Experience Needed: 2+ years
With Knowledge of: Photoshop CS 4 or latest, Flash latest, Illustrator. Knowledge of 3D max or any other 3D designing tools will be considered.
Should Have:
  • Strong communication skills
  • Able to give inputs and ideas in project meetings.
  • Able to understand project requirements with minimum assistance.
  • Should be pro-active, self starter, eager to learn new technologies
  • and have flexible approach

About Company:

Company Name : Morpheous
Website : www.themorpheous.com
Address : 304,Sarita complex, Nr Samudra anexy, off C G road , Ahmedabad.

We are team of youngsters believing in "We love what we do" and believe in providing opportunity for others to join us and grow with us. We are looking to hire more team players as we look forward to bright and spectacular future.

Kindly send your Resumes on below ID: jobs@themorpheous.com

With Regards,
HR,
Morpheous

 5. InfoBerry
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Hi,

Greetings of the day.

Infoberry Technologies is fast growing IT company and a leader in providing in providing Web & Mobile based application Development, Testing and Software Outsourcing Services. We are looking for functional testing candidates who can join our team.

Job Title : QA Engineer
Total Experience : 1 - 3 years

Skills Required :
1) Work experience in Software Testing Life Cycle, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Defect Reporting & Verification.
2) Expertise in testing methodologies and processes.
3) Should have attitude to learn new things and automate anything and everything.
4) Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
5) Excellent communication skills.
6) Should have client interaction skills mainly US, UK clients.

Knowledge of automation testing is plus.

Job Location: Vadodara - Gujarat, India.
Qualification: BE/MCA/B.Tech in Computer Science/Computer Applications/IT.

If you are interested, send across your updated resume along with following details at careersatib@gmail.com:
1. Full Name :
2. Total Exp :
3. Relevant Exp :
4. Current CTC :
5. Expected CTC :
6. Notice period (10-15 days):
7. DOB :
8. Contact No :
10. Current Location :
11. Reason for Change :

Regards,
Infoberry Recruitment Team.

Friday, April 22, 2011

OpenERP(TinyERP) and TCS Hiring Experts!

TinyERP


An opening for Web Technology in Tiny ERP Pvt. Ltd. The details for the same are as follows:-

Experience: 2+ years.

No. of Openings: 5

Qualification criteria:

- Should have degree from MCA / ME / BTech / MTech / BE
- Good communication skill.
- Work experience in any web based technologies (like ASP.net, php, etc...)
- Good command over object oriented programming, Javascript, CSS, HTML,DHTML, MVC.
- Should be ready to change technology (Mostly python based web technology).
- Training will be provided by organization.
- Having knowledge of python, jQuery(Javascript Library) will be plus point.


Salary: According to work experience.


Interested candidates can send their CV at jobs@tinyerp.co.in with reference Jay Vora(jvo@tinyerp.com)

TCS
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Greetings from TCS!!!!!!!


We have Walkin Drive on 24th April 2011 @ TCS, Ahmedabad for the following skill set. These requirements are based in TCS MUMBAI. If you meets below TCS crateria, required skills & experience level then you can directly attend the interview at below venue.


IT Skill:


Asp.Net - 2.5-6Yrs
Java - 2.5 to 7Yrs


Interview Details:
Venue:
4th , 5th & 6th Floor, Infotower -1,
Infocity, Ch-O, Gandhinagar 382009


Timing for registration: 09.00AM - 12:30 P.M.


Joining Location: Mumbai


Day/ Date: Sunday / 24th April'2011


Contact person : Kumar M


Candidates need to carry
Hardcopy of CV*
Photo ID card of Current Company*
2 passport size photograph*
Last 3 months salary slips*


Please reach the venue on time between 09:00 AM to 12.30 PM
(It can be a day long process).


ELIGIBILITY (Mindetory):
BE/ B Tech/ ME/ M Tech/ M. Sc / MCA / MCM/ MS/ MBA [with IT/ Systems/Finance ] / CA / ICWA.
Min 3 Yrs to 8 Yrs of relevant IT experience.
Only B. Sc, BCA & Technical Diploma ( 3 Yrs) with min 4 yrs relevant IT experience.
Consistent academic record is a must (50% and above)
Not more than 2 years break in Career / Academics or Non - IT Experience
Correspondence/Part time courses will not be considered.
Candidates interviewed by TCS in the last 6 months are not eligible.




Pls be advised that you need to upload your resume and fill the application form by creating your profile on the TCS career portal


The steps are as follows:
1. Log on to www.careers.tcs.com
2. Got to 'Experienced Professionals' and select geography as 'India'
3. On the left you will find 'Create your Profile'. Click on the same and fill all the details.
4. Once you submit, an EP number and password will be sent to your mailbox.
5. Using the same, upload your updated resume and the application form on the portal.




Regards,
Tata Consultancy Services


Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Best Scrabbles where mother-in-law becomes a woman hitler !

Some best scrabbles: Go through all scrabbles, they are tricky ones !


The notes on complete ERP

When you rearrange the letters:

Then,lets come to OpenERP

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

When you rearrange the letters:

FLIT ON CHEERING ANGEL

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DILIP VENGSARKAR
When you rearrange the letters:

SPARKLING DRIVE


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BARA THEDA

When you rearrange the letters:

ARAB DEATH


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PRINCESS DIANA
When you rearrange the letters:

END IS A CAR SPIN

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MONICA LEWINSKY
When you rearrange the letters:

NICE SILKY WOMAN


--Monica's Story---

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM
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PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER
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ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

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DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

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THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

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GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

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THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

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SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME
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ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

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ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

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SNOOZE ALARMS:

When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S
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A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

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THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE
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Awesome:
When you rearrange the letters:
O E, Saw me?
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ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE


AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:



MOTHER-IN-LAW:


When you rearrange the letters:


Monday, April 18, 2011

Two good weekends to write on!


Last 2 weekends were very very special as I went into the memories of old days, saw few good movies and played good games of cricket.
These old days include the days at school, days at college and days at first job.


Saturdays : Cleaning of House/Room
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There is always a scope of cleaning  and I had a chance to cleanup few corners of house and found few nice memories and spent almost the half day in order to play well with all the memories. I got few certificates/results revisited and clicked them to share here. There are still a lot of medals/certificates unshared here.

Recalling the Great days of Standard 7,8,9(Revisited Results)
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I had those superb and unforgettable days while studying at Sheth C M Highschool sector-23, Gandhinagar and Luckily I was always among the toppers. I always had 90+ % in each exam.


Not to forget those heavily Talented friends Sandip Patel(Nirlife Pharmaceuticals), Dr. Saurabh Patel(USA), Vineet Patel(Canada) and Dr. Yatin Joshi(Baroda).
These guys are still in touch and they share a lot of great memorable days with me during study. They are doing best in their respective fields.

I was smiling and feeling proud to see these set of results and thinking "Where the hell I had less marks?"
98% in first 2 exams !
94% in 8th!

95% in 9th and 96% in 10th Prelims!




Days at College

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Next set of certificates were IBM one and Microsoft One.
IBM GIL Invite Project Initiative:
--> It was a good time when we participated for such a competition and I had a great support from Miss Anupama Jaria, Kapil Devani and Shyamal Amin.
Out of all these people, Shyamal has never talked about(seen) the project and got a nice certificate ;);) :D .Anupama and Kapil did good work on project and made it possible to complete. It was a project on PHP for Kala Academy, Gujarat.


Microsoft Student Rockstar:
--> I got all India 41st Rank here. It was a competition for All India All level engineering Students where they had to participate in quizzes, register for webinars, answer questions and submit whitepapers on different topics. It was again a good experience.




Days at First Job
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I completed the college and in the 6th sem, I got selected via off-campus in Anish Information Technology, A'bad.

Not to forget that I did my last sem training there and I got 3 rockstars, the great programmers named Arun Malik(Engineer at HAL), Taral Shah(Cognizant, USA) and Hitesh Gondalia (DBA). Normally, students are supposed to do one project for the last sem, but due to the greatness of all 4 of us, we could finish one project per month and at the end of the semester, we completed 4 projects for the last sem and we smartly named it with a combination of all projects as  'E-Commerce and Web Portal applying SEO'. Our mentor was Saurabh Dave(Cybage,Gandhinagar) and he had supprted all the 4 mischievous trainees nicely and we turned the atmosphere around at the company. 


97.4%ile, 130th in India
 Meanwhile, I happened to meet a guy Vishal Prajapati(IBM,Bangluru),who was a senior at AIT and he inspired me to attend in GATE exam to do Masters. He was a great force and source of inspiration for me while working in AIT.Funny thing about the Exam was, Vishal called me at night and said to be ready in the morning because we have an exam.I was not ready at all, had no reading at all. We both attended the exam and Vishal scored 99.7 %ile with All India 29th Rank and I scored 97.40 %ile with all India 130th Rank. Kudos, good news for both of us. Vishal got admission in IIT Bombay and he is now working at IBM, Bangluru. I had applied to IIT Bombay, Kharagpur and Kanpur. Although having a good rank,having race with CE/IT discipline students in same category, I could not get listed in any of the colleges and I didn't try anymore because I already had got great job in TinyERP Pvt.Ltd,Gandhinagar with all best wishes of Navrang Oza,Dharmesh Rathod and Mantavya Gajjar.



Movies I saw:
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During these last 2 weekends, I happened to see a Hindi Movie 'Thank you',which was a good one, watchable but an inspiration from an English Movie Accepted which I already has seen 3 years ago.
I watched Insomnia (Difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, or having non-refreshing sleep) and Desperado(Desperate to do a crime). Both are highly rated and good movies to watch.

I am into the insomnia now. Though I haven't done anything wrong,but I get less time to sleep.

One more interesting fact is that,I saw my resume for the vry first time after 4 years.


Cricket and Charity:
Last but not the least, its Cricket. Every Sunday, I play cricket and both the sundays brought great high scoring games of cricket with very close finishes for us.
We (HelipadCricketLovers) started doing charity and as a part of it, we distributed Pots to friends which can be helpful to Birds and animals in Hot Summer. We promise to do more.

Thanks for reading. Have a great day ahead.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Twitter: Consider This Your Intervention.


Sarah Lacy Apr 14, 2011 
 
This is the post I haven’t wanted to write for weeks. This is the post no one wants to write. No one wants to say Twitter is in trouble. That’s like shooting your best friend’s dog.
But I’m increasingly convinced that Twitter is operationally in trouble, for a lot of the same reasons that Fortune’s Jessi Hempel outlines in her cover today, and other reasons I’ve been hearing about for months.


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The signs:
1. Three CEOs in less than three years is never a good sign. Jack Dorsey was the clear visionary of this company, and as we’ve seen with Square, a visionary beyond Twitter. Evan Williams was the guy who saw the promise of Twitter, invested his own money in it and made sure it actually became a company. Without either of them, Twitter would not exist. But the two couldn’t coexist at the company.

So what does the company do? Well it tried Dorsey running it; it tried Williams running it and for a variety of reasons– some documented and some not– neither worked. Everyone I’ve spoken with in the industry and at the company says CEO #3, Dick Costolo, has what the others lacked– he’s an amazing operator. But that’s a Sheryl Sandberg. Twitter needs a Mark Zuckerberg if it’s going to be more than acquisition bait. It needs a product visionary, which leads us to point number 2….

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2. A product visionary, at a minimum, is a full time job. At most great technology companies the product visionary is the CEO– think Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Steve Jobs, Zynga’s Mark Pincus, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and of course Facebook’s Zuckerberg. Plenty of research has shown that when a product-oriented founder stays the CEO the company tends to excel. But for a variety of reasons, this doesn’t always work out. That doesn’t mean a company is toast. Titles are just titles. In an earlier era, Sandberg might have been named Facebook’s “grown up” CEO ala Google.

But at a minimum, a company centered around a surging, beloved, disruptive product needs a full-time, in-house C-level executive who is focused 100% on product– not only 40 hours a week, but every second of every day. Despite early reports when he stepped down, that is not Williams. He has stepped into a board member and advisor role, eyeing his next thing. And, as Fortune reports via unnamed sources, that is not Dorsey.

And really, that Fortune story shouldn’t be a surprise, although Dorsey denies telling anyone it is a short-term gig. Of course Twitter’s product visionary can’t be Dorsey– he has a full-time job running Square. Square– while a potentially a more disruptive company than Twitter– has a long way to go on distribution, business model and execution. Time-sharing Square’s product visionary– long term– just hurts both companies. If Dorsey is going to do a great job at either, he has to pick.
There are few examples of even the best entrepreneurs and CEOs managing two more-than-full-time jobs. Steve Jobs comes to mind being CEO of Apple and Pixar, but he was clearly more hands on at the former. He wasn’t brainstorming Finding Nemo or sketching out fish, while he was dreaming up the look and feel of the iPod. Elon Musk comes to mind with Tesla and SpaceX, but he has always conceded it is not sustainable.

I’d heard speculation earlier this week that Dorsey might pick Twitter, stepping into a chairman role at Square and leaving the day-to-day responsibility to Keith Rabois, who has had plenty of startup experience with PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. If you want to stretch the Jobs analogy, that’s was essentially his path in leaving Pixar and returning to Apple for redemption and glory. But if I had to bet, I’d go with Fortune’s sources and guess Twitter is the more temporary post.
That means Twitter needs to find an amazing product visionary– stat. (To Twitter’s credit, some attempts at this have been thwarted.)

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3. This is more important for Twitter than it might be at a lot of tech companies because product is the thing that is unequivocally working. Sure it has glitches, and sure it hasn’t shown dramatic innovation, but it doesn’t matter. People love it. It has transformed how the media works. And it has the one thing Facebook lacks: Celebrities all over the place. The reason Twitter is worth billions of dollars is the product.

It makes sense that Costolo would be focused on revenues and operations– those are his strengths and Twitter’s weakest spots. Reports Twitter’s revenues are higher than many expected, but they’re still in the low hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s a lot lower than most Valley companies valued at several billion dollars. And I’ve heard from a dozen sources that Twitter has been a mess operationally. I’ve heard there’s a rift between older employees owning most the stock and working fewer hours than newer employees hired by the hard-charging Costolo. And that makes sense, given the three CEOs the staff has been hired by and variously reported to.

Most people I’ve spoken with seem confident Costolo can fix these problems. Here at TechCrunch, we salute the ballsy stance he’s taken on San Francisco’s payroll tax– which potentially benefits the entire ecosystem. But what gives him cover to do that is the product continuing to grow and delight its users. Twitter absolutely can not afford to get complacent at product as it’s turning this corner. If it does, it risks looking uncomfortably like MySpace in its glory years– an innovative product people loved with loads of celebrity cache that had no innovation and was out-gunned and out-maneuvered by Facebook.

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4. Please don’t settle for the acquisition, Twitter. On a day-to-day basis I use Twitter more than any other Web 2.0 product, and it’s transformed the distribution of TechCrunch. It’s the realization of the early promise of Digg’s mission to up-end the media business. I would hate to see it gobbled up as a pawn in the war between Google and Facebook. Twitter is better than that. Twitter is more important than that.

When Williams was running it, the odds seemed remote– barring an obscene offer from Google– because Williams had been down that route before with Blogger and didn’t exactly relish the experience, even being a part of a smaller, more nimble and pre-IPO version of Google.

But now Williams is gone. Dorsey is half-there. I have an uncomfortable feeling Twitter Tips and Secrets for Your Business Learning How to Build Applications and Market with Twitterthat if the product void isn’t filled by someone dynamic, Twitter will start to sputter and that several billion dollar purchase offer will be impossible to turn down. I don’t want to be alarmist– Twitter isn’t at that point now. But it’s at that crossroads now, where it needs to get back on the path to building the next great public Web company or pick the path of inevitable acquisition.

Twitter has a great board, a stable CEO and the goodwill of nearly all of Silicon Valley. This doesn’t have to end badly.


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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Want to know the scale of the Universe ? Go through this great way!

Amazing website that shows scale of the Universe. Here.

Examples:





You will surely share to others!

Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way!
Press left or right or drag the scroll bar to zoom in and out. Press down to toggle quality.



Go through this video once finished!



Thanks.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Everything about The 'Sholay' : No movie is better than this!

I actually watched Sholay recently and thought to share some info on it.

Sholay

Download Sholay (English subtitled)

Sholay (Embers)

Theatrical release poster
Sholay Bollywood DVD 
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Produced by G.P. Sippy
Screenplay by Salim-Javed
Starring Dharmendra
Amitabh Bachchan
Hema Malini
Sanjeev Kumar
Jaya Bhaduri
Amjad Khan
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography Dwarka Divecha
Editing by M.S. Shinde
Studio United Producers
Sippy Films
Distributed by Sippy Films
Release date(s) 15 August 1975 (1975-08-15)
Running time 204 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget Indian Rupee ₹2 crore (US$444,000)
Gross revenue Indian Rupee ₹15 crore (US$3.33 million)
Sholay (Hindi: शोले, Urdu: شعلے, English: Embers) is a 1975 Indian action adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered among the greatest classic hits in the history of Bollywood, India's Hindi film industry.[1][2][3] Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan. The film, shot in the rocky terrain of Ramanagara, Karnataka,[4] is the story of two petty criminals hired to capture a ruthless dacoit by the name of Gabbar Singh.
When first released, Sholay opened to a tepid response, but word of mouth convinced movie-goers to give the film a chance, and soon it became a box office phenomenon.[5] It ran for 286 weeks straight (more than five years) in one Mumbai theatre.[6] Sholay achieved a still-standing record of 60 golden jubilees (50 consecutive weeks) across India.[7] It was the first film in the history of Indian cinema to celebrate a silver jubilee (25 weeks) at over a hundred theaters across India.[8] By some accounts, Sholay is the highest grossing film of all time in Indian cinema when inflation is considered, although such figures are not known with certainty.[9]
In 2005, Indiatimes ranked the movie amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films".[10] That same year, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards gave it a special award called Best Film of 50 Years. The film topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.[11]

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Plot

The small village of Ramgarh is home to ex-policeman Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar). The movie begins with Thakur summoning an old colleague and requesting him to track down a pair of small-time thieves he once apprehended in the line of duty. Though the two petty criminals Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) are notorious, Thakur feels that they would be the ideal men to help him end the tyranny of Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), an infamous dacoit (bandit) wanted by the authorities for a Rs 50,000 reward. After scenes showing how the three fought together during a train robbery attempt, and how the criminals often get in and out of jail, Veeru and Jai are found and brought to Ramgarh. They are told by Thakur that they are to bring Gabbar to him alive for Rs 20,000, plus the Rs 50,000 reward.
Three of Gabbar's enforcers arrive in Ramgarh to collect supplies from the defenseless villagers, but they go back empty-handed due to Veeru and Jai's intervention. In Gabbar's camp, the tyrant interrogates the three about why they were defeated by only two men. His psychotic nature is shown when he subjects his men to a twisted version of Russian roulette, but eventually shoots the three men dead.
Gabbar attacks Ramgarh on Holi, and in a tough battle, Veeru and Jai meet their match and are held at gunpoint. With his two recruits facing death, Thakur has a chance to throw a gun to Veeru. Instead of helping, Thakur simply stands watching. With quick thinking, Veeru and Jai manage to save their lives. They then state their intentions to leave the villagers to defend themselves, due to Thakur's cowardice. Before they can leave, Thakur tells them the real reason of why he wants Gabbar, and why he could not help them. Some time ago, Thakur had caught Gabbar and had him imprisoned only for him to escape and plot an evil revenge. Gabbar made his way to Thakur's home and killed most of his family. The only person to survive this massacre was Thakur's younger daughter-in-law, Radha (Jaya Bhaduri). Thakur tracked down Gabbar, but this time the tyrant held the upper hand thanks to his gang, and cut off both of Thakur's arms. Thakur had hidden this disability from Veeru and Jai, but now it was clear why he could not physically help them.
Living in Ramgarh, the cynical young Jai and lively Veeru find themselves growing fond of the villagers, especially two girls. Veeru is attracted to Basanti (Hema Malini), a feisty, talkative young woman who makes her living driving a horse-cart. Jai is drawn to Radha, Thakur's reclusive widowed daughter-in-law, who very subtly returns his affections.
The battle approaches its climax when Basanti and Veeru are captured and Jai follows. The three escape, but Jai is wounded by a gunshot, and with the bandits still following, they run short on ammunition. As Veeru is unaware of Jai's wound, Jai orders him to go back to the village with Basanti, and then return with some ammunition. Jai, slowly dying and with only a few bullets, manages to fend off advances by the bandits, and takes out most of Gabbar's men. Veeru returns to find Jai dying, and sadly talks with him before he dies. Some of the villagers rush to the scene, including Radha, who once again must endure the anguish of losing someone.
Veeru goes after Gabbar in a rage. He catches Gabbar and beats him badly, when Thakur appears and reminds him of the promise to catch Gabbar alive. Thakur reveals spike-soled shoes, made to make Gabbar beg for a quick death. Gabbar is kicked around by Thakur but is saved in the nick of time by the police, who tell Thakur that Gabbar must be arrested and dealt with by the law. As Gabbar is taken away, Thakur is denied vengeance, but knows that Ramgarh is free once again.
In the alternate ending to the film, Gabbar actually dies as he is kicked into a spike that is protruding from the posts where Thakur's arms were cut off. Thakur then falls to his knees and is comforted by Veeru. Thakur then begins to cry which he did not do even when his family was killed.[12][13]

Cast

  • Dharmendra as Veeru, the more jovial and naughty of the two friends
  • Amitabh Bachchan as Jai, the calmer and more thoughtful of the two
  • Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur Baldev Singh, usually addressed as "Thakur Sahib"
  • Hema Malini as Basanti, a talkative girl who is the coachman for the only horse-carriage in Ramgarh
  • Jaya Bhaduri as Radha, a quiet girl who is the Thakur's widowed daughter-in-law
  • Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh, a dacoit, who leads a group in looting and plundering the villages in the region of Ramgarh. He has a sadistic personality and insists on killing whenever required to continue his status and to take revenge on his enemies.

A rare photograph on location, of the main male leads. (Left to right) - Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar and Amjad Khan.
Source: Bollywood Hungama[14]

Production credits

Source: Bollywood Hungama[14]

Production

Origin

Sholay began as a four line idea that Salim-Javed pitched to Ramesh Sippy.[3] Sippy liked the concept and hired them to develop it. The original idea was simple. An army officer decides to hire two ex-soldiers to avenge the murder of his family. The officer was later changed to a policeman as Sippy felt it would be too difficult to get permission to film from the army. They completed the script in only one month, borrowing many character names and personalities from their friends and acquaintances.[15]
The movie drew heavily from the conventions of Western films, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, such as Once Upon a Time in the West, and John Sturges' film The Magnificent Seven, itself being a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.[6][16] Sholay was also influenced by the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, such as The Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and also by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).[17] Some plot elements were also borrowed from the Indian films Mera Gaon Mera Desh and Khote Sikkay.[18]
The character of Gabbar Singh was modeled on a real-life dacoit of the same name who menaced the villages around Gwalior in the 1950s. He terrorized the local police. Any policeman captured by the real Gabbar Singh had his ears and nose cut off, and was then released as an object lesson to other policemen.[19]

Casting Sholay: The Making of a Classic (Hardcover)

Sippy at first wanted Shatrughan Sinha to play the part of Jai, but Amitabh Bachchan lobbied hard to get the part for himself.[3] The producers wanted Danny Denzongpa to play the bandit chief, but he was committed to Feroz Khan's Dharmatma.[20] Amjad Khan was a second choice. Khan prepared to play the bandit chief Gabbar Singh by reading a book titled Abar Abhishapta Chambal,[21] which told of the exploits of Chambal dacoits. The book was written by Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, the father of Jaya Bhaduri.[22]
During the film's production, four of the leads became romantically involved.[16] Bachchan married Jaya Bhaduri four months before filming started. This caused problems when shooting had to be postponed because Jaya became pregnant with her daughter Shweta Bachchan. Dharmendra had begun wooing Hema Malini during their earlier film Seeta Aur Geeta and used the location shoot of Sholay to further pursue her. During their romantic scenes, Dharmendra would pay the light boys to spoil the shot, thereby ensuring many retakes. The couple eventually married in 1980, five years after the film's release.[23]

Filming

The film was a lavish production for its time. It took two and a half years to make, and went Rs. 300,000 over budget. One reason for its high cost was that Ramesh Sippy re-filmed scenes many times to get his desired effect. The "Yeh dosti" sequence took 21 days to shoot while two short scenes where Radha is lighting lamps took 20 days due to lighting problems. Another shoot for the scene in which Gabbar kills the son of the Imam lasted 19 days.[24] The train robbery sequence, shot on the Mumbai-Pune railway route near Panvel, took more than 7 weeks to shoot.[25]
Much of the film is set in the rocky terrain of Ramanagaram, a village near Bangalore, Karnataka. The filmmakers had to build a road from the Bangalore highway to Ramanagaram for convenient access to the sets. One part of Ramanagaram town was renamed "Sippynagar" after the director of the movie. Even to this day, a visit to the "Sholay rocks" (where the movie was shot) is offered to tourists traveling through Ramanagaram (on the road between Bangalore and Mysore), and plans are being made to build a resort in the area.[26]
Sholay was the first Indian movie to have a stereophonic soundtrack, and to be presented in the 70 mm widescreen format.[8] However, since actual 70mm cameras were deemed too expensive at the time, the movie instead was shot on traditional 35mm film and the 4:3 picture was subsequently blown up, cropped and matted to a 2.20:1 frame.[13] Director Ramesh Sippy said,
A 70mm format takes the awe of the big screen and magnifies it even more to make the picture even bigger, but since I also wanted a spread of sound we used six-track stereophonic sound and combined it with the big screen. It was definitely a differentiator.[27]

Alternate versions

An alternate director's cut of Sholay, where Gabbar Singh dies at the end, was not shown in theaters but was later released on video. Also there are some additional scenes with some different dialogues. Gabbar's death scene, and the scene in which the imam's son is killed were cut from the film by the Censor Board, as was the scene in which Thakur's family is killed.[24] The reason is that the censors claimed there are rules about people taking the law into their own hands and not being punished for it; this was not permitted as it may corrupt naive viewers. For this reason the ending of the film had to be re-shot for a 'U' Rating."[12][28]
The censored theatrical version was 188 minutes long, and was the only one seen by audiences for fifteen years after 1975. The original, unedited cut of the film finally saw the light of day in 1990 on a British VHS release.[13] Since then, Eros Labs has released two versions on DVD. The so-called "director's cut" of the film, from Eros/B4U, preserves the full frame as shot, and is 204 minutes in length. The widescreen version, from DEI/Eros is 198 minutes long.[29] The DVD packaging does not always state clearly which version is inside.[13]

Reception

Critical response

The critic K.L. Amladi of India Today called the film a "dead ember" and added, "Thematically, it's a gravely flawed attempt."[30] Filmfare said that the film was an unsuccessful mincing of Western style with Indian milieu, making it a "imitation western—neither here nor there."[30] Trade journals and columnists initially called the expensive film a flop.[30]
Over time the critical reception to Sholay has improved to where it is now regarded among the greatest Hindi language films, and a classic.[16][31] On the film's 35th anniversary, the Hindustan Times said that it was a "trailblazer in terms of camera work as well as music," and that "practically every scene, dialogue or even a small character was a highlight."[5] In 2006, The Film Society of Lincoln Center described it as "an extraordinary and utterly seamless blend of adventure, comedy, music and dance", labeling it an 'indisputable classic'.[2] In the obituary of the producer, The New York Times said that Sholay "revolutionized Hindi filmmaking and brought true professionalism to Indian script writing".[6]

Box office

Sholay was released on 15 August 1975 in Mumbai. Due to lackluster reviews and a lack of effective visual marketing tools, the first two weeks it didn't do well, but it picked up from the third week onwards on word of mouth, and became a sensation.[8]
During the earlier period when the film was not doing well commercially, the director and writer considered re-shooting some scenes so that Amitabh Bachchan's character would not die. When business finally picked up, they abandoned this idea.[32] Sholay went on to earn a still-standing record of 60 golden jubilees (50 consecutive weeks) across India.[7] It was the first film in the history of Indian cinema to celebrate a silver jubilee (25 consecutive weeks) at over a hundred theaters across India.[8] At Mumbai's Minerva theater, it was shown continuously for over five years.[6] Sholay was the longest running film in Indian cinema until Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge broke its record in 2001.[33]
Sholay earned about Rs. 15 crore rupees in its first run, equivalent to over US$ 3 million, which was many times its Rs. 2 crore budget.[7] That amount of earnings was a record that remained unbroken for the next nineteen years, which is a record for the longest time having held the record. It doubled its original gross over reruns during the late 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.[7]
Official box office records are not kept in India, but it is often cited that after adjusting the figures for inflation, Sholay is the highest grossing movie in the history of Indian Cinema.[7][9] Other sources place the adjusted figure lower, but still put it near the top of the highest grossing Bollywood films.[34]

Awards

When it was first released, Sholay was nominated for several Filmfare Awards[35] but only won a single one: film editor M. S. Shinde won for Best Editing. He had edited 300,000 feet of film into 20,000 feet of theatrical release.[36] After the censors mandated cuts, the film was 18,000 feet and ran for 3 hours and 20 minutes. Although the film did not receive any of the major awards when it was released, at the 50th Filmfare Awards it received a special award as the Best Film of 50 Years.[37]
It also won the following at the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (Hindi section):[38]
  • Best Actor in Supporting Role – Amjad Khan
  • Best Cinematographer (Colour) – Dwarka Divecha
  • Best Art Director – Ram Yedekar
Sholay has received more honors in the years that followed. It was declared "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India and in internet polls in 1999,[6][39] and in 2002 topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.[40] In 2006, Sholay was voted best film in Iran.[41]

Soundtrack

Sholay
Soundtrack album by R. D. Burman
Released 1975 (1975)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length 28:59
Label Universal Music India Pvt. Ltd.
R. D. Burman composed the music for the film, and the lyrics were given by Anand Bakshi. It is revered as one of the best Hindi soundtracks.[42][43] Burman himself sang "Mehbooba Mehbooba", picturised on Helen and Jalal Agha, and for which he received his sole Filmfare Award nomination for playback singing. The songs picturized in the film were the following:
# Song Singer(s) Duration
1 "Sholay" (title music) Rahul Dev Burman 02:46
2 "Yeh Dosti" Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey 05:21
3 "Haa Jab Tak Hai Jaan" Lata Mangeshkar 05:26
4 "Koi Haseena" Kishore Kumar and Hema Malini 04:00
5 "Holi Ke Din" Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar 05:42
6 "Mehbooba Mehbooba" Rahul Dev Burman 03:54
7 "Yeh Dosti" (sad) Kishore Kumar 01:49
Despite the soundtrack's success, at the time, the songs from Sholay attracted less attention than the dialogues — a rarity for Bollywood. This prompted the producers to release audio-cassettes with only dialogues.[44][45]
Among the songs, two versions of "Yeh Dosti" were released, an extended version which was cited as the 'happy version' and a shorter one called the 'sad version'. "Yeh Dosti" has been called the perfect friendship song.[43] This song was remixed in the 2010 Malayalam film Four Friends.
The song "Mehbooba Mehbooba", performed and composed by Burman, is often featured on Bollywood hit song compilations.[46] The song has been highly anthologized, remixed, and recreated.[47] A notable recent version is one created by the Kronos Quartet for their Grammy-nominated album You've Stolen My Heart.[48] However, "Mehbooba Mehbooba" was copied from Demis Roussos's song, called "Say You Love Me".[49]