I have been using 12Seconds (aka video twitter) for a while now. You can send your 12seconds video to them by mail or record one on their website. If you already have a video there is no direct way to upload. But you can send it as an email attachment. But when I am public m/c I wouldn’t like to open my email. So I wrote a simple app to upload the video to your 12seconds account from web.

Watch the 12seconds how-to tutorial for the same uploaded using the same app :)

How to upload video to 12 seconds from web on 12seconds.tv

Your suggestions and comments are welcome. BTW dont forget to follow me on 12seconds.

Yet another browser to code for? I guess it will obey ECMA-262 rev3 so don’t worry too much about incompatibilities as of now. Lets see the positive side

1. Its an open source, you get to participate and allows you to write plug-ins
2. Each tab is a separate process.so the effect of one tab is not seen in another tab.
3. Within each tab you have separate thread for JavaScript. So your JavaScript execution will be fast.
4. JavaScript now runs inside a virtual machine called V8. The JavaScript is compiled to machine code before running. Now that’s an advantage for heavy JavaScript applications like Gmail. Where most of the JS resides on client side and simply gets the JSON from server to show the data. You don’t have to re-interpret the JS every time. Compile once and keep running again and again. Your apps will be super fast now. Now GWT developers don’t have worry about JS performance.
5. Rendering is by webkit which is again open source.
6. Looks like they have better garbage collection algorithm for garbage collection. Which will again makes my work simple.
7. Gears is part of browser now. Your offline apps will have better performance now. Think -> Gears API is loaded as soon as browser is loaded, JavaScript is compiled to m/c code, runs in separate process and thread. What more you want? Your offline application might be as fast as any native application if not faster.

Anything else you want to add.

Usage of Social Media by Indian brands has increased recently. Sunsilk started it with the introduction of sunsilk gang of girls. I am not sure how far it has worked. What I am sure is there is some movement happening as more and more brands are trying to involve their customers. Which is the best part of social media, P2P kind of involvement between brands and users. Works for both consumers and brands.

Not very recently Indian youth brand Fastrack also got into an area where it wants to interact with its web2.0 savvy customers directly. Along with wrist watches they are also into eye wears [I own a pair of glasses and I am big fan of bikes that John rides both in personal & other professional life] both find consumers in youth, I am happy that social media doesn’t mean just *orkut* to fastrack. We need to see how far Fastrack will go in this new exciting journey.

Fastrack sent me a brand new neon disk watch to try out. I already have about five watches from different companies. So I guess I would be good enough to give some comments. So here are my comments after using it for about two weeks. Neon disk range is stylish anaolg watches targeted at youth. They don’t have needles but has rotating disk to show the time.
+ves : Its stylish, light and easy, It looks uber cool with your evening wear, those disks and neon light has some geek factor :)
-ves : May not really go well with your formal dressing. But I guess you will be using a different watch for that right? No date functionality.We need that really.

OK now the happy news is Fastrack agreed to pass on the watch to any of my reader as a gift. I decided it should go to commenter with maximum number of comments on this blog. So  ManojVasanth congrats.

I like to have cards of different design. Now I have a new design. Which is much better than my previous card. This time its more web2.0 and geekish. It has just enough information and lots of space for other notes,  mob number and address if req.

Friends suggested that I should have it in my *blog colours* too. Here is the modified version.

Which one do you think is better? I like black&white.

The problem with using more and more social networks is with every social network you join you need to create profile then invite friends. There is no way to carry your data from one network to another network with out a hitch. Few smart people have already started working on this issue of DataPortability in detail. So lets not worry about it.
In the mean time few web apps have given users an opportunity to share the data. Take an example of adding all your Gmail contacts into Orkut. Login to Orkut and then enter your gmail id/password to invite all your contacts. This seems OK since both Gmail and Orkut is owned by the same company. Your id/password *does not* leave Google.

Where as the same model is used by LinkedIn to add your professional contacts. You need to give your userid/pw details of gmail/hotmail to add the contacts. This doesn’t seem OK even with their promise of privacy and purpose.

Now how would you achieve this with out sharing the credentials?
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