Saving Someone's Day

Atherton man trades his 2 mercedes car for scooter,smart car & hybrid car

Rajesh Shetty — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:45:45 +0000

It’s interesting how people go full throttle on “change” in life.

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Apple’s new push notification service API

Rajesh Shetty — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:59 +0000

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/31/apple-hands-out-push-notification-service-api-to-developers-background-apps-ftw/

This should open up interesting transaction model for application developers. But this is a two-edged sword, cuts both ways. On one end applications can provide more real time information , to the point notifications which can serve like a virtual assistant to iPhone users. On the other end if not used right this can potentially be a spam/annoyance.

I’m sure API will mandate developers to provides user options to decide if device owners want application developers to push notifications or not. Depending on how important the app is users can drive the destiny of this interesting feature.

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AOL Radio is one of the best apps on iPhone appstore

Rajesh Shetty — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:57:35 +0000

Truley satisfies the basic need of listening to diversed music from around the world. The best part is surprise element of discovering new music. Sometimes “surprise me!” is better than “I’m looking for…” Sent from my iPhone

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How to avoid SSL verification on Ruby SOAP calls

Rajesh Shetty — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:10:59 +0000

Problem

You will get following error when you are making SOAP calls to external web service using ruby's SOAP library

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed

code might look something like this

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("https://", "")

driver.add_method('',"name", "password")

…..

Solution

Just add following line to your code (right before you make a call to end point )

driver.options["protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode"] = nil

Above line turns off the SSL verification while making soap calls.

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Sprint Samsung Instinct vs LG Vu vs iPhone - Long Version

Rajesh Shetty — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000

Touch screen smartphone war is on. Check it out. 3 latest and best smartphones side by side. He said "iPhone is a winner" but iPhone has its own issues.

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Supercharge your tweets with FatBird ; Its on Steroids.

Rajesh Shetty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:18:40 +0000

This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to see breaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media.

Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me gap between mainstream media and twitter media is very perceptional and your attention span. Big difference between these two is that news on twitter comes in packet of 140 characters and you have running stream of updates to read the whole story. Having said that every tweet (one status update on Twitter) becomes very important for followers (in a traditional media its readers) to consume when someone updates his/her status (traditionally news publisher).

There are tons of twitter apps doing interesting things and adding value to this whole twitter ecosystem. Here at MesageDance we been a fan of Twitter from day one and had twitter status udpate posting via email for few months along with every message users sends (blog post, YouTube video, Digg share, Google Reader share etc) to MessageDance can be updated to user’s Twitter timeline.

With FatBird, we released a new feature called “MyTweets“. With this feature MessageDance becomes the full blown client to Twitter which can send, receive your tweets on demand along with other goodies. Check it out..

Bling Your Tweets

MyTweets in a true sense supercharges your tweets. User’s 140 characters gets more powerful as it exposes important assets of each tweet.

TinyURL expansion : instead of tinyurl , It expands the url and shows the real url to the user
If the url is YouTube video url it shows YouTube video right below user’s tweet.
If the url is Flickr url it shows Flickr photo right below user’s tweet.
If the url is MP3 it shows audio player inline right below the tweet.
User can Reply or Retweet right there from each tweet.

It feels good to save user some time and few clicks on the WWW.

Set your tweets free with TweetShare.

Having done all the blinging to tweets, How about setting your tweets free to go wherever they want to go?.

TweetShare feature

Lets users send the anyone’s last 10 tweets (whom user is following) to their blog, friends, facebook etc.
Lets users send conversational tweets to user’s social destinations.

This opens up the door for tweet blogging and link love between blogger and urls in the tweet.

FatBird is your tweets on steroids. Let it fly to places.

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Split second photography

Rajesh Shetty — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:38:30 +0000

Creative piece of work. Check it out.

Website Snapshot

Split Second - The Morning News

An online magazine, published weekdays.

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Is San Francisco considering going “Double Decker” for local commute ?

Rajesh Shetty — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:38:02 +0000

Double Decker buses are vital part of mass transportation for cities like London and Bombay for ages. You travel in them and it's a fun feeling all together. Back home it was the most important means of commute apart from local trains.

Last year I was in London and I enjoyed traveling in these buses once again. Interesting part of this commute was hopping on brand new of these puppies from old design buses. Bottom line you got to travel in them to enjoy.

Photo : on the way to Piccadilly Circus

Looks like these double deckers are making their way into mainstream transportation in cities like New York, San Francisco, Seattle. Which is a shift from being tourist focus to daily commute. If you consider pure upside of these buses.

They can carry twice as many people in the same living/moving area of the bus.
Fuel savings; if not 100% , should add to "Save the Earth" effort overall if you calculate per person fuel consumption for a regular bus vs double decker.

But on the flip side city authorities will have to do some infrastructure changes for these buses to run everywhere. e.g San Francisco overhead live wires for current local transportation needs to be readjusted or redesigned. The most important no-no that might keep the city from pursuing this would be San Francisco's notorious hilly streets. Think about driving these buses up California street or Gough street. Moreover San Francisco has tried these buses on some its routes last year.

New York is already planning to get these double decker's back on selected routes.

Wired has story on this.

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Recap time - This week in Ruby

Rajesh Shetty — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:24:19 +0000

Last 10 tweets from @rornews

http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/06/16/this-week-in-ruby-june-16-2008/ This Week in Ruby (June 16, 2008) at 06/17/2008 03:20 AM

http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=326 rails error log at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://www.railsonwave.com/railsonwave/2008/6/9/spread-out-the-good-novel Spread out the good novel at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://thegnollinthemachine.blogspot.com/2008/05/rail-sand-box.html Rail sand box! at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/my_rails_learning_path_flash My Rails Learning Path: Flash Pitfalls at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://www.flex888.com/2008/06/10/actionscript-framework-ruby-on-rails-jumpship…. ActionScript Framework Ruby on Rails = JumpShip at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://blog.elisehuard.be/2008/06/links-on-a-sort-of-summery-tuesday/ Links on a sort-of summery tuesday at 06/10/2008 09:21 PM

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306418999/pool-party-poolparty-ruby… PoolParty: One Ruby Gem = Easy EC2 Computing Cloud at 06/06/2008 11:20 PM

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306366813/microsoft-arax-ruby-ajax-… Microsoft’s Latest Bad Idea? ARAX - Ruby-powered AJAX at 06/06/2008 09:20 PM

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/300901062/pragmatic-screencasts-904… Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 04:40 AM

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Does Robert Scoble knows Enterprise as much as he knows Consumer Web 2.0 World?. dahowlett said:

Rajesh Shetty — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:35:42 +0000

@Scobleizer but that doesn’t mean to say you know about the enterprise world - does it? and Scoble’s clarification in return. Good try from but not good enough.

→ Last 7 conversations between @Scobleizer and @dahowlett

@dahowlett And, who is doing video on cell phones inside the enterprise anyway? Like Qik or Kyte does? at 06/15/2008 12:19 AM

@dahowlett Like this isn’t a low blow? Dude, I ask plenty of good questions about enterprise with appropriate people. at 06/15/2008 12:18 AM

@dahowlett I guess you haven’t seen my videos with Rackspace’s CEO or Sun Microsystems CEO. I’m not always concerned with consumer stuff. at 06/15/2008 12:17 AM

@dahowlett Translation: no one will give you an interview except for 1938media and his puppets. at 06/15/2008 12:13 AM

@dahowlett And on Tuesday, I’ll be interviewing CEO of Salesforce.com. Say hi to the puppets! at 06/15/2008 12:12 AM

@dahowlett Well, I’m learning fast about enterprise. While u were interviewed by puppets I was interviewing head of Microsoft Office. at 06/15/2008 12:11 AM

@dahowlett So you’re saying the first one to do cell phone video on the Blackberry will win? at 06/14/2008 11:59 PM

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