Have you heard the about the Word EE?

EE

1. Emulate ( Simulate the application from scratch or with the know source code )
2. Enhance ( Add new Features, Enhance the existing one, tweak the code to work faster )

This holds good for products or service which are available in the market and most of them follow it.

Why?
Users love the existing product, That means they expect most of the features already available in the existing software or service.
Let us say we build a new product like word processing software, you expect the least to have the cut, copy and paste. To my knowledge any new product will incorporate these with out even thinking that they are competing with the giants. what about spell check, WordPress didn’t have them initially, after users have asked this feature they implemented it. You know about any word processing software would expect a spellcheck, then don’t wait, provide them.

Innovation is the key, what if the competitor thinks and implements it faster than you, You provide it before your users ask about it in support or feature request or forums
A small example would be to export the text to different format or exporting them to blogs

I agree with Kathy sierra that running behind all the features of the competitors and implementing them is waste of time and would require a seperate team to enable them to the existing software because the core team will continue to innovate, but atleast trying to provide the best of features available from the competitor list should give you a better edge.

Technorati Tags: competition, feature list, market, management, manager, innovation, emulate, enhance

What is Effective Communication?

My Wife just Sent me a mail, I am not sure about the author, it was a
forward, really funny and tricky way to put things across to
managers

Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.
Max replies, “Why don’t you ask the Priest?”

So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, “Priest, may I smoke while I pray?”
But the Priest says, “No, my son, you may not. That’s utter disrespect to our religion.”
Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.

Max says, “I’m not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try.”
And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, “Priest, may I pray while I smoke?”
To which the Priest eagerly replies, “By all means, my son. By all means.”

Moral: The reply you get depends on the question you ask.

For Example: Can I work on this project while I’m on vacation?!?

I am not quiet suprised, I guess she badly needs a vacation

Technorati Tags: vacation, request, management, funny, joke, communication, wife

Russian Dolls & Ogilvy’s Law

Russian Dolls

Originally uploaded by freshlysqueezed.

This is a famous quote from David Ogilvy

Ogilvy wrote that whenever someone was appointed to head an office of O&M, he would give the manager a Russian nesting doll. These dolls open in the middle to reveal a smaller doll, which opens in the middle to reveal a yet smaller doll…and so on. Inside the smallest doll would be a note from Ogilvy. It read: “If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”

It is kind of inspirational for me and that David Ogilvy could understand on basic building blocks of Organization.

Image courtesy: freshlysqueezed

KCFROG.NET – Aggregator like Popurls

One more aggregator on the competition to watch with popurls, The site is simple nothing amazing features, some times broken Images, I guess the development team needs to take care of that.

My wishlist for the site would be to allow bloggers/readers to enter their favourite url which would be listed on the site. All the best Saeid.

Technorati Tags: popurls, aggregators, new, competition

Hot Wheels – Again

I am just wondering Which babe is about to ask for a lift from my 5 yr old son.

I found this ad at adsoftheworld.com
Hotwheels exhibiting the man thing nice done ad by Art Director : Heeral Desai and Kunal Sawant

Will shown you the toy cars he own, I hope my son doesn’t get all those funny ideas and bring those damn babes at home

Technorati Tags: hot wheels, wheels, toys, games, funny, advertisement, ads

Scratch my back

Do you realise what this one is?
If so you probably have been using this.

Most of our roots are from villages and got settled down in metro cities, either due to our roots have come here in search of job or we jumped in to fast based city to earn our breads.
We live in cities where there is no time for us to take care of ourselves due to work and tension we carry all day long, we find sometimes pain in our body, mostly the knee joints, neck and shoulders
The point is we forgot what we use to do at our native places or what our grand parents use to do, it is the normal exercise.
We forgot to scratch our back, We forgot to oil our body when we take bath. We spend enough money for the body massage and those luxury Gyms.

How many of us are actually doing this exercise?
very lately my mom asked me whether I take oil bath and use scrub to scratch my body, When I use to complain about the knee and neck pain.

scrub helps you to generate the same effect of acupressure in smaller doses.
Oil helps you in overall nervous relaxation and strengthen of muscles.

The next time you get a weekend take an hour off, you don’t need much more than that to rejuvenate yourself at the best price, because you exercise you know your body better.

PS: This is what my parents have taught me, and I feel better about this, there is no guarantee that this therapy might be of help to you. Try it at your own risk.

Technorati Tags: exercise, spa, gym, therapy,

Gangof girls

Have you seen the huge hoarding one at the 100 feet road in chennai, Tamilnadu, India, I have been to tempted to view the girly website gang of girls, more virbant colors, huh just check it out

The site seems to be promising trying to build a community for the girls in India, sunsilk is doing a wonderful job trying to replicate myspace.com in a smaller level

I would say it is a wonderful start for sunsilk gang of girls,
guess why?
It is the best brand building effort I have seen, after pogo TV in India
It is the word of mouth which counts.
Do try, if you are girl/women/lady reading this
here is the link http://www.gangofgirls.com

Technorati Tags: sunsilk, brand, gangofgirls, haording, advertisement, pogo, myspace.com

CSS Hack for browsers using simple Javascipt

Have you been facing problems with css styling with different browsers
I faced one with the div width with IE and firefox
Here is a neat trick.

/* save the below code as css_browser_selector.js */
/*

var css_browser_selector = function() {

var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();

var h = document.getElementsByTagName(‘html’)[0];

var c = h.className;

if(ua.indexOf(‘msie’) != -1 && !(ua.indexOf(‘opera’) != -1) &&

(ua.indexOf(‘webtv’) == -1) ) h.className=’ie’+’

ie’+ua.charAt(ua.indexOf(‘msie’)+5)+’ ‘+c;

else if(ua.indexOf(‘gecko/’) != -1) h.className=(‘gecko ‘+c);

else if(ua.indexOf(‘opera’) != -1) h.className=(‘opera ‘+c);

else if(ua.indexOf(‘konqueror’) != -1) h.className=(‘konqueror ‘+c);

else if(ua.indexOf(‘applewebkit/’) != – 1) h.className=(‘webkit safari ‘+c);

else if(ua.indexOf(‘mozilla/’) != -1) h.className=(‘gecko ‘+c);

}.apply(this);

*/


once done place this line of code between the  <head> and </head>tag  
/* <script src="css_browser_selector.js" type="text/javascript"></script> */

now place the desire css

<style type=”text/css”>
.ie .example {
width: 102px;
height: 100px;
}
.gecko .example {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
.example {
background-color: black
}
</style>

Most of the css attributes work, give it a spin

I found a great article from rafael

Rafael Lima (http://rafael.adm.br)and 

got inspired to make this post as most of the time we face issues of width and placements etc

if you find the article useful do bookmark them

Technorati Tags: technical, javascript, css, hack, width issue, styles

Ganapathy

I just started a groups for Ganapathy/Vinayaga on flickr.

Ganapathy is the only God as far as I know who has taken numerous shapes and sizes and across many continents.
Beleive me, he is the creativity at the best. if you have any photos to share, do make a post

Technorati Tags: Ganapathy, Flickr, Vinayaga, Elephant face, photographers, love

Lesson which I learnt one for the road

Past Week was an excellent week, where every thing went well, and all things at my work place was going excellent. unfortunately this week was a terrible experience.
Things started to deteriorate,
The reason which I sited was
waking up late, I usually wake up at 5:30 AM and have few odd job at my apts, I am one responsible to open the gates and switch on the motor for water, well every one takes turn every month and this month was mine.
That means I was going to home late at night and was not getting proper sleep.
And on top I was trying to keep up my time. I should say I should blame myself

Why should I race against time?
All jobs on time, well I should have known that by probability everything will not be success

I woke up this morning at 5:45 AM so things were not the same today. I slammed my hand against the wall while trying to switch on the motor
That was the 1st sign, I was a moron (well most of friends do know at adventnet that I am)
feeling more sleepy I was racing myself against time. I was reading paper doing all odd jobs at home and went to take bath late
didn’t have breakfast the usual time
didn’t dress up my son and myself
Started blaming my wife that atleast, she could have fixed the odds things for me. well here I am the one to blame, how could she do my job which is meant to be mine. poor girl, she just kept quiet

so went on to do my usual routine, I had to drop my son at school, remember I was still racing against time.
My son likes riding on my Yamaha RX 135, The killer bike. He sits on the front of me.
We started the unusual way, I drove my bike than the usual speed. well I was on 50 KMPH than the usual 40-45 KMPH.
So what happened, we met with an terrible accident

Fortunately, by gods grace, my son had few bruises, one on the left leg and left hand and one slightly major bruise on the head
Luckily I took the major share, the left side of my hand leg and my hip had major bruises, fortunately I was wearing helmet

So friends
What is the lesson?

wake up early
if you do something wrong, just relax, blame yourself for every action (not your wife), If you are late, nothing wrong, you could be right tomorrow, Imagine if you are not there tomorrow that is even worse.

One good lesson I learnt today.

Even I drop my son late and school and I had to be in-front of the school principal, I will whole heartily take the blame for my action
let me do it countless time, both of us are there alive, and for you readers My office doesn’t have office timing, it is my son who doesn’t like to go to school late, he has nagging/complaining habit, that I didn’t make it on time, probably he got this whole thing from me.

Punctuality is good. Keep up the reason, keep yourself alive. and drive safely and slow and steady wins the race, don;t race against time, you could win time many times, if you loose once, you loose for your lifetime

Technorati Tags: road, safety, time, bike, biker, blame game, blame, love, son, wife, punctuality, life, love, alive