<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006</id><updated>2009-06-09T21:29:21.573+05:30</updated><title type='text'>enventure</title><subtitle type='html'>personal views, mobility, technology, internet, semantic web,</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/atom.xml'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>166</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-6531447987011266920</id><published>2009-02-01T23:31:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-01T23:38:10.778+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='literacy india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cricket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wirkle'/><title type='text'>Cricket Match - Wirkle and Literacy India</title><content type='html'>This Friday, the philanthropy group at Wirkle arranged a cricket match with kids from Literacy India. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo(2)-793930.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo(2)-793861.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo(3)-751109.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo(3)-751101.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The winning team!! Smiles tell a lot!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo-751052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/photo-751047.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philanthropy Group at Wirkle has been doing lot of these events in the past! I always wanted if we could be associated and bring smiles on some of these kids. We have made a modest beginning and I think there's lot to come in the near future..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-6531447987011266920?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/6531447987011266920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=6531447987011266920' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6531447987011266920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6531447987011266920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2009/02/cricket-match-wirkle-and-literacy-india.html' title='Cricket Match - Wirkle and Literacy India'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-3019305439710501684</id><published>2008-12-20T18:26:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-20T18:36:47.341+05:30</updated><title type='text'>bigAdda.mobi -  belongs to whom?</title><content type='html'>I was just checking out Indian wap sites, when I got struck on BigAdda. BigAdda is Reliance's social networking portal. I went to bigadda.mobi and was astonished to see the page was full of mobile ads. See the screenshot below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/bigadda_mobi-710440.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/bigadda_mobi-710425.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual mobile wap portal is available on http://wap.bigadda.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried checking weather the domain is registered and to whom it's registered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I checked via this: http://mtld.mobi/domain/whois?q=domain/whois&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results are pasted below. It doesn't look like it belongs to Reliance. Someone is just playing a spoof.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domain ID:D4288625-MOBI&lt;br /&gt;Domain Name:BIGADDA.MOBI&lt;br /&gt;Created On:22-Aug-2008 14:51:48 UTC&lt;br /&gt;Last Updated On:29-Nov-2008 12:56:01 UTC&lt;br /&gt;Expiration Date:22-Aug-2009 14:51:48 UTC&lt;br /&gt;Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (303)&lt;br /&gt;Created by Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (303)&lt;br /&gt;Last Updated by Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (303)&lt;br /&gt;Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED&lt;br /&gt;Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED&lt;br /&gt;Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED&lt;br /&gt;Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED&lt;br /&gt;Registrant ID:FR-10eb2f8c13d2&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Name:Domain Admin&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Organization:PrivacyProtect.org&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 97&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Street2:Note - All Postal Mails Rejected, visit Privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Registrant City:Moergestel&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Postal Code:5066 ZH&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Country:NL&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Phone:+45.36946676&lt;br /&gt;Registrant Email:contact@privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Admin ID:FR-10eb2f8c13d2&lt;br /&gt;Admin Name:Domain Admin&lt;br /&gt;Admin Organization:PrivacyProtect.org&lt;br /&gt;Admin Street1:P.O. Box 97&lt;br /&gt;Admin Street2:Note - All Postal Mails Rejected, visit Privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Admin City:Moergestel&lt;br /&gt;Admin Postal Code:5066 ZH&lt;br /&gt;Admin Country:NL&lt;br /&gt;Admin Phone:+45.36946676&lt;br /&gt;Admin Email:contact@privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Tech ID:FR-10eb2f8c13d2&lt;br /&gt;Tech Name:Domain Admin&lt;br /&gt;Tech Organization:PrivacyProtect.org&lt;br /&gt;Tech Street1:P.O. Box 97&lt;br /&gt;Tech Street2:Note - All Postal Mails Rejected, visit Privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Tech City:Moergestel&lt;br /&gt;Tech Postal Code:5066 ZH&lt;br /&gt;Tech Country:NL&lt;br /&gt;Tech Phone:+45.36946676&lt;br /&gt;Tech Email:contact@privacyprotect.org&lt;br /&gt;Name Server:NS1.HOUSE4WEBHOST.COM&lt;br /&gt;Name Server:NS2.HOUSE4WEBHOST.COM&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-3019305439710501684?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/3019305439710501684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=3019305439710501684' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3019305439710501684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3019305439710501684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/12/bigaddamobi-belongs-to-whom.html' title='bigAdda.mobi -  belongs to whom?'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-277724032992778121</id><published>2008-12-01T15:12:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-01T15:42:00.216+05:30</updated><title type='text'>iPhone Tech Talk Delhi 2008</title><content type='html'>Last Thursday, I attended the Apple iPhone Tech Talk conference in Delhi. Inspite of the initial hassles due to tightened security at the venue (due to the attacks in Mumbai), the event was very insightful. One of the key points discussed during the conference was - "Usability". To build applications for iPhone, you have to first be an iPhone user. And I think this is a very valid point. It's been years for us at Wirkle developing mobile applications, and it's the usability that decides if your application will sell or be just thrown away. Software Usability should become a mandatory part of any college curriculum.This is the least understood subject by most of the software engineers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the proud moments for Wirkle was, when the apple guys asked from the audience, if there are developers amongst the audience who had developed applications for iPhone and put it on the app store. And all the hands raised were from Wirkle guys. We were the only company at the conference in Delhi that had developed applications for iPhone and put it on the AppStore. I am sure there would be other companies and developers who have developed but were not present in the conference. But overall I felt quite jubilant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-277724032992778121?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/277724032992778121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=277724032992778121' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/277724032992778121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/277724032992778121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/12/iphone-tech-talk-delhi-2008.html' title='iPhone Tech Talk Delhi 2008'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-2184210643671379158</id><published>2008-11-16T22:41:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-16T23:10:41.808+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Recruiters and Property Dealers - Are they Alike?</title><content type='html'>Dealing with Property Dealers is normally a very tedious job especially with the value that they bring to the table, at times you just despise them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case one is looking to buy or sell property, property dealers take 1-2% of the deal. So in a one crore deal, they would get a cool 1-2 lakhs. The situation is much worse for rented properties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider a case, if you are looking for a commercial office space on Rent. If you are looking to get 1000 sq feet office on rent, and the price is around Rs 100 per sq feet, a property dealer would want to get a cool Rs 1,00,000/- (considering the fact that they normally take 1 month rent as their fees). Most of the property dealers in India are uneducated, don't even are aware of the legal contracts - just want to close the deal as fast as possible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar is the case with Recruiters in IT industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have dealt with number of recruiters, but none of them has ever tried to understand the recruitment process of an organization. Most of them will have an account with a portal like Naukri, Monster etc. and will send in resumes. Every organization puts in tremendous effort and already has accounts with such portals. If the recruiters are not able to give a significant advantage in terms of success rate (25% success rate), their is no advantage of using a recruiter versus hunting yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recruiter normally takes 8.33% of an annual salary for 0-3 years, and then this factor can increase up to 15-20% or even more for mid to senior levels. The actual headhunting might be even more expensive. Recruiting one Software Engineer with an annual package of 5 lakhs can take a cool Rs 50,000/ including taxes on a company's pocket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case a recruiter is just sending resumes on a trial and error basis assuming someone will get selected, their is no value add. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recruiters might be more educated than an average property dealer but their professionalism in providing value addition is of the same nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the  IT industry should all come together and define policies and rates to make the recruiting industry more organized. I think 8.33% is just too huge. Even if few companies come together and make a commitment, this industry would start falling in place.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-2184210643671379158?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/2184210643671379158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=2184210643671379158' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/2184210643671379158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/2184210643671379158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/11/recruiters-and-property-dealers-are.html' title='Recruiters and Property Dealers - Are they Alike?'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-3451889204942265707</id><published>2008-11-16T22:22:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-16T22:39:57.426+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Muskaan - Spread a Smile</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/philanthropy_1-776753.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 187px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/philanthropy_1-776515.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At times, I am tremendously impressed by the enthusiasm of Wirklites. This Friday on Children's day,14th November, the philanthropy group at Wirkle organized an event at an evening school in Bijwasan (outskirts of Gurgaon). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From last few months, Wirkle had partnered with Literacy India and has been organizing fun events where we play fun games and bring smiles on the faces. As a part of the program, few of the Wirklites have also been taking Internet and Communication Skill classes and teaching them on a weekly basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This program has been very successful. On children's day, we organized a website and a poster competition. We all had been amazed by the results. Some of the posters were just too brilliant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I strongly believe, you need to start things when you are small. If you wait to be big or wait for the right time to come in future, one will never reach there. So start NOW!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-3451889204942265707?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/3451889204942265707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=3451889204942265707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3451889204942265707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3451889204942265707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/11/muskaan-spread-smile.html' title='Muskaan - Spread a Smile'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-3123778147220822729</id><published>2008-08-25T13:13:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-25T13:16:59.863+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Mobile Advertisement - Landscape</title><content type='html'>This was the topic of my presentation at Mobile Monday, Delhi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_568011"&gt;&lt;a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/pacificleo/mobile-advertisemt-presentation?src=embed" title="Mobile Advertisemt"&gt;Mobile Advertisemt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=momodelhipptv12-1219641946912096-9&amp;stripped_title=mobile-advertisemt-presentation" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=momodelhipptv12-1219641946912096-9&amp;stripped_title=mobile-advertisemt-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"&gt;View SlideShare &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/pacificleo/mobile-advertisemt-presentation?src=embed" title="View Mobile Advertisemt on SlideShare"&gt;presentation&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed"&gt;Upload&lt;/a&gt; your own. (tags: &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/india"&gt;india&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/sunilwirkle"&gt;sunilwirkle&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-3123778147220822729?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/3123778147220822729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=3123778147220822729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3123778147220822729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3123778147220822729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/08/mobile-advertisement-landscape.html' title='Mobile Advertisement - Landscape'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-823764429660470591</id><published>2008-08-21T00:43:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-21T00:53:33.324+05:30</updated><title type='text'>IPhone getting midnight launch in India</title><content type='html'>I recieved emails, smses from Airtel today about IPhone 3G launch today from Airtel. This confirms the price tag that had been hitting each and every IPhone lover!! And I guess it would be the first technology product, that is getting launched at midnight !!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Rs 31,000 it looks a lot pricey. I had thought the price to be between Rs 20,000 - 25,000. It's priced more than a laptop. I guess there would still be lot of apple lovers who would buy iPhone at such a price level. But it might take some time to be a mainstream phone. I remember similar stuff happening with Motorola Razor in India. Moto Razor was launched with a big price tag, it made a style statement. Even being expensive, lot of people bought it. Then over the next months, the price dropped significantly and it became an instant hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lot of guys would be waiting to get the price dropped.&lt;br /&gt;Below is the email, that I recieved from Airtel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The moment you have been waiting for is here. The new iPhone 3G premieres August 22, 2008. iPhone 3G will be available in 2 exciting options:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 GB (Black) for Rs 31000&lt;br /&gt;16GB (White &amp; Black) for Rs 36100 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To celebrate the launch of the iPhone 3G in India, we will be opening three of our Airtel stores, one each in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore at the stroke of midnight 12.00am (Friday Morning) on August 22nd. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join us early on the red carpet as we camp out throughout the evening. &lt;br /&gt;We are expecting some long queues, so plan your day and reach the location as soon as possible. Remember, our stock is limited and will be available only on first cum first basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, gear up to witness the biggest launch event on August 22, 2008 and be a part of history at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Airtel Brand Shop&lt;br /&gt;S-45, Ground Floor, Sahara Mall, &lt;br /&gt;MG Road, SEC- 28, Gurgaon&lt;br /&gt;Haryana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ps: Can’t make it for the midnight launch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case you can't make it you can still get your iPhone on priority. Just visit one of the select Airtel stores &amp; confirm your booking by paying Rs 5000 on August 20 or 21.You'll get an appointment to collect your iPhone after paying the balance amount. For list of the select Airtel stores log on to www.airtel.in/iphone3g&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-823764429660470591?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/823764429660470591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=823764429660470591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/823764429660470591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/823764429660470591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/08/iphone-getting-midnight-launch-in-india.html' title='IPhone getting midnight launch in India'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-5765714830466923167</id><published>2008-08-11T22:55:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-11T23:27:21.958+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Koshish ... for a better tomorrow</title><content type='html'>Today had been a remarkable day for all of us at Wirkle. We always wanted to contribute to society, and time always get the better of us. But, today we partnered with &lt;a href="http://www.literacyindia.org"&gt;Literacy India&lt;/a&gt; based in Gurgaon and made a beginning in this direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to a small village school in Bijwasan just at the outskirts of Gurgaon. Coming back to this school, made us remember our own school times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what did we do?&lt;br /&gt;We were there for around half a day to put smiles on some of the faces. And I guess we succeeded in that. So we had lot of games, quizzes for kids from 3rd standard to 9th standard. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is a picture of a small girl who is doing a prayer. She won a prize in one of the events and when we asked her to perform/sing a song, she made this prayer ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/pic-of-the-day-756019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/pic-of-the-day-756002.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We asked one student, who is the first man to step on Moon? And of them answered "Kalpana Chawla". The answer is wrong, but I don't think the word Kalpana Chawla appears in any textbook. Role models like Kalpana Chawala make tremendous influence on young kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Private institutions today fund a lot of labs, but village schools are not able to get quality teachers/volunteers. I guess atleast we made a beginning and as we go ahead Wirklities would be proud of their initiatives and could help in educating the uneducated in India.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-5765714830466923167?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/5765714830466923167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=5765714830466923167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5765714830466923167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5765714830466923167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/08/koshish-for-better-tomorrow.html' title='Koshish ... for a better tomorrow'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-5214871553309125443</id><published>2008-08-02T00:31:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-03T23:32:04.108+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Inteviews for an IT startup - practical approach</title><content type='html'>We at &lt;a href="http://www.wirkle.com"&gt;Wirkle&lt;/a&gt; always keep looking for passionate guys, people who want to make a mark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we often debate, what should be an interview process for a startup? Who's an ideal candidate? Do degrees like IIT make a difference? Working in companies like Infosys, TCS make a difference? Or, working in another startup makes a difference?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My ideal candidate is the one who is very passionate about what he has developed in the past. I love guys who can show demo of a working product that they have made in the past and are very proud to show it. I have had experience where guys with little experience showed very impressive demos. But make sure you verify the genuineness of the person. You can see passion flowing through the eyes of genuine guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But such persons are not easy to figure out. So what's your best bet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make an interview more of a discussion and keep it "practical" e.g. if you are recruiting a Project Manager, ask him to make a project plan; if you are hiring an HR executive, ask her to define a HR policy and put it in a document. Analyse what are the pain points in your organization and ask a candidate to figure out solutions for those tasks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We at Wirkle have often been recognized by the candidates for keeping the interview "practical".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For software technical interviews, look for guys who love programming or have a flair  for programming, have participated in programming contests and won awards. Look for guys who are very strong in core computer science concepts. I have often seen guys who have worked in struts/j2ee for 3-4 years but if you ask them to write a fibonacci program, they would fail. On the other hand if the guy is logically strong, picking new stuff is a breeze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interview process gets more complicated if you are hiring guys at technical lead and architect level. One would assume guys at technical lead or architect level to understand core computer science concepts. But if in a telephonic interviews you ask some basic logical questions, they might get offended and even put down the phone. This is the state of the current IT industry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A startup needs to be very practical. Amongst all these positives and negatives, a startup needs to navigate smartly on a bumpy road full of potholes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are taking a technical interview, make sure&lt;br /&gt;- make people write simple logical programs&lt;br /&gt;- ask them to solve practical programming problems in software projects/products&lt;br /&gt;- make them debug a piece of code&lt;br /&gt;- see their past history, does he want to stick and learn or wants to change jobs every 1-2 years.&lt;br /&gt;- team fit, make sure he/she works for the success of the team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make interviews real-world and one could clearly judge weather that candidate is suitable for the job.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-5214871553309125443?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/5214871553309125443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=5214871553309125443' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5214871553309125443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5214871553309125443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/08/inteviews-for-it-startup-practical.html' title='Inteviews for an IT startup - practical approach'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-7355331579510780258</id><published>2008-08-01T23:21:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-02T00:28:11.805+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wirkle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iphone'/><title type='text'>iPhone at Wirkle</title><content type='html'>Currently on Apple's appstore as of August 1st 2008, there are around 1200 applications. And amongst the top 100 selling applications , around 45-50% are games. Applications in the Entertainment, Music category are the next ones and Business applications haven't yet made much of an impact. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other end, devices like RIM's blackberry, windows smart phones are geared around business users. Sites like handango that distribute applications for smart phones are more geared towards business users and this landscape might change with iPhone becoming more and more popular. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My belief is manufacturers like Nokia, RIM, HTC for windows smart phones would bring in lot of new devices to compete with iPhone and one would see their shift of focus from business users to young and happening crowd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I guess India would also see a bigger jump in this context. The iPhone cost is not going to be a barrier, Indians are used to paying a lot for their handsets. If cheaper data services are available, that's going to get Indians crazy!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We at Wirkle have also been doing iPhone development and it is simply cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing native applications on iPhone is a breeze. And I think much of it is also because of the development tools that are based on Mac. Apple as a company has always been strong in usability and that also clearly shows up not just in the application but also the development tools. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For building native iPhone application, one needs a mac system or one could also install the latest Mac OS X (Leopard) on an Intel machine. Installation is a bit tricky but once installed it works with a breeze. The OS is much more responsive than windows and linux. After that one just needs the iPhone development kit from Apple and one is ready to go..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developers not used to Mac would have an initial difficulty as the development is in Objective -C, lot different from C and java world, but for smart programmers it's just another language. The concepts are similar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Building application is easy but distributing them is going to be tough. Apple is closely guarding it and the applications can be installed only from its appstore. The license is cheap $99 , but as of now Apple has opened it to a very few developers. So once that becomes a main stream activity, there's going to be a massive activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just waiting to see some real action here in India. Airtel and Vodafone have already announced plans for iPhone, till then need to have some patience!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-7355331579510780258?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/7355331579510780258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=7355331579510780258' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/7355331579510780258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/7355331579510780258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/08/iphone-at-wirkle.html' title='iPhone at Wirkle'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-4769989333119536339</id><published>2008-07-26T00:56:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-26T01:13:31.037+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Semantic Web - Salzburg Research a look back</title><content type='html'>While googling on the internet, I came across a Report on various semantic web technologies that I myself prepared while working at Salzburg Research. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/DRMITIT/metokis_d10_kcca_final.pdf"&gt;http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SICoP/DRMITIT/metokis_d10_kcca_final.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember working, reading tens of research papers, writing and reviewing this 90 page document. This was one of my first big and professional deliverables and being the lead was a hard time :-). In meetings I was perhaps the youngest guy and here I was talking to experts, researchers, professors, industry folks and trying to make them understand and build use cases, tools for Semantic Web. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I owe all this to my mentors Sigi and Wernher. They boosted my thinking and always were very appreciative of what I did. They were one of the best guys that I met in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another interesting experience was a RDF graphics tool that I built along with a smart guy Rupert. I didn't realise when me and Rupert became great team members and made this tool for viewing RDF graphs. And this all started as a pass time weekend hobby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at/apps/rdf-gravity/"&gt;http://semweb.salzburgresearch.at/apps/rdf-gravity/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all this looks way back in 2004. At times it looks I have become really old :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-4769989333119536339?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/4769989333119536339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=4769989333119536339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4769989333119536339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4769989333119536339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/07/semantic-web-salzburg-research-look.html' title='Semantic Web - Salzburg Research a look back'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-4511245087782044731</id><published>2008-07-26T00:16:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-26T00:41:13.628+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Proto4 at IIT Delhi</title><content type='html'>Last weekend I was at Proto4 at IIT Delhi. It felt great to be back both being an alumni of Proto and IIT Delhi. The event was great, met some great guys and interesting companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were some great presentations in the fast track session. One interesting part in Proto is most of the audience is very young, dynamic, students and entrepreneurial. This is both good and bad. Good in the sense looks like the young India is becoming more and more entrepreneurial. The bad part is most of the stuff that is talked about is very basic in nature. Most of the people talk about how to get VC money and don't focus on how to build a big business. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a pass time hobby I used to watch a lot of &lt;a href="http://www.demo.com/"&gt;Demo&lt;/a&gt; videos in the past. And they are really superb and one could see break through products in Demo. Nevertheless Proto has been a great initiative and the team behind Proto is to be appreciated for all the hard work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a lot of debate with other colleagues about most of the people in indian IT industry are out there for money and job prospects rather then interest. We started using computers only in our engineering college and most people in US are using them when they were kids. My personal belief is the next generation would make a much bigger impact in the Indian IT industry and will change the landscape forever.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-4511245087782044731?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/4511245087782044731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=4511245087782044731' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4511245087782044731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4511245087782044731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/07/proto4-at-iit-delhi.html' title='Proto4 at IIT Delhi'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-6285418229604303404</id><published>2008-05-07T20:31:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-05-07T20:48:31.828+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Intern Startup Challenge at Wirkle</title><content type='html'>We at Wirkle have been taking interns every semester. And they have played a very important role at Wirkle. Our primary goal in the past has been to take an intern through all parts of software development lifecycle from design, architecture, testing , documentation - whatever it takes to develop a software product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time we thought to do it a bit differently. Rather than giving and defining requirements, we thought to make it more interesting; where the guys can on their own lead and define a product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you are looking for an internship, don't forget to reply us back.  And if you are not , you can help us spread the word around so that guys who want, can reach us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the complete details at http://www.wirkle.com/startupchallenge.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DARE TO TURN THE WORLD AROUND?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;                                        THINK 6 MONTHS IS ALL IT TAKES??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img halign="center" src="http://www.wirkle.com/web/images/robot.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;" class="intern"&gt;&lt;center&gt;Welcome to the&lt;br /&gt;Intern Startup Challenge @ Wirkle&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Almost every single day in your college life you come across a successful idea and think “This is something I could have done, something much better than what it is today.” NOW is the time to PROVE YOURSELF!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Wirkle we are looking for simply the finest minds in your college – people ready to set a trend for others to follow. If technology thrills you, internet is where you live and your mind works faster than a super computer then we invite YOU to take our Intern Startup Challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a 6 month internship program where you choose what you want to do. We would provide you mentors, resources, infrastructure, stipend and whatever it takes for building a software product that YOU believe in!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who is eligible?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any team of 2 students currently enrolled in college/university or final year students that are graduating in May/June 2008 should apply together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to apply?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You need to apply as a 2 person team. Please send in the following documents to [startupchallenge at wirkle dot com]&lt;a href="http://www.wirkle.com/web/mail%20to:startupchallenge@wirkle.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- A single page write up explaining the product that you would like to build in your internship. The domain should preferably be mobile /web.&lt;br /&gt;- Resumes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last Entries: 28 May 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-6285418229604303404?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/6285418229604303404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=6285418229604303404' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6285418229604303404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6285418229604303404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2008/05/intern-startup-challenge-at-wirkle.html' title='Intern Startup Challenge at Wirkle'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-7951282209742778361</id><published>2007-07-03T23:42:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2007-07-03T23:46:51.909+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Wirkle at Startups.IN</title><content type='html'>Wirkle sponsored Startups.IN Tshirt at Megabucks , International Business and Entrepreneurship Festival held at IIT Kanpur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/startup_tshirt-791781.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/startup_tshirt-791778.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-7951282209742778361?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/7951282209742778361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=7951282209742778361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/7951282209742778361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/7951282209742778361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/07/wirkle-at-startupsin.html' title='Wirkle at Startups.IN'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-4701211685416774894</id><published>2007-03-16T10:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-03-16T10:26:19.140+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wirkle india team'/><title type='text'>Wirkle at Bikaner</title><content type='html'>Had a great lunch together, it was a long (not long just a week :-) ) pending birthday treat from my side. I was at home in Chandigarh for my this birthday. But you know the team never spares you, even if you are the CTO :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/wirkle_team_1-799795.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/wirkle_team_1-799763.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Above you can see the Wirkle team, a lot more enthusiastic, a lot more healthy :-) Hey guys you all are doing great work. Hats off to the team!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-4701211685416774894?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/4701211685416774894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=4701211685416774894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4701211685416774894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/4701211685416774894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/03/wirkle-at-bikaner.html' title='Wirkle at Bikaner'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-5590604321367636749</id><published>2007-02-19T16:23:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-02-19T16:24:39.915+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Who wants to hire this guy ?</title><content type='html'>We have been doing hiring at Wirkle from some time and once you start landing into a services business, hiring is a constant phenomneon. But one good thing with services business (if you are developing products with other startups) is that you have smart sharp teams working in a charged environment and you work hard and have a constant challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we got a funny email from a funny guy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forwarded email (credentials of the person are kept confidential) :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I would like to explore opportunities to establish&lt;br /&gt;employment relationship with wirkle.&lt;br /&gt;My brief introduction-&lt;br /&gt;Name: XXX&lt;br /&gt;Education: B.Tech.(IT) from a good institute (but not an IIT)&lt;br /&gt;Current Employer: some big software consultancy firm&lt;br /&gt;Job Philosophy: Optimize ratio of input and output&lt;br /&gt;1.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Work ex&lt;/span&gt;- More than &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.5 Years &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Current CTC - 4lacs &lt;/span&gt;(expected to be 6.5+1 after&lt;br /&gt;promotion in April or June)&lt;br /&gt;3.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Expected CTC - 10 to 12 &lt;/span&gt;(According to job profile&lt;br /&gt;offered and company profile, Flexible and Negotiable)&lt;br /&gt;4.Earliest joining date - (Max 3 Months from&lt;br /&gt;offer,Flexible towards lower end)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; So this email is Funny because, I don't know what this guy expects but I guess guys like these are interested more in money than in work. Startups need sincere dedicated guys and I have seen guys technically more sound who just love their work. Normally in startups I would like to have guys who have put in lot of self-initiative, contributed to open source projects and are community people rather than just being money driven. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My advice to guys like this is - join some other area like real estate - you might make much more money in that than being a software engineer!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if someone has a requirement and wants to hire this guy, let me know!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-5590604321367636749?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/5590604321367636749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=5590604321367636749' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5590604321367636749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5590604321367636749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/02/who-wants-to-hire-this-guy.html' title='Who wants to hire this guy ?'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-818092912510470264</id><published>2007-01-24T01:58:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-01-24T02:08:58.241+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Wirkle demonstrates at Proto.in</title><content type='html'>&lt;a xhref="http://proto.in" mce_href="http://proto.in"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.proto.in/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/proto-extn1.gif" mce_src="http://www.proto.in/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/proto-extn1.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/proto_wirkle_2-773155.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/proto_wirkle_2-767039.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wirkle was selected as one of India's top 28 product technology startups selected to present at &lt;a href="http://www.proto.in/"&gt;Proto&lt;/a&gt; (http://www.proto.in). Proto is India's first serious attempt to showcase new products, technologies and startups to the forefront. The event aimed at providing innovators a space to attract mindshare, finances, and the attention of the VCs.&lt;a xhref="http://proto.in" mce_href="http://proto.in"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The event took place on 20th &amp;amp; 21st January at Chennai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wirkle demonstrated the capabilities of its "patent pending" Mirage platform - a middleware along with a mobile application that dramatically simplifies building and deploying custom enterprise scale mobile applications. Middleware enables tracking and delivering customized information in the form of updates. The mobile application helps tackle the mobile device fragmentation for each individual customized mobile applications. The platform empowers its customers to interact with various enterprise applications and back-end IT databases using their mobile phones.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-818092912510470264?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/818092912510470264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=818092912510470264' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/818092912510470264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/818092912510470264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/01/wirkle-demonstrates-at-protoin.html' title='Wirkle demonstrates at Proto.in'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-8111659600855684707</id><published>2007-01-10T18:21:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-01-10T18:27:17.767+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangalore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wirkle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comsware'/><title type='text'>Wirkle at Comsware</title><content type='html'>This is a pic of Lomesh and Varun at Comsware!! They look techy don't they :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/10-01-07_1609-742140.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/uploaded_images/10-01-07_1609-739938.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-8111659600855684707?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/8111659600855684707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=8111659600855684707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/8111659600855684707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/8111659600855684707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/01/wirkle-at-comsware_10.html' title='Wirkle at Comsware'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-3148683266325963047</id><published>2007-01-09T13:31:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-01-09T13:42:32.383+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wirkle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comsware'/><title type='text'>Wirkle at Comsware</title><content type='html'>Beginning tomorrow (10th and 11th January) Wirkle would be presenting itself at Comsware being held in Bangalore. So be ready to check in the Wirkle stall there.  &lt;a href=""&gt;http://www.comsware.org/demo.html&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMSWARE is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in Communications Software. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists, providing a launch pad for new innovative business and technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a couple of startups presenting there and Wirkle would be presenting its enterprise products. We have been gearing our platform for the enterprise market and you can have a look at how Mirage is powering the enterprise service helpdesk industry!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-3148683266325963047?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/3148683266325963047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=3148683266325963047' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3148683266325963047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/3148683266325963047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/01/wirkle-at-comsware.html' title='Wirkle at Comsware'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-6670820959654696870</id><published>2007-01-08T14:31:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-01-08T15:22:46.447+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='proto'/><title type='text'>Proto - the Indian DEMO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://proto.in" mce_href="http://proto.in"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.proto.in/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/proto_badge.gif" mce_src="http://www.proto.in/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/proto_badge.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.proto.in"&gt;Proto.in&lt;/a&gt; - india's first technology roadshow is being held at Chennai on 20th and 21st January 2007. I have always been fascinated by companies presenting at &lt;a href="http://www.demo.com"&gt;DEMO &lt;/a&gt;. I have seen their online videos and it's great to see the technology initiatives in US.  Kudos to the Proto organizers who must have put in lot of efforts in organizing such an event in India. Though I guess it will be hard for Proto to match Demo but nevertheless it's a great start. Events like this will boost up the product technology culture in India.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-6670820959654696870?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/6670820959654696870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=6670820959654696870' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6670820959654696870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/6670820959654696870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/01/proto-indian-demo.html' title='Proto - the Indian DEMO'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-5459792143174201588</id><published>2007-01-08T14:16:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-01-08T14:25:50.150+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momodelhi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='delhi'/><title type='text'>MomoDelhi is back again!</title><content type='html'>MomoDelhi is back - a new year, a new beginning. So mark your calendar for 20th January. The momo delhi event welcomes all mobile enthusiasts, so if you have a mobile phone and are fascinated - be here to see what the future of mobile holds. From discussions on hard core technology to business to a way common man interprets mobile - this is the event to be in!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you have your own perspective to share, we welcome you to present your perspective of mobile to the world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just add your name to the wiki http://momodelhi.pbwiki.com&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href="http://momodelhi.pbwiki.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://momodelhi.pbwiki.com/badge.php" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-5459792143174201588?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/5459792143174201588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=5459792143174201588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5459792143174201588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/5459792143174201588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2007/01/momodelhi-is-back-again.html' title='MomoDelhi is back again!'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-116592330752273074</id><published>2006-12-12T16:54:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-12-13T10:59:20.986+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Gmail Up</title><content type='html'>This weekend brought a good news with my gmail account finally working !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It feels good to get that data back!! But I am quite surprised that there occurred such a serious bug within gmail that kept my account down for almost nearly a month!! I feel good that they looked into it and finally resolved it out but they asked me all sort of weird questions to get this thing up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was a big proponent of keeping all data online and just accessing it via the browser but this one situation is seriously making me rethink!! Email has become so ubquitous and if you loose it; you feel like being handicapped.. Perhaps one should have a fault tolerant service for something as important as EMAIL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So guys you can now email me back on gmail but I will be lot more cautious using it this time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-116592330752273074?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/116592330752273074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=116592330752273074' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116592330752273074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116592330752273074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2006/12/gmail-up.html' title='Gmail Up'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-116342598605986617</id><published>2006-11-13T19:18:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-11-13T19:23:06.086+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Gmail Down</title><content type='html'>My Gmail account is down from more than an hour. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I keep getting this message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Server Error&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working to fix the problem -- please try logging in to your account in a few minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never experienced such outrage!! And my friends are able to login, it's just that I am experiencing this trouble. I used to forward my emails from other accounts onto GMail but now I am having second thoughts about it....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GMail is a great service but if it doesn't work - it's of no use...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-116342598605986617?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/116342598605986617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=116342598605986617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116342598605986617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116342598605986617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2006/11/gmail-down.html' title='Gmail Down'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-116342292336991783</id><published>2006-11-13T18:14:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-11-13T18:32:03.453+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sunil &amp; Tina</title><content type='html'>It's been more than a month since I got married with my beautiful wife Tina. Ever since I met her, it's been a new phase and a new beginning. I met her none other than independence day (15th August) to perhaps loose my independence :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how long did it took to decide?? Days, weeks, months .. hmmm - not even couple of hours... we decided (actually God knows who decided) to tie the knot. Quite unusual for love marriages and perhaps even for arranged marriages these days in Delhi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 16th August, our Roka to 23rd September to our engagement and finally 29th September, time just flew by. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't written blogs for days, marriage makes you busy man!! Had a beautiful honeymoon in austria, met some old pals in Salzburg, we had our first Karvachauth, had a great Diwali at my home in Patiala and currently enjoying my first few moments of happy married life :-) Lots of dinners at lots of places, gives enough reason to put up weight !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess it gave me enough reasons to be away from the online world! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the marriage video below..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P7R-pJ6FJQc"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P7R-pJ6FJQc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HJUkfVVFM9s"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HJUkfVVFM9s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-116342292336991783?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/116342292336991783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=116342292336991783' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116342292336991783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/116342292336991783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2006/11/sunil-tina.html' title='Sunil &amp; Tina'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685006.post-115503630324653201</id><published>2006-08-08T16:05:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-08-08T16:55:03.366+05:30</updated><title type='text'>LinknSurf Beta 1.0</title><content type='html'>Do checkout the latest version of LinknSurf Beta 1.0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.linknsurf.com/images/main_screen.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Enables you track your favorite blogs&lt;br /&gt;- Share blogs via email, sms&lt;br /&gt;- Share blogs via creating your own mobile communities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also recieve emails on LinknSurf, just forward your emails to username@linknsurf.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LinknSurf now runs also on blackberry, so if you have Blackberry 7100G, you can enjoy tracking blogs and sharing them with your friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download LinknSurf from the following links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;B&gt;General MIDP2 Application (Nokia, SonyEricsson, LG, Samsung etc.)&lt;/B&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linknsurf.com/download/lns/common/linknsurf.jar"&gt;linknsurf.jar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linknsurf.com/download/lns/common/linknsurf.jad"&gt;linknsurf.jad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;B&gt;Motorola Razr V3&lt;/B&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linknsurf.com/download/lns/razr/linknsurf.jar"&gt;linknsurf-moto.jar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linknsurf.com/download/lns/razr/linknsurf.jad"&gt;linknsurf-moto.jad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;B&gt;Blackberry 7100G&lt;/B&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linknsurf.com/download/lns/blackberry/linknsurf.cod"&gt;linknsurf.cod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or just point your mobile browser to http://linknsurf.com/download&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you have a gprs connection, you can try the app out and can email me your feedback!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6685006-115503630324653201?l=www.wirkle.com%2Fblogs%2Fsunil%2Findex.html'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/115503630324653201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6685006&amp;postID=115503630324653201' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/115503630324653201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6685006/posts/default/115503630324653201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.wirkle.com/blogs/sunil/2006/08/linknsurf-beta-10.html' title='LinknSurf Beta 1.0'/><author><name>Sunil</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16398736854970839292</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10439602627112047349'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry></feed>