All Posts by Himanshu Sheth

|In: Web 2.0|Last Updated:
Everyone has seen internet going into a new age.Right from HTML to RSS(XML) to Blogging to Video Sharing to Collabaration.Just happen to come across Jeremy Fain’s Blog where he has mentioned about the coolest definition of Web 2.0

Basically, in plain words “Web 2.0 is just about sharing and collabarating information”

One of the coolest videos which demonstrates Web 2.0 is uploaded by Michael Wesch
Do not miss the coolest videos demonstrating Web 2.0 below….I am sure you would say wow after watching it 🙂

|In: Blogging|Last Updated: | 15 Comments
It has been almost two years since I have been blogging and I can tell that Blogging has changed my life.I have been recognized by many people because of my blog.Not only have I made many friends from the Blogosphere (Ashish, Alok Srivatsava, Phalgun, Rishi, Mayank, Ramanathan to name a few of them) but have also been able to make a different identity of myself.Yes,not to forget entrepreneurs like Nidhi who are a source of inspiration to all young people who aspire to be entrepreneurs.

I should not forget my friends Alok, Hiral, Varada, Ajay, Ashish who have been a source of constant support during this entire journey.But,this is just the start of the journey and there is a long way to go!!!

Thoughtsprevail yesterday, today and tomorrow

Thoughtsprevail was able to see its rank go up from 9 Lakh in Technorati to 2,48,812 in just 2.2 months.Well,rank does not matter much[since this blog does not get me any money :-)], but this increase in the rank means that this blog is able to send across the right message to all the visitors(who land up to this blog either though Google or directly come to my blog 🙂

Visit my Technorati Profile and if you find the content of this blog informative you can add me to your Favourites

Thoughtsprevail.on Technorati

We should not forget the “Page Rank” and I saw my page rank finally go up from a mere 1 to 3 and believe me,after putting so much of efforts , it was very painful to see a PR of 1.And yes,not to forget the site meter [which did increment in meters but in centimeters(since 1cm = 100m) for thoughtsprevail].Many other such small achievements would help me reach where I wanna be!!!

Visitors on ThoughtsPrevail

Thanks to everyone and help increase this collabarative world of blogosphere!!!

|In: Google|Last Updated: | 3 Comments
I just thought that so many events are happening in Bangalore and Chennai , so it would be difficult for many people to keep track of it.Specially,if the event pertains to my love “Google” it had to be on my blog 😉

An interesting “Google Tech Talk” on 21st February,2007.The highlight would be on “Past,Present and Future of the Internet”.The details of the event can be found on My Upcoming Events.Seen below is a snapshot of the event details.

Google Tech Talk in Bangalore on 21st February,2007

|In: Business|Last Updated:
So what happens when one business guru meets another guru.Yes,Economic Times was able to bring Infosys‘s Nandan Nilekani and PepsiCo‘s Indra Nooyi under one roof on 7th February,2007.May be I was somewhat late in posting this on my blog 🙂

Nandan Nilekani acted as the interviewer and it was an interesting conversation between the two of them.Just one problem,the interview was covered in 24 pages which was too tiring for me to complete it 🙂

Visit the complete interview here

|In: Entrepreneurship|Last Updated: | 6 Comments
Heard this one “Impossible is nothing”…Yup this is the tag line of Nike.But what is it doing on my Blog? I just came across two videos on YouTube which would definitely inspire any person and at the end of the video, you would also tell “IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING”

NOTE:Could not embed the video,since Embeding of the video was disabled.

a. Inspiring Video 1:
I was chatting with my friend Nidhi Modi , owner of AllIndiaDeals.She is a high performance entrepreneur(in Subroto Bagchi‘s terminology) and one of the reason’s for her success is this inspiring video(which she shared with me),that demonstrates “Power of striving hard to succed”

Ordinary people becoming extra ordinary

[CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GO TO THE VIDEO]

b. Inspiring Video 2:
No one might have imagined that a lower middle class boy would become a 25bn$ powerhouse.Yes,as you might have guessed, I am referring to the “Man in Steel” of Indian origin-Laxmi Nivas Mittal.Enjoy his interview where he shares his views on India,his journey to success and his message to young entrepreneurs.

Inspiring Hero:LN Mittal

[CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GO TO THE VIDEO]

|In: Unconference|Last Updated: | 2 Comments
Ever thought that you have missed BlogCamp, BarCamp, Proto, MobileMonday and other such unconferences than you shouldn’t miss this one of its kind of unconference: Wiki Camp.

WiKiCamp in Chennai on 25th February,2007

Heard about WiKi’s(yup its used everywhere!!!), than know more about WiKi’s right from the horse’s mouth Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and President of Wikimedia Foundation.

The “Knowledge Foundation”,the pillar behind such kind of unconferences are back in action with WikiCamp.The event would be held in Tidel Park,Chennai on 25th February 2007.The agenda of WikiCamp can be found here and if you wish,you can add your topic as well(oops,missed that it is an unconference).Seen below is a small snapshot from Vijay Anand’s Blog which gives the rising importance of WiKi’s.

Growing Importance of WiKi's from Vijay Anand's Blog

Hats off to Vijay Anand, Kiruba and the Knowledge foundation for organizing such kind of unconferences.

So the take away from WiKiCamp at a mere 200 bucks is immense….My effort would be to blog the event live like I did in BarCamp Bangalore….I would be there at the event and hope to see your there as well !!!

|In: Blogging|Last Updated:
Ever thought where does “Steve Jobs” and “Hillary Clinton” blog?Is it on Blogger, WordPress, Typepad etc.

Type “Steve Jobs Blog” in Google and you would come across “Fake Steve Jobs Blog”.

Steve Jobs's Blog?Yup,as you might have guessed,it is not a blog owned by Steve Jobs and it was asked to shut down for legal reasons(given in the snapshot below).

SiliconValleyWatcher has covered this complete story here.It is not only Steve Jobs or Robert Scoble who have come under the line of fire.There is a blog dedicated to White House lady “Hillary Clinton” as well.

Hillary Clinton's Blog?
Just keeps me wondering by the title of the blog “Secret diary of Steve Jobs” and “Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton”, is it that these two blogs belong to the does the same person??

Since,I have spoken so much about Steve Jobs in my post,do check out the “Apple Student Blog” ,which is the official blog of Apple(and yup the templates are powered by WordPress and not Blogger!!!).

|In: Business|Last Updated: | 2 Comments
The Hotmail Guy Sabeer Bhatia is one of the most respected Entrepreneurs in India as well as abroad.I was just searching for him on my favourite search engine and my love “Google” and came to know about his latest venture.

After the dot com bust,he seemed to have vanished from the industry.After Hotmail,he came up with Arzoo[well,I dont remember what content was there in Arzoo :-)] , but the venture did not work out for him.And than Arzoo was shut down and there was no whereabouts of our hotmail guy.

But now he has bounced back with his two ventures,which I came across while reading about him:

a. Arzoo(Relaunched):

Arzoo Relaunched

In this growing Web2.0 age and booming airline business,there has been lot of travel portals in the recent times like TravelGuru,Zoomtra,Ghumo,Cleartrip and many more(very hard to list all of them).While in Proto.in , there was a new launch which looked pretty nice called Ixigo.Well,Sabeer Bhatia has not revealed(and marketed) his new Arzoo but yes as you guessed it right,Arzoo was relaunched as a travel portal.But,the biggest minus point of Arzoo is it has only the biggies(like Jet Airways,Indian,Kingfisher Airlines etc) in the list , there is no place for low cost carriers like Air Deccan,Indigo etc.Hence,Arzoo is targetted to a niche set of audience travelling by non-low cost airlines….Wonder how can low cost airlines be left behind?Any answer…..

b. BlogEverywhere:

BlogEverywhere is a simple way for you to log your thoughts and comments on any web page as you surf the web.

This is what BlogEverywhere has to say about itself:

Blogeverywhere enables a virtual water cooler discussion on every web page. The users can build an online journal and create pages of interest to them. Everyone visiting that page can view your comments giving you a potentially large audience. Other viewers can reply to the comments thereby creating a two way conversation.

More details about Blogeverywhere can be checked here

The sad part is that “Blog Everywhere Toolbar” currently only supports “Microsoft Internet Explorer” and not the other browsers hence,cannot use my favourite Firefox 🙂

Lets wait and watch on the performance of his new ventures!!!