Highlight any webpage instantly!

Rohit Chandra, who is a serial entrepreneur and a good friend of mine, is now on to his next mega-idea. This time it is a big web 2.0 splash with an interesting twist ... highlight any web page instantly, as if you have a highlighter. So when you send web links to people now you can have them focus on what you want them to read, rather than read a whole web page. In this busy world no one has time to read the whole webpage. What you want is a quick way to tell something that was so much possible in the classical world of pen and paper.

I like his website name:

http://www.roohit.com

This is a derivative of his own name. I know Rohit, ever since I met him in Informix, where I was a web architect for the world's first media project in Java in early 1995 when the web was fresh from the oven. At that time, I was building an SOA startup for network management. And in Rohit, I saw the fire that the entrepreneurs have. He was restless and would never give up thinking how he would change the world. A few years later he launched this startup called ECode which shook the world. It was his original patented idea and a real good one. Since then, I have been very impressed with his zeal and motivation to change the fabric of the web.

So what are you waiting for? Just go ahead and aim your browser at http://www.roohit.com and you will get addicted to this new way of highlighting web pages.

There's something about Rohit, I see him in the right places at the right time. He's got an amazing sense of communication and really stays on top of the fundamental aspects of what users need for the internet of tomorrow.

James Robinson's music

Had gone to Cascal's at castro street in Mountain View to listen to James Robinson and his band. Fantastic combination of flamenco, latin jazz, turkish, italian and spanish rhythms. He has his own signature, very good chord work and intense melodic flamenco style finger work. There's a lot of energy he puts in, and he's got a stellar band of expert Congo drummers and a great backing rhythm/bass guitarist.

I love to support such talent, and bought all his three CDs. His website is:

http://www.James-Robinson.com

and some links:

• http://www.guitar9.com/colours.html
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/66824/
• http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6821742/a/Colours.htm
• http://www.last.fm/music/James+Robinson
  

And my brother introduced me to him, as he was his instructor, so this was not a surprise, as I have been hearing great reviews from him from some years.

Presently loading all his CDs into my iTunes now.

SangeetDhwani's Upcoming Mega Concert

SangeetDhwani is a non-profit organization which has held 30 concerts in the bay area. Here's their next major mega concert:

http://www.sangeetdhwani.org

A new form of Micro-blogging

A newly introduced friend was telling me about his micro-blogging site:

http://2liner.com

Looked interesting and worth exploring. Do check it out. Infact, I will see if he can respond to this blog and explain a bit more about his site.

Getting tired of Micro Blogging

I am getting tired of Micro Blogging services. I feel they give too little an opportunity for me to write anything. And I kind of feel I am imposing myself on others to read about my views. All those people following you ... do they really care what I do? So, there is this pressure on me to write as briefly as possible which is kind of boring. As I tend to do a lot more activity in a single day that will generate too much activity on a micro-blog.

Forwarding emails from gmail

I observed that I cannot forward multiple emails from my gmail account. I tried creating a filter and clicked on the checkbox that applies the filter rule to all the emails. But the filter does not really apply to old emails. So I tried making these emails "New" or "Unread" and that still did not seem to do the trick.

I like the idea of using one gmail account so I can check the emails from my iPhone, but I also need the flexibility to forward a bulk set of emails once in a while to my personal mailbox, as I don't want to rely on gmail in the very long run. Besides it has a limit of 6 GB, so I am sure, I will need more space eventually.