Archive for February, 2009

Posted on February 16, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak

A News Tube for Indian Audience

Tubaah aims to be the Hulu of India. Started by a strong media network of NDTV. The site has not yet gone into the turbo-advertising mode, so not many people know of it. It allows people to create their own ‘Tubes’ generally by aggregating news videos and then share them with freinds and then follow what their freinds are watching. The HomePage has an option of Live TV Stream which currently features only NDTV Channels. Also seen on the header is a link to shows, which has a listing of all prime time shows, which again has only NDTV shows listed. This service is currently free but you can never tell when they start charging for memberships as they charge a premium ammount on their NDTV Imagine Channel (atleast on TATA Sky). With internet in India gaining new highs, this service can keep its hopes high. As more users are getting exposed to broadband, internet is the new media to count on.

Posted on February 16, 2009 - by Mayank Chandak

Make the best of your classes.

Bieng a full time student and maintainig a blog is a tough task. This particular post was handwritten at the back of my all-subject notebook. So i thought why not give some tips to make the best of your lectures ( apart from sleeping, since sleeping in class is even more refreshing than sleeping at night, anywhere, believe me) –

• Do all your blog writing at the back of your notebook, shorthand if possible. It will prevent you from dozing off.
• If you are the poets kinds, look towards the girl sitting diagonally in front of you and write a beautiful prose (you’re a last bencher and all the girls sit in the front rows, duh!)
• Artists can find some inspiration in their teachers. Making a portrait definitely wont get you a place at Christie’s but can make you a rockstar if you upload all those to Facebook.
• Txtng is always a favorite, but if you’re my kind try passing around little chits like snail mail. Its fun.
• If you have sometime left even after doing all the fun, carry a good fiction title, lectures are usually the best place to finish off that unfinished business of yours.

Warning: Studying is highly unadvisable