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October 10, 2005

Yahoo Podcasts

Ev’s Odeo is facing challenges right now. With Apple joining the Podcast fray, few months back, the podcast scene just got hotter. Just today, Yahoo announced it’s share of podcasting service, Yahoo Podcasts which is in beta, as expected.

Ev Head‘s Blogger made a headstart in blogging and its long gone before these big godzillas of internet realised that blogging was a serious business. They don’t want to do the same with Podcasts. So they are gearing up to enter podcasting sooner than ever before. And thats giving podcasting all the hype more than its worth. With whatever I’ve experienced in the last few months, ever since I started subscribing to Podcasts on my mp3 player, I believe, Podcasts will become the next radio. But I’m positive that podcasts may not erupt waves in the internet. They would consolidate soon and would become steady business rather than competitive, just like the blogging market. So podcasts will live but not as grand as blogs. The video revolution has already started and that would be a majot hitch for the podcasts to surge higher.

Now what happens to podcasting services like EV’s ODEO ? With the online giants jumping into the podcasting badnwagon, fresh creative thinkers have very little to do in podcasting space now. The major difference betwen ODEO and other biggies is that they have software to creat and upload podcasts. Apple and Yahoo’s podcast services are mearly a grouping of podcasts in one place whereas ODEO has a USP of creating podcasts. It wouldn’t take much for them to buy this software from some unknown programmer and fix it into their sites. Ev’s Odeo might succumb to the media majors if they don’t take a lead right now. I just don’t want EV to fail like Sabeer Bhatia, after all he was instrumental for a blogging revolution.
October 9, 2005

Megam Kottatum, Aatam Undu !!

It’s ranining cats and dogs in Seattle. It seems it was the same in Bangalore too. While I was driving with Rahman‘s fantastical Kuchi Kuchi Rakamma, the Bangalorevaasis were enjoying like Mani Ratnam’s heroines. They got drenched and were still ready for a music mazhai. The A R Rahman Concert happened in Bangalore and I envy those who attended it.

Writes Hindu –

It was six, an hour before the much-awaited A.R. Rahman concert by India Classic Arts. The skies opened up and truly, like the adage, it never rains, it pours and there was a downpour. The props on the stage gave way and the 3D gadget conked out, but the 25,000-odd crowd would not move. Every two minutes, young and old, screamed: “We want Rahman.” Rahman made a two-second dramatic appearance with a huge umbrella and announced: “These showers are godsend. Give me one hour and I promise you, it will be the best performance so far.” And when the performance did begin at 9 p.m., there was much ecstasy, on stage and off stage.

Writes Deccan Herald –

In sober white, and sans the customary long locks, Rahman opened with Yuva’s groovy discotheque track Fanaa.

Prabhu has a detailed post where he writes –

When he started the last song for the day ‘Vandhe Matharam’ we all were standing on the chair. And it poured. It poured extremely heavily. One particular moment, when he sang ‘Vande Mataram’ the rain at that particular moment was the highest all day. Not just me. Many of us felt the same. This time there were really tears in my eyes. The rain and rahmans music washed away the layers of dust that had grown around my heart and made me cry.

It’s still raining here this morning and I’m hoping if the rain would bring along the same music spirit which Bangaloreans enjoyed yesterday !!
October 9, 2005

Recieved a FEDEXed parcel. Had

Recieved a FEDEXed parcel. Had asked my folks to send across one of my favorite T-Shirt which I had forgot to carry. Along with a pack of jav-arisi vadaams, Ashokamithran’s Katuraigal Part 1 and 2, I also got this purple tee-shirt. It had a fresh smell. A familiar Indian washing powder smell. Reminded me of my home at Chennai and I’m still wondering what a little smell can do to your mood swings.
October 8, 2005

The Hunt gets rolling

[On the Sets of VV. Image – Vikatan]

Gautam Menon‘s interview to Vikatan clears off the rumor cloud surrounding Vettayadu Vilayadu. With the movie getting stuck on producer Khaja Mohideen’s attempted suicide, it is now afresh with Oscar Ravichandran taking over the movie production.

While waiting for the U.S visas, Gautam Menon says he has completed a schedule of shoot in India. He also upsets me by saying Vettayadu Vilayadu is just another face of Kakkha Kakkha in Kamal’s way. While I expected him to make a Kamal movie considering Kamal’s age, I certainly didn’t want another cop film to be churned out. Makes me wonder why my beliefs on Kodambakkam are a tad high than the reality. Though we could rest assured that the movie could be slick in cinematography and editing, I would have expected a non-cop film and for sure a non-Kakkha Kakkha type flick.

He also reveals that his next flick would be an Arya-Jyothika starrer. He seems to like Jyothika as an actress and that’s a consolation for me. Finally he speaks out the truth. SJ Surya might even stage a darna for that. While replying to a question on Ah Aha, he concludes, if only SJ Surya wouldn’t have acted in the movie, it could have been a hit like Kushi. We agree Gautam !! We agree a ton with you.
October 8, 2005

Are you just curious today ?

So if you mamma said, Don’t talk to strangers, she was right, then. Not anymore. On the internet, a stranger wants you to answer a question. Ofcourse when you answer you get a chance to ask a question. Take a timepass spin if you are Just Curio.us. Anonymity is the key.

Yahoo Podcasts

Megam Kottatum, Aatam Undu !!

Recieved a FEDEXed parcel. Had

The Hunt gets rolling

Are you just curious today ?