Alexa alternatives are soon getting popularity. Compete and Quantcast are two of the few new available website popularity checkers. Alexa died an early death for it continued to ignore Firefox browser officially. Here is how I would rank these websiteS: 1. Compete.com 2. Quantcast.com 3. Alexa.com So go ahead and find out your website popularity compared to all other websites. Be ahead of your competition.

Rock on made me Nostalgic. The good old college days and moreover the drive to make music. Rock On! manages to engage you with a simple story of a rock band. How the Band forms, separates due to differences among its members and how they reunite. It is a feel good movie and worth a watch. I would rate this movie 7/10. Somethings that could have been "much much better": Music - Good songs but not great, been experimenting a lot these days with upcoming rock artist in India like Raghu Dixit and found that rock-on missed out making great "hindi rock" numbers. Reminded me about Dil Chahata Hai too many times. One friend who is also comical and easy-to-go patches up two other friends after many years. And many other instances. Characterization of some key characters were Weak. Rob & Joe in particular. How it reminds me of my jamming days at Orange Pale for almost 3 years. The last year in college the band lost some key members and I had to end up singing and manage with a 3 member team. I write much lesser these days and don't compose music anymore. Rock On sure rings a bell!

This book so far has been great read. In a nutshell:

"Successful marketers don't talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story. A story we want to believe."

Watch this interesting interview (edited version) of Joel Spolsky by Scoble.

Something I want to do in 2006 extensively is play sports. Tennis, Cycling and learn a few other new sports like snowboarding. Welcome 2006!

As a young entrepreneur it took me 5 years to learn this day called SUNDAY. Sunday usually is my best day to do all low priority office work, spend an hour in shower only thinking what our next product could be, endlessly interview C++ developers, worry about the paper work which I still don't want to do, hit 'get mail' icon 5 times every hour. I haven't even taken out time for a hair cut since last 6 months (of course deliberately).

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Bangalore sure lacks the much needed infrastructure as Calvin points out. Everyone breaks rule to the extend your moral values support. If you see/talk more about the corrupt guys up there, see more and more of that dirt, you fall prey to it. The *change* is right in our heads. Here is some things that gives me kick:

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Saturday evening, a little jolly at work, I was having a casual chat my colleagues. We often talk about Americans vs Indians (in IT business). And guess what I keep telling them, Americans are good, they make good products, and they are intelligent and so on. They keep protesting it and we have good debate. I don't mean to prove Indians inferior. But hey! never underestimate anyone even u if know a good deal about them. Don't generalize. Just learn from their strengths.

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I just finished watching a movie (along with my parents). At home. 'Baghban', when literally translated means the gardener, is the story of Raj Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan), his wife Pooja (Hema Malini) and their four sons. It portrays the apathy of youth towards their elders. It also teaches the importance of family, life and our culture. We all were very impressed and touched by the movie. Round of applause for the Big B. The movie actually reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad few months ago.

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