Of all the news, debates, articles and bills that are going on regarding ‘healthcare reform’, most of the talk is more about ‘health insurance reform’, or ‘how to get a net increase in health insurance payments from people’. Everyone is talking about taxing the rich to get more money in health insurance, putting surcharges on so called cadillac plans, making it mandatory for everyone to take …

Just launched my new website: http://pickv.com. It's a new kind of relationship and online dating site that helps you to find someone based off of your favorites (movies, music, tv shows, and books). Not single? No worries - you can also use the site to connect with a new friend. Check it out! Dwipal Comments wnc78 (December 30, 2009): Looks good man …. -Wasim

My perspective on the Palm Pre… Pros: KeyboardIM / Chat Background AppsAddress book integration with Gmail, Facebook, etcSprint's networkCons: No international / global roaming possible (due to CDMA)Plastic body, prone to scratching easilyBrowser seems to have some font/rendering issues (check out yahoo.com on the pre)Device a bit too small (its a plus for some people, I would prefer to have an …

May the fourth be with you!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day

I signed up for Twitter a long time ago (March 2007 to be exact), used it for a few days, realized its fun but useless and stopped using it. Since then, twitter has had an exponential growth, and specially exploded in the last few months. However, unlike Facebook or YouTube (to which twitter is being compared with) I don’t find it sticky or interesting enough on a regular basis. A recent report by …

Being the first few employees at YouTube and responsible for building a slew of YouTube features and heading the mobile efforts, I often get asked on the thought process that goes behind building something that can be wildly successful. Below are a few of my thoughts on this: Do: Build a product that solves a complete problem, not just a part of it Think long term, execute short term. Have a clear …

So there is big ‘shift’ towards the ‘cloud’ in the industry nowadays. Everyone has started to provide (really good) server based services, whether its for your contacts, documents, email, pictures, storage and even the more niche things like your browser favorites, your search history, things like notes, snippets, your friends and their friends. Most of the companies providing these services have …

Just came back from Shrinathji, and caught my rickshaw ride on camera. A fun conversation to listen to (its in Gujarati). Comments None (February 15, 2008): Nelscoinc Mobile Phone ltdWe are legit distributor of mobile phones and TVs like Samsung , Nokia , Sony Ericsson , Qtek and Imate . They are Brand New Sealed and they come with 1year international warranty. We ship via FedEx Express{2days …

I finally decided to make use of the fancy Symbian S60 phone to listen to internet radio (shoutcast) while on the go. We have fast 3G connections, so there should be no reason to tie up with the computer to listen to internet radio. After a few hours of effort, I got the S60 Internet Radio to work. Here is a link to the wiki with instructions on getting it. I had to figure out some stuff, but have …

I decided to play around with Google’s Coop search, and created a Indian Guitar Chords search engine. You can check it out here. It does allow people to collaborate and add more sites to it, which is pretty interesting. Hopefully the quality of this search engine will improve as more specific sites get added to the list. Comments None (October 21, 2007): great job ! I will also contribute to it. …