Cyril Maithily Gupta's Blog

Okay, let me say I was wrong. Google built up so much excitement around Wave that when I first looked at it, frankly I was disappointed. So I wrote on Wave, ‘What will I use it for?’… That was almost an year ago.

Now I think that it wasn’t because Google didn’t have a solid product, or they didn’t have a good idea, but because they were trying to wean a generation of email users away from something they always used. Then they built so much hype around it that people expected a miracle. Sadly that takes a while to deliver and nobody, including Google had patience.

This sort of thing should be allowed to grow on people, with more and more people using it and recommending it. All the growth should have been organic, but that wasn’t so and now Google has killed an excellent product. Frankly it hurts to see wave go.

After an year of rejecting wave I implemented it in my organisation some days ago and I was surprised at how brilliant it is for the purpose of collaboration. It does beat email hands down, and I was really upbeat about the productivity benefits it could bring me. Over the past few days I’ve been talking about wave to a lot of people, I am sure there are others..

All the people in my company are now using Google Wave for collaboration and monitoring projects, and now we feel let down by Google.

So while we know it’s probably not going to work I want to send Google a msg on behalf of all the people who love and use Wave everyday.

Don’t kill it Google, maintain it. It will grow to become an awesome product if you give it just some more time.

When you get an unlimited internet connection from Airtel don’t forget to read the fine print. The plan is not actually unlimited the way you expect it to.

Airtel has introduced a ‘Fair Usage Policy’ which is very unfair to its customers. Under this policy a buyer who’s got a 1 MBPS connection (paying Rs. 1699 for it every month) is only allowed to use up to 20 GBs in a month. If the usage goes above it the buyer’s Internet speed is degraded to 512 KBPS. On the 2 MBPS connection too the limit is the same 20 GBs.

20 GBs? Ridiculous! Someone with a 2 MBPS connection can download 20 GBs in 3 days. They have the audacity to call it ‘Fair Use’!

Fair use for who? For Airtel who doesn’t care a fig for its customers anymore in a bid to maximize their profits?

Well, it’s not going to work for long. The first chance I get I am going to migrate to an Internet connection that is not so limiting.

Another company Tata Indicom has caught up on the fair use nonsense too. They told me that the fair use for the Internet connection was 20 GBs, when I asked them what would they do after I crossed 20 GBs they were unclear. ‘Send you a SMS’. Umm.. How’s that making sense? Every time you send me a SMS I get a shooting pain through my leg? Or you want to remind me of bad Karma that I am doing, crossing your fair use limits?

Well, it’s moronic policies like these which introduce fresh competition into the market.

So I am looking for an ISP with an ounce of sense.