NanoSaka > Saurabh Kaushik

My biggest challenge, after having my laptop hard disk crashed, was to look for a better service which can backup my data files and sametime, makes them available on my office laptop as well as on my mobile. I have tried FolderShare, GSpace, Box.net and Funambol. But till date, none of the service could win my heart. Also that my hope of having Google solution into this space sulked as Gdrive came crashing as mare a speculative news.

GigaOM reference to SugarSync file sync service also falls short of my requirement of data-on-my-finger-tip around-the-clock. Definitely SugerSync is a good service. But I have few thoughts with my hats.

• As a developer, I would like to know more about technology used in it. Is it SyncML based?
• As a user, I would like to go only with one service which can fill all my need of syncing everything from bookmark, contact, calender to files on all the devices. Will they expand into it?
• As blogger, I would say Funambol is a closer solution, but they lack of File Syncing service. Will these two solutions (Funambol and SugarSync) ever come together under one umbrella?

Coincidently, I have been working on SyncML related technologies and solutions like Funambol. I am thinking of either

• developing a full-fledge service to fill this GAP or
• integrating these discreate entites into “Follow Me Data Sync System”. Any takers???

Here I want share my take on a book written by my brotherly friend and arch foe (tennis) Mr. Aniruddha Saklani. He has named it “Infinite Richness“. I got my signed copy on 27th March 2005. Amazingly, I was able to finish it by 3rd Jan 2008, not because the book was laborious, but due to my sheer ignorance for intellect. Applaud!!! Pathetic, isn’t it!!!

Alright, back to the book, as name suggests, it is an eye opener for all those unicorns who want to know “why!!!”. It is a beautiful intellectual narration of about 100 pages talking about forgotten strengths of humankind. Author starts with reminders of human evolution and challenges, we face today. He is able to maintain the story like flow weaving all shores. Reading it is like listening to a humble guru with great practical connections and anecdotes. He could really answers lots of questions, we live our whole life without ever asking them. Basically, it inspires you to question everything as he puts it “Including the ground it stand on”.

I can say, I am enriched with answers, I have been searching for. The questions like:

• What is my destiny or how will I find?
• What is the connection between richness and freedom?
• How to distinguish yourself being a maker or taker?
• What does it take to distinguishes between sucker and creative?
• What is difference thinking and acting just as science and art?

Although, I have not read many philosophical books, I can say that this book gave me lots of answers and inspired me to ask more.

I would strongly recommend everyone of you to have your dose of this smoothie.