Sachin Tendulkar... 20 Not Out

Today the God of Indian cricket completed 20 years of International cricket. A feat which no other cricketer in the world has ever achieved. To celebrate 20 years of cricket, 20 Limited Edition autographed bats by the little master with the message 'Thank You India for 20 years of love', will be auctioned. To participate in the auction fans can log on to ibnlive.com/Sachin. The minimum auction price will start from Rs 50,001.The auction opens from Sunday, 15th Nov '09 and closes on Sunday, 22nd Nov '09. The proceeds of this auction will be given to the NGO "APNALAYA".

Current bid stands at Rs. 1,33,000. Bid now to grab this opportunity of a life time and contribute to a nobel cause.

Google Wave Invites Pouring

In my previous article I had mentioned me receiving invitation from Google for my Wave account on 30th October 2009. While I was expecting Google to send out next round of invites towards end of November 2009, they have proved me wrong. It seems they have sent another round of invites on 14th November 2009. Though this could be a part of delayed invitation process they started on 30th October 2009, what seems to be a coincidence is 2 of my friends ended up receiving their invitations yesterday.

This surely is a positive step coz most of the Google Wave account holders have been complaining about limited contacts in their Wave account thereby limiting their usage of Google Wave and at the same time many experts felt that Wave was loosing its fizz. Maybe its time Google went aggressive and offered invites to many more people.

Happy Waving!

More Google Wave invites.

As pointed out in one of my earlier posts, since the launch of Google Wave on 30th September 2009, Google has sent another round of Wave invites.

I was lucky enough to receive my own Wave invite from Google yesterday. This is exactly the same modus operandi which we had witnessed when Gmail was launched. In the coming year or so there is a high possibility that at least 50-55 percent of Gmail users will have their own Wave account.

Gmail has about 150 million users worldwide and with 20 additional Google Wave invites allowed per account, it wont take much time for Google to get their entire Gmail users to move to Wave. But lets not get too excited coz these invites will be sent by Google in a phased manner. There are also talks of Google replenishing invites of existing Wave users who have exhausted their earlier quota of invites.

One of the most notable things seen in the image above is 20 permissible invites which is up from 8 permissible invites at the time of launch. Also, for those who may not know email id for wave accounts are xyz@googlewave.com

Happy waving!