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About Me

Life can't be epitome and I live it easy way. I am a first generation Entrepreneur and co-founded a Design, Development and Security company named VHD Systems based in Ahmedabad and Vadodara.

Previously I have co-founded Loneorb Systems, an IT services and management company mainly focused on SMEs and Institutional segment across India, which I've left since a while now.

Apart from this, and most importantly, I'm an enthusiastic student of everything that may be called Techy and Business. I love to read and can talk endlessly, on any topic. Be careful with me, my friends call me a hathoda. I don't make everybody my friend but I also don't make a lot of foes as well. I'm here to connect to everyone who may have or will do touch some part of my life.

My current technical goals are to get an expertise in CMSs & Community Software integrations as well have hands on localization & internationalization techniques for Web2.0''3.0 applications (RIAs).

Best way to get in touch is my Facebook profile.
facebook.com/dkcreatto

Location:
India, Ahmedabad
Current organization:
VHD Systems
Past organizations:
Loneorb Systems
Current role:
Co-founder / Partner
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Web Technologies, Sales and Revenue Growth, Marketing and Communications, IT Service Management, PHP / MySQL, WordPress, Drupal, Design - Graphic, Communication - digital & multimedia , Web Design / Web Development
I am:
Concerned citizen, Designer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Marketer, Student, Technologist, Web guru
Languages:
Hindi, Gujarati, English
My website links:
@dkcreatto - Twitter, VHD Systems, Facebook
Universities:
Gujarat University, India
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I'm passionate about

Everything which makes me happy. From morning breeze to booze in Night. I love to play around technologies, have an eye on financial and economy matters; and learning new sales and marketing tactics.

An idea worth spreading

Every idea leading us for a better future is worth spreading. From Tim Berners Li's "Linked Data" to Gpaminder.com's "Statistical Data of World", from

Talk to me about

Any tech related thing, global warming, international finance, sale and marketing,

People don't know that I'm good at

Creating funny faces. ;)

My TED Story

Its work in progress..

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    A comment on Talk: Bruce Schneier: The security mirage

    May 14 2011: Got bored in first 10 mins. I liked the title, starting but eventually it went BORING.

    Why you need a thousand arguments to emphasize on ONE POINT?

  • A reply on Conversation: LIVE TED Conversation: Join TED Speaker Eli Pariser

    May 14 2011: Eli I don't see a valid point about financials of companies like Google/Facebook.

    IMHO, if they strive by letting people use their products as much as possible and showing ads in that period. So, if I go to Google and can't find what I wanted I'll move to other resource or dig deeper in results.

    Sadly, it's tough with Facebook/Twitter, unless you use the on your phones 24*7. Still, in them, if I have many friends/follow a lot of users I would be interacting with a few of them more often then rest, and knowing what my Mom is doing would be much beneficial than what some hanky-panky, whom i had to add due to >socio politics

  • A reply on Conversation: LIVE TED Conversation: Join TED Speaker Eli Pariser

    May 14 2011: Eli meant that even if you're using sites like Google/Bing from highest anonymity a user can achieve they can still match you ip/mac address, browser with your activities and will still provide you with some kind of, although small scale, personalization by putting up metrics of your location (ip/mac combination) and your surfing habit.

    Although, if you're already logged in, like checking gmail or posting on facebook, anonymity drops substantially, almost to zero, and then you'll get what >they< think is most relevant to you.

    Btw, living in no-so-great neighborhood may have some effect, but not 'outdated computer' as they can only see your browser, operating system, ip/mac address and bandwidth (not the hardware in majority of cases, unless you installed something).

  • A reply on Conversation: LIVE TED Conversation: Join TED Speaker Eli Pariser

    May 14 2011: Frankly, I do see a point in your argument but still disagree in an approval way.

    For me, and most of individuals I have contact with, if I search for Houston, I'm searching for the place or nasa or some person. I don't see putting an amber alert or president's schedule around it quite helpful.

    if, i would be in need for any news, first two points you made are news, I would go to news section of search engine. Although, placing quick links, like google does very intelligently, relevant to my location, time and previous searches would be helpful.

    I must say, the putting an option to OPT OUT of personalized, individual and mass altogether, results would make it more reliable.

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