One among many other reason IÂ moved to Hyderabad from Bangalore even though I still have my residence there(and I miss home) and to move to where it took me ~2 years of effort.More
MMOG just got ninged
Virtual worlds as I had previously noted are going to be one of the next big things but building a MMOG is obscenely expensive. Multiverse currently running in its beta aims to reduce that cost by a huge margin. ” You can build your game with whatever revenue model you want–subscription, flat fee, in-game micropayments,…More
Thoughts from Atanu
I have been an admirer and have been highly impressed by Atanu Dey‘s thoughts and ideas. Atanu is a development ecnomist and also works as VP(strategy) at Netcore. I had the chance to meet him in person on last weekend. He was in hyderabad to give seminar talks at IIIT’s festival felicity. He is I…More
Conversation is king
 Proping up a dead failed mantra and dressing it up in new garbs does not amount to anything. “Director-Asia Pacific, Akamai Technologies, and Jasmeet Singh, VP, Rediff.com, agree on one thing: “Content is King”. Says Singh, “After the euphoria of high-speed, always-on connection dies down, content is the most important factor” ” ( via Contentsutra).…More
Posts with new categories
I will be posting more regularly with more focussed categories starting after a few weeks from now, some of these new categories would be Economics – never took a course in it but since I took it up to learn it on my own two years ago I have been fascinated by it. Infact when…More
Irrational Exuberance
Bollywood movies are a big put off for me and I watch them very very rarely. I don’t watch a hindi movie unless I’ve heard extremely rave reviews of the movie from many different sources. Thus I don’t like to watch hindi movies at all in a movie theatre.But I did go to a theatre…More
Peak Indicators
It was funny(to me atleast)when Ram Shriram presented a slide on web 2.0, now this is a buzz that is been on for 2 years, infact Tim O Rielly organized a web 2.0 conference way back in early 2004. It is no doubt that KPCB foks especially brilliant investors like Ram & Doerr have the…More
Network meet with John Doerr & Ram Shriram
 Yesterday I attended the TiE network meet in bangalore [home sweet home 🙂 ] and had the oppurtunity to interact with the legendary John Doerr & Shriram. Interestingly they very humbly said that their becoming such a legend with sucess of google was an acccident (or rather an outlier) . I have been attending every TiE meet for the…More
TiE EAP
   Those who keep complaining(that includes me) about the non existence of early stage support ecosystem in India that is so vital to sucess of entreprenuership should take a look at recently to be launched TiE EAP program. Take a read and you would realize that this is possibly the kind of kickstart that early stage support…More
Use value vs Exchange Value
  I was interested in economics but I never gave much attention to it while I was studying. I got interested in exploring it only after college mostly after reading from Rajesh Jain’s posts about economics. Infact I even bought a copy of “Developmental economics” by Debraj  that he suggested as a must read. My suggestion…More
The world is changing.
Found this on the blogosphere quite a few days ago, If you can understand tamil you will like this one a lot , its titled American Born Confused Tamil. Listen to missy eliot’s music in the background and tamil speech in the foregroundMore
ChapterNexT
Chapter 10 Â I have’nt blogged much about the earlier chapters ( viz 8 & 9) but I thought I should mark in my memedex this very significant chapter of my life. Â Â Â I have moved to hyd a day ago to start/further some projects/ventures of my own. Though I have been working on this…More
Technologist & Researcher
“Technologist and Researcher – what is the difference between the two?” a friend quizzed me  some time ago. I thought I will blog about it as this will act as a supplement of a recent post of mine.   Long ago someone gave me this interesting perspective to look at this  which I find a lot useful even if it is…More
Valley like Bangalore
Way tooo early to say that !!! Â Read this interesting article with a catchy title at mercury news “Engineers in India venturing into valley-like start-up”. The article highlights that three youngsters quitting their job to open a valley kind of startup and goes on to suggest that how this is a datapoint of a…More
What should Researcher do
I really got the feeling as being in college when I yesterday hear d talks from the likes of Dr.Raj Reddy , Prof Jhunjhunwala, Dr. Kanade etc. I really enjoyed the discussion panel as well and I am sure it would have inspired many to pursue research as it surely did inspire me. I was…More
Techvista observations
   I attented Techvista organized by Microsoft Research yesterday at Taj Residency.It was one helluva of a conference and I had the oppurtunity to listen to some very great speakers.   The meet was inaugrated by the minister of Science & Technology Kapil Sibal and he spoke very boldly that government should move away…More
The day I tried to live
” I stopped reading blogs daily” In a time far far away in the past I used to devour a lot of blogs madly, just about every blog that I find minutely interesting I would read it and in many of the blogs I used to dig up all the archives. But over a period…More
Absence
It’s been long break from blogging. I had been incredibly busy but more of the reason was to try out a little experiment. As happens to many I was also kind of getting a blog fatigue. Tried to stay off from reading blogs & blogging in a regular( daily ) fashion for some time.More
Can Metcalfe’s law help Indian entrepreneurs create elephants ?
Just read this post at venturewoods on metcalfe’s law & india. “silicon valley is excited about “network valueâ€? . Eyeballs, social networking and even PayPal. In India Metcalfe’s law is not popularâ€? First I don’t think eyeballs have anything to do with metcalfe’s law at all. Metcalfe’s law is a theory that tries to explain…More
Value drivers in Mobile Applications
              Absolutely fascinating Nerd TV interview (video here) with a 23 year old fashion model who doubles up as a mobile developer talks about many important things on how mobile application should be developed. More