Two more blogs from the Indian VC crowd VentureWood started by Alok Mital, the blog comes two months after it was declared, venturewood aims to be more of a collective blog with VC’s from the Band Of Angels group contributing to it. Here is an article on what BoA is about. VentureExplorer (Vineet Buch) I…More
Time to move
A good article on web developers moving away from Java . My take is that unless you are one of those who are writing enterprise apps for banks & other big organization you should already start picking up Ruby on Rails. I am liking ruby the best among any scripting language that I…More
end to end bluetooth
Needless to say that stuff like this are going to be a huge play & this is going to disrupt a large number of plays. A year ago we might have been discussing such possibilities now they have taken shape in reality. ” CoolZone is a Bluetooth-based, end-to-end solution. Retailers such as…More
Claim to first
Contentsutra profiles a hyd based company NowPos which claims to have relased the world’s first voicemail service. Karat then casts some doubts about the b-model about it, inserting a 10sec ad into the voicemail. Is’nt it is so easy to claim to be the “world first” without doing any looking around. Check…More
wireless lookout
Two wireless technologies to watch out for that could be a disruptive play in days to come. xMax product(it also got /.ed here) and the other one in the Indian space corDECT released by Midas Communication (backed by the TeNet group at IITM , Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala a key person behind this…More
AAI
Seemingly simple but very effective idea. Amazon launched a new service called Mechanical Turk . Basically it is like putting an interface to humans and exposing API’s of the work that they can do.( Modularizing humans work). And thats why they call it Artificial Artificial Intelligence(AAI). Check out a detailed report on it at…More
Benkler detailing peer production
Benkler‘s latest piece , appplication of peer production to eduction materials.”Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials” (via SmartMobs)More
List of shortcodes
You would find here a list of all shortcodes in the world.More
Mobile blogging ?
Contentsutra reports that Coruscant Tec (a mobile content provider) is planning to release a mobile blogging application. I don’t understand the b-model behind mobile blogging, how are these companies planning to make money out of it. If they charge for blogging then they can take off well but if they don’t then they…More
Quantifying Risk
Quantitative Risk analysis. Should be good, if you are into this kind of stuff. I have to got to read “Fooled By Randomness” first to understand this :), though I must say that the excerpts of the book were brilliant. More
unintended consequence
A brilliant post on the law of unintended consequences at a blog titled Mahalanobis(does it ring any bell 🙂 ), its title would sure make you read it 😉 Sexy Maids and Unintended ConsequencesMore
interesting conference
I am surprised that such a kind of conference is happening but it is a step in the right direction. Geeks & economists colloborating to think about techno-socio-econmic issues surrounding the network economies. WINE 2005: The 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics More
Programming vs coding
Of late I have been observing a lot of my friends (many who were collegemates) that I know are taking a view of coding to be unsavoury. I find this trend a little disturbing. Maybe we need to distinguish between coding & programming. I could say coding = programming minus all the fun aspects of…More
Roundup on startupschool
Startupschool was an event organized by Paul Graham last month. It was a phemomenal success & folks there got to meet Woz. I wish I could have been there but the physical distance made it impossible for me to be at the event 🙁 But thanks to technology(blogs) I could get the experience of…More
Brewing the future well
I was going through some of the slides at Qualcomm BREW conference held back in June in San Diego . ( I wish that the Indian BREW conference proceedings/videos are also published likewise). I have heard about BREW quite long ago but having looked at it in a little more detail…More
Keep and scroll what I not need
There is one big problem that we face in IM, as we make more online friends and acquaintances our IM list goes on increasing. It is quite a task to keep scrolling the IM window to reach a particular buddy when one knows that many in the list that one keeps scrolling over…More
Honda award
Prof Raj Reddy who is the only Indian Turing award winner is going to be awarded the Honda prize. It is indeed a great moment for Indians and especially to my alma mater. He is the chairman of the board.More
Jhappi Jadoo ki
A recent beeb piece which might have some explanation on why Munna bhai’s Jadoo ki Jhappi actually worked 🙂 “ a hug from your significant other can reduce blood pressure and cut the risk of heart attacks. This is especially true for women” More
Moore’s Law Truths & Myths
Anyone has to do anything with computing world would have read & quoted Moore’s Law, it is like the holy grail of the computing industry. I just read this fascinating article @ firstmonday that does a thorough analysis of some fallacies behind it & also the true implications about this law. On a…More
Culturaly customized
I talk quite a bit about cultural contextualization. This website might aid in getting some insights.More