Overlay networks – hotbed of innovation

            Overlay network are being widely used in various applications, the most popular ones that we know are Skype, Napster, KAzaa, Bittorrent. A cool application that I came across recently is the program called Localhost. It is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser. This file system…More

Economics Analysis of the IIPM vs Indian Blogdom

  Economics Analysis of the IIPM vs Indian Blogdom  by Atanu  His conclusion is that  macro-wise no effect/changes at all happened. ( I don’t know basic economics – never took a course :(, how I wish I had taken one.  But reading this what came to my mind immediately is a comment made on macro-economics…More

web 2.0 Bubble or Not

As is the case with any discussion ( atleast the ones that happen in blogosphere) , the discussion around web 2.0 is a polarized one (Umair has  given a term to this hyperpolarization). All the alpha ( ok beta now !! ) geeks have been toying around this idea of web 2.0 have been gushing…More

How many nerds/geeks in India ?

WARNING: It is One of my Random Ramblings – which basically does not set out to prove any point ! Just pure ramintations. Don’t flame me, You have been warned 🙂 Sometimes I wonder as to why is that only valley/US is the place where the ultra-cool/futurist stuff happen.( Am I one of those ape…More

IIPM harassment

          What I thought was a minor tussle between Rashmi & IIPM because IIPM trickery were exposed has turned into a major broglio. How slimy & lame IIPM is pretty evident from the highly indecent comments their purported students have made in Rashmi’s blog.   I have been a long time reader of Rashmi & I standby for…More

Change the world

“Whatever you do ,please go & Change the world to make it a better place” That was one succint message that Draper gave to a gathering of TiE members on Thursday evening. I have gushed about Draper before here. It was basically the same set of slides but contextualized with an Indian tone is what…More

DFJ-TiE IVC

Came across this interesting piece of announcement. DFJ India Business Plan Competition Excerpts from the website. “Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) are organizing the Venture Challenge as the first national level business plan competition in India with the intent of supporting entrepreneurship in India and helping in the development of entrepreneurial…More

Antithesis of web 2.0

Admist the buzz & hype of web 2.0 you find Nicholas Carr giving his anti-thesis on it. Nicholas has shot to fame by taking the most hyped about trend and plain right rejecting it down. But having said I must admit that he does’nt say things for the heck of it, he has reasonable arguments…More

Meta social software Ning

Really really interesting service launched by Marc Andresson called Ning – “meta-framework to build social media applications”. Read analysis hereMore

Migration to wp.com complete

I have migrated to wp.com successfully from blogspot.com, I had posted earlier that there were some hiccups but once the bugs got fixed at wp.com , things were very easy. I am not sure if this importing to wp.com is documented but just in case if someone finds this useful here are the simple steps.…More

Indian VC blogger

I have ranted before that there are were no Indian VC bloggers, that only Arun blogs, Arun later clarified that he tracks the technology industry with a focus on the VC activities and is not a VC himself. Which meant that there was no Indian VC blogger at all till now. But finally there is…More

Comparing Reed & Metcalfe

Nivi has an interesting post comparing Reed’s Law & Metcalfe’s Law, he discusses an entire range of  Sarnoff , Odlyzko  and  Haque‘s Law. It would be interesting to check out Umair’s response to it (especially Dunbar number).  And yes of course this post leads to a Nivi’s Law :-), leaving no hole unplugged so that a new network law can be created…More

OPML on wordpress.com

I  read on scripting news about Matt emailing Dave to inform him that every blog on wp.com supporting categorized OPML. Any wp.com blogger has been able to use this. I am kinda new to this thing  but trying to get to know more about it as it looks very kewl !! More

Mobile 2.0 – YABW

YABW – Yet Another Buzz word 🙂     By now you most who keep themselves tuned to the technology would  have heard of the trends in web & web 2.0 , another thing that I am trying  keep up with quite very actively is stuff that is going in the mobile space.  In that context I found this…More

TiE Networking event – Tim Draper

I previously posted about Tim Draper coming to address a gathering organized by TiE bangalore. I had posted the date wrong , it is not 11th but it is 6th of october.  I am hoping it to be a fun event. But it got me thinking that  web2con is also around about the same time (5-7th october), Is…More

Writeboard

Writely on Rails => Writeboard. Another neat stuff by gang including DHH from 37signals.More

connectivity issues

I am experiencing connectivity issues for the past two days. BSNL broadband sucks bigtime, it’s been more than two days , 5 calls to the customer service and till no one to heed to my call for help . I have fiddled everything that I can at my at my end, the connection seems to…More

Mashups are the trend but this

Web 2.0 is a lot about mashups(recombination) and lot of simple mashups are happening right now but this site that I just saw just blew my mind. NYSee. It is a combination of GoogleMaps, Traffic Cameras & A9 images of New York City. Holy Sholy you can check out live the traffic that is moving…More