Look before you leap

I was reading this post from Sujeet Ghanvat called Dot Com Ads who has a very recent blog. He notes that there are TV ads for dot coms in India and implies that this maybe the onset of dot com faver in India. I have posted earlier that TV ads are not the best way…More

web 2.0 everywhere

Every whereI turn in the blogosphere technology hangout  the most favourite discussion seems to be web 2.0.  Latest I saw is what John Hagel has to say about it. ” Web 2.0 is an emerging network-centric platform to support distributed, collaborative and cumulative creation by its users.”.  Full post here.   Hagel is a very well known & great strategist.More

Checking out

   Checking out Rollyo & Jotlive right now. I liked Jotlive very much. it is basically an easy to use free wiki which allows multiple users. Another interesting bit about it is that it is built using RoR 🙂     But I am trying to figure out what Rollyo is about, trying to understand  the implications of Searchrolls ! Seth thinks…More

Power of Manufacturing in end users hand

eMachineshop is a old news by now but if you have’nt checked it till now, it is a must see. It is an online machine shop that allows a user to design, price, and order custom machined parts online. Putting the power of manufacturing into the hands of users. Tagline from the website “Why waste…More

Banning of Rock shows in plain stupidity

This post from the blog of Amit varma (a popular blog in the Indian blogosphere) is quoted by Times Of India bangalore printed edition on the issue banning of rock music by authorities.Few days ago Independence rock in mumbai was stopped & Freedam Jam in bangalore was shutdown !! I think it is high handedness…More

Om on web 2.0

Om is a great writer and always ahead of in catching the trends and almost every time getting them right. (blogged about him before here) I am just wondering how is that Om came up with a post on web 2.0 this late. I was expecting him to post about this long ago. But any way…More

Comparsion of blogger and WordPress

Here is a nice comparsion of blogger and wordpress. One thing that I would like to add to that is wordpress.com has trackbacks blogger does not. Update: In response to a comment I tried create this spreadsheet at numsum, could not capture all the differences because numsum did not allow me to add more than…More

Tagging & SIMS

I wonder sometimes that more than 50% of what I read/learn/know about tagging gets its root somwhere in berkley SIMS center. Latest (but very abstract) hereMore

Migration

I am figuring out a way to migrate all my posts from blogspot account to here. Update: I came across this post & link after quite some searching on the net as well as the blogosphere and as of sep 15 there has been ‘import from blogger’ feature that has been added on the site…More

Golden Ticket from WordPress

I woke up to the following message in my mail box. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today! While you’re on a string of good luck it…More

PG’s Ycombinator

I just checked out Paul Graham’s Summer Founder’s Program . Quite Very interesting !!! It is the first project of Y Combinator, a new venture firm that specializes in funding very early stage startups. Summer Founder’s Program is an experimental replacement for the conventional summer job.More

ET on carpooling

ET on the mumbai carpool project – “A very effective solution to combat congestion but not many takers yet”.More

New Trend in Men

Lux & Sharukh khan in an Ad, Fairness cream for men & Ad (Gaaawd who made this commercial, he should be banned for the rest of the life from making Ads,its such a yuck, what does he think showing a dark skinned guy steal a fairness cream in a girls hostel is going to make…More

Algorithmic Recommendation Egnines – Is it good

The LA times reviews the the algorithmic approach of many online recommendation engines and their pitfalls. It is bang on the target, the article references Brynjolfsson and his latest paper “Global Village or CyberBalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of ElectronicCommunities“. Brynjolfsson’s is the new age guru on Information economics. (Kind of Successor to Carl…More

Nokia 6600 Ad sucks

Now here is an Ad which I think now sucks big time: Product – Nokia 6600, Medium – TV. “Insaan phone sirf bat karne ke liye nahin kharidta – Mere papakabhi nahin badlenge” (Hindi) which means “A person does’nt buy a phone just to talk, my dad will never change from his age old thinking”…More

Lets talk web and India

Came across this today http://www.spot2get.com/, the first(only on so far) post in it says that it is going to “discuss web 2.0 in India”. Well so am I, lets spin a good conversation over the blogs about web 2.0 in India 🙂 Some more site on my radar Pinstrom – by the now legendary Mahesh…More

Bangalore Computer Graphics Group

The other interesting announcement was that there was a call for interest for a new group being formed called the Bangalore Computer Graphics. This announcement was made to help Anirban coordinate a creation of enthusiasts group around computer graphics. I was really amazed when I met this guy, boy he is just in love with…More

More Updates at TiE event

After the talk by Shekhar kapur was over there were two very very interesting announcements that were made, Tim Draper is going to be next speaker [if I heard that correct :-)] and the event is going to be held on October 11. The only way someone might have not heard of him is by…More