Yesterday I attended the talk by Shekhar Kapur, it was a good talk, but not a great one. Maybe I had my expectations way too high from the talk and that’s reason I feel that way. What I liked a lot though is that it was meant to be a talk but shekhar tried to…More
Indian Web 2.0 – Not yet
I was going to write a post quite soon on web 2.0 & web 2.0 companies in India. I was waiting for more traction to happen in this space though. I just read a post by Arun on an article from Business today titled “India’s Web 2.0 companies“. The article talks about the internet companies…More
The web Os
The Web OS is inching towarding (not at internet time though) reality. It is a well known fact to any *nix user that a command line is the most important part of an OS. I came across this brilliant app called YubNub. [ Another app that I just loved within a minute of using it]…More
Netvibes
I too just fell in love with this thing called NetVibes within just a minute of using it. Marc calls it a DLA( Digital Life Aggregator). I don’t understand what that fully means , wish could go meet him & find out :(, I just hope that it is blogged or podcasted. But anyway I…More
Addition to blogroll
Here is another blog from that gets added to my blog roll bandwagon. Nishkala was my classmate at college & is a colleague now.An avid follower of the Indian stock market, expect to see tips & reviews on the Indian stock market here. I just hope that feeds from this one keep gets updated regularlly…More
Disciple Gnucius
While I was still at college, Stallman(popularly known as RMS) visited us and gave us the ultimate gyaan on what freedom means, the foundataions of (free software & GPL), many of us were inspired and awed by what he said, but some like me later shifted to milder or the less stringent group of what…More
Are you doing an MBA ??
Now thats a question that I get asked umpteen number of times by my classmates , juniors & friends alike.I have also noticed that there are a very few who just don’t get tired asking me that question again & again even after I have given the same answer all the time 🙂 [2 days…More
Blog
Of late my blogging has been quite erratic , I am planning on blogging more regularly. The topics that I would try to cover are related technology ofcourse :), economics & strategy ( whatever meagre stuff that I know & learn) , startups, entreprenuership, innovation in general and Indian Technology market in particular and these…More
Ubiquitous Mobile – Little bro
Kiran (one of the great thinkers from my batch ) has posted this woderful post on the possible ramifications of ubiquitous nature of cellphone on the society. He calls cellphones as ‘little brother”, cool !! A good read !More
Laughter Challenge
I had been lamenting for long that Indian Media (Hindi Music/Movie & includes other regionals ones too),lacks innovation barring very few exceptions there has been absolutely no innovation in these medium. Thats why I stopped which hindi movies, serials, stopped listening to songs. Anything that I liked turned out to my utter dismay a ripoff(imitation)…More
Holy @#! , MS vs Raymond
MS makes Eric Raymond (one of the last of true hacker & the father of open source) a job offer !! Read Raymond’s reply to it, it is too good 🙂 The news made me literally jump out of my seat.I was like “What the @#!*” ? This is a news bigger than than the…More
Ekype sBay
Since yesterday afternoon the blogosphere is buzzing heavily with skype – ebay deal. Thousands of blogs/thoughts are pouring out their thoughts on this one. Here is my post which is Echo_Into_The_Blogosphere_Chamber++ “the limit of the eBay network has been reached & now they need a technology solution that is custom tailored to the performance-based marketing…More
How job posting should be
This how a job posting should be “If you’re the sort of person who gets frustrated when Scotty can’t get the dilithium crystals to put out just a little bit more energy, this might be the place for you.” Read the full post here from Seth Godin who is looking for a Chief Engineer. He…More
TSync
A few days ago I came to know about Summer of Code a google program, an effort by google to introduce students to world of open source. The list of projects in it is very good & extensive. A very interesting project that was done as a part of it is TSync. It is described…More
The Magic of Technology in Films
AJ blogs about this TiE event on 20th of this month. It is talk titled “The Magic of Technology in Films“. I am very glad to know that people are thinking on this for Indian Film Industry. I always wondered since long why is there no ILM, Pixar which for Indian movie Industry.( though Indian…More
India’s Invisible dollar economy
Read this article with the same title at Indiatimes, it was an eye – opener of the current state of services and it made me ponder over the long term implication to the satyam, TCS, Infy, Wipro’s of our nation. Internet which made the possible the creation of huge IT services industry (by reducing the…More
Social coordination machines
Check out this nifty service called Mumbai carpooling project. I think this is a brilliant idea. It might have not made use of the buzzing web 2.0 technologies ( like Ajax, Ruby on Rails or such framework) so may not conform to definitions of wikipedia’s web 2.0 definition, but I think it is beyond web…More
TR35
TR 35 is an annual list released by the Technology review which awards 35 high-tech innovators under the age of 35. I was visiting Andy Carvin’s blog after a very long time and I saw a post referencing to this list and the mention of Andy being one of the winners !! It is really…More
Dating 2.0
Consumating – This can be defintely called Dating 2.0 , it fits in the definition of web 2.0. Tagging & ranking a person’s profile. It is very cool check it out.More
Hurray ! Linux – Rusell thinks that too
As many who love Linux , I too have big hopes/bets that linux will be the dominant design in mobile OS. Now Rusell thinks that too. Rusell as once Om had pointed out is the Mobile Guy Kawasaki , he is to mobiles what Jobs was to GUI, what Winer was to blogs & Andresson…More