Video on blip.tv I thought that blip.tv was eons ahead of youtube as a video blogging platform but looks like that is still not good enough to be usedAgain very insightful on how to think about blogging.More
Others live blogging blogcamp
There are so many tags that people are using that it is so confusing right now as to which tag to use to search for other bloggers who are live blogging.It is kinda of going against the whole purpose of having a tag. Couple of tags that you might want to try out to search…More
Blogging has rewoven the fabric of the society
I reached Chennai and am in blogcamp and am live blogging from here. Almost skipped the first presentation which sounded rather drab. Now there is Jace, Neha in the podium initiating a discussion among the participants on how blogging has changed your life. Here are few very insightful thoughts which are very important to ponder…More
Blogcamping
I will be camping at Blogcamp in Chennai and listen to tales of the very early stage of media 2.0 in India. Hope to learn a lot and also have fun. blogcampMore
Is Web 2.0 bubble being burst elsewhere and what can India learn.
First there was kiko which was bought by Tucows a few days ago for 250,000$ and now another a so called web 2.0 company (HuckABuck) is listed on eBay with its current highest bid is about 9300$. Now Is this a burst of a bubble or the end of the web 2.0 era. Moreover Is…More
Blackberry 2.0 with Camera
RIM has released its camera phone which has been in the news for quite some time now. WSJ columnist Walt Mossberg is apparently quite impressed by this phone dub named ‘Pearl’ (via Reiters). Blackberry from RIM become the de-facto phone for business users and despite of it ugly looks even today it sells like…More
Wifi Nokia handsets released in India
I thought it will take a long while before wifi handsets will make an entry into India but I am glad that these devices have hit the Indian market. (via Mobile Pundit) The price is range is very high and initial reviews reiterate that these Nokia phones are also as heavy as brick…More
Bluetooth & Security
Activemedia is gearing to rollout its mobile marketing product based on bluetooth, they recently did a pilot at a café shop in New Delhi (via exchange4media) As happens with many technologies Bluetooth has went through the same phases of being overestimated in the short term but underestimated over the long run. Though much of…More
Mobile 2.0 ? Peripheral Vision
A few days ago I came across this presentation from Jyri Zengstorm who is an entrepreneur from Finland. Here is a presentation that he made at Aula and the title of which is peripheral vision. I found it to be quite very interesting. What fascinating about this presentation is that Jyri uses a brilliant…More
Finally Om in India.
Recently learnt that Shailaja Neelakantan is joined as a contributing blogger to GigaOm from India. As far as I understand she is based out of Delhi which is not precisely all the technology action is in India but I am glad that atleast she is based out of India. I have ranted many times…More
Why 2.0 is romanticized ?
Why is that many (including me) drum up about 2.0 a lot. Why is that we leave what we have in the so called 1.0 and move onto the next version. After all if you look at it isn’t that all the existing businesses will close down tomorrow. Infact there is so much 1.0 business…More
Mobile Monday August Event today
Mobile Monday August event is announced to be held today, It’s being hosted at CKS Consulting an innovative research & design services firm headed by Aditya Sood. The topic for today’s discussion is Mobile VAS Scenario in India. Rishit Jhunjhunwala CTO of Verity Technologies is presenting a talk on the topic. Verity has developed a…More
ITP for India
I have always been amazed & intrigued by folks at ITP NYU & their work. The core techie in me would have given out a shrug at the triviality of applications/technologies developed/used here and not give ‘em a second look. But then it is the social, cultural asthetic aspect & meaning which underlie their…More
FONArena
Varun (met online via blogcamp.in groups) runs a blog called Fonearena which he is been running for more than a year now covering the mobile related news in India. It is good to see another blog covering the mobile space from an Indian context. Maybe with a good enough number of collection of blogs maybe…More
Missing a point or two about models/law
There is too much chatter once again about laws governing networks after the recent IEEE article critiquing Metcalfe’s law with even Metcalfe himself pitching in to defend his position/law. In all this chatter I find all these smart folks missing out two basic ( really basic) points. All these laws posit a boundary value calculation…More
virtual games ecosystem
IMO the Indian entry into the space of virtual worlds would happen through something like this because historically companies in India have been formed that way. Services is a competence which we have built very well and this approach is much less risky.More
Comments Eaten
I rely on gmail to get notified when a comment arrives on the blog but for quite some time gmail has been marking all my comments as spam. In case you have posted a comment please ping again I sure will reply this time.More
GPRS Airtel
Veer mentions about a welcome move from Hutch on zero rental for GPRS from Hutch. As he rightly says any move from telcos in increasing data services adoption is always a welcome move and in India more than anything it is pricing which is the critical factor drives adoption. In the same context I wanted…More
Nokia Media Platform
Most of us would have seen the Nokia N series ad featuring Gary Oldman in which he quips “All the world is a stage and all men & women merely players”. He has recently released a short film shot entirely using a Nokia N93 called Donut. It is available on Nokia studio. I…More
Mobile Monday Delhi Intro
Click to Play As a first thing with my connection up let me try to post a video. This is video of MoMo Delhi introduction where those present give a quick intro about themselves and also a feature that would like in their mobile ( exteremely useful for developers & de This video was originally…More