Broadband Delight

After days and weeks of agonizingly sipping bits from a dialup and my mounting frustration force fedback by an unbelievably bizarre customer care center  at BSNL I had really reached my patience threshold. Now after a month had passed by and I placed almost 100+ calls I had stopped counting the delay. Yesterdaly I finally…More

Blogcamp – About Media 2.0 and India

I would be most likely attending Blogcamp in Chennai. It aims to be the biggest blogger meet in the country so far.     As I much as I dislike everybody suffixing a 2.0 to everything that they can I am very much guilty myself propogating 2.0 memes. Blogcamp though loosely defines the topic/ theme…More

Skype & FON partner together

Nytimes breaks the story of Skype & FON partnering together. (via Martin) Network architecture that have service & connectivity unbundled allows innovation to happen by new ways of rebundling. Of course one cannot ignore that in the process this would disintermediate many players in the old value chain. This piece of news has excited so…More

Thinking about Business Models

In most simplistic terms a business is about value creation and a business model refers to value capture function of the person/organization coordinating the value creation. Peter Rip (who writes interesting posts about entrepreneurship and I always find good takeaways from him) has a very detailed diagram which captures his thought process when he thinks…More

Spinning the new axis

I remember a few posts by Om posted a while ago where he used to say that the axis of technology might be slowly shifting towards the somewhere in the centre of asia. Few of my friends from my alma mater are set out to spinning this axis based from Hyderabad. Check out spinaxys which…More

Slow blogging

  I have a lot to write but have been kind of slow to blogging for the past two weeks because my connectivity to net has been through a dialup connection. And accessing net through this is like sipping through needle thin straw. In other words frustrating !!   I am eagerly waiting for my…More

Connectivity , Service Unbundling & Mobile 2.0

In barcamp2, farhaan during his talk mentioned how should telco’s should rise out of the slumber that they are in and not waste copious amount of money on buying 3G license & installing 3G networks. How new connectivity technologies like Wifi/Wimax networks would change the rules of the game for telecom players. In between Ramesh…More

Network Intelligent or Stupid

Rajiv mentions in his recent post about an interesting discussion that surfaced in the mobile monday meet about design of network architecture. Where should the intelligence lie in a network? It is a quite an important discussion and I will add my two bits to the meme here.  As Rajiv pointed out that those who…More

OLPC & India

I was going to write about this very important piece of news on why the move by India is a great one albeit not completely for the reason mentioned by Sandeep Bhattacharjee but then I decided to wait because I was more than certain that the master (IMHO) in these matter will definitely speak and…More

New & Interesting India centric website

Mosh.in  Social Music Site   Took a first look at it, looks promising. NewsCola , Indian Digg  Very very slick Interface. (By who else other than Bixee/Himanshu’s team who have been rolling out web2.0 stuff with an India focus for some time now) Cleartrip.com  Recently funded web portal in hyper crowded travel portal space. Its a…More

Momo Bangalore July event update

Mobile Monday Bangalore July event had a great turnout, the Mobile Monday blog has been updated with the presentation from the speakers. In the meet we decided that going forth the 4th Monday of every month would be marked for holding Momo Bangalore event.  Check out the photos here.  From the next meet onwards we…More

Favourite presentation at Barcamp

        In both the Barcamps at Hyderabad I found that there is one talk that clearly stands out clearly as my most favourite presentation in that barcamp. In Barcamp Hyderabad1 it was the talk by Jay Pullur, CEO of Pramati on what he thinks is the best opportunities in the web 2.0 space. In…More

Reflection from Barcamp Hyderabad 2

       We had a little silent but a very interesting Barcamp on Saturday. I call it silent because there wasn’t any live blogging :). Despite our best efforts to get the wifi up & running we could not manage to do it due to networking/proxy issues :(. If you are infuriated with that then you…More

Mobile Monday at Delhi

Prashanth announces the launch of mobile monday in Delhi. Mobile Monday Delhi : “Mobile 2.0: Future Trends and Technology” When? 05 August 2006 ( Mark your calender ,it’s on weekend) Where? Adobe Systems India Private Limited Adobe Towers I-1A, City Centre, Sector : 25A Noida – 201301 Tel # 91-120-2444711 Want to participate ?? Register…More

Mobile Monday Bangalore July Meet

This months’ Mobile Monday is going to be held on 24th July. Due to request from many who would be attending MoMo the date has been shifted from 17th to 24th july.  We would be sticking to 4th monday of a month mostly from now on. Thanks to effort from Veer we have launched the…More

TiE ISB connect

TiE ISB Connect this year is happening on september 20 – 22. The dates for the event was announced last year itself but their site has come up now.It is good that they launched their seperate website now. I will be covering this event this year as well.More

Rebundling Media by BBC

      If there is one big corporation that understand the deep changes that are taking place in the mediascape and also embracing those changes and preparing itself for the new world order then it has to be the BBC. (Fox comes second and is way behind even with Myspace in its kitty)       Launching of…More

Just 2 days for Barcamp Hyderabad2

The preparation of Barcamp Hyderabad 2 is going on well. Almost everything has been finalized. Food & snacks has been taken care of thanks to sponsorship from Geodisc & Ramp technology and it is being ordered from Microsoft Caterers. We had planned to scrap the T-Shirts but we have a last minute sponsor for the…More

Free books at Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg  has made millions of online books for free and they are available for download at World ebook Fair      Interestingly it contains not only public domain work but also copyrighted work.  I could find a Neal Stephenson work there 😀 (Neal is one of the best postcyberpunk era science fiction novelist)More