Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
MySQL is by far the most popular opensource database used by techies. It has proved its robustness over the years. It may not have all the features of Oracle but most of us don't need all the features commercial databases have to offer. How many of us use the advanced ...
Posted in technology | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Not sure if it is all a coincidence but I have been dealing with all immigration issues today! I started my day writing to Rajiv [of immigration.com] about his portal. Then I see an email about one of our contributors returning to India. A very well written piece explaining why ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Talk to any school/college going kid and you do hear the "orkut" sound byte often in their conversations. Kids are very internet savvy in India today, but mostly in Tier-I cities. I am waiting to see that kind of growth in Tier-II cities. I heard about Orkut from my teenager ...
Posted in Web 2.0, internet portals | No Comments »
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
With Mobiles becoming very popular in India, mobile portals are bumping into a problem which I had encountered a decade ago – how to monetize from this medium. The problems encountered in the web and mobile mediums are very different. Few points that come to my mind are,
Posted in mobile, online advertising | 15 Comments »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Yet another good article from Marc Andeerssen about startups. Every entrepreneur goes thru this phase - being rejected by VCs. The article helps you interpret the "no" you hear often!
Posted in entrepreneurship | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
A well written article by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Netscape) on startups. Few points from the article,
Posted in entrepreneurship | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
It was good to read about the rise in the interest of Indian languages on the internet,
“The above dichotomy of 59% preferring local language and only 12% visiting the sites and a sharp drop of 30% (42% visiting local language site last years to 12% this year) internet users no ...
Posted in internet | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3, the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than ...
Posted in internet | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
For many of us Lido was one of the favorite theaters for English movies. It had a nice garden around it, ample parking space. I still recall seeing Crazy Boys, Jaws, Airport series at Lido. Few years ago I saw a board on the gate "Closed for Projector repair" or ...
Posted in bangalore | No Comments »
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
I guess I may get be fired for making such a statement, after all Technology is my bread earner! Hang on..
Posted in government, india | No Comments »
