Internet in India
Happy Birthday India! Today India is 60 years young. While growing up as a child I remember Independence Day was merely a holiday. You couldn't see the celebrations anywhere other than the Govt offices. One would think hoisting your country's flag is your birthright. Unfortunately, it wasn't the case in India until 2002. Mr. Naveen Jindal won a … [Read more] about Patriotism on the rise? Good show!
Most of you who have been thru or read about the late 1990s internet boom would agree upon one thing - most entrepreners were young (below 30). Marc Andreessen was just 24 years when he co-founded Netscape. He has published his analysis of the relationship between age and entrepreneurship based on a paper written by a professor of psychology at … [Read more] about Age and the entrepreneur
We have not only inherited English language from the British Raj but also "corruption". We have learned to live with the system. Unfortunately there are many who are deprived of benefits and services from the Government because they cannot afford to "grease" the officials. It is very frustrating when you cannot get a birth certificate or a death … [Read more] about Villages log on to escape bribery
fYou get to read a lot about Facebook these days (unless you are in a cave). Articles about My Yahoo! Vs Facebook Vs Orkut Vs xyz have been floating around. Many times we miss out the "basics" of what is being discussed. I bumped into a simple blog Newbie's guide to Facebook. It talks about what is the best way to attract friends, privacy and most … [Read more] about A simple intro to Facebook
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wikia, has acquired Grub.org, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites. Grub is a … [Read more] about Is a rival of Google coming soon?