This was not supposed to be my first post on Venturewoods. But India’s soccer game against Japan at the Salt Lake stadium in which there was a power failure and a dog ran on the ground in the middle of the game made me wonder if something like this could ever happen in a game […]
How does the world feel
We Feel Fine is a site that looks at postings made to blogs around the world every 10 minutes and analyses them for feelings. It then presents this data in an applet that can be used to slice and dice this data by attributes like feeling, place, weather and gender. Makes one think. It is […]
Top Web Apps in India
Here is a list of top web apps in India from Read/write web. Not very impressive compilation. Reproducing my comment on the post: Somewhat surprising to see the real web apps of India missing. Look at top sites in India on Alexa. India is still a very email, search, portal, jobs, matrimony country. Online financial […]
Back to customer experience — Monster versus Naukri
Looks like the debate on who is bigger – Monster or Naukri – is reaching a crescendo. Well, both Arun and Sanjeev are good friends, and I clearly want to stay clear of that debate. The debate that is worth having, in my view, is who has a better customer experience — both for job […]
Venture Board
Sevin Rosen, one of the most respected names in the venture capital (the one that backed the likes of Compaq Computer) was not going to raise a new fund23 and would return the money to limited partners. The reason cited was lack of scalability, IPOs and the changing interest in the technology landscape. This is […]
What operators want: Partnering with Network Service Providers – Part2
5- Don’t try to deploy your application in Q4 – Forth quarter is all about volume. 40-60% of operator’s yearly network load is sold in forth quarter. No one will take time to market your application, since channels are only interested in getting the device into customers hand. 6- Supported OS/Device platforms – You are […]
Top 10 Geek Myths
Sujan had posted this link as a comment on my Y combinator post. The post that this link takes you to is interesting so I decided to make this a main post as well
All Things Web 2.0
An interesting attempt at an “open” directory of anything Web 2.0.
Slide Share
I tried this invitation only service to share powerpoint slides and embed in a blog . I had made a presentation to IIM – Ahmedabad students and used these slides. I am going to see if I can embed the slides in this blog entry
What operators want: Partnering with Network Service Providers – Part
This entry is inspired by Mobile Monday Vancouver’s “Partnering with Network Service Providers” event. I attended this discussion and networking forum. Panelist were from Bell and Telus – Canadian CDMA service providers and from British Telecom. To keep things short , this is part 1, part 2 coming soon…. These points are only relevant for […]
Brazil
This is an interesting link to top Web Applications in Brazil. Community based applications have traction and a very large number of Orkut users are Brazilian. This post also has links to top web applications in other countries apart from Brazil including China. India is yet to be covered. The comments are interesting to read […]
TracBac – making life easier for visual designers
TracBac is a Web2.0 visual collaboration tool that makes life easier for designers. It is targeted specifically at people whose creative lives revolve around images, e.g., ad agencies, web designers, visualisers etc. The process of creating designs/campaigns involves a lot of going back & forth between clients and reviewers. And is generally a painful process, […]