Posts from ‘March, 2008’

I was over at Rashmi Sinha’s (of the slideshare.net fame) weblog and there is a very interesting article that she has written about the possibility of wordpress becoming a social networking platform, and comparable to Facebook.
It’s a must read really. Go checkout the blog entry, and also do some more reading at further links in [...]

I happened to reach Sita’s blog over at Binary Day, and fortunately (or unfortunately) to this article about Seed Funding over there.
It’s such a pity that there aren’t enough VCs or firms that are ready to fund ideas, judging only by the ideas, the people and the motivation. Why the need of business plans [...]

This one’s good…really good I say. Try and think of the major driving force behind entrepreneurship - as to why you want to be an entrepreneur. Is it the money, fame, freedom, or anything else. What comes to my mind is what I can relate to with this quote.

“There is only one way [...]

Web 2.0 is not just a version of the web anymore. It has become a platform for quick-money-on-the-go. Have an idea, will earn millions.
The amount of money in a web-2.0 venture can be made out by these quick facts - Facebook is worth $15 billion, Feedburner a $100 million, Youtube a cool $1.65 billion, and [...]

In the AD-age, when online advertising is growing by leaps and bounds, the search for the perfect ad network is still a delusion. In a recent survey by McKinsey Quarterly about online marketing (requires free registration to read), a large number of companies (major part of which are Fortune 500 companies) do plan to invest even heavily (if not doing already) in online advertisements. And not surprisingly, companies are in the search of new and unexplored methodologies / ways for online advertisements. The bottom line is, companies are ready to shell out money, but on newer medias

Facebook with Yahoo. Sounds good ??!!. Or doesn’t ??!! Yahoo has recently come up with the “My Yahoo beta” (although it has been some time since the beta was released), there are quite some interesting features now available.
Simple things first, the whole page has been completely thrown open for customization. Not just the layout [...]

Oh yo people, it’s spring time again, and the weather is super-fun. It’s awkward, but I feel the same way on the web too. The colors are vivid, the energy is high, and when you’re on flock, everything is kewl.
After a very long time, I made the toughest decision to give Flock [...]

The search engine war has not yet started. Probably it will never start, cause probably Google will never loose to anybody in the near future.
But just try and think, as to how many times have you tried to search for a better/relevant story/article on Digg rather than Google. Isn’t this strange that unconsciously, we [...]

It was just for fun that I started to develop a facebook application, and slowly getting used to the Ruby wrapper for the facebook API. But then, suddenly, a few days earlier, a friend of mine told me to try out OpenSocial. To be honest, before that day I had never given an iota of [...]

If you are a facebook developer and you are having a hard time getting the right host for your app (one who understands scalability), then the obvious choice is Joyent’s accelerator hosting for developers. It’s no wonder that almost a third of facebook applications are hosted with Joyent’s accelerator program.
But, but, but, this [...]