Archive for January, 2008

Twitter Shortcode for India – 5566511

In: Uncategorized

18 Jan 2008

Twitter Mobile is now really here in India.
You can message to Twitter directly by sending it to Shortcode 5566511.
Happy Twittering.

CAT results out – Servers crash again

In: Uncategorized

8 Jan 2008

Like always, the IIM servers have crashed again.
As expected, the 240,000 students and their parents and friends are busy opening the same page and as a result the servers have not been able to handle the pressure.
At peak load, I would expect no more than 240,000 x 10 requests over the one hour period when [...]

Building a widget / ecosystem of programmers

In: Uncategorized

8 Jan 2008

QuarkRuby, one of the hottest shopping startups in India has a new post about building widgets. It is a great post and they talk about all sorts of widgets one can possibly make.
On seeing a post on programming, it is surprising that most developers at Indian Startups hardly ever talk much about the technology they [...]

CAT 2007 Results expected today

In: Uncategorized

8 Jan 2008

The CAT 2007 Results are expected to be out today.
Out of the 2,30,000 students who appeared for the exam, about 5000 would receive calls for the interviews. One in every 46. And then the next stage of the battle would begin.
I have started a new blog as an experiment which talks about the CAT 2007 [...]

How much does your company need to spend to acquire a new user?

In: Uncategorized

7 Jan 2008

Recently heard over at AlooTechie, that BharatStudent.com, an Indian social networking website for students is planning to spend about Rs 25 crore over the next two years.
About Rs 6.25 crore would be the capital cost, while the remaining 18.75 crores “would be infused into scaling up our human resources pool, creating visibility of the portal [...]

Wikia Results not available

In: Uncategorized

7 Jan 2008

Wikipedia’s new Google killer search engine – Wikia is going to launch today.
It works on an interesting concept. It allows users to download a desktop application which you can find at Grub.org, which it uses to index the internet.
Along with the download link for the software, there is a link to use the results [...]


About this blog

Gyaan Sutra is about entrepreneurship and technology. It is written and maintained by Sudhanshu Raheja, who is also the founder of Vercingetorix Technologies

Photostream

    Drunk
    The Ivy In Store
    The old joint
    The setup
    Some light years earlier
    Wollongong

Tags

Archives

  • Collin: Er, why would you reboot to finish installation? sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart :) [...]
  • nix: Stumbled into your blog post and I find it quite interesting. Now I have a comment or two; sorry to [...]
  • Narendra.s.v: That's interesting! But i guess Screwvala haven't raised there salaries and so they resigned ;) [...]
  • Brijesh: I think you should ask Screwvala to fill in their posts and you should take over as the head. Eve [...]
  • Manjunath: I too had a same feeling and wrote post in my blog about it there are many such similar sites who po [...]

Copyright © 2007 - Gyaan Sutra - is proudly powered by WordPress | Log in

Compositio Theme is created by: Design Disease brought to you by PremiumThemes.com