30
Aug

Ever heard of a website with one million hits and a one million Alexa rank?
Prateek Dayal, is the founder of Muziboo which offers a stage for our musicians to come out and spread their music. He takes a dig at RadioVerve (Ashish too I think), another startup in the same space, and quite literally demolishes [...]

Like people, machines too need love.
When you get a new machine, you think to yourself that this time you will not dump that old machine. It had served you well for so long and it doesn’t deserve to get old and die in the store room.
But invariably, it always happens. The machine just lies there [...]

23
Aug

iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo (via the editor in chief at TheNextWeb)

When the Apple iPhone first came out, it cost $499 (Rs 21,819) in the US markets.
But since that was too high, it was brought down to $399 (Rs 17,446). This was become Apple decided to make just about $80 (Rs 3,498) from the direct sale of the iPhone. Though, Steve Jobs negotiations with AT&T meant [...]

Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!
I have always loved this quote. Many a times, it has helped me overcome fears about the coming months by making sure that I keep churning out code. If you haven’t already, you should go ahead and read the whole list of essays by Paul Graham, the [...]

In a long time I have never seen anything so beautiful. (By Dragon Interactive)
And the best part is that this is done without using flash, it’s all just plain old javascript!!

06
Aug

Here is the graph from Google Reader about the number of feed items I have read over the last one month and categorized according to the time of the day.
I’m quite a night person, atleast when it comes to reading feeds. I read the maximum number of posts between 1am and 2am in the night. [...]

ON BEING VIRAL
There is nothing viral among dogs. You never see all the dogs trying to see the same videos, or trying to eat the same dog food, or getting their dog food from the same website. Making something viral - is such an inherent human activity.
I remember when I was in school, while reading [...]

What is an entrepreneur? from Seedcamp on Vimeo.