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 [...]
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 [...]
While surfing across the bid bad internet today, I came across two really cool mobile products. I believe both of them are amongst the pioneers in the Indian mobile market, though it waits to be seen who really is going to dominate. But till that time comes, we as the customers should know what these [...]
Amit Ranjan, the CEO of SlideShare announces SlideCasting, the new multimedia mashup format, on his blog.
You can connect any mp3 on the web to your slideshow. Once you do that, you can synchronize ‘each’ slide to a particular section of the audio track. We think slidecasting has the potential to unleash a new wave of [...]
LiveMint.com coveres three Indian Startups (link) which includes Pune-based Paahijen.com
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Also, TIE-ISB connect is here again. The last date for submitting applications is the 31st of August. (link)
Coveman is a new interesting startup which provides you with, among other services, the ability to create resumes and visiting cards using the templates available. Considering that most freshers hardly know how to create resumes this should be a great help.
You can also create a downloadable personal diary, address book, Blogs, profiles, photographs for resumes, [...]
This is definitely something I haven’t seen before. Pagalguy is down. I see this error message I show below.
They use a third party software for their forums, maybe there is a glitch in that code somewhere. Though I don’t think there’s a huge possibility of that happening. Who knows maybe it was an admin mixup [...]
AlooTechie wrote about BharatStudent.com claiming 1.4 million registered users in four months, but the comments sections brings out a completely different story.
The discussion starts with the huge number of features on BharatStudent.com and moves to it being a Orkut and Youtube mixture. However, eventually it moves to the loads of porn and spamming done by [...]
AgencyFaqs comes up with the latest comCast report on the number of Internet Users in India and Usage statistics.
According to them the total number of active internet users in India is about 22 million. It is up 10% from the earlier figure of 20 million reported six months ago.
Read the complete report here.
This post is really a comment I had posted on VentureWoods :
What we lack is a medium of interaction. We talk about Techcrunch and how it empowers the startups in the valley, but the part that we miss is that the valley is well connected. Not on the internet, but also off it.
Consider this. This [...]
