I just downloaded and started using Google Chrome for the first time. Even though I find it strange that Google should come out with a browser, I have quite loved the new browser.
Though I don’t have any benchmarks to prove it, but the rendering is definitely faster that even the Safari Windows version. It might [...]
Online shopping will never pick up in India.
Atleast not the way it is currently designed.
It has been 14 years since Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com. And for the last 14 years nobody has really tried to change anything about the way in which Online Shopping is conducted. Ofcourse every year hundreds of startups with loads of [...]
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 [...]
and the rest of these..
Medical, dental and vision plans with no premium for employees401(k) plan21 vacation days per year, plus 8 company holidays and 2 floating holidaysComplimentary catered breakfast, lunch and dinner dailyComplimentary beverages and snacksDry cleaning and laundry service onsiteFree downtown parking permitSubsidized gym membershipCatered Friday Happy Hours at the office$600/month housing subsidy if [...]
How can you burn $460 million in two years?
Amp’d Mobile, a mobile company based in the Silicon Valley, recently declared bankruptcy about tow months back with a debt of about $100 million. The company had picked up around $360 million in funding over the last two years. Venture Beat has the story on how the [...]
Jason Calcanis has started a long conversation in the blogosphere by declaring bankruptcy on social networks. He is exhausted by the number of people he has to meet up there, and who are sending him requests for more (link), whereas on the other hand Ben Casnocha, in an unrelated post, talks about how social networks [...]
37signals is one of the hottest companies around. And it has the smartest people you can find. (The creators of Ruby on Rails and the Prototype.js framework both work for them).
So when they decide to tell us how to make a web app, it makes sense to shut up and listen. I have listed the [...]
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.
We’ll all heard about Facebook, and we’ve all thought about moving there, but I guess it’s still not as big in India as it is in the US. It’s still orkut here, though facebook is coming on strong.
And if you’ve heard about Facebook, you’ve heard about it’s code-stealing (alleged) founder and the lawsuit.
So, here is [...]
Here is more from the TED talks, ideas that are really worth editing. Here is a presentation about a great idea about interlinking photographs.
via ShootingByNumbers
