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Gist is finally here!

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11 Aug 2009

I finally got a beta account for Gist and it looks really really awesome. Trust me!

Setting up emails via SVN

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3 Jun 2009

We finally managed to setup SVN to start sending us emails on each commit. I also wrote about it in more detail on the company blog.
If you’ve just started hosting svn on your server recently, you should take a look.

Google Chrome : Much faster rendering

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4 Sep 2008

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 [...]

Why don’t we shop online?

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15 Feb 2008

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 [...]

CAT results out – Servers crash again

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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 [...]

Care to join a software company which gives you Dry cleaning and laundry service onsite

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18 Oct 2007

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 [...]

Amp’d burns $460 million in two years.. How?

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1 Aug 2007

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 [...]

Which social network lets me have a drink with a long lost friend?

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30 Jul 2007

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 [...]

Creating a Web App : From the Masters

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26 Jul 2007

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 [...]

How big is the internet in India? ComCast answers

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26 Jul 2007

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.


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