Paul Tyma, previously the Chief Scientist at PreEmptive Solutions, now a Googler, is back to blogging after long. And his latest post reminded me just why I haven’t been able to remove his feed from my reader. The Feed Readers have changed, but the feeds still go on. And that’s just the way it is.
Paul [...]
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 [...]
The first lawsuit against Apple’s IPhone has been filed.
DailyTech reports
One iPhone customer wasn’t happy at all with the iPhone’s battery life or the two alternatives to replacing a defective battery and filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple as a result. In the suit, Jose Trujillo claims that:
Unknown to the Plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s time to link again.
VentureHacks, a blog run by Nivi and Naval Ravikant, brings out a descriptive post about how to save yourself from VC’s when raising convertible debt. This is what inspired the post
[Our existing investors] had put in a right of first refusal. Since I was a young entrepreneur at the time, I [...]
Ajax has been around for years. People have used it to create amazing products, and people have also regularly slammed it.
One of the reasons ‘The Ajax Buzz’ is discounted is the SEO team. Their point is completely valid that Ajax does not show up in the search engines, so you lose out on a lot [...]
Venture Woods has a wonderful discussion about why Indian Startups are so boring. He attributes the quality to the fact that Indian startups keep getting ignored by the Media.
The question is probably not that straight forward, simply because they maybe of no interest because no one knows about them. But here’s the scenario, A new [...]
Nautanki TV and iYogi featured in a Business Week article this week (I’m not sure it was business week, do tell me if you know which magazine it was). The article was about startups to watch out for. So I decided to check both of them out. I had covered iYogi in a recent article [...]
This weeks case study on the startup review is on the two year old social news site reddit. With almost 170k unique users and 1.9M page views per moth, it is one of YCombinators most successful company. (Scribd is one the latest ones which is quite hot these days). The company was eventually acquired by [...]
